In Situ - Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance

In Situ - Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance
Oct 27 - 29, 2022

Limited tickets available here: https://billetto.dk/users/simian
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Puce Mary (DK)
Jung An Tagen & Rainer Kohlberger (AT)
Lucy Railton (UK)
Jessica Ekomane (FR)
Union for Open Vocalism (DK)
Mariam Gviniashvili (GE/NO)
Alexander Tillegreen (DK)
David Helbich (DE)
Pamela Angela (DK/IS)
Markus von Platen (DK)
HEKT (DK)
Lukas Danys (LT)

[DK]
Simian præsenterer In Situ – Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance.
Festivalen afholdes over tre aftener på udvalgte steder i og omkring Simian i Ørestad. In Situ præsenterer et bredt, internationalt udsnit af eksperimenterende elektronisk og elektroakustisk musik og performance, der interagerer, udfordrer og resonerer med de helt særlige steder hvor festivalen finder sted. Nærmere bestemt Simians underjordiske grid-strukturerede beton udstillingsrum, et auditorie i den postmoderne kontorbygning Hub Nordic samt Crowne Plaza Hotels tæppebelagte balsal.
Mere info her: ssiimmiiaann.org

[ENG]
Simian presents In Situ – Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance.
The festival takes place over three evenings at selected locations in and around Simian in the district of Ørestad, Copenhagen. In Situ presents diverse experimental electronic and electro-acoustic music and performance, that interacts, challenges, and resonates with the unusual locations where the festival takes place. Specifically Simians' grid-like underground concrete exhibition space, the auditorium inside the post-modern office-building Hub Nordic, as well as Crowne Plaza Hotel’s carpeted ballroom.
More info here: ssiimmiiaann.org
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Day 1:

Crowne Plaza (Ballroom)
Ørestads Boulevard, 114 – 118
Oct 27th, 18.00 - 22.00

Puce Mary
Lucy Railton
Union for Open Vocalism

80 DKK (Presale) / 100 DKK (Door)
Buy ticket here: https://billetto.dk/.../day-1-in-situ-festival-for...
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Day 2:

Hub Nordic (Auditorium)
Kay Fiskers Plads 10
Oct 28th, 18.00 - 22.00

Jessica Ekomane
Alexander Tillegreen
HEKT
Markus von Platen

80 DKK (Presale) / 100 DKK (Door)
Buy ticket here: https://billetto.dk/.../day-2-in-situ-festival-for...
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Day 3:

Simian
Kay Fiskers Plads 17
Oct 29th, 18.00 - 02.00

Jung An Tagen & Rainer Kohlberger
Mariam Gviniashvili
David Helbich
Pamela Angela
Lukas Danys (DJ)

100 DKK (Presale) / 120 DKK (Door)
Buy ticket here: https://billetto.dk/.../day-3-in-situ-festival-for...
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Puce Mary:
https://soundcloud.com/pucemary
Puce Mary – the solo moniker of Danish-born experimental, electronic musician Frederikke Hoffmeier – once produced a track titled "Slow Agony of a Dying Orgasm": The title is emblematic of an artist whose unforgivingly abrasive soundscapes always seem to be quaking with desire and ecstasy while simultaneously exploring brutal unsparing agony. Puce Mary is known for her intense live performances that span from renditions of restrained, even beautiful compositions to the full-on fury of off-the-cuff harsh noise. Oft-identified with the now-generation of industrial noise, the project’s recent endeavors explore the field of sound more broadly than before, unfurling a complex sonic and literary narrative of tension and release, amidst disquieting dynamics and surreal cinematics.

Jung An Tagen & Rainer Kohlberger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N51g2nZ31Ec...
Emergence Collapse, the collaborative project of Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Rainer Kohlberger and Viennese electronic music producer Jung An Tagen is nearly beyond description (and perception): An assault on the senses that is at once euphoric and harrowing, at once completely alien and uncannily evocative, their work is perhaps the perfect artistic manifestation of existential angst. Jung An Tagens frighteningly frenetic and earsplitting dissonance is complimented perfectly by Rainer Kohlbergers constantly evolving, neon-tinged visual freak-out. The result is relentless and painfully overwhelming, but like a horror movie, Emergence Collapse demands – and ultimately rewards – your attention.

Lucy Railton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieyr0t5CJ0...
Lucy Railton is a cellist and electronic musician based in Berlin, who works with both composition and improvisation. Ranging from minimalist, yet deeply emotional, modern chamber music to brutally antagonistic noise and vividly pictorial musique concrete, her music often deals with processes of reassembling and transforming archival sounds as a way of locating memory and language. Reflecting on her relationship to her instrument, her embodiment of learned techniques as well as the psychoacoustic character of her practice is another important aspect of her work. Railton seems particularly indebted to the Deep Listening practice of American composer Pauline Oliveros – a practice which involves a sort of double listening: An attentiveness not only to the sounds that are being produced, but also to the way the surrounding environment responds. In this sense, there is a meditative and even soothing quality to Railtons work; even at its most unsettling, this is music that invites you in.

Jessica Ekomane:
https://soundcloud.com/jessica-ekomane
The French-born, Berlin-based sound artist and electronic musician, Jessica Ekomane creates dizzying, arabesque-like patterns of highly saturated synth tones that unfold before the listener like a mystery slowly revealing itself. Her live performances and installations utilize quadrophonic sound in pursuance of a physical experience of catharsis: For Ekomane, sound can potentially have a radically transformative effect on the surrounding space as well as on the audience. What is the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics? This is just one of the highly complex questions that Ekomane interrogates through her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes.

