On 7 October, Notam and Cinemateket invite you to a very special concert experience with works written for immersive sound, performed in Cinemateket's fantastic new sound system!
During the concert, the audience will hear three unique works that explore the relationship between music and space, as well as a surprise from the shared history of music, radio and film.
More information and tickets for the event can be found here.
Programme concert at 18:00
Memory Melt (2023)
By Mariam Gviniashvili
Double bass by Michael Francis Duch
Memory Melt is an immersive electroacoustic work by composer and sound artist Mariam Gviniashvili. The piece explores the sonic qualities of memory, following a musical memory as it morphs and transforms. Gviniashvili works at the intersection of electroacoustic music, 3D sound and instrumental composition. Her works explore the emotional and spatial dimensions of sound.
Mariam Gviniashvili is a composer, sound artist and visual artist working at the intersection of electroacoustic music, 3D sound and instrumental composition. Her work explores the emotional and spatial dimensions of sound, often in juxtaposition with visual expressions. Gviniashvili has been commissioned by institutions such as INA GRM, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Notam, Henie Onstad Art Centre, MA/IN Festival and Hong Kong Visualisation Research Centre.
ES QC – Using mathematical quasicrystals to work with 3D sound (2024)
By Vilbjørg Broch
ES QC by Danish artist Vilbjørg Broch is an algorithmic composition that explores non-periodic order and quasicrystals for synthesis and spatialisation. The structure of the four-dimensional Elser-Sloane quasicrystal forms the basis of the work. In her practice, Broch has immersed herself in systematic studies in mathematics, programming and algorithmic composition. She is particularly interested in algebra, algebraic geometry and group theory.
Vilbjørg Broch is a Danish artist who studied dance and improvisation at SNDO in Amsterdam, and classical singing with coloratura soprano Marianne Blok for over a decade. Broch has been working with multimedia projects for the past 30 years, starting with computer music over 20 years ago. Broch has had her work presented at international conferences. She has been in residence and presented work at CCRMA Stanford, IEM Graz, Notam Oslo, EMS Stockholm and ICST Zurich.
The Moving Sounds of Whales (2024)
By Bjarne Kvinnsland, Trond Lossius and David Rothenberg
In this work, artists Bjarne Kvinnsland, Trond Lossius and David Rothenberg have worked with underwater recordings of various whales, such as humpback whales, sperm whales, blue whales, fin whales and pilot whales. The different whales communicate by singing, clicking and almost percussive sounds. This precise and cultural use of sound suggests that whales have a complex social life that humans can barely understand.
Composer and sound artist Bjarne Kvinnsland works with photography, light, sculpture, dance, theatre, text and film. Researcher and artist Trond Lossius investigates hearing, place and space, using 3D sound as an invisible and temporal sculptural medium in site-specific installations. ECM artist and professor of philosophy, David Rothenberg, has written several books on music and nature, and is known for his work with live interarts music with birds, insects and whales.
