Sixth Edition —
Festival for Other Music
15—21 March 2023
ARTISTS
CC Hennix’s Kamigaku Ensemble
Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat
Kali Malone
Uday Bhawalkar
Kristofer Svensson
Ellen Arkbro
VENUES
Fylkingen
Kulturhuset Hörsalen
Tyskakyrkan
Musikaliska Kvarteret
Confidencen, Ulriksdals slottsteater
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300 SEK / concert + bf
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ACCESSIBILITY
All venues are fully accessible.
We are happy to offer complimentary tickets to accompanying persons. Please email us to arrange.
SUPPORT
Kulturrådet
Stockholm Stad
Region Stockholm
Nordisk Kulturfond
PARTNERS
Fylkingen
Blank Forms
Vassa Tassar
CONTACT
John Chantler, Director
john@edition-festival.com
John Chantler, Director
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ELLEN ARKBRO + KRISTOFER SVENSSON
sunday 19 march 2023
concert starts 20:00, doors open 19:15
confidencen, ulriksdals slottsteater, ulriksdal
nearest tube: beshamra (nb: 16 min walk!) or bus 503 from ulriksdal station stops just outside. nb: infrequent connections! please check travel times before departure. view on map.
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Closing concert for the festival in the gorgeous, surreal setting of Confidencen — an 18th century rococo theatre. Two premieres: Kristofer Svensson’s Som regn for harpsichord performed by Daniel Walden and a new piece by Ellen Arkbro commissioned by the festival for a 11 piece ensemble including musicians from Berlin’s Harmonic Space Orchestra.
nb: venue will be heated prior to, but not during the performance. we recommend that you dress warm. no intermission. programme duration: ~80 minutes
nb: venue will be heated prior to, but not during the performance. we recommend that you dress warm. no intermission. programme duration: ~80 minutes
ELLEN ARKBRO
Ellen Arkbro is a Swedish composer and sound-artist primarily working with intervallic harmony in just intonation. This newly commissioned work is part of a glorious expansion of the palette she first set with For Organ & Brass opening up her primary material of in-tune chords to include improvisation and other compositional strategies.
PERFORMERS
Lucy Railton cello
Judith Hamman cello
MO Abbott bass trombone
Rebecca Lane bass flute
Michiko Ogawa bass clarinet
Thomas Nicholson viola
Ellen Arkbro trumpet
Susana Santos Silva trumpet
Vilhelm Bromander double bass
Johan Graden keyboard
Konrad Agnas percussion
SUPPORT
This commission has been made possible with the support of Kulturrådet, The Swedish Arts Council.
KRISTOFER SVENSSON
Kristofer Svensson is a Swedish composer and kacapi musician. Svensson's work is situated in a context in which artistic, contemplative, and meditative practices merge. In the keyboard piece Som regn, sparse, harmonic events arise in a dynamic relationship with emptiness. Tuning harmonies justly and letting tones co-exist with extended sonic absences thematizes both the aperture and transperency of sound, as well as the equanimous ground of emptiness from which sounds emerge. The title Som regn (”like rain”), is both a reference to the mild, compassionate Dharma rain described in the Lotus Sūtra, as well as a metaphor for the steadfastness and indifference with which the sounds of this piece slowly punctuate the duration of time.
PERFORMERS
Daniel Walden harpsichord