EAR SOUND SCAPE III maria laurette friis jakob riis jørgen teller solo duo trio
electronic music for 3-way loudspeaker orchestra
Ear Sound Scape focuses on innovative meetings between composers and instrumentalists and performance of sound art in the fields of Soundscapes / Spatial Music / Loudspeaker Concerts. This is the third consecutive year of an annual concert in this series.
This concert is based on the dynamics between the three musicians, Maria Laurette Friis, Jørgen Teller and Jakob Riis, with sound and diffusion in a three-phase soundsystem with three loudspeakers. Differences are amplified, modulated and reflected in each other in the acoustic diversity of Sofiebadet with its sound pockets of bass, treble and resonance.
The title Ear Sound Scape evokes associations on the ears and øresund to the sound and soundscapes. In further consequence also the human ear's presence in the countryside, and by extension, human perception and interpretation.
The two previous years Ear Sound Scape presented concerts in the Dome of Visions, which temporarily offered a unique transparent space with the city and the water in the constant presence. This year the series moves to Sofiebadet, a room where the city and the water have met under different circumstances since 1909. Sofiebadet has long been recognized in classical and experimental music world for its unique acoustics, often used with great success for sound art and experimental concerts.
Sunday, december 11th, 15:15h Sofiebadet Sofiegade 15 Kbh k. Entrance 40 DKK
arr. Sofiebadet in collaboration with RIIS_TELLER/alteration with support from DJBFA / Composers and Songwriters, Oticon Foundation and Christianshavns Lokaludvalg
TV Marineret were in place at Galleri Ping-Pong on november the 6th, capturing the double concert where danish/swedish duo Loxbo/Vestergarrd and Jakob Riis shared the bill.
Jakob Riis played the premiere perfomance of a new solo set with trombone, analogue electronic feedback circuits, hand cymbals and accessories. Watch the video on YouTube.
With this post I'll attract your attention to the festival Ljud@2016 which will take place in Lund, Sweden from november 10th - 13th.
This is Lund´s very first festival for improvised music, real-time music, composition which establish itself in the moment.
An abundance of great artists will be playing at the festival. Visit the webpage ljudat.se for detailed information.
The driving forces of Ljud@2016: Martin Küchen, Ola Paulson and Evalena Tholin, are running this festval in the framework of FrimSyd, a non-profit organisation for improvised music in the region. I will be your volunteering sound technician at Magle konserthus...
November 6th, 2016, 17:00
Galleri Ping-Pong, Stora Nygatan 4, Malmö
Loxbo/Vestergaard
Loxbo/Vestergaard is a Swedish-Danish duo that mix acoustic sounds of guitar and snare drum with feedback electronics. They play freely improvised music that is barren, fragile and uncompromising.
Anders Vestergaard is very active on the Danish alternative music scene, among others, with his band Yes Deer and his solo project, but also as musician in bands like Jacob Anderskovs Just In Time a.o.
Finn Loxbo plays acoustic guitar in several different configurations, but also the electric guitar in the band Strändernas Svall, Doglife and Fire! Orchestra.
Finn Loxbo - guitars
Anders Vestergaard - snare drum and electronics
This marks the premiere of a new set-up for solo perfomance by Jakob Riis, combining his former main instrument - the trombone - with analogue electronic feedback circuits, hand cymbals and contact microphone.
With this mix of instruments the aim is to initiate a process of bringing a self-regulating music to surface, with soundings of acoustic and electronic cracklings, slides and currents.
Jakob Riis - trombone, electronics and hand cymbals
24 september 2016 kl. 12-18
Jaktpaviljongen, Folkets Park, Malmö
En konsertinstallation av Ann Rosén med musiker ur Barriärorkestern som, utöver sina ordinarie instrument, spelar Knämudd ett specialbyggt instrument man styr med sina knän.
Under sex timmar får vi ta del av komponerad och improviserad musik med Knämudd, blås och elektronik. Stannar du hela dagen får du höra hela orkestern, solon av samtliga musiker, texter av Helena Boberg och självspelande Knämuddar.
Besökare i alla åldrar är välkomna att komma och gå under tiden konsertinstallationen pågår.
