Festival Club - Thursday

Theatre

Andreja Andric (Sweden): I Play You Play
Stephanie Lamprea (soprano)

Andreja Andric’s song for voice and mobile phone combines a fast, relentless rhythm of electronic pulsations, with fragmentary, computer-generated lyrics. The text brings conflict and rapprochement in always new and unexpected combinations of words and meanings. The swipe interface on the phone gives the performer the opportunity for gestures known from popular mobile dating apps, swiping left and right to find a compatible harmony. The song is looking for a new experience of romance in a fragmentary, digital reality.

Lemur (Norway): Onwards and Upwards Part II
Bjørnar Habbestad (flutes), Hild Sofie Tafjord (horn), Lene Grenager (cello), and Michael Francis Duch (double bass)

Improvising quartet Lemur, known for their sonic explorations of the fabric of a space, were the recipients of the Cramb Residency at the University of Glasgow in May 2024. Their presentation and workshop with students led to a site specific improvisation taking place throughout the building, and inspired and intrigued the participants. Their concert then was in the University Chapel – resonant, spacious, where sound can take on a life of its own. They take on a very different space this time, switching the organ for electronics, for an improv set that will twist and turn on a surprising journey.

Cinema

Shapes of Sounds (Sweden): Stone Drawings first performance

Stone has been the canvas of storytelling since humans developed visual language, but could we change perspective and instead listen to the stone? What shared stories can we listen to through the sounds of stones? With the instrumentation of Swedish and Scottish sandstone, together with Scottish visual artist Jenny Soep, Alexandra Nilsson explores these questions.

Club Room

Both of these works will appear in a 4-channel version, alternating on a loop. They will also be performed in an ambisonic version on Friday 1 November.

Alexander Tillegreen (Denmark): Phantom Streams

Alexander Tillegreen’s Phantom Streams is part of a modular work, creating an auditory illusion that allows the listener to hear words inside of their own mind that is not necessarily acoustically present. Instead, the listeners hear words that are based on their own linguistic background, cultural embedding and psychological subconscious.

Sofia Kiviniemi (Finland): The Heavier the Stone, the Heavier It Rock

In The Heavier the Stone, the Heavier It Rock, Sofia Kiviniemi searches for a representation of the feel of stones, their weight and dirt. The title refers to the idea of turning the weight one carries into strength, seeing struggles and burdens as rather part of life, than an endless Sisyphus myth cycle.


Thursday Festival Club programme supported by the Augustinus Foundation, and Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare