Open Spaces are productions that directly engage the audience in the creative process. Local communities new to music work with a curating team to create a musical work that may be presented at a partner’s music festival. Although a quality artistic result is a goal, the priority is to create a meaningful musical experience for […]
This 65-minute opus, born from the collaboration between the Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir and the British Riot Ensemble, expands upon the themes explored in her previous acclaimed work, Animals of your pasture, shortlisted for the RPS award in 2021. Gísladóttir’s new piece delves into abstract realms, offering a dual perspective. On one hand, it transports […]
In this new work, composer Kaj Duncan David explores a wide range of sound worlds. Like his own personal background – growing up in Turkey then moving to England and later Denmark before ending in Germany – the artistic practice of Kaj Duncan David faces the challenges and possibilities of working with different cultures and practices. Boundaries […]
Open Spaces are productions that directly engage the audience in the creative process. Local communities new to music work with a curating team to create a musical work that may be presented at a partner’s music festival. Although a quality artistic result is a goal, the priority is to create a meaningful musical experience for […]
Presented in collaboration with Ultima Olso Contempoary Music Festival as a part of an open curator call to participants of the Sounds Now Curating Diversity Course held at Onassis Stegi, Athens (2021), Time of Music, Viitasaari (2022) and Ultima, Oslo (2023). The performance “Our Voices” is a tribute to the diversity and unity within the […]
Volume II: The Positive Reinforcement Campaign What are Murder Ballads? Through improvisation, experimental soundscapes, and communal singing, the performance artist and composer Jessie Marino reinterprets the singing tradition of the past, which aimed to tell stories of murder and gruesome destruction. Drawing inspiration from Appalachian folk songs, she, along with the trio Pinquins (Jennifer Torrence, […]
Presented in collaboration with Ultima Olso Contempoary Music Festival as a part of an open curator call to participants of the Sounds Now Curating Diversity Courses held at Onassis Stegi, Athens (2021), Time of Music, Viitasaari (2022) and Ultima, Oslo (2023) A Song of Woes, We offer Steeps, curated by Nischal Khadka, is a musical […]
with Ensemble Scenatet Mingling a fresh perspective with constancy, Danish composer Christian Winther Christensen has developed a distinct and contemporary sound. His compositions focus on the smallest musical detail and the unsuspected theatrical gesture. Music that moves virtuosically between sound and silence. Influences of sound explorers such as Helmut Lachenmann, György Ligeti or a compatriot […]
An Open Space presented at SPOR Festival 2023 Open Spaces are productions that directly engage the audience in the creative process. Local communities new to music work with a curating team to create a musical work that may be presented at a partner’s music festival. Although a quality artistic result is a goal, the priority […]
A performance by Arshia Fatima Haq (IND/USA) Sama: The Divine Listening Room is an experimental audio/visual performance. It aims to convey a sense of both our past and our future. Sama is part of a series of works by Arshia Fatima Haq. Exploring embodiment, mysticism, and Sufi knowledge through various artistic mediums, Haq’s projects have […]
World premiere at SPOR Festival Eva Reiter and Karin Harrasser’s Eupepsia/Dyspepsia is a sound museum. It depicts the history of 18th century Bolivia, and the violent effects of its colonisation by Spain. Through a large-scale work envisioned as part-conference, part-performance, Reiter documents the Indigenous music of the country, and the way it travelled to Europe […]