Barriärorkestern består av musiker utvalda för sin speciella kompetens och vilja att utmana, ta spjärn och använda sina egna barriärer för att utveckla musiken. Barriärorkestern hade sin premiärföreställning med uruppförande av Resilience Ground Layer Modules i oktober 2015. De gjorde senast ett uruppförande av Resilience Speaker Module på festivalen Svensk Musikvår mars 2016.
Barriärer är som magneter, de drar till sig och lagrar kultur, idéer, uppfattningar, beteenden, fördomar… Barriärer är motstånd, gränser, hinder, skydd … Barriärer kan man forcera, rasera och bygga upp. Barriärer kan ge energi, idéer och lösningar!
Ann Rosén är ursprungligen utbildad som skulptör på Konstfack har varit verksam som ljudkonstnär och tonsättare sedan 90 talet. På senare år har hon fått stor uppmärksamhet för projektet Syntjuntan som 2013 fick manifestpriset för bästa experimentella skiva. I sin musik och ljudkonst arbetar hon med att bredda förrådet av klanger med textila sensorer där musikerna, genom rörelser som sträcker och släpper spänningen i materialet, styr datorgenererade ljudfiler och processer. Olika ljud som knaster, sprak, brus och elektroniska artefakter är vanligt förekommande i Ann Roséns ljudvärld, men också rumsliga landskap som tillkommer via olika synteser skapade i realtid. Ofta finns visuella inslag av design, apparatur och material innovativt integrerat i hennes framföranden.
Barriärorkestern, verket Lyssningsbarriär-Jaktmodul och Knämudd-instrumenten ingår som delar i paraplyprojektet Stora Barriärorkestern. Ett modulärt projekt som vill utmana våra inre och yttre barriärer, de vi bär inom oss och de vi möter i relationen till omvärlden, fördjupa samarbetet med musikerna och utveckla nya instrument, speltekniker, musik och konst.
10 september 2016 kl. 12-18
Jaktpaviljongen, Folkets Park, Malmö
Jagande tröstlösa timmars förvandling. En exkursion i oreglerade klangvärldar. Intimt, men inte nödvändigtvis godhjärtat.
En konsertinstallation av lång varaktighet, med elektroakustisk improviserad musik, som pågår med flygande byten av både musiker och publik utan avbrott i sex timmar. Olika solo-, duo- och triokonstellationer bildas under tiden.
Eugene Chadbourne solo + support: HALStER(bones)2016/8/30
August 30, 2016, 19:00
Galleri Ping-Pong Stora Nygatan 4, Malmö
Very happy to play in the support act at this concert with the legendary free jazz, country, punk, protest singer, Eugene Chadbourne.
This will be the premiere of the new outfit HALStER(bones), a reinforced version of the guitar trio HALStER with Anders Lindsjö, Mattias Nihlén and Adam Vilgot Persson. Here with the expansion of the two amplified trombone players Ola Rubin and Jakob Riis .
Since 2008 HALStER has been serving dynamic and intense improvisations with acoustic, electric guitars and prepared guitars.
This summer the CD "Mindfulness" was released at Konvoj Records which is celebrated during this evening's concert.
This line up is an eccentric collection of freedom seekers with self-imposed formal requirements and energy management - as one reviewer so cleverly and correctly put it a few years ago.
The extended version of the ensemble (feat. Evan Parker and Sten Sandell) played together for the firts time during a residency at the festival Music Around in Malmö and Copenhagen 2012. That time it resulted in the acclaimed album Colors Of:. And now they are back!
Gathered around a collection of graphic scores and interactive methods, the ensemble uses their skills as sound explorers, to navigate through a complex musical organism. Mira is composed/constructed by Ola Paulson and Jakob Riis, on commission by the project Inter Labs, and was broadcasted live on Swedish Radio in connection with the Sound of Stockholm Festival 2014.
Mira /ˈmaɪrə/ In seven movements
1st MovementPrelude / Hommage to o Ceti06:26 2nd MovementSpeak Out, Oh Ye Red Giant09:54 3rd, 4th & 5th MovementIn the Belly of the Whale - 3 Days and 3 Nights20:02 6th MovementA Part of Miranda11:17 7th MovementPostlude / Hauers Treasure05:26
Lotte Ankeralto & soprano saxophone Evan Parkertenor saxophone Ola Paulsonbaritone & alto saxophone Liudas Mockunasclarinet & bass clarinet Jakob Riiscomputer, real time processing Anders Uddeskogdrums & percussion
Reviews on Mira:
...The five pieces ebb and flow, alternating between patient, collective improvisations to eccentric, volcanic eruptions. Each piece emphasizes a certain strategy of the ensemble collective language... This composition demands repeated listening in order to fully explore its complex, nuanced aspects. - **** Eyal Hareuveni, The Free Jazz Collective
...It will take us a while to fuller absorb the many layers and nuances of what makes this so wonderful but as of my third listen, I am already knocked out. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG
...Paulson and Riis have constructed a score with plenty of headroom and space for each instrument to me individually heard. The pleasure is in identifying the voices of say, Anker, Parker, or Mockünas' saxophone. Sure things might get noisy, like the opening of "Speak Out," but things settle into those individual voices and the meld of two or three at once. This is a most satisfying experience. - Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
Acousmatic For The People presents three diffusion concerts during the Intonal Festival 2016, april 22-24 in the theater room at Inkonst, Malmö. The art of sound diffusion is in focus at the Acousmatic for the people concerts. The music is diffused through an acousmonium, a loudspeaker orchestra consisting of 40 speakers, in order to create an immense listening experience. At the concerts many brand new pieces will be presented along a classical piece from the field of electroacoustic music.
At the second AFTP concert Else Marie Pade’s classic piece “Symphonie Magnetophonique” from 1958-59 will be performed. She was the first Danish composer to work with electronic music and was a pioneer in the field. The piece will be diffused by composer Jakob Riis who will also present two works of his own; a brand new work created at the studios at IAC and an older composition from 2004. And finally the concert will include a piece by the resident composer at IAC this spring, Pablo Silva from Mexico.
Jakob Riis:Revisited by Proxy - part 1-4 (2015) Else Marie Pade:Symphonie Magnetophonique (1958-59) Jakob Riis:three_places@new.dk (2004) Pablo Silva:_blanco (2010)
This years edition of the Sparkling Sound Festival will be a two-day version with performances by 13 Danish, Swedish and French artists.
March 27th - 28th, 2016. Dome of Visions, Søren Kierkegaards Plads, Copenhagen.
Sunday, March 27, 14-16 Yann Coppier (F/DK) Sune T.B. Nielsen Søren Gorm Niels Bjerg w. the dancers Kasper Daugaard Poulsen and Hilde I Sandevold and choreographer Kirstine Kyhl Andersen.
Monday, March 28, 14-16 Ann Rosén (SE) Sten-Olof Hellström (SE) Jakob Riis (DK/SE) Mai Ane Pil & Jørgen Teller w. the dancer Kenya Foss Parsons (N/DK)
A two-day event with afternoon concerts presenting new spatial music in a set-up of a large loudspeaker orchestra in interaction with performers and wireless portable speakers. The works are a combination of composed and structurally improvised music laborating with synthetic forms, field-recordings, electronic instruments and computers. Several of the works uses diffusion in the French acousmatic tradition.
13 strong Danish, Swedish and French sound artists and electronic composers will perform their own new works in meetings with spatial and moving speaker arrays and two dancer /performers.
Among the other exiting performances a new part in the cycle Revisited by Proxy will be premiered on day 2 of the festival. Revisited by Proxy is an ongoing project where Jakob Riis are reflecting his past as a trombonist in the present identity as an electro-acoustic musician and composer. The fifth part of Revisited by Proxy is an acousmatic composition intended for live performance here played by Jakob Riis (trombone and computer) and sound diffusion by Jørgen Teller.
Arranged by Alteration. Supported by Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommunes Musikudvalg, Oticon Fonden, DJBFA's Festivalpulje.
Tickets in the door. 40 DKK per day.
Swedish Music Spring. Opening concert March 17, 2016 2016/3/17
This spring will mark the restart of the renowned "Swedish Music Spring". On the opening night of this revived festival The Barrier Orchestra will premiere the new composition "Resilience SM" by Ann Rosén along with other electro-acoustic and acousmatic works.
