During this session, you can meet some of Denmark’s most interesting contemporary composers through presentations of selected works, projects or creative concepts.
Kirstine Lindemann: Cyborg Songs and the Openings of the Impossible
Composer Kirstine Lindemann is researching the potential of the human meeting with the machine anno 2024. In the piece, 'Cyborg Songs', she is feeding artificial intelligence with fragments of opera which AI characters attempt - and fail - to interpret with certain dialects and characteristics of the voice. Through their failed attempts, AI opens up an opportunity to reinterpret the opera diva as a character. What does she sound like through the ears of an AI? This project shows the potential of the impossible and the doors we open when working with failure. This talk is not only about opera and AI, it's also about the twists and turns of creative processes and the unexpected gifts of failure.
Lil Lacy: Site specific works
Based on her work 'Concert for a Space and Time', composer Lil Lacy will talk about composing music for places that are not usually used for concerts - in this case the Scandinavian Congress Center in Aarhus; About the collaboration with the participating singers, musicians, conductor and dramatist, about practical production challenges, and not least about how the audience meets the music when you take it out of the concert hall.
Mette Nielsen: Symbiotic composition
Composer Mette Nielsen will talk about writing music in close collaboration with groups of musicians and singers based on their specific abilities and prerequisites, and how she uses this to shape the music in a more symbiotic way. This way of composing contrasts with a more traditional commissioning practice, where the composer does not necessarily meet the musicians that the music is written for.
Li-Ying Wu: Making new sounds for all audiences
In this pitch composer Li-Ying Wu will talk about composing contemporary orchestral music that appeals to a large audience.
This session is a part of SPOT FLUX.
The session will be in English.
Presented by The Danish Composers’ Society in collaboration with Promus & SPOT+