November 3
4 - 6 pm
with a lecture and discussion with the composer at 7 pm
Hans Sydow
Children are welcome!!!
. T H E M A I N S P A C E MYTHOPHONIA is a text/sound installation by the danish composer Hans Sydow, produced for the The
T H E EM A I N ES P A C E
MYTHOPHONIA is a text/sound installation by the danish composer Hans Sydow, produced for the The MorrowSound Cube and Diapason Sound Art Gallery in New York. MYTHOPHONIA will give voice to the myths - letting kids, old people, professional and the man on the street read them out loud. In MYTHOPHONIA fragments from the myths will be composed into a large text/sound composition, focusing on the memory we share, opposite what separates us. MYTHOPHONIA will also contain musical improvisations crossing borders, based on the folk culture we share, and at the same time makes each culture unique. Danish Folklore Archives has kindly contributed to the project, by letting me use selceted historical recordings of danish folklore. MYTHOPHONIA is based on the danish project SAGNSYMFONI, realized in cooperation with Wivi Leth, a danish writer of childrens books, and lifelong collector of danish myths (published 2002 in the book Danske Folkesagn). SAGNSYMFONI will be premiered at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark in January 2007. MYTHOPHONIA will from october 28th 2006 be running simultaneously in Denmark as a podcast project on DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) www.dr.dk/lyttilnyt.
T H E EG A L L E R Y
In SOUND/CITY/BIRD, bird language rather than human language is cut to pieces. Søren Søgaard - who quite suitably knows Volapük - has sung and spoken the notated 'language' of four city birds: the blackbird, the starling, the chaffinch and the sparrow. The stanzas have then been deconstructed and organised in a form of abstract or diverted musique concrte. SOUND/CITY/BIRD was premiered as a sound installation in August 2001 during the Sound/City event in the centre of rhus: each bird song was assigned an oversized bird-box containing a CD-player and a speaker. One could imagine birds obtaining a feeling of information loss - entropy - in the encounter with these slightly recogniseable yet not fully understandable stanzas and with this musical gibberish (to both birds and humans). Sydow - with his ambient-musical ears - is drawing on Nature's 'environment music' just as Nature itself was attracted by Sydow's ditto in the sound installation "The Garden of Sound 1" at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde, where it ran 24 hours a day for a month in 2000. The birds around the museum simply started singing Sydow's electronic, abstract sound composition. SOUND/CITY/BIRD is a commission from the arts society
T H E EM A N
Hans Sydow is composer,
organist and teacher at TONESPACE at VMK- the conservatory for music and
communication in Denmark. As a composer Hans Sydow (b. 1968) often works
in the field between poetry, sound and music, using language and concrete
sound as a musical material, in a contemporary music made of contemporary
sound. He deliberately blends the tradition - pop and avantgarde, the
noiseful and the beautiful, which can be heard on the 3 cds Glimtvis (1998),
Halvvejs til Halfdan (2002) and Dada3+ (2001) released on RESONANCE.DK.
The composition Dada 3 was awarded winner of the competition Miniatures,
by the Danish Art Council in 2000, and recieved honurable mentions in
emsPrize 2002. The composition Entropy 2.3 was awarded winner of the competitionfor
young elctroacoustic composers, by the Danish Art Council in 1999, and
recieved honurable mentions in emsPrize 2003.
Email: hsy@vmknet.dk
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