Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Mennesker og Maskiner, 2 concerts, december 5th & 6th.2012/12/5-6
Ture Larsen, conductor and composer. Jakob Riis, laptop and composer. Ejnar Kanding, sound engineer and composer.
Cristine Pryn, violin. Ursula Smith, cello. Jacob Anderskov, piano. Fritz Gerhard Berthelsen, clarinets. Nils Bo Davidsen, double bass. Anders Flindt Mikkelsen, trombone.
December 5th, 20:00. Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, Islands Brygge 18, 2300 København S. December 6th, 20:00. Grundtvigs Kirke, På Bjerget 14 B, 2400 København NV.
Ris och Ros declares that they don’t take any responsibility for their music! They were brought together by an external producer that also came up with their name. Ris och Ros deliver music without any guarantees. No service, no Wi-Fi, bad weather - BUT - Feedback, synths, cymbals, conductive threads, fixed and variable resistance, various electronic components and irresistible music!
To be released November 8th, 2012
ZO-4, by Ann Rosen, Skissernas Museum, Lund, 18:00 - 21:00, October 16th, 20122012/10/15
ZO-4. Concert installation by Ann Rosén for choreographed choir and live electronics with the audience as score
ZO-4 is a work in which an ever rising timbre meets electronic noise. Dressed in black with personal opportunistic accessories, choreographed singers will succeed one another for an entire day. The movement of the audience and the singers are part of the score and will be interpreted by live electronic musicians.
Featuring Ulrika Emanuelsson, Ola Paulsson, Jakob Riis, Ann Rosén, Malmö Musikhögskolas Kammarkör, singers from Carolinae Damkör and audience.
October 9th, 20:00, Copenhagen Jazzhouse, DK October 10th, 20:30, Palladium, Malmö, SWE
Evan Parker - tenor saxophone Sten Sandell - piano Lotte Anker - alto/soprano saxophone Ola Paulson - baritone/alto saxophone Liudas Mockunas - bass saxophone Jakob Riis - electronics/laptop Anders Uddeskog - percussion
Swedish Arts Council and Musik i Syd commisioned a joint composition from and by Ola Paulson and Jakob Riis for the Music Around festival. They composed and constructed the piece "Colors Of" for this occation based on a series of graphical sketches and instructions.
After a 5 years break The Ghettoblaster Ensemble resumes business with a concert at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.
The Ghetto Blaster Ensemble brings new dimension to the acousmatic tradition of loudspeaker orchestras. The Ghetto Blaster Ensemble is a completely mobile device and delivers a strong musical and visual experience for the audience.
At the concert new pieces by Jørgen Teller and Jakob Riis will be premiered as well as old pieces from The Ghettoblaster Ensemble catalouge will be presented.
Ghettoblaster musicians: Sofia Härdig, Toke Tietze Mortensen, Jakob Brandt-Pedersen, Søren Raaggard, Ture Larsen, Jakob Riis, Jørgen Teller.
Double concert, july 7th 18:00, Kulturverket, Halmstad, SE.2012/7/7
Liquid Nails challenges the plasticity of drums and loudspeakers. Through feedback in the drums and with loadspeakers as windmachines drumskins, papers and other materials are brought into vibrations creating drones, wind, quakes and storm.
Mathias Kristersson - feedback drums Jakob Riis - laptop and prepared loudspeakers
Dave Allen (UK/SE) & Jakob Riis (DK/SE), Inverted and Pursued Ferrari, klubb yoyo.2012/5/4
Based an a rework the digital archives of Luc Ferrari where Dave Allen further developed his turntablist phase inversion performance to include a selection of Ferrari’s field recordings whereby silence is sought via playing manipulated versions of the tracks simultaneously.
In a play of perfectly segueing semantics Allen and Riis come together to extrapolate the original intention of the phase inversion treatment by simultaneously attempting to achieve the opposite from one another – nothing from something + something from nothing. The result? It can only be something else.
klubb yoyo, friday may 4th, 20h, Monbijougatan 17H, Malmö
Ps. Jag kommer snart hem! is musical theater experience where operatic voices and electronic music mixed in an Elektrikal!
The story are based on the life of the sailor Calle Pettersson who was the real-life model for the character Efraim Longstocking in the Pippi Longstocking books by Swedish author Astrid Lingren.
The play has partly been developed in collaboration with children that wer reflecting on the story of the captain and his shipwreck. The audience are divided in groups to go exploring from two different directions and experience the work through the three different rooms which have been built up in the Workshop. Rooms have been prepared by production designer Leif Persson, librettist Maria Sundqvist and director Ragna Weisteen. Anna Einarsson has composed the music where acoustic instruments, opera vocals and live electronics are mixed.
Composition, Anna Einarsson. Libretto Maria Sundqvist. Costumes and Production design, Leif Persson. Director, Ragna Weisteen. Assistant director, Matthias Thorbjörnsson. Light, Ilkka Häikiö.
Singers: Emmi Christensson, Sofia Söderberg Eberhard, Kristina Hahne, Daniel Hällström.
Actors: Lars Fembro, Matthias Thorbjörnsson
Musicians: Ola Denward (saxophone), Martina Lassbo (violin), Calle Löfmark (guitar), Joakim Petersson (double bass), Jakob Riis (live electronics), Emma Samuelsson (cello).
Mathias Kristersson - feedback drums Jakob Riis - laptop and prepared loudspeakers
Liquid Nails challenges the plasticity of drums and loudspeakers. Through feedback in the drums and with loadspeakers as windmachines drumskins, papers and other materials are brought into vibrations creating drones, wind, quakes and storm.
The Lithuanian reed player Liudas Mockunas and the Danish laptop musician Jakob Riis have been playing a lot together since the early 2000s in different constellations and contexts such as Toxicum, Copenhagen Art Ensemble and Rød Planet. Their collaboration as a duo resumed in 2010 after some years on hold. Two dedicated musicians in an unreserved tribute to free improvised music, and to the energy in the interaction between acustics and electronics.
Liudas Mockūnas (b.1976) has received his MA from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre under Vladimir Chekasin and a master in jazz performance from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. In 2000 he and the Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg founded a group called Toxikum. Their album of the same title in Denmark was hailed Jazz Discovery of the Year 2004. He has received the Lithuanian daily newspaper "Lietuvos Rytas "prize for cultural activities in 2004, "Talent" prize from "Rhythmic Music Conservatory" friends in 2005, "Vilnius Jazz" festival prize in 2006," Birstonas Jazz "2008 and Lithuanian Musicians Union "Golden Disc" 2008.
Jakob Riis. laptopmusician and composer based in Malmö, Sweden specializing in noise, electronic- and electroacoustic music. Jakob have worked with orchestras and musicians like Liquid Nails, Mats Gustafsson, Wrrp, Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Ars Nova, Lotte Anker, Expanded Botanics, Rød Planet, Riis/Mockunas, Ris och Ros, Bill Horist and Nguyen Thanh Thuy.
Wedensday february 15th, 19:30, 2012 Skånes scen för live- och crossoverkonst, Bragegatan 15, Malmö, SE. Arranged by Frim/Syd
October 9th, 20:00, Copenhagen Jazzhouse, DK
After a 5 years break The Ghettoblaster Ensemble resumes business with a concert at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.
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Liquid Nails challenges the plasticity of drums and loudspeakers. Through feedback in the drums and with loadspeakers as windmachines drumskins, papers and other materials are brought into vibrations creating drones, wind, quakes and storm.
Based an a rework the digital archives of Luc Ferrari where Dave Allen further developed his turntablist phase inversion performance to include a selection of Ferrari’s field recordings whereby silence is sought via playing manipulated versions of the tracks simultaneously.
Monday, february 27th, 2012 @ Krabbesholm Højskole, Krabbesholm Allè 15, Skive, DK.
Liudas Mockunas (LIT) – saxophones, clarinets.
