Dear followers, I know I know...that my website which I created in 2014 is a bit messy, and I am not always good at updating my recent activities. I am generally more active in my facebook and instagram page. It is my goal this year to find a team to handle the practical side, so I can concentrate on the artistic work.
Thank you very much for your understanding!
Events in 2023
February 17, 20:00 @ KAMPNAGEL, Hamburg.
A short excerpt from last’s HIT performance, directed by Greta Granderath. I will “play” Xenakis’s “Psappha” and tell my personal stories, without any instruments. Info and ticket
Pictures by Sofie Puttfarken,from last year’s HIT performance in Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg.
Thank you very much for your understanding!
Events in 2023
February 17, 20:00 @ KAMPNAGEL, Hamburg.
A short excerpt from last’s HIT performance, directed by Greta Granderath. I will “play” Xenakis’s “Psappha” and tell my personal stories, without any instruments. Info and ticket
Pictures by Sofie Puttfarken,from last year’s HIT performance in Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg.
March 17, 21:45, Dark Radiance
CPH: DOX @ Cinemateket
"Dark Radiance”, a meditation on optical and sonic phenomena, beautifully shot on analog 16mm film, will be premiered on the 17th March in Cinemateket, followed by 2 screenings in Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Statens Museum for Kunst. On the same day, the digital single of "Dark Radiance" composed by me will be released by Dacapo Records.
Screening schedule:
March 17, 21:45
Cinemateket + Meet the Directors
March 19, 21:30
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
March 24, 19:00
Statens Museum for Kunst
Info and ticket
March 26, 15:00 - 17:30 @ Bådehuset (Refshaleøen 320, 1432 København K)
Ancestral Modernism: Bones & Shells & Spring concert and workshop
- A unique community concert which focus on and spring folk songs from the different parts of the world & bone and shell instruments. After the concert, the music anthropologist Eva Fock will guide a hands-on workshop.
Lineup:
Laetitia Stott (UK), Conch Shells
Kiku Day (DK), Bone flutes
Anne Eisensee (DK), voice
Ying-Hsueh (DK/TW), shell & bone percussion
Eva Fock (DK), music anthropologist
Facebook event
Info & Ticket
CPH: DOX @ Cinemateket
"Dark Radiance”, a meditation on optical and sonic phenomena, beautifully shot on analog 16mm film, will be premiered on the 17th March in Cinemateket, followed by 2 screenings in Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Statens Museum for Kunst. On the same day, the digital single of "Dark Radiance" composed by me will be released by Dacapo Records.
Screening schedule:
March 17, 21:45
Cinemateket + Meet the Directors
March 19, 21:30
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
March 24, 19:00
Statens Museum for Kunst
Info and ticket
March 26, 15:00 - 17:30 @ Bådehuset (Refshaleøen 320, 1432 København K)
Ancestral Modernism: Bones & Shells & Spring concert and workshop
- A unique community concert which focus on and spring folk songs from the different parts of the world & bone and shell instruments. After the concert, the music anthropologist Eva Fock will guide a hands-on workshop.
Lineup:
Laetitia Stott (UK), Conch Shells
Kiku Day (DK), Bone flutes
Anne Eisensee (DK), voice
Ying-Hsueh (DK/TW), shell & bone percussion
Eva Fock (DK), music anthropologist
Facebook event
Info & Ticket
April 29, 21:00 @ Inkonst // Intonal Festival, Malmø
World premiere of "ITA", video made by Vica Pacheco, music by Vica Pacheco, Maria Bertel, and me.
www.intonalfestival.com
May 14, 15:00 @ Radar // Spor Festival, Aarhus
World premiere of "Ø", a string octet dedicated to Damkapellet, written by me.
About the music:
The world premiere of Ø, performed by the Damkapellet collective, explores everything from gentle feminine radiance to its polar opposite.
The breath symphony slowly transforms into a whispering string orchestra. The relationship between audience and performer transforms, and in the final part of the work, the whispering orchestra will play so faintly that the audience will feel that is they who are performing.
Ticket
May 27, 19:30 @ Musikhuset, Copenhagen // Damkapellet
My newest piece "Ø", a string octet dedicated to Damkapellet, will be performed for the second time.
Tickets
July 7, 18:30 @Autopoul, Copenhagen NV
Nebula Improv session @ Jazz Festival
Line up:
Vocals - Rezwan Taha
Vocals - Dana Alshihaby
Guitar - Varnrable
Bas + Saxofon - Peter Buch
Percussion - Ying Hsueh Chen
Sonic Architecture 2023
June 10, 16:00 & 17:30 @ Copenhagen Opera House's Foyer
"Ancestral Modernism: Xenakis, Mythology & Architecture” // Klang Festival x Copenhagen Architecture Festival.
This will be the Copenhagen premiere of Xenakis’ monumental work “Persephassa (Persephone, 1969)” - the audiences will become receptors of Xenakis’s carefully composed “Sonic Architecture” - a "live-surround-sound” by 6 percussionists.
