Sunday 18 September 2022, 8pm
On Sunday 18 September, the Copenhagen project space Polychrome will present a trio of concerts at Café Oto. Polychrome was initiated by Jason Dungan and Maria Zahle in 2020, commissioning projects and residencies, working directly with musicians and artists to support the production of new works and live events at the Polychrome space – a project room which is also part of a family home. The events use the project room, the kitchen, and the garden, creating a very social, open space for the experience of music and art.
Polychrome has grown out of a residency started by Jason Dungan called Andersabo, which is located in a farmhouse in southern Sweden. Andersabo has hosted over 60 artists on research residencies since 2016, and has hosted all three of the artists featured at the Café Oto concert.
The concert at Café Oto will feature a diverse program of music by År & Dag, Sofie Birch and Johan Carøe, and the Copenhagen Clarinet Choir.
www.polychrome.xyz
www.andersabo.org
Concert supported by Jazzdanmark, SNYK, and the Danish Embassy
År & Dag is a Copenhagen based collective led by four composers: Andreas Pallisgaard, Mads Forsby, Anders Lauge Meldgaard, and Michael Mørkholt. Each of the four members has an independent practice as a musician/composer, working with instrument-building, computer programming, live improvisation, and notated composition.
The uniqueness of År & Dag’s sound has a great deal to do with the lack of hierarchy in their approach to composition and performance, and the collective element of År & Dag is essential to understanding how their music is made. År & Dag’s intention is to create an open field for the examination and exploration into new methods, instruments, and systems for composing and performing music as a collaborative entity. Their recent LP release "Tifold af Fri Form og Fælles Motiv” won the prize as “Experimental album of the year” at the Danish Music Award Jazz 2021, and is the product of several years of development, live performance, and studio recording, documenting År & Dag’s work with a large ensemble of 10 musicians that includes self-built synthesizer and electronic instruments, reeds and brass, and percussion.
Magnus Bak / trombone
Victor Dybbroe / percussion
Mads Pind Forsby / gong wheel, percussion
Lars Greve / clarinets, soprano saxophone
Anders Bach / percussion
Anders Lauge Meldgaard / clock wheel sequencer, synthesizers, EWI
Michael Mørkholt / clock wheel sequencer, synthesizers
Andreas Pallisgaard / clock wheel sequencer, synthesizers
Anders Vestergaard / percussion
Jakob Munck / trombone, sousaphone, pocket trumpet
Formed out of two collaborative sessions on three analogue synthesizers, musicians Sofie Birch and Johan Carøe crafted their collaborative album Repair Techniques (2021) as a spontaneous, yet delicate ambient piece. Part recorded in their Copenhagen studio, and finished up in Sweden during a residency at Andersabo, the album incorporates the pair’s shared interests in ambient music, soundtracks, synths, and acoustic instrumentation. Cello, clarinet, and pump organ jostle with synths and drones, creating a vibrant, improvisatory soundscape.
Copenhagen Clarinet Choir is a new music ensemble that creates sonic landscapes through improvisation, using open scores as a starting point. Their debut album ’Organism’ explores various kinetic phenomena found in the natural environment, such as the flocking of birds, swarming of bees and sub-aquatic movement. The result is a profound timbral symbiosis, sculpted by the nuances of the clarinet.
Copenhagen Clarinet Choir is led by woodwind player and composer Carolyn Goodwin (IE) and features: Anders Banke (DK), Francesco Bigoni (IT), Maria Dybbroe (DK), Jonas Engel (DE) and Henriette Groth (DK). The ensemble also commissions works from composers across Scandinavia.
