Projects

'Thousand Times Yes' is a philosophical, haunting and poetic investigation of the limits and possibilities of language, communication, space, and the body. The piece is a collaboration between composer and musician Marja Ahti, librettist Jenny Kalliokulju and director Essi Kausalainen moving fluently across different genres and disciplines. Through its multidisciplinary and intergenerational working group the performance challenges the concept of opera and its aesthetics, as well as its hierarchical tradition.

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Eva Saether

16 March 2020 - 20 March 2020

The project ”Creativities transcending boundaries” aims at mapping out current research in creativity, within music and broader aspects. Further this project aims to develop concrete suggestion on how creativity can be used as an overall perspective in music teacher education at Malmö Academy of Music. Since the key idea is participatory knowledge making the project entails numerous workshops where teachers and students share experiences, methods, questions and answers.

Eareye

Jeanine Durning, Cullberg / Deborah Hay, Sofia Jernberg, Sukitoa o Namau, Janine Harrington, Tian Rotteveel, Moa Franzén, Rani Nair, Cara Tolmie & Susanna Jablonski, Stina Fors, Olivia Riviere & Lisen Pousette, Cecilia Elinor Bengtsson, Alma Söderberg

5 March 2020 - 7 March 2020

Listen with your eyes and see with your ears. A three-day bash of dance, music and performance. Welcome to a festival indulging in deep, playfully obsessive attention: Choreographic works that are poems. Highly performative concerts. A dance that examines the body as a musical instrument. Another that is music for the eye. EAREYE is a festival that listens with its eyes and see with its ears, curated by choreographer Alma Söderberg.

Way Forward Touch

Cecilia Bengtsson

19 February 2020 - 9 March 2020

Cecilia Bengtsson creates art experiences for audiences and participants where she explores relations between humans, sounds and sculptural objects specifically focused on the concept of letting go. At IAC she will work with her project ‘Way Forward Touch’, where she works with visually impaired people creating workshops where participants explore sculptural objects and sound relations together.

TOUCH

Emilie Gregersen, Karis Zidore, Naya Moll

10 February 2020 - 22 February 2020

TOUCH by Emilie Gregersen is a choreographic work navigating through touch and its sensuous distortions. In the quivering between the heartfelt and the mechanical, an absurdity and ironic drama arises where human perceptions of touch are being distorted in a metallic universe. TOUCH is created in collaboration with sound artist, Karis Zidore and dramaturge/choreographic consultant Naya Moll.

The Tactilist

Mariella Ottosson, Daniel Wade

30 January 2020 - 2 February 2020

‘The Tactilist’ explores fragments of the manifesto ‘Tactilism’ written by futurist and fascist, F. T. Marinetti, in 1921. In this new video work to be recorded by Mariella Ottosson, (in collaboration with Daniel Wade), the protagonist is giving a speech or reading while also re-enacting movements used in massage, although here on an imaginary body – merging a deconstruction of the manifesto with something close to choreography.

oracle

Justine Maxelon, Caroline Daish, Michel Yang

3 February 2020 - 10 February 2020

‘oracle’ is an eyes-closed body-voice improvisation practice reading diverse spaces: train stations, parks, institutions, forests, public libraries, urban gardens and private living spaces. It interacts with these surroundings through instant sound and movement composition and expands the boundaries between individual emotional expressions and shared public space. Each practice session is unique to the moment and context. ‘oracle’ was created at the end of 2015 as a need to collaborate, vocalise and heal.

Black Bird

Maria Naidu

2 January 2020 - 7 January 2020

In early January, Maria Naidu will return to the IAC to continue working on her solo dance performance which is inspired by the Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase, his book Karasu (Corps), its basic thematic and the raven (species). The work revolves around Fukase’s central themes: isolation and tragedy at different levels of depth and abstraction. A spectacular yet fateful collage that mixes dance art, movement, projected images and filmed sequences, silent sounds, drone and deafening lamentations in a cinematic way. It should hurt in the same way as when massaging a bruise.

Intonal Residency

Sebastian Mullaert, Nathan Larson, Subchamber Ensemble

20 January 2020 - 15 March 2020

The project is primarily a collaboration between the electronic musician Sebastian Mullaert, Inkonst and Malmö Live concert hall. With a world premiere at Intonal 2020 at Malmö Live, the project, which lasts over 1.5 years, wants to develop new methods for the combination of electronic dance music and classical music. The first part of the project is concerned with building the right ensemble, the second part is dedicated to the creative process and the last part aims at the completion, promotion and premiere of the work.

Blackout

Tim Bishop

28 January 2020 - 28 January 2020

Blackout is a unique, immersive, new performance work for one person at a time by artist Tim Bishop. The work takes place in complete darkness and uses spatial audio and haptic feedback to create a multi-sensory and evocative environment for a powerfully self-reflective experience. A voice and physical guide encourage participants on an introspective journey without visual stimuli. The work uses sound, touch and interaction to engage with perceptions of physical and virtual contexts, and to reflect on each participant's own unique presence in the universe.

Vem Kan Bli Producent

Sabina Husberg Götlind, Lotta Fahlén

25 January 2020 - 26 January 2020

A full weekend of workshops, songwriting and production sessions, and knowledge sharing. Addressed to people who are actively engaged in sound and music production. Only for women and transgender people (all genders, binary and non-binary). The recommended age is 20 years and up. The project Vem Kan Bli Producent is centered around creating a community for women and transgender people of all genders involved or interested in sound tech and music production.

Breathtaking

Tian Rotteveel

7 January 2020 - 21 January 2020

‘Breathtaking’ explores an erratic wondering music-making body. Following a performer's private relation to all that makes sound. Finding specific sounding materiality along the way and organizing its frequencies and distribute it into a room, creating a listening effect. Whether breath, gesture, voice, or any sound-making resources, everything what feels useful to the performer to create sonic happenings in the room, but as well to understand what the next thing is to do.

trapped in bio

Signe Boe

7 January 2020 - 26 January 2020

The project ‘trapped in bio’ is an interdisciplinary project including film, literature, forensic linguistics, image scan technologies and sculpture. With the starting point in a redacted detective file, Signe Boe is questioning how to write about someone without enclosing them in a description. During the residency, Signe Boe will be conducting video- and sound recordings that will become part of an interactive publication, where new digital technologies connect printed matter with film.

Con/current

Julie Østengaard

7 January 2020 - 26 January 2020

In the current sound-based work, a kinetic sound sculpture is creating acoustic sound through movement of its own material derived from motorized and disorganized movements originated in the acoustic material itself. It interacts with electronic sound in a live performance. 'Con/current' is an interchanging sound piece that blends virtual and physical sound in a virtual and physical space. The work is part of the Make Sound Residency, which will end with a public presentation.

Elisabete Finger, Manuela Eichner

1 December 2019 - 29 February 2020

Elisabete Finger (choreographer) and Manuela Eichner (visual artist) work together since 2015 mixing techniques and principles from choreography and collage. Their research evokes a certain “political ecology of things and people”, proposing other logics and organizations for this ensemble. Their artworks problematize the certainties and contradictions of what is generally taken as organic and artificial, natural and cultural.

Inter Feral Arts II: Soundspace

Pavlos Antoniadis, Ann Rosén, Sten-Olof Hellström, Zoe Efstathiou, Eva Sidén, Christian Rønn

16 December 2019 - 17 December 2019

Inter Feral Arts is a Platform for Artistic & Experimental Research in Music. After the premiere in October with the topic 'Voice', the second platform is dedicated to 'Soundspace'. As with Interference #1-8, Inter Feral Arts is open to all and invites a wider audience to take part when artists share works in progress, installations, performances, and engage in critical discussion. The atmosphere will be one of sharing and joint exploration.

Speculative Materialism

Lou Mouw

30 November 2019 - 21 February 2020

Västra Hamnen could be seen as a perfect mirror of recent economical and societal developments. By its shift from an industrial area with the Kockums Kranen as the symbol of the city’s blue collars roots, to the most exclusive neighbourhood of the city, and with it the Turning Torso skyscraper as the new symbol of this change of identity and economy of the city. Hereby the main question is what the shift of these two landmarks tells about the urban, socio-political and economical shift in a post-welfare state environment...

Tvilling

Freja Andersson, Bianca Maria Barmen, Britta Olsson, Erik Peters

9 December 2019 - 11 December 2019

‘Tvilling’ is based on a text by Bianca Maria Barmen, circling around her own experiences of close friends and relatives having lost their twin sibling in violent and unexpected ways. The project is conceived as an interdisciplinary performance involving sound, movement, text, sculpture and video projections. Each of the four artists involved provides an artistic layer of expression to the performance.

An Image of What You See

Lena Bergendahl

1 December 2019 - 31 March 2020

‘An Image of What You See’, is an ongoing video project that reflects upon seeing, creating and mediating images through the perspectives of technology, economy, politics and geography. These questions are visualised through an interview with a director, talking about a film in the making. The project is an attempt to visualise the structure of technological mediation, where layer upon layer of information interact with each other.

Automatic Prophecies

Nils Ekman

20 November 2019 - 31 March 2020

The project will explore computer simulation, both as an artistic medium with the ability to generate complex forms and as a technology able to envision processes of becoming, revealing the creative potential of matter and energy. As simulation is used in scientific modeling to predict the development of real-world emergent phenomena and in engineering for design optimization, the project will look at how simulation is used both as a prophetic medium and as a sculptural tool.

I’m out of order until further notice

Lisa Mårtensson, Lotta Fahlén, Manel Ruiz, Esmeralda Ahlqvist, Eira Fråjdh, Paria Hellas

1 November 2019 - 1 December 2019

Lotta Fahlén, Lisa Mårtensson and Manel Ruiz are collaborating to create 'I'm out of order until further notice', an immersive audio performance the deals with theme stress related brain damage and fatigue. Its is based on Loljuds (Lotta Fahléns) coming music album 'The Phases' and one of the first collaborations the trio does. The project aims to investigate the relation between sound and action/reaction and how sound encourage the body to function and behave and vice versa.

Valby Vokalgruppe

Lil Lacy, Sonja LaBianca, Cæcilie Trier, Anja Jacobsen

20 November 2019 - 27 November 2019

"Most of the elements in our bodies were created inside stars." Valby Vokalgruppe created the works "Harmony of the Exospheres" and "Bølger af tid og rum" (Waves of time and space) for Click Festival 2016 and 2018 as the two first parts of a universe trilogy. The last part of the trilogy will be composed as a part of their residency at IAC and performed in St. Johannes Kyrka at Intonal Festival 2020. The work will center itself deep inside the body and focus on Valby Vokalgruppes’ starting point: the voice.

Thousand Times Yes

Essi Kausalainen, Marja Ahti, Jenny Kalliokulju

4 November 2019 - 10 November 2019

‘Thousand Times Yes’ is an international and intergenerational collaboration bringing together artists and musicians to explore the potential of cooperation and sharing in the form of a performance. It is a multidisciplinary dialogue that takes the shape of an experimental feminist chamber opera, inviting its participants to rethink the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk and its aesthetics, as well as the hierarchical and unequal traditions of the (performing) arts.

Drawing Music

Ann Rosén, Sten-Olof Hellström, Jakob Riis, Jørgen Teller

4 November 2019 - 8 December 2019

In ‘Drawing Music’ the goal is to develop a work that breaks free from standard concert formats and timeframes. The idea is to explore different aspects of time and spatiality, allow the music, musicians and score to occupy space and freely move around in all dimensions. To give music spatial shape and give sound physical qualities such as size, weight, texture, surface and color.

Transistor 8

Rune Søchting, J&K (Janne Schäfer & Kristine Agergaard), Lukas Orwin, Michael Edgerton, John Hanse, Nina Jeppsson, Kent Olofsson, Fredrik Haller, Jörgen Dahlqvist, Annika Nyman, Kirstine Lindemann, Gylleboverket

25 October 2019 - 31 October 2019

The eight edition of the Transistor Festival runs for seven days and presents installations, performances, artist talks and artistic research seminars. Transistor is focusing on building a long-term infrastructure of experimental performing arts.

fungal network / rhizomatic network (working title)

Jaleh Negari, Felia Gram-Hanssen

21 October 2019 - 24 November 2019

During their Make Sound Residency, Felia Gram-Hanssen and Jaleh Negari will research, develop and explore the process of translation and transformation from one medium to another. As a starting point they will take off from the phenomenon of fungal networks. Inspired by this phenomenon they will examine the relationship between different aspects of interdisciplinary approaches, understandings and sharing in the arts.

Chamber Cinema Set

Simon Christensen, Robert Schaller

10 June 2019 - 28 September 2019

‘Chamber Cinema Set’ is an ongoing project that Danish composer, Simon Christensen and the American filmmaker, Robert Schaller, began back in 2012. The main goal of the artistic collaboration was to create live events that involves Chamber music and analogue film projected live on stage.

Mix-edit of MTS sound archive

Nicklas Lundberg

19 August 2019 - 30 September 2019

Nicklas Lundberg is a Swedish musician, sound artist and an instrument builder based in Malmö. His focus and thrive is the exploratory means of wasted and rejected consumer electronic goods and creates eclectic sound fields with a firm link to the electro acoustic music and with a strong visual content. With a past in improvisational jazz and in theoretical musicology he uses his knowledge and experience to experiment through various musical situations, produce and explore the sounds of the “rejected”.

Do I look fluid?

Alberto Franceschini, Daniel Lercher, Ingrid Cogne

19 September 2019 - 29 September 2019

“Do I look fluid?” focusses on “writing as action” within a choreographic structure wherein physical body movement, choreographic composition, and sound design aim at stretching the performative power of relations, the capacity of encounters, and a possible collective mean-making.

Other ear

Kirstine Lindemann , Yiran Zhao

1 October 2019 - 12 October 2019

While making compositions in which the movement and sound of the body forms the main compositional material the project ‘other ear’ researches how the staging and the physical presence of the performer create relations to an audience. 'other ear' works with an expanded concept of classical composition while placing the physical body in the center of the works.

Tvilling

Freja Andersson, Bianca Maria Barmen, Britta Olsson, Erik Peters

9 September 2019 - 15 September 2019

Des/information

Martina Tomner, Ida Höög, Natalie Eriksson, Emily Willman, Ola Rubin, Agata Tuchołka

23 August 2019 - 28 September 2019

‘Des/information’ is an experimental, interactive chamber music drama for four chamber musicians, one actor and prerecorded EAM. The performance is an interdisciplinary collaboration between composer, actor and musicians, where they aim to explore concepts such as the role of art and music in a contemporary, evolving society.

Extended Piano

Zoe Efstathiou

15 August 2019 - 16 August 2019

Zoe Efstathiou is a pianist working with contemporary piano techniques as a composer and improviser, exploring the materiality of space in an improvised performance, the timbral possibilities of the piano and the relationship between piano and electronics. Her project at Inter Arts Center will involve researching on the possibilities of composing music for piano that has a point of departure in the timbral exploration of the instrument's overtones.

INSIDE

Eva Sidén, Christian Rønn

7 August 2019 - 8 August 2019

Composer, pianist and sound artist Eva Sidén SE and composer, organist and sound artist Christian Rønn DK are collaborating in a project to make a composition and a sound installation together. Exploring acoustics, organ and grand piano in a multichannel setup and an installation EAM 7.1 with video projections.

Phantom Zone Projector

Kalle Brolin

19 August 2019 - 28 September 2019

Smuggler of refugees Amir Heidari was filmed and interviewed in a Swedish prison, while talking about a Europe without walls. The interview took place in 2007 and was recorded on a mini-DV camera. A performance piece describes how various parties (like the police, or the documentary film industry) throughout the years since then have attempted to influence different versions of the filmed material.

other ear

Kirstine Lindemann, Yiran Zhao

11 August 2019 - 22 August 2019

Black Bird

Maria Naidu, Thomas Romlöv, Kent Olofsson, Imre Zsibrik

22 July 2019 - 4 August 2019

A solo dance performance inspired by the Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase, his book Karasu (Corps), its basic thematic and the raven (species). The work revolves around Fukase's central themes: isolation and tragedy at different levels of depth and abstraction. A spectacular yet fateful collage that mixes dance art, movement, projected images and filmed sequences, silent sounds, drone and deafening lamentations in a cinematic way. It should hurt in the same way as when massaging a bruise.

In the Cities

Nicola Pianzola, Anna Dora Dorno, Alberto Novello Jestern

15 July 2019 - 20 July 2019

‘In the cities’, inspired by Calvino, is an interdisciplinary experimental research and production project that aims to create the contemporary theatre production ‘The Global City’, a performance with a modulate structure able to be composed in a different sequence and to involve international artists, according to the different spaces and contexts hosting the residency phases.

The Sonic Storyboard

Diana Chester

10 June 2019 - 16 June 2019

The Sonic Storyboard is a project developed from recordings of the Islamic call to prayer, also known as the adhan, azhan, or namaaz. With these field recordings and corresponding photographs, Diana Chester will develop an interactive space where visitors to the exhibition become participants in the ever-changing soundscape of the space. The idea is to highlight human mediation of thought through human mediation of sound.

Memory Lab

Rani Nair, Malin Holgersson, Joanna Ekström, Celine Orman

2 June 2019 - 9 June 2019

Memories and archives have been a recurring theme for several years, both in Rani Nair’s own works and through projects she has been invited to. Based on her former works, e.g. 'Future Memory', Rani has developed different methods of working with memories that she now wants to develop into a new work – a kind of memory lab that engages with audiences, both professionals and amateurs, in a participatory laboratory where their personal memories come in the center stage.

Interference #8

Akio Suzuki, Hiromi Miyakita, Caitlin Dear, Miyuki Inoue, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir

21 May 2019 - 27 May 2019

Interference #8 which is organized by the Malmö Academy of Music is a laboratory for artistic research. The atmosphere is that of sharing and joint exploration. The theme of this lab is site specific and ecological sound art with a focus on listening practices. Among several international guests like Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir are the legendary sound artist Akio Suzuki, the choreographer Hiromi Miyakita. Caitlin Dear and Miyuki Inoue are both doing residencies at the Inter Arts Center.

Humancicada

Miyuki Inoue

15 May 2019 - 30 June 2019

‘Humancicada’ has its origins in the time when Miyuki Inoue went into the woods to find a place to sing. She recorded her voice and cicada insects and made sound installations from the recordings. This time, Miyuki wants to create a participatory sound sculpture in which the audience is invited to sing together to become part of the work.

Memory Lab

Rani Nair, Malin Holgersson, Joanna Ekström, Celine Orman

9 May 2019 - 16 May 2019

Skin

Mads Bech Paluszewski-Hau

30 April 2019 - 18 May 2019

SKIN is a performative sound installation that uses sound as a tool to reveal inner, life-like attributes of things seemingly dead. Through working with various forms of acoustic feedback, the compositional setup enhances the resonant capabilities in selected objects that is hanging suspended, almost levitating in the performance space.

FLORENCE

Ellinor Ingvar-Henschen, Helena Röhr, Jonatan Sersam, Jenny Grettve, Andrea Grettve

18 May 2019 - 20 May 2019

A one-woman-performance with an opera singer acting alone on stage. She plays the piano, sings arias and improvises musically based on her personal story. Ellinor Ingvar-Henschen came out with her autobiography 'A song of abuse, courage and love' in the autumn of 2018. In the performance, her story is interwoven with the classical music as she accompanies herself on Puccini and presents a strong example of the music's healing power.

Odd matter

Els Woldhek, Georgi Manissiev

1 May 2019 - 30 June 2019

ODD MATTER is a design studio driven by curiosity for all the strange and wonderful. Researching, creating and exploring our world’s past, present and future through its materials, processes and concepts. The studio believes that by working with existing processes and notions, researching these from a different, more naive perspective can create a different kind of product. Unique and specific to the place they originate from.

Tree Time

Caitlin Dear, Thomas Schmocker

5 June 2019 - 10 June 2019

Caitlin Dear will be working both on and off site, with her project that exists two fold: 1. Tree Time is practice. It is not necessarily an artistic practice, but it uses artistic methods and paradigms to contribute to research within the sciences. It uses choreographic thinking and investigative bodily approaches to find out how we could socially engage with trees, and what this might mean for current sociological and ecological paradigms.

Intonal at IAC

Oswaldo Maciá, Tony Cokes, Alessandro Perini, Francesco Del Nero, Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, Lisa Stenberg , Stefan Östersjö , Dante Tanzi, Giuseppe Pisano, Mads Kjeldgaard

24 April 2019 - 28 April 2019

The Intonal Festival at IAC presents a series of Acousmatic concerts in the Red Room, followed by a seminar. All days you can experience sound and video installations by Oswaldo Maciá and Tony Cokes. Intonal is an annual festival for experimental and electronic music that has been held in Malmö since 2015. The international program is covering a wide range of genres, subgenres and unique expressions. See the entire program and information about tickets here.

In the Cities

Nicola Pianzola, Anna Dora Dorno, Alberto Novello Jestern, With the support of Region Emilia – Romagna – Italian Institute of culture of Stockholm

8 April 2019 - 14 April 2019

'In the cities', inspired by Calvino, is an interdisciplinary experimental research and production project that aims to create the contemporary theatre production 'The Global City', a performance with a modulate structure able to be composed in a different sequence and to involve international artists, according to the different spaces and contexts hosting the residency phases.

Transistor 7

Liv Kaastrup Vesterskov, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Rune Søchting

4 April 2019 - 11 April 2019

The focus in the seventh edition of the Transistor Festival is on the processes, trying out new formats and ways of working. An exploratory work is underway by artists in various rehearsal spaces that will be shown in later editions of the festival.

Jaktlaget

Patrik Patsy Lassbo, Annika Tosti, Milja Rossi, Olof Runsten

1 April 2019 - 5 April 2019

In the first half of January, the IAC hosted ‘Jaktlaget’, a participatory performance about the status of hunting in contemporary society. At the beginning of April ‘Jaktlaget’ will enter the second round at IAC, ending up with a premiere at Inkonst on the 12 and 13 April 2019. ‘Jaktlaget’ is a participatory performance. It will be both violent and cute, a healthy day in the woods and a cringy nightmare.

Blue Planet Sounds

Malthe Møhr Johnsen

19 April 2019 - 21 April 2019

The four pieces all consist of material taken from a screen recording of the episode Coral Reefs from the largely successful show Blue Planet II. Each of the four sound pieces are experienced through specific visuals. The visuals are an outcome of a layering of all the original videoclips where each categorized sound was presented. The video segments vary in length, so that the visual outcome is a constantly changing performance of floating, gliding, dancing and charging animal movements.

SOUND SPACES 2019

No Roof III , Frictions, Labyrinths in Sound, Les Automates de Descartes, Hertz, Dante Tanzi, Ars Nova Ensemble

6 April 2019 - 4 May 2019

SOUND SPACES was born with the aim to provide the city of Malmö with new music, opening up the perspective towards the most cutting-edge international sound-based practice. SOUND SPACES is a window open to the present world of music creation, with international composers and performers the program includes selected pieces, both instrumental and acousmatic.

Total Leatherette

25 March 2019 - 31 March 2019

Total Leatherette is a Psych-Vogue project which informs experimental compositions through the experience of the post-industrial cosmopol, anxiety-stricken cause and effect of sensitive being - serving as a fever dream to those most likely to fail but encouraging to bask in that righteous climax.

Of mist and clouds

Rune Søchting

1 March 2019 - 11 April 2019

Of mist and clouds is a work for transmitted voices developed during a residency at the Inter Arts Center. With the voice as its key object and the thematic figure of the rumor at its centre, the project Of mist and clouds explores the relation between voice and space. The work will be presented as a sound installation during the Transistor festival at the IAC.

CONNECT

jazz composers and musicians from the Music Academy in Malmö, REAKTION! ensemble, Peter Sheppard Skærved, The Isolated Tour

15 March 2019 - 17 March 2019

Connect is an annual festival for contemporary music, arranged by the composer students at the Music Academy in Malmö, in corporation with Inter Arts Center and students from the Theatre Academy in Malmö. This year’s theme of the festival is 'Isolation'.

The Politics of Rhythm

Greta Eacott

11 March 2019 - 25 March 2019

The Politics of Rhythm is a 4-week intensive and hands-on research lab which takes experimental approaches to rhythm as it’s central point of exploration. Led by composer/percussionist Greta Eacott, the lab will facilitate the development of installation and performance works that explore, deconstruct and look to expand on current ways of understanding and working with rhythm and rhythmic systems.

What does it mean to be present?

Steinunn Knútsdóttir

1 February 2019 - 31 March 2019

The projects objective is to research the potential of site-specific immersive performance practice especially in regards to downscaling the aspect of production and interventions. The project deals with different qualities of presence and awareness transcending the content, methods and form. The work aspires to heighten the quality of awareness of the performance guests through minimal means

TEOTWAWKI

Johanna Malm

4 March 2019 - 14 March 2019

TEOTWAWKI is a video and a performance dealing with notions of apocalypse and survival strategies, a restless meditation where what comes across as alarmistic might in fact be the most probable.

INTONAL – Experimental music festival

Oswaldo Macia, Kate NV & Sasha Kulak, Tony Cokes, Aux 88, MCZO & Duke, Apartment House plays Julius Eastman’s, Femenine, Ilpo Väisänen, Burnt Friedman & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi + many many more

24 April 2019 - 28 April 2019

Intonal is an annual festival for experimental and electronic music that has been held in Malmö, Sweden since 2015. The focus of the festival is to offer an international programme of experimental and electronic music covering a wide range of genres, subgenres and unique expressions.

Amfi #1-4 (working title)

Saga Gärde, Lisa Nordström , Tomas Romlöv, David Gülich, Lode Kuylenstierna, Felicia Mulinari, Lone Aburas, Athena Farrokhzad, Balsam Karam, Dimen Abdulla

1 January 2019 - 30 June 2019

The project AMFI # 1-4 (working title), deals with the question of how one with sound design and video can create a dramatic situation in a lyrical text performed on stage. The project aims to investigate the staged reading as a theatric form in order to create a new scene for contemporary drama – where texts are read and dramatized through video and sound design during a two years period as a start. The intention is to draw attention to and emphasize the dramatic potential of new texts.

Athroa

Zoi Efstathiou, Egil Kalman

15 February 2019 - 22 February 2019

"Athroa" is a composition that combines an improvised electroacoustic performance with an interactive light installation. In this composition, space, rather than time, is the basis of formal organization, and the experience of the music will be embodied in the process of navigating through space and observing objects from different vantage points. The music is in counterpoint with a light installation which interacts with the sounds and musical textures in non-obvious (non-rhythmical) ways.

City Dwellers 1

Tale Næss

4 February 2019 - 14 February 2019

‘City Dwellers 1’ is an open-ended project in the form of a dramatic, immersive sound-installation. The sounds will mainly consist of voices, cries and whispers. Outbursts, statements and conversations. Although the voices will feel private, the installation as a whole shall constitute a public space, an entity like a city. Tale Næss is trying to create a third space, where history, culture and place come together as one - to trigger a general sense of how we see things and how we shape our surroundings and vice versa.

LISTEN, WORD, SOUND, RHYTHM – FROM HELL

Cecilia Nordlund, Christina Svärdström, Åsa Gjerstad, Lotta Wenglén, Helena Fa Jurén

3 February 2019 - 5 February 2019

Cecilia Nordlund & Fullmånen Från Helvetet is a collaboration between the singer and songwriter Cecilia Nordlund, noise-artist and composer, cellist Åsa Gjerstad and percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Lotta Wenglén. The music is suggestive, dark, hopeful and crisp at the same time.

VR lab sessions

21 January 2019 - 22 January 2019

An exclusive group of both students, researchers and artists meets over two days to present and discuss VR projects and questions. The sessions are not public.

The Politics of Rhythm

Greta Eacott

3 January 2019 - 17 January 2019

Vem Kan Bli Producent

Sabina Husberg Götlind, Matilda Årestad , Julia Giertz, Julia Öjbrandt, Lotta Fahlen

16 January 2019 - 30 January 2019

The project “Vem Kan Bli Producent” is centered around creating a community for women and transgender people of all genders involved or interested in sound tech and music production. This includes creating a national and international network, doing workshops, seminars, meet-ups and each year to have a longer educational program for active music producers. The idea is to make knowledge more accessible and to create and nurture a platform where people can find each other, share ideas and collaborate.

VOICE and the UNKNOWN

Elisabeth L. Belgrano, Felicia Konrad, Lisa Nyberg, Misha Penton, Julieanna Preston, Björn Ross, Elisabeth Holmertz

28 January 2019 - 30 January 2019

The aim of this artistic research symposium is to allow for VOICE to act as a guide into the UNKNOWN. Through an entangled mish-mash of intra-active events (performances, installations, workshop and seminars) participants will be invited to explore the potential power of VOICE and its impact on the UNKNOWN or ‘that-which-is-yet-to-be-known’. Questions driving the event include: how can we understand VOICE in contemporary every day performances, based on both sensuous and intellectual knowledge? What specific vocal features will emerge if we allow VOICE to be the guide into the UNKNOWN aspects of life and living?

IASPIS residency

Ivo Vidal, Claudia Del Fierro

11 January 2019 - 31 March 2019

The IASPIS residents in spring 2019 in Malmö are Claudia Del Fierro and Ivo Vidal. The two artists will participate in the exhibition Remembering What Is: Chile’s Recent History in Film and Art which opens on January 25 at Lunds konsthall. During their residency project, they will develop their individual as well as collective work in relation to the ongoing exhibition as well as to their previous research.

Jaktlaget

Patrik Patsy Lassbo, Annika Tosti, Milja Rossi, Olof Runsten

4 January 2019 - 15 January 2019

‘Jaktlaget’ is a participatory performance. The audience is dressed in naive camouflage and signs up to join a fictive hunting team, posing with trophies, drinking coffee 7 am. It will be both violent and cute, a healthy day in the woods and a cringy nightmare. ‘Jaktlaget’ explores the stereotypical masculine group of hunters from a speculative point of view, researching the status of hunting in contemporary society as something seemingly authentic, something humans have always practiced but which has today transformed into something almost obscure.

Wacław Zimpel

21 December 2018 - 28 December 2018

Wacław Zimpel is one of the most original and unique talents to have emerged from Poland. A multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer of rare distinction, music has flowed through and from him since an early age. Inspired as much by jazz as he is by electronics, minimalism and roots music from across the world, Wacław Zimpel doesn’t so much blur boundaries as eradicate them altogether to create a whole new musical language.

Dark Emotions

Zwoisy Mears-Clarke, Assi Pakkanen

3 December 2018 - 8 January 2019

Within the frame of ‘Dark Emotions’, Zwoisy will be finding a graspable translation of the emotions shame, anger, disgust, and love, while looking at them as the residue of the emotional labor related to (doing, ignoring, or experiencing) discriminatory events. The works of writers whose roots hail from black feminist theory will be a way to define and contextualize these emotions as possibilities for community and empowerment.

Barntimmen

Johanna Wagner, Julia Wilson, Damien Wagner, Anna Wagner, Brigitta Kontros, Nour Kebbeh, Marie Jansson, Lily Jansson

26 November 2018 - 14 December 2018

‘Barntimmen’ is an interactive VR project where the viewer gets to feel what it’s like to be in the shoes of a 6-year old on its first day in kindergarten. Through smells, taste and touch sensations throughout the piece, the experience for the viewer will be on a tactile level, where all five senses get activated.

Audio Paper Symposium

Sanne Krogh Groth, Stefan Östersjö, Anders Hultqvist, Robert Willim, Annika Nyman, Jörgen Dahlqvist, Carlotta Sillana, Diana Chester, Heidi Stalla, Eduardo Abrantes, Craig Wells & Giuseppe Pisano, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Kate Donovan, Katt Hernandez, Magda Mayas, Moritz Klenk, Per Anders Nilsson, Piotr Cichocki, Sian Hutchings, Tale Naess

10 December 2018 - 11 December 2018

Following on from a series of laboratories at the Inter Arts Center, the Malmö Academy of Music and the section of Musicology, Lund University organize a symposium on the publication format of Audio Papers. In addition to a large number of new audio papers, the symposium presents two keynote speakers who represent adjacent and parallel developments in film studies and sound art, Miklós Kiss and Svetlana Maraš.

Constructed Weather (part2)

Jonna Hägg

4 November 2018 - 31 October 2019

The project revolves around the weather, the force of nature and its soundscapes. The sound tracks will be based on field recordings made in different locations, mostly from Iceland and Gotland. In these sounds the power of nature is in a kind of imbalance: the sounds are threatening, vibrating, alarming and capturing at the same time nature’s great reserves of power.

Leif JF Calloiscott

Francis Patrick Brady, John B McKenna, Leif J.F. Callioscott

3 November 2018 - 9 March 2019

A presentation of original recordings and a reenactment of the little-known Swedish child psychologist Leif J. F. Callioscott. He was an experimental practice based academic whose theory of ‘Audible Transitional Objects’ places play and fantasy as crucial cornerstones in child development. At the same time, he was convinced that the fantastical, magical or “unreal” sonic elements that we are exposed to whilst young help us create a picture of reality as its polar opposite.

Interference #7

Tellef Kvifte, Markus Tullberg, Kerstin Frödin, Åsa Unander-Scharin, Katt Hernandez, Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Stefan Östersjö, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Zoe Efstathiou & Egil Kalman, Catherine Laws, Yann Coppier, Francisca Skoogh, Kent Olofsson, Juliana Hodkinson, Scenatet

20 November 2018 - 25 November 2018

Interference #7 which is organized by the Malmö Academy of Music is a laboratory for artistic research. The aim of Interference #7 is to create a discourse within music research, drawn from performative and material perspectives on musical creativity. The atmosphere is that of sharing and joint exploration.

TRANSISTOR 6: The City and The City

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Liv Kaastrup Vesterskov, Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander, Jörgen Dahlqvist, Kent Olofsson, Agnes Wästfelt, Jona Elfsdahl, Etta Säfve, Ulf Rönnerstrand, Carl Gustavsson, Elvira Haller, Lise Kroner, Mario Ochoa, Malene Begtrup Andersen, Stefan Östersjö, Jonatan Sersam, Alessandro Perini, Francesco Del Nero, Francisca Skoogh

8 November 2018 - 25 November 2018

Transistor 6 is a month-long festival for contemporary performing arts featuring interdisciplinary work from different artists, institutions and collectives. Transistor explores the format of the festival through performances, talks, screenings, exhibitions and concerts.

Inkonst Music Residency with Kate NV & Sasha Kulak

Kate NV, Sasha Kulak

25 November 2018 - 2 December 2018

Inkonst and IAC have invited Kate NV & Sasha Kulak to join the international residency for contemporary music, sound art and experimental club culture. The residency aims to create opportunities for professional artists and groups to work and develop in a high-quality, active and exciting cross-artistic environment with a clear link between research and artistic work.

Neuronal Landscapes

Varvara Guljajeva, Mar Canet

26 November 2018 - 30 November 2018

How would you see through the eyes of an artificial intelligence? Probably in the future we won’t need our eyes to perceive the world any longer, the machine will do it instead of us. ‘Neural Landscapes’ takes the viewer to a natural and urban landscapes of Estonia which seems like a fairy tale or an illusion in a way machines dream about it.

Janne Schäfer, Kristine Agergaard

26 November 2018 - 31 December 2019

The visual artist duo J&K has been invited by IAC and Inkonst to develop their first piece for stage. The work is positioned on the threshold between fine and performing arts and will both be a performative installation and a visual play. J&K will experiment with combining and juxtaposing fragments, ritual elements and immersive participation as well as staged abstract material installations into a durational multimedia piece.

Corpus & Punishment

John Hanse, Henrik Bromander, Sofia Findahl, Jonas Åkesson, Jasser Hetait, Sofia Snahr

5 November 2018 - 20 December 2018

Is there any learning in oppression? The performance Corpus & Punishment examines the mechanics of state violence. It is a pedagogical arrangement where the performers alongside with the audience reenact a chain of possible situations. These situations create a dystopian and yet fully possible idea of a future where a democratic elected party uses the state apparatus to pursue and neutralize its dissidents.

Who is speaking / Make Sound Residency

Yann Coppier, Signe Allerup, Morten Riis Sørensen, Johan Kølkjær, Michael Breiner, Possible participation: Kitt Johnson

5 November 2018 - 7 December 2018

Yann Coppier aims to create a topology of sounds linked to dramaturgy and based on observation and imagination through practice-based investigation. Making extensive use of the ‘absurd’ as a way of pinpointing the new potential of sounds, it will help to develop innovation through meaning as a replacement for innovation through technology only.

Returning the Ear

Tim Shaw, Jacek Smolicki

26 November 2018 - 2 December 2018

‘Returning the Ear’ is an on-going collaboration between Tim Shaw and Jacek Smolicki. It is a particular method for attending to, archiving and mediating space through an array of sonic interventions and on-site experiments. If traditionally the experience and documentation of place has been performed through visual or textual means, the approach of the artists attempts to bring attention to practices of listening and audio-recording.

Broom as ice-skater

Anne Elisabeth Eckersberg

1 October 2018 - 31 January 2019

This project is an on-going investigation into how illusions of space and movement are constructed, today and throughout history, and how these constructions shape the way we understand reality. These questions are investigated through the medium of animation and 3D-scanning, and by examining elements such as souvenirs, toys, landscape-gardens, architectural floorplans, impulse responses, Foley sound, apostrophes, folly ruins, elliptical poetry, baroque machines, trompe l'oeils, theater scenography, film sets, and special effects.

Vem Kan Bli Producent

Sabina Husberg Götlind , Matilda Årestad , Julia Giertz, Julia Öjbrandt, Lotta Fahlen

3 October 2018 - 17 October 2018

The project "Vem Kan Bli Producent" is centered around creating a community for women and transgender people of all genders involved or interested in sound tech and music production. This includes creating a national and international network, doing workshops, seminars, meet-ups and each year to have a longer educational program for active music producers. The idea is to make knowledge more accessible and to create and nurture a platform where people can find each other, share ideas and collaborate.

WE (working title) / Inkonst residency

Janne Schäfer, Kristine Agergaard

8 October 2018 - 12 October 2018

Marmorsånger

Madeleine Jonsson Gille, Anna Jakobsson, Hanna Junti

18 October 2018 - 27 October 2018

“Marmorsånger” is a collaboration between vocal performer and composer Madeleine Jonsson Gille and writer and stage director Anna Jakobsson. In their project, they will stop fighting the clichés associated with images of women in classical/operatic music and literature, and instead approach these with tenderness and curiosity. The aim is to design a live-art concept, which could be further developed both as a show/concert experience and as an ongoing research enquiry.

ShareMusic Residency (not public)

ShareMusic & Performing Arts, The Composition Class at Malmö Academy of Music, Lund Contemporary

15 October 2018 - 18 October 2018

ShareMusic’s work contributes to the digital development that allows more inclusive ensembles and people to actively participate in artistic processes as co-creators. The residency comprises different workshops, where students from the Malmö Academy of Music, studying composition and arranging, work together with ShareMusic’s Elefantöra ensemble and musicians from Gageego! – ensemble for contemporary music. A range of interfaces will be explored and used, while working with digital technology and traditional instruments. The residency offers the ideal space and environment to further work towards the long-term goal to establish more people with different abilities becoming artists, being able to compose and/or perform music.

Join the Circle

Viktor Landström

1 October 2018 - 14 October 2018

“Join the Circle” is a sound and video project exploring different types of social circles: Drum circles, focus groups, family dinners, AA meetings, organized gang stalking and magic rituals. The circle carries the promise of unity and equality, but it can just as well be an arena for terror and oppression. Viktor works with a cut-up technique where found text, sound and video is mixed and merged into new narratives.

Athroa

Zoe Efstathiou, Egil Kalman

27 October 2018 - 4 November 2018

"Athroa" is a composition that combines an improvised electroacoustic performance with an interactive light installation. In this composition, space, rather than time, is the basis of formal organisation, and the experience of the music will be embodied in the process of navigating through space and observing objects from different vantage points. The music is in counterpoint with a light installation which interacts with the sounds and musical textures in non-obvious (non-rhythmical) ways.

Interference #6

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, Katt Hernandez, Kent Olofsson, Jakob Riis, Mike Sheridan, Jacob Remin, Sergey Filatov

16 September 2018 - 18 September 2018

Interference #6 – organized by the Malmö Academy of Music – is a laboratory for artistic research with the aim to create a discourse within music research, drawn from performative and material perspectives on musical creativity. Interference #6 invites a wider audience to take part when artists share works in progress, installations, performances, and engage in critical discussion.

Waterways

Sanna Blennow, Rebecka Holmström

4 September 2018 - 22 December 2018

“Sound Matter/Waterways” is a live performed sound piece, exploring the physical and visual aspects of sound through the matter of water. Sanna Blennow and Rebecka Holmström are a choreographer/dancer and an artist/stage designer, working with sound as the connective tissue between them. Through the sounding matter of water, the artists are searching for possible narratives, trajectories, patterns, asking themselves about the relationship between body and sound.

Sequential Spaces

Mike Sheridan, Jakob Riis

31 August 2018 - 16 September 2018

The project “Sequential Spaces” evolves around an interaction of the unique glass instrument Cristal Baschet, digital electronics and spatial sound. The two composers Mike Sheridan and Jakob Riis will create new music together in an investigation of the instrument Cristal Baschet in combination with electronic analysis and sound processing developed especially for this project. With its origins in the french 'musique concrète' it feels like a natural step to investigate the possibilities of this instrument in an expanded electronic setting.

Enveloping

Christian Rønn

17 September 2018 - 28 September 2018

“Enveloping” is the working-title of a performance-idea that has developed slowly over some years working within the field of free improvisation, electronics/electroacoustic and fixed composition. Part of this experiment is to envelope the whole room, including the audience, in one big controlled feedback-loop, working with grand piano, mics, speakers and electronics.

OPEN END

Diethild Meier, Sara Pons

27 August 2018 - 1 September 2018

'Open End' is an alchemical experiment designed to transform time into matter. Conscious of the impossibility of their attempt, Diethild Meier and Sara Pons choreograph a space in which time extends and compresses, passes, begins and ends, begins and ends again and again, pulsates and vibrates…

Potential for 1000 recorders

Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard

21 August 2018 - 29 August 2018

"Potential for 1000 recorders" is a sound installation that operates within a potential state without any physical sound. The potential state of the installation will allow the listener to create their own imaginary soundscape by using their inner ear, being different for.

Performative Sound Sculptures

Jacob Remin, Sergey Filatov

20 August 2018 - 16 September 2018

The world is in flux: Old power structures are shifting, extreme positions are rising and national interest are infiltrating international collaborations. Jacob Remin (DK) and Sergey Filatov (RU) are interested in exploring the field between media and physical objects, where media starts eating and manipulating what was once thought solid. Through custom built field recording techniques, they will explore the sounds produced by wireless internet signals and the circuitry of media infrastructures.

Mother of Pearl

Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen, Marie-Louise Andersson

20 August 2018 - 29 September 2018

In the concert performance 'Mother of Pearl' Barbara and Marie-Louise are transformed into abstractions of oysters stemming from a surreal world under water in a depth where the boundaries between humans and other living organisms dissolve. By setting metal plates into motion, the plates function as musical instruments. A rhythmic interference occurs, as a result of playing rhythmic polyrhythms together.