Tickets
June 29, 19:30, @ Grundtvigs Kirke, Copenhagen
Sonic Architecture / Musikanmeldernes Kunstnerpris overrækkelsen / Copenhagen Architecture Festival
Grundtvig's Church is known for its mind-blowing architecture and its 6- seconds-long echos. In this concert I will use primitive instruments such stones, wood, metals and skin instruments to design 1 hour sonic architecture for Grundvigskirken. In the same evening I will receive "Musikanmeldernes Kunstnerpris". There will be a reception after the concert.
Free Entrance & no reservation required
August 16, 14:00 An Architectural Concert-Walk @ Thorvaldsen's Museum, Copenhagen
Free Entrance & no reservation required
I will use the museum's unique and varied acoustics to create site-specific works designed specifically to different rooms, as well as presenting iconic works of J.S. Bach and Iannis Xenakis. Sounds of wood, stone, metal and skins melt into the magical atmosphere of Thorvaldsens Museum and turn into a large 𝙂𝙚𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙩𝙠𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙠. The museum becomes alive with the sonic architecture , breathing and singing.
September 2, 20:00 Sonic Architecture @ Brønshøj Vandtårn / Golden Days Festival
Come to this Brønshøj Water Tower, a breathtaking architecture with 15 second's of echo! I will use skin, stones, wood, and the Tower's existing pipes as "instruments" to create an hour of site-specific work. A concert not to be missed!! Info & Ticket
The project is kindly supported by Koda Kultur, Louis-Hansen Fonden, København Kommune & Solistforening
The following fotos are by Jacob Kirkegaard, Francesco Martello & Alexander Banck-Petersen
June 10, 16:00 & 17:30 @ Copenhagen Opera House's Foyer
"Ancestral Modernism: Xenakis, Mythology & Architecture” // Klang Festival x Copenhagen Architecture Festival.
This will be the Copenhagen premiere of Xenakis’ monumental work “Persephassa (Persephone, 1969)” - the audiences will become receptors of Xenakis’s carefully composed “Sonic Architecture” - a "live-surround-sound” by 6 percussionists.
Tickets
June 29, 19:30, @ Grundtvigs Kirke, Copenhagen
Sonic Architecture / Musikanmeldernes Kunstnerpris overrækkelsen / Copenhagen Architecture Festival
Grundtvig's Church is known for its mind-blowing architecture and its 6- seconds-long echos. In this concert I will use primitive instruments such stones, wood, metals and skin instruments to design 1 hour sonic architecture for Grundvigskirken. In the same evening I will receive "Musikanmeldernes Kunstnerpris". There will be a reception after the concert.
Free Entrance & no reservation required
August 16, 14:00 An Architectural Concert-Walk @ Thorvaldsen's Museum, Copenhagen
Free Entrance & no reservation required
I will use the museum's unique and varied acoustics to create site-specific works designed specifically to different rooms, as well as presenting iconic works of J.S. Bach and Iannis Xenakis. Sounds of wood, stone, metal and skins melt into the magical atmosphere of Thorvaldsens Museum and turn into a large 𝙂𝙚𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙩𝙠𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙠. The museum becomes alive with the sonic architecture , breathing and singing.
September 2, 20:00 Sonic Architecture @ Brønshøj Vandtårn / Golden Days Festival
Come to this Brønshøj Water Tower, a breathtaking architecture with 15 second's of echo! I will use skin, stones, wood, and the Tower's existing pipes as "instruments" to create an hour of site-specific work. A concert not to be missed!! Info & Ticket
The project is kindly supported by Koda Kultur, Louis-Hansen Fonden, København Kommune & Solistforening
The following fotos are by Jacob Kirkegaard, Francesco Martello & Alexander Banck-Petersen
August 19-26, Danish tour of the contemporary children's opera, "Guld!" by the Dutch composer Leonard Evers.
This is a fantastic two man's opera (for one singer and one percussionist, based on Grimm brother's story "The Magical Goldfish", and it is for both adults and children!
Dates & Ticket info
19-20/8 - Big Bang Festival, Amager
23/8 - Skoleforestilling, Tåstrup
25/8 - Herning Operafestival
26/8 - Schubertiaden, Roskilde
This is a fantastic two man's opera (for one singer and one percussionist, based on Grimm brother's story "The Magical Goldfish", and it is for both adults and children!
