CPH JAZZ FESTIVAL @ KONCERTKIRKEN 2023

Lotte Anker – soprano saxophone
Simon Toldam – microtonal prepared piano
Matt Choboter – microtonal prepared piano, compositions
Matias Seibæk – microtonal vibraphone, gran casa, oil can, taiko drums
Peter Bruun – percussion
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Juniper fuse is inspired by pre-historic cave wall imagery found in the Dordogne valley of Southwestern France. A vital connection point into early human imagination and creativity, Caves can be embodied as psychic wombs where one attempts to reach back in time and explore the archetypal subconscious. Regarding planet-wide human mental health, poet, Clayton Eshleman reminds us of the need for our “deep mind” or subconscious mind. “For it is in the deep mind that wilderness and the unconsciousness become one, and in some half- understood but very profound way, our relation to the outer ecologies seems conditioned by our inner ecologies.”

The project stems from the curiosity of moving beyond the fixed pitches of western tuning and into unbounded soundscapes. I ask questions like: why should western ears continue to be so accustomed to only one tuning system? In contrast, can “pure sounds” meet ethnically diverse microtonal tuning constellations? Can magnets and metallic preparations placed inside the piano evoke timbral affects from Balinese Gamelan or Indian classical? And how can this instrument merge with spatialization to create embodied experiences for audiences?
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Entré: 120 DKK / Studerende: 60 DKK
2 koncerter samme aften: 180 DKK / Studerende: 90 DKK
3 koncerter samme aften: 240 DKK / Studerende: 120 DKK
Døren åbner 30 min før hver koncert.
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Copenhagen Jazz Festival @ KoncertKirken støttes af Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, William Demant Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Koda Kultur m.fl.