Thursday March 17, 2016, 19:00 at Fylkingen, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2, Stockholm.
The composition Resilience SM is a modular experimental musical drama for mixed instrumentation and voice, as well as custom-built instruments - such as the kneecuff, which in its form and function is a representation of barriers. The Barrier Orchestra are run by artistic director Ann Rosén and consists of musicians chosen for their special expertise and willingness to challenge, brace and use their own barriers in developing the music.
Anna Lindal - violin, Eva Lindal - violin, Elsbeth Berg - viola, Sara Sjödahl - piano and accordion, Jörgen Pettersson - saxophone, Matias Karlsen Björnstad - saxophone, Ola Paulson - saxophone, Jakob Riis - trombone, Sten‐Olof Hellström - electronics, Ann Rosén - electronics. All the musicians also plays the kneecuff - a custom-built instrument consisting of a knitted sensor and a small computer that together forms a sampler/synthesizer controlled by the knees.
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger2016/2/12
Today our salutes goes out to the LIGO team: On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal. The signal sweeps upwards in frequency from 35 to 250 Hz... Read more...
Albert Einstein predicted the existence of Gravitational Waves in 1916 but he also thought that we would never be able to detect these tiny distortions in spacetime. Nevertheless gravitational-wave observatories have been built and constantly improved since the 1960's. LIGO operates two of these detectors. Put in their own words LIGO are listening for Gravitational Waves with Ears Wide Open. From 2002-2010 it was without succes. But after a major upgrade, with enhancements of the laser power and other parts of the hardware, operation was restarted in september 2015, and yesterday LIGO announced the first detection of gravitational waves ever and thereby proving Einsteins prediction correct.
Anders Filipsen (DK) - keyboards and knobs Herman Müntzing (SE) - electronics, objects and voice Håkon Berre (NO) - drums, objects and electronics
This trio unites three extremely interesting Scandinavian musicians in the electro-acoustic genre. Together they creates extraterrestrial soundscapes beyond genre and imagination. From one breathless flock of birds to schizophrenic patterns and doom rhythms. Each member's personal expression contributes to the whole, creating a synergic wall of sound.
Nguyễn Thanh Thủy (VN/SE) - đàn tranh Jakob Riis (DK/SE) - computer, cymbals, electronic feedback
This duo with the Vietnamese musician Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, who grew up with traditional Vietnamese music in a theatrical family in Hanoi, and Danish-Swedish Jakob Riis creates a complex microtonal sounding soundscape with bent notes and stretched pulses in an electro-acoustic improvisation. The cooperation between the vietmesiske musician Nguyễn Thanh Thủy and Danish-Swedish Jakob Riis go back to Hanoi New Music Meeting in October 2009 where musicians from Europe and Vietnam met in Hanoi in a meeting between traditional Vietnamese and experimental Western music. The duo has played concerts in Vietnam, Denmark and Sweden. In 2010 they released the CD Tranh Improvisation on the Vietnamese label Phương Nam Phim.
The duo “Liquid Nails” with Mathias Kristersson and Jakob Riis has existed since 2009, and have been playing concerts in Denmark and Sweden.
In January 2016 - this time in Vietnam - the concept of “Liquid Nails” will continue developing in dialog with two Vietnamese musicians, đàn tranh player Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, and singer Đoàn Thanh Bình.
In this project Jakob Riis will be joining the two “Liquid Nails VN” performances and Mathias Kristersson will provide a set of instructions in form of small symbolic performances, live sculptures and approaches for the three participationg live musicians to carry out during the concerts.
With this post I'll attract your attention to the festival 
November 6th, 2016, 17:00
Acousmatic For The People presents three diffusion concerts during the Intonal Festival 2016, april 22-24 in the theater room at Inkonst, Malmö. The art of sound diffusion is in focus at the Acousmatic for the people concerts. The music is diffused through an acousmonium, a loudspeaker orchestra consisting of 40 speakers, in order to create an immense listening experience. At the concerts many brand new pieces will be presented along a classical piece from the field of electroacoustic music.
