Sunday Sessions is a new initiative presented in KoncertKirken for creative and improvised music, aimed at inter-generational and cross-collaborative connection. Through concerts in partnership with other individuals and artists in residence, we aim to inspire an artistic exchange among musical circles. Sunday Sessions is presented in collaboration with KoncertKirken.
Christian Rønn, pianist & composer. Works with improvisation, electroacoustic music, electronics and soundart, solo and in collaboration with f.ex. Claus Bøje, Peter Friis Nielsen, Lotte Anker, Peter Peter, PO Jørgens, TS Hawk, Bjørn Svin, Jørgen Teller, Rhyse Chatham, Eva SIdén, Aram Shelton, Ikue Mori, Bob Bellerue and many others.
Rønn´s energetic out-of-body playingstyle has led to comparisons with both Cecil Taylor, Keith Jarrett and Sun Ra.
As an organ-player he has performed the Fluxus-artist Henning Christiansens “Fluxorum Organum” twice in Denmark og his own, as well as ot...
Sunday Sessions is a new initiative presented in KoncertKirken for creative and improvised music, aimed at inter-generational and cross-collaborative connection. Through concerts in partnership with other individuals and artists in residence, we aim to inspire an artistic exchange among musical circles. Sunday Sessions is presented in collaboration with KoncertKirken.
Christian Rønn, pianist & composer. Works with improvisation, electroacoustic music, electronics and soundart, solo and in collaboration with f.ex. Claus Bøje, Peter Friis Nielsen, Lotte Anker, Peter Peter, PO Jørgens, TS Hawk, Bjørn Svin, Jørgen Teller, Rhyse Chatham, Eva SIdén, Aram Shelton, Ikue Mori, Bob Bellerue and many others.
Rønn´s energetic out-of-body playingstyle has led to comparisons with both Cecil Taylor, Keith Jarrett and Sun Ra.
As an organ-player he has performed the Fluxus-artist Henning Christiansens “Fluxorum Organum” twice in Denmark og his own, as well as others, contemporary works for organ, piano, synthesizer and multi-channel electronics with concerts in Denmark, Iceland, The Faroese Islands, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Belgium, France, Spain, The Middle-east and USA.
Petra Sanggaard “The Aesthetic Symmetries of Frozen Teardrops”
“The aesthetic symmetries in frozen teardrops” is the title of a new piece that examines the music that exists in between the composition and the improvisation, through its cold and melancholic sound palette.
The music is inspired by the contrast between the mathematical structures in the ice crystal, and the chaotic emotionality in the human being, reflected in the music through systematic series of pitches and conceptual improvisation parts.
The music is being played almost in an anarchistic way, where predefined roles and agreements do not exist, but it is up to the individual musicians to find their interpretations and voices in the piece to make the whole thing complete.
All of this, combined with a line-up that can always change, makes it so the piece can live its own existence above the pre-existing idea about how it should be sounding. Here, the piece is no longer bound by a certain sound or genre, but is only defined in its present existence in the moment by the performing musicians....
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