
För The Fifth Edition Festival for Other Music erbjuder vi en möjlighet att gå på djupet med ett litet urval av underbara saker.
kl 19:00 - dörrarna öppnas [intro musik]
kl 19:45 - éliane radigue: occam X + river VIII\ kl 21:00 - magnus granberg: ensemble
kl 22:15 - أحمد [ahmed]
kl 24:00 - [avslutningsmusik]
På grund av bagageförseningar byttes Éliane Radigues program på onsdagen och torsdagen ut så Deborah Walker framförde Occam VIII för cello och Julia Eckhardt och Nate Wooley framförde Occam River XXVI för viola och trumpet.
ahmed framförde Nights on Saturn
Om Magnus Granbergs Night Will Fade and Fall Apart:
"I början av 2021 frågade pianisten och producenten Alex Zethson om jag var intresserad av att skriva musik för en av honom handplockad ensemble, bestående av musiker verksamma inom olika delar av den samtida musiken. Jag blev naturligtvis lika hedrad som jag var glad över att få en sådan fantastisk möjlighet att lära känna och arbeta med musiker som jag för det mesta inte kände personligen eller hade haft möjlighet att arbeta med tidigare. Så jag föreslog min gamla idé att skriva ett stort stycke för kammarensemble med en variabel och flexibel struktur där de olika delarna också skulle kunna framföras som solostycken och kombineras på olika sätt för att bilda mindre ensemblestycken av varierande längd.
Stycket, som heter Night Will Fade and Fall Apart, tar sin utgångspunkt i två olika sånger av den franske, senmedeltida kompositören Solage (Tres gentil cuer och En l'amoureux vergier) samt i den populära sången och jazzstandarden My Foolish Heart av Victor Young och Ned Washington, från vars text stycket också lånar sin titel, om än på ett något omarbetat sätt.
- Magnus Granberg
[Ahmed] – the quartet of Pat Thomas, Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Seymour Wright – make music of heavy rhythm, repetition and syncopation set deep into an understanding of jazz and the obscure depths of its history. The group work and rework the music of the late musician Ahmed Abdul-Malik to create a stamping, swinging, relentlessly propulsive music where profundity and physicality root right back to ecstatic feeling.
Pat Thomas — Piano
Seymour Wright — Alto Saxophone
Joel Grip — Double Bass
Antonin Gerbal — Drums
Éliane Radigue is one of the most important composers of the last 100 years. Having produced an extraordinary and extraordinarily influential body of electronic music between the 1960s up until 2002 (despite very little public acclaim or recognition during most of this period), she then turned to composing for and with musicians and acoustic instruments. In doing so, she has created a further body of music that draws on the sonority of her earlier work whilst extending it into new realms using a very particular methodology of oral transmission that allows for exchange ‘heart-to-heart’.
Magnus Granberg is a composer and performer working at an intersection between contemporary chamber music and improvisation. He is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Born in Umeå in 1974, he studied saxophone and improvisation at the University of Gothenburg and in New York in his late teens and early twenties. Self-taught as a composer, he formed his own ensemble Skogen in 2005 trying to integrate experiences, methods and materials from various traditions of improvised and composed musics into a new modus operandi.
His music has been performed in Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, England, Austria, Hungary and Slovenia, broadcast by public radio channels in England (BBC Radio 3 and 6), Germany (SWR 2), Sweden (SR P2), Estonia, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary and the United States, and has been published by the renowned British record label Another Timbre.
Deborah Walker is a new music performer and improviser based in Paris. She was born in Reggio Emilia (Italy) in 1981 and studied cello in her hometown. After graduating she moved to Paris to continue her cello studies with Agnès Vesterman and Anssi Karttunen.
Since 2007 she has been a member of Dedalus, a variable experimental and contemporary music ensemble, which has collaborated, among others, with Tom Johnson, Pascale Criton, Christian Wolff, Antoine Beuger and Jurg Frey. Deborah Walker has worked with artists like Joëlle Leandre, Markus Stockhausen, Garrett List and Philip Corner. She’s currently working with the composers Pascale Criton and Eliane Radigue on pieces for solo cello.