Mariam Gviniashvili:
https://soundcloud.com/mariamgviniashvili
A festival called In Situ might as well have been created specifically with Mariam Gviniashvili in mind: Working primarily with electronic and electroacoustic music and often utilizing large speaker arrays and moving images, the Georgian, Oslo-based composer and visual artist is particularly interested in the role of spatiality in music. Thus, for Gviniashvili, music is always already intimately connected to the three-dimensional space. Gviniashvilis compositions are wildly abstract and yet constantly evocative of concrete, almost tangible images. Listen, for instance, closely to her piece Allotropy (2019): Is that a door creaking in the distance? Is that a dog barking? Is that glass breaking?

David Helbich:
https://soundcloud.com/david-helbich
David Helbich is a Brussels-based sound-, installation- and performance artist. Carrying on the legacy of the Fluxus movement, his work is characterized by an ability to combine intellectually complex concepts with striking emotional immediacy. At In Situ, he will present his performance installation Echo-Ovations with Slammed Doors (2021-22), which is based on recordings of the fourteen doors inside Oude Kerk, Amerdam's oldest church, being slammed. Described as a ritualization of the transformative power of disappearing sounds, the performance seems to invoke an analogy between the gradual fading of the reverberating doors and the drifting of the soul. Under the eight centuries old church lie thousands of people buried: "I can't help but imagine a transmigration of souls with each slamming of the doors", Helbich writes.

Union for Open Vocalism:
https://soundcloud.com/thelakeradio/4-ufov-opus-51
Union for Open Vocalism is at once a performance ensemble and a platform for the study of the possibilities and limits of vocalism. For the members of Union for Open Vocalism, vocalism refers not only to the literal use of the voice, but also to the social, ethical, and political implications of vocalizing – and thus communicating – one's emotions and concerns. Through a wide array of different performances and happenings – and fueled by a firm belief in vocalisms ability to cultivate common understanding – the Union strives to create a pluralistic, polyphonic community in defiance of a world that is rapidly moving towards sameness and "one-voicedness".

Hekt:
https://on.soundcloud.com/An3Qp
Hekt is a Copenhagen based electronic music producer previously known as one half of the dancefloor filling duo, Code Walk. Working in the intersection between the infectious energy and raw physicality of club music and more cerebral forms of computer music, he approaches composition with a clear prioritization of the exploration of sound over strict adhesion to the constraints of genre. This leads to a dynamic, varied output ranging from club ready techno to abstract sound art performances.

Markus von Platen:
https://soundcloud.com/markus_von_platen
Danish artist and curator Markus von Platen is interested in the materiality and objecthood of sound, which in recent years has found its way into his artistic practice. Usually working with installations and sculptures, von Platen treats sound in largely the same way as he would a sculpture: Slowly carving and molding it and exploring the technical possibilities of the medium's physical and acoustic properties. Von Platen is founder and co-director of Simian and co-curates the program of this very festival.

Alexander Tillegreen:
https://vimeo.com/623381857?embedded=true...
Alexander Tillegreen is a Danish born composer, sound- and visual artist, and artistic researcher. His most recent work investigates the relationship between psychoacoustic sonic phenomena and their potential to reflect and awaken the listener’s own linguistic and cultural embeddedness, as well as subconscious, psychological fluidity. He has conducted extensive, interdisciplinary research into the psychological and psycholinguistic implications of listening: Particularly, he is investigating the concept known as the phantom word illusion, which refers to the brains tendency to interpret language-based sound impulses as meaningful information. The illusory, in general, is a constant in Tillegreens installations and performances. Another recuring element is the juxtaposition of heavy bass, high-frequency tensions, and hypnotic, psychoacoustic effects with more ambient, spherical passages. The music thus alternates between minimalist, mesmerizing, drone-based approaches and complex rhythmic sequences with surprising and radical tonal shifts.

Pamela Angela:
https://soundcloud.com/user-377347302
Pamela Angela is an experimental duo consisting of Mia Ghabarou and Àslaug Magnúsóttir, described intriguingly – and cryptically – as "a construction of many perspectives where bliss weighs against the disruption, aggression covered in romanticism". In their multifaceted approach to production, they draw on classical and electronic music, performance art and dramaturgy. Heartbreaking melodies meet acousmatic music. The duo appears determined to constantly pursue that which is unseen, unheard, and unknown. Pamela Angela’s live performances are as emotionally intrusive as they are ever evolving. Each of their live shows differ according to the space they are performed in.

Lukas Danys (DJ):
https://soundcloud.com/lukaslauke
Lukas Danys is a Copenhagen-based, Lithuanian DJ, who is known for organizing some of the most interesting experimental electronic music party series in the city. Currently, he is a resident DJ at the Rewild club nights, where he brings his genre-blending, leftfield and eclectic taste. His DJ sets may include anything from metallic percussion tracks to the more euphoric side of IDM as well as abstract forms of contemporary experimental, electronic music.

In Situ is supported by Hub Nordic, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Amager Vest Lokaludvalg, Koda Kultur, Statens Kunstfond, Knud Højgaards Fond, Rådet for Visuel Kunst and Art Music Denmark.