Dates & Ticket info
19-20/8 - Big Bang Festival, Amager
23/8 - Skoleforestilling, Tåstrup
25/8 - Herning Operafestival
26/8 - Schubertiaden, Roskilde
September 17, 15:00 @ Bådehuset
Ancestral Modernism: Harvest // Golden Days Festival
Come with your friends and family to this special community concert which takes you to the sonic world hundred and thousands years ago. In the concert you can hear the old nordic harvest songs and storytellings as well as instruments which our ancestors have used, such as stones, bone shells, plants, ceramics, and lur.c
Anne Eisensee, voice
Kiku Day, bone and ceramic flute/ethnomusicologists
Jens Kloster, conch shells and ancient lur
Ying-Hsueh Chen, percussion
Eva Fock, ethnomusicologist
Info & ticket: https://billetto.dk/en/e/ancestral-modernism-harvest-golden-days-festival-tickets-867762F
October 7, 11:00 Percussion solo concert @ Ansgar Kirke, Kbh NV FB event
Ancestral Modernism: Harvest // Golden Days Festival
Come with your friends and family to this special community concert which takes you to the sonic world hundred and thousands years ago. In the concert you can hear the old nordic harvest songs and storytellings as well as instruments which our ancestors have used, such as stones, bone shells, plants, ceramics, and lur.c
Anne Eisensee, voice
Kiku Day, bone and ceramic flute/ethnomusicologists
Jens Kloster, conch shells and ancient lur
Ying-Hsueh Chen, percussion
Eva Fock, ethnomusicologist
Info & ticket: https://billetto.dk/en/e/ancestral-modernism-harvest-golden-days-festival-tickets-867762F
October 7, 11:00 Percussion solo concert @ Ansgar Kirke, Kbh NV FB event
Dark Radiance film & music release
“Dark Radiance” is a continuation of my life-time tema: uniting extremes and finding freedom within restrictions. It is a personal album with 8 improvisations, from thunderous to the delicate.
Like the previous album “Raw Elegance”, I have again collaborated with thefantastic Danish artist, Rikke Benborg for the 8mm analog celluloid film “Dark Radiance”, which was premiered in CPH DOX this year.
Timeline for the release:
October 27, Dark Radiance Album releases both digitally and physically.
Pre-save the album
October 29, 16:00 @ Koncertkirken
Dark Radiance release-concert and film screening.
FB Event
Ticket
October 29, 18:00 Youtube premiere of the 8mm analog celluloid film "Dark Radiance", by Rikke Benborg and me.
Special thanks to Mette Due, Rikke Benborg, Dacapo Records, DMF, Koda Kulture, Solistforening, and Statens Kunstfond for making this release possible.
November 7, 20:00
Performance with the Scottish artist Florence To @ Vega
Program:
19.00 Door
20.00 Hesselholdt & Mejlvang (feat. Mika Forsling) – Lille VEGA
20.45 Florence To (feat. Ying-Hsueh Chen) – Loungen
21.30 Sofie Birch – Lille VEGA
FB EVENT/TICKET
Performance with the Scottish artist Florence To @ Vega
Program:
19.00 Door
20.00 Hesselholdt & Mejlvang (feat. Mika Forsling) – Lille VEGA
20.45 Florence To (feat. Ying-Hsueh Chen) – Loungen
21.30 Sofie Birch – Lille VEGA
FB EVENT/TICKET
December 7 - 18
Andy Pape's beautiful Christmas Oratorium "Dejligt er Jorden" tour in DK.
Info & Ticket: Dejlig er Jorden, et nyt dansk juleoratorium f
Torsdag 7.12 Ordrup Kirke 19.30 (fri adgang)
Fredag 8.12 Kirken i De Gamles By på Nørrebro 16.00 (fri adgang)
Søndag 10.12 Tranebjerg Kirke på Samsø 15.30 (så man kan nå en færge til Jylland/Sjælland bagefter) i samarbejde med Søholm Opera
Mandag 11.12 Horsens Ny Teater 19.30
Lørdag 16.12 Struer Kirke 16.00 i samarbejde med Operaen i Midten
Søndag 17.12 Ikast Kirke 16.00 i samarbejde med Operaen i Midten
Mandag 18.12 Budolfi Kirke i Aalborg 17.00 (billetsalg kun i døren) i samarbejde med Budolfi Kirke og Aalborg Operafestival
Andy Pape's beautiful Christmas Oratorium "Dejligt er Jorden" tour in DK.
Info & Ticket: Dejlig er Jorden, et nyt dansk juleoratorium f
Torsdag 7.12 Ordrup Kirke 19.30 (fri adgang)
Fredag 8.12 Kirken i De Gamles By på Nørrebro 16.00 (fri adgang)
Søndag 10.12 Tranebjerg Kirke på Samsø 15.30 (så man kan nå en færge til Jylland/Sjælland bagefter) i samarbejde med Søholm Opera
Mandag 11.12 Horsens Ny Teater 19.30
Lørdag 16.12 Struer Kirke 16.00 i samarbejde med Operaen i Midten
Søndag 17.12 Ikast Kirke 16.00 i samarbejde med Operaen i Midten
Mandag 18.12 Budolfi Kirke i Aalborg 17.00 (billetsalg kun i døren) i samarbejde med Budolfi Kirke og Aalborg Operafestival
December 15, 19:30 Organ Sound Art Festival @ Koncertkirken
World premiere of Matt Choboter's "And Then There Were Sounds of Bird" - a very special piece sound art piece which goes deep into the formless world of subconscious. A concert not to be missed!
World premiere of Matt Choboter's "And Then There Were Sounds of Bird" - a very special piece sound art piece which goes deep into the formless world of subconscious. A concert not to be missed!