She has played in many festivals such as I Suoni delle Dolomiti, Italia Wave, ZKN in Karlsruhe, Festival d’Avignon, Festival Nomad in M’Hamid (Morocco), Switch ON (Malaysia) and tours regularly in Europe.
Julia Eckhardt is a musician and organiser in the field of the sonic arts. She is a founding member and artistic co-director of Q-O2 workspace in Brussels, for which she conceptualized various thematic research projects.
As a performer of composed and improvised music she has collaborated with numerous artists, and extensively with Éliane Radigue. She has performed internationally, and released a number of recordings.
She has been lecturing about topics such as sound, gender and public space, and is (co-)author of The Second Sound, conversation on gender and music, Grounds for Possible Music, The Middle Matter – sound as interstice, and Éliane Radigue – Intermediary Spaces/Espaces intermédiaires.
www.juliaeckhardt.net
Nate Wooley grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon. He began his professional music career at age 13 performing in big bands with his father, and studied jazz and classical trumpet at the University of Oregon and University of Denver. He settled in New York in 2001, and maintains an active schedule working in contemporary classical, jazz, noise, and electronic music as an interpreter, improviser, and composer. While a large part of his work has consisted of solo improvisation and composition, he has collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Éliane Radigue, Annea Lockwood, Yoshi Wada, Christian Wolff, Wadada Leo Smith, and others.
He is the founder of the For / With Festival, which commissions and premieres works created through collaboration between composer and performer, all with an emphasis on radical timbral techniques and improvisation within composition.
Wooley is also the editor of Sound American, an online journal intended to demystify contemporary experimental music with the intention of expanding and perpetuating a base audience for the radical and avant-garde. He is currently the curator of the Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) and teaches at The New School for Social Research.
www.natewooley.com
Pat Thomas is a composer and pianist, widely recognised as a leading figure in contemporary improvised music.
He is renowned for his distinctive, percussive style of playing, and for weaving a wide range of influences like reggae, jungle, and Sufi philosophy into compositions and performances.
Of the course of his career he has collaborated with a wide range of jazz and improv luminaries, from Mike Cooper, Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley, and Evan Parker, to more recent avant-figureheads like Moor Mother and Matana Roberts.
As well as an ongoing solo practice, current group projects include أحمد [ahmed] (with Seymour Wright, Antonin Gerbal, and Joel Grip), Black Top (with Orphy Robinson), and duos with Mariam Rezaei, Mark Fell, and Tyshawn Sorey.
Seymour Wright is a saxophonist. His work is about the creative, situated friction of learning, ideas, people and the saxophone – music, history and technique – actual and potential.
Seymour's solo music is documented on four widely-acclaimed collections - Seymour Wright of Derby (2008), Seymour Writes Back (2015) , Is This Right? (2017) and RITES (2023).
Current projects include: @xcrswx with Crystabel Riley; abaria with Ute Kanngiesser; [Ahmed] with Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Pat Thomas; GUO with Daniel Blumberg; XT with Paul Abbott; The Creaking Breeze Ensemble; a trans-atlantic duet with Andy Guthrie, and, with Jean-luc Guionnet a project addressing an imaginary lacunae in Aby Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne.
@xcrswx
Antonin Gerbal is a percussion player, improviser and composer, active in the field of contemporary musics – from jazz to non-idiomatic languages.
He has studied music at Paris Conservatory and philosophy at EHESS. In 2009 he co-founded Umlaut France, an organization which runs the eponymous label and organizes concerts and festivals in Paris and Berlin. Antonin Gerbal is mainly using percussion elements to develop multiple accesses to musical languages in jazz, improvised or written music. He has collaborated with many international artists and played in United States, Japan, Russia and Europe.
Improvising bassist, Joel Grip, makes music at the countenance of the other.
Anchored to a spontaneously fermented musical approach, his music reverberates and transforms within a collective body of timing and sound.
Joel Grip practice improvising, as a way to learn and develop a forthright sound, and embrace its reactiveness, rapidity, and startling character with the aim of pushing music to intense, ecstatic and transformative levels.
Josefin Runsteen — Violin
My Hellgren — Cello
Anna Christensson — Piano
Ryan Packard — Percussion
Finn Loxbo — Guitar
John Eriksson — Vibraphone
“In early 2021 pianist and producer Alex Zethson asked me if I would be interested in writing some music for a hand-picked ensemble of his choosing, consisting of musicians active within various strands of contemporary musics. I was of course as honored as I was excited to get such a wonderful opportunity to get to know and work with musicians I for the most part did not know personally or had had the opportunity to work with before. So I suggested this old idea of mine to write a large piece for chamber ensemble with a variable and flexible structure where the different parts also could be performed as solo pieces as well as be combined in different ways so as to form smaller ensemble pieces of varying durations.
The piece, which is called Night Will Fade and Fall Apart, takes as its points of departure two different songs by French, late medieval composer Solage (Tres gentil cuer and En l’amoureux vergier) as well as from the popular song and jazz standard My Foolish Heart by Victor Young and Ned Washington, from whose lyrics the piece also borrows its title, albeit in a slightly transformed manner.
— Magnus Granberg
Finn Loxbo är gitarrist med fokus på fri improvisation. Hans musik befinner sig oftast på endera sidan av två dynamiska extremer: ljudsvagt akustiskt eller mycket ljudstarkt. På den lågmälda sidan återfinner vi honom i hans egen ensemble Kommun, som soloakt och i samarbeten med t ex Skogen. Exempel från den ljudstarkare sidan är Kyosaku, Anna Högberg Extended Attack, och tidigare i band som Doglife, Strändernas svall och Fire! Orchestra.
Ryan Packard is a percussionist, composer and sound artist currently based in Stockholm, SE. His compositional language is concerned with intimacy, interdependence and sympathetic relationships.
His sound installations have been featured at the MCA Chicago, Lumen Project Stockholm, Fuji Textile Week Japan, Graham Foundation, Defibrillator, Hyde Park Arts Center, Galeria Labirynt, High Concept Labs, Constellation Chicago, Norberg Festival and Experimental Sound Studio. He has collaborated with artists like Nelly Agassi, Dave Rempis, Ben LaMar Gay, Brandon Lopez, Okkyung Lee, Will Guthrie, Nate Wooley, Peter Ablinger, Julio Estrada, Annea Lockwood, Magnus Granberg, John McCowen, Seth Parker Woods among many others.
He’s a member of the new music ensemble, Fonema Consort and has performed with Ensemble Dal Niente, Norrlandsoperan, Ensemble Nist Nah, Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, tya ensemble, MOCREP, a.pe.ri.od.ic ensemble, NYC experimental rock group Skeleton$ and Architek Percussion Quartet.
Some of his current projects are Kommun, Kyosaku, ZRL and the Chicago minimal free jazz quartet, RedGreenBlue. He has released on American Dreams Records, Astral Spirits, Dinzu Artefacts, Thanatosis, Insub, Fönstret Edition Festival Records, Shinkoyo, Amalgam and No Index. Ryan has a masters of music from McGill University and bachelor of music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
My Hellgren lives in Göteborg, Sweden, and works as a cellist in many different contexts. She is mostly active in the scene of contemporary music and is a member of GAHLMM, Curious chamber players and Mimitabu.
My likes to work close with composers and has premiered solo and chamber music pieces.
My is educated at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen and at the Academy of music and drama at the university of Gothenburg.
Josefin Runsteen is a Swedish musician, producer, composer and arranger who works in many different genres.
Besides her own music, Josefin Runsteen has worked with pop artists like Adrianne Lenker, Ane Brun, Damien Rice, Håkan Hellström, Frank Ocean, Jens Lekman, Loney Dear, Alabaster de Plume etc as arranger musician or producer. Josefin also plays regularly with larger jazz bands like Fire! Orchestra, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Mariam the Believer.








