Nick Martin & Calum Builder "CHIASM" (UK/AU) + Matt Choboter | Air, Strings and Wood (CA)


Eksperimental jazz DKK 120/80

No advance tickets


After their highly acclaimed records, Messe and Terroir, this marks the first collaborative project between Calum Builder and Nick Martin. Together with a string ensemble, they delve into the complex emotions of parenthood and the intense ambivalence of life in the 21st century, creating music that is visceral and haunting.

The project, Chiasm, features works by Builder and Martin that mirror each other in both timescale and perspective; Martin’s piece ‘Mothernaked’ reflects on the past, while Builder’s piece, ‘I don’t think you should think about these things’ looks towards the future.

Exploring ideas of immersion and cycles, composer-performer Calum Builder (AU) creates works that move from a clarifying stillness to a zealous, almost religious fervor. He is fascinated by sound being a transformative and embracing force, with his music “bringing about a symbiosis of overflowing beauty and rumbling disturbances” (T.S Høeg, Jazz Special)....

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Line up:
  • 20.00 Matt Choboter | Air, Strings and Wood
  • Matt Choboter: extended piano, zithers, organ samples and multi-channel installation of recycled wood resonators made of Canadian red cedar and Scandinavian Sitka spruce.
  • 21.00 CHIASM I (Nick Martin & Calum Builder)
  • Programme (world premieres):
  • Calum Builder: ‘I don’t think you should think about these things’
  • Nick Martin: ‘Mothernaked’
  • Tove Bagge - viola 
  • Mika Persdotter - viola
  • Oda Dyrnes - cello
  • Nicole Hogstrand - cello 
  • Tomo Jacobson - double bass 
  • Johannes Nästesjö - double bass

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