Projects

Avskärmad (Screened Off) is an experimental music drama project exploring topics such as isolation, ambivalence and power hierarchies in human interactions, and how our perception of reality is influenced by digital communication. The performance is built around two central characters, a mother and a daughter, whose relationship will be portrayed on stage through music, poetry, and AI generated dialogue.

Immanence: The Reconstructed Pipe Organ

Calum Builder

17 April 2023 - 7 May 2023

Calum Builder’s recent research has been exploring the personification and timbral potential of organs, resulting in the creation of a self-built instrument – "The Reconstructed Pipe Organ" – a pipe organ which has been reassembled and spread out amongst the room. This residency focuses on developing augmentations, designed to expand on the instrument’s rhythmic, timbral, and tuning parameters. “Immanence” refers to an inherent dwelling, where the spiritual world permeates the physical.

Bio Feedback Laboratory

Mai Ane Pil Siedentopp, Morten Schmidt

4 April 2023 - 25 April 2023

In “Bio Feedback Laboratory”, the interdisciplinary duo LYD PORT explores an interaction with kombucha SCOBY. The duo will work on magnifying the visual and sonically properties of the SCOBY to create musical ideas and process the SCOBY into a leather fabric for the scenography. The scenography is, at the same time, a costume for the performers and a percussion instrument and resonator for vocals to be experienced in immersive sound from tactile transducers.

“The Possible”

Anna Houmann

27 March 2023 - 31 March 2023

The project “The Possible” will explore an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies is an emerging field or research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia. The week at IAC is an incubator and innovation hub where teacher students experiment on ”the possible" from a cross art disciplinary perspective.

INTONAL 2023

Marco Marini, François J. Bonnet, Katja Heldt, Jakob Riis, Kent Olofsson, Christina Isaxon, Leif Lönnblad, Lola Ajima, Fabio Monni, Francesco Del Nero, Alessandro Perini

27 April 2023 - 30 April 2023

A great part of this year’s acousmonium program will consist of a series of events entitled “PARMEGIANI 10 YEARS” with works by the great French composer Bernard Parmegiani, who passed away in 2013. Another great figure of contemporary music, Éliane Radigue, will be celebrated on Saturday night. On top of the performances and two artist talks, this year’s program also includes three documentary screenings. The program has been developed in collaboration with the Division of Musicology, the Sound Environment Centre at Lund University and SOUND SPACES.

Family Life – recomposed

Yann Coppier

6 March 2023 - 19 March 2023

amily life, and children in general are commonly associated with chaos and unsolicited noise. Something sound artists themselves mostly try to avoid, as the worst place for them to work. The 16-loudspeaker installation, in opposition, aims at celebrating the musicality in everyday life, where intimacy and brutality, tensions and resolutions, power and abandonment are all intrinsically linked together.

digital mythology: MINOTAUR GIRL

Eliza Bozek [moltamole]

13 February 2023 - 5 March 2023

During her Make Sound Residency Eliza [moltamole] intends to map an array of poems read by a voice clone onto a net of spatial compositions. She will be researching cloning and intensification of diverse vocal expressions, especially the ones that are not encouraged to be expressed or explored, particularly by women. Eliza is a Copenhagen based artist with a background in electronic music and performing arts - oriented sound design, working within the field of composition, installation, dance, theatre and digital art.

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Axel Burendahl

20 February 2023 - 26 February 2023

For his work at IAC Axel Burendahl wants to further develop and deepen his understanding of the connections between moving images, text and sculpture. He is going to build and expand upon a work that takes it’s starting point in a solo presentation that he did in 2022 at Bladr, an artist-run space dedicated to artists’ books in Copenhagen. The project examined questions of failure, disappointment, self-control and self-loathing.

Introduction to 3D animation with Maya

Youngjae Lih, Margot Edström

13 March 2023 - 20 April 2023

This course introduces students to the major features of Maya: modeling, animation, texture, lighting, rendering, rigging and popular workflow. Concepts are quickly reviewed and explained and then demonstrated using Maya in advanced level. Students will gain proficiency by following class examples as well as creating projects and exercises. This course is offered in cooperation with the IAC as a master class (no credits given) for PhD students within the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Registration is required.

Sandra Boss / Mother Soldier

Sandra Boss, Irene Bianco, Sara Nigard Rosendal, Astrid Hansen Holm, Stina Resting, Carolina Backman

9 January 2023 - 22 January 2023

Sandra Boss is a Danish-based composer and performer working in the field between instrumental music, electronics, installation and performance. Her works range from orchestra pieces and chamber music to solo performances and installations. During her Make Sound Residency she will develop the piece 'Mother Soldier', a performative and musical work written for a percussion ensemble.

IASPIS residency

Shirin Sabahi

6 February 2023 - 24 February 2023

Second part of the IASPIS residency. Shirin Sabahi grew up in Tehran, studied Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy and now lives in Berlin as an artist. Her practice casts artifacts and places as protagonists, tracing their contextualization and interpretation through time. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Bergen Assembly (2022); CCA Berlin (2022); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2021); Stavanger Kunstmuseum (2021); Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2020 and 2021).

Immersive Days #2: Public Immersion

Justin Bennett, Axel Berger & Josh Vyrtz, Francis Patrick Brady, Jonas Dahlberg, Christina Kubisch, Patricia Reed, Jacob Remin, Alona Rodeh, Hans Rosenström, Sara Wallgren, Yann Coppier, Charlotte Østergaard

22 November 2022 - 24 November 2022

See the entire programme for the Immersive Days #2 with VR and sound installations, guided/locative audio walks in public space, talks and participatory mixed reality performances. All events are free of charge but the most of them require registration.

Éric-Maria Couturier

25 October 2022 - 31 October 2022

Cellist Éric-Maria Couturier will be sharing his experience in a diverse panorama of activities in Malmö from the 25 October to the 1 November 2022, organised by PhD candidate Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete. Artistic Residency at Malmö Music Academy in collaboration with Sound Environment Center of Lund University.

Bananskolen & Goodiepal

Bananskolen, Goodiepal

24 October 2022 - 13 November 2022

Bananskolen ('Banana School') is a Copenhagen-based and self-organised alternative school initiated by the Goodiepal & Pals collective in which everyone is a student and teacher at the same time. Goodiepal & Pals also known as GP&PLs is a refugee and human smuggling organisation in disguise, operating on the borders of the European Union. During their Make Sound residency Goodiepal and Bananskolen will create audio tracks in collaboration with artists from Malmö's sound and music scene and invite to workshops and concerts.

Remote Performance / ShareMusic

ShareMusic, Performing Arts

7 September 2022 - 27 October 2022

Remote Performance is an innovative project that will be conducted during the autumn of 2022 with the aim to create and explore a digital environment where people, regardless their ability, can be creative together from a distance and, also, perform for an audience. Using sensors, avatars and biological modulation of music data, conditions are created for the participants to communicate a state of consciousness, mind, and body. Remote Performance is part of a specialized initiative where Region Skåne and IAC wish to contribute to increased conditions for artistic creation through technical solutions, digital tools, and artistic method development.

IASPIS residency

Shirin Sabahi

3 October 2022 - 30 November 2022

Shirin Sabahi grew up in Tehran, studied Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy and now lives in Berlin as an artist. Her practice casts artifacts and places as protagonists, tracing their contextualization and interpretation through time. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Bergen Assembly (2022); CCA Berlin (2022); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2021); Stavanger Kunstmuseum (2021); Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2020 and 2021).

Inter Feral Arts #7

Jacques Julien, Jack McKean, Pavlos Antoniadis, Fernando Garnero, Peter Spissky, Eric-Maria Couturier, Margherita Berlanda, Choe Uzong, Ars Nova, Johannes Nästesjö, Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Vaughan Phillips, Tim Bishop

12 October 2022 - 24 November 2022

During October and November 2022, the Malmö Academy of Music and Inter Arts Center will hold the next Inter Feral Arts Festival. The festival will include concerts, lectures, workshops, a panel discussion on art and one 50% PhD seminars. The events will take place at IAC and the Malmö Academy of Music. Our guests include musicians, philosopher, video artist(s), film maker and scientists.

Brown, Black, Queer and In-Between

Adriana Schneider Alcure (BR/DE), Deise Faria Nunes (BR/NO), Ian Calvet (BR/DE), Iury Salustiano Trojaborg (BR/DE/SE), John-Paul Zaccarini (SE/SA)

11 October 2022 - 13 October 2022

A three-day participatory, dialogical, non-hierarchical space of theoretical and practical exchange concerning decolonisation, queerness, feminism, storytelling and migration within artistic research practices. The programme is curated by PhD candidate Iury Salustiano Trojaborg.

Region Skåne residency

Freja Andersson, Erik Peters

3 October 2022 - 7 October 2022

In order to explore and develop new formats, forms of expression and artistic possibilities, Freja Andersson will deepen her knowledge of the visual programming language Max /MSP/Jitter. The training is carried out in collaboration with the composer Erik Peters and will later be shared as an experience in a seminar at IAC. Freja and Erik will work together for 10 days in 4 different periods from June to October 2022.

In the borderland between song and speech.

Håkan Lundström

1 April 2012 - 15 January 2022

This project spans over several language and music settings in societies where oral transmission of culture dominates. The aim of the project is to gain increased knowledge through collaboration between researchers with different approaches, to develop an interdisciplinary method for analysis of such expressions and to use this method in an intercultural study including several language and music settings.

ARTs, agency and social mobility

Ylva Hofvander Trulsson

1 April 2015 - 31 December 2019

his research study by Ylva Hofvander Trulsson focused on intergenerational discourses and dialogue on Sami culture and its relationship to contemporary society in Sweden and Norway. In Hofvander Trulsson’s previous research a strong discourse on social mobility and ‘class remobility’ has been found in relation to learning music and arts. Culture, music and arts can be assumed to strengthen the Sami habitus and create a social reconstruction of Sami identity and agency.

The Anatomy of the Moment

Jörgen Dahlqvist, Kent Olofsson, Erik Rynell

1 October 2012 - 31 December 2012

The Anatomy of the Moment aims to research the possibilities for collaborations between dramatist, actors, composer, and musicians on the basis of the situation in the play. The project is led by Jörgen Dahlqvist, Kent Olofsson and Erik Rynell, and includes a series of theatre performances, video installations and multimodal music/performance art.

Music in Movement

Stefan Östersjö, The Six Tones, Marie Fahlin

3 January 2011 - 31 December 2011

'Music in Movement' is a multi-disciplinary research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR) initiated by the Swedish guitarist Stefan Östersjö. The project builds on an expanded notion of musical gesture and the concept of merging the practices of choreographer and composer in the production of musical works that are conceived not merely as sonic entities but as compound units of sound and visual gesture. Music in Movement attempts to develop artistic strategies that allow musical composition and choreography to amalgamate and give rise to novel modes of expression.

Probing Mundania

Robert Willim

21 September 2022 - 31 December 2022

Robert Willim works as an artist and a researcher, often combining the activities. He creates works that explore imaginaries, media-related practices, and human experiences of technology. He uses research to spur artistic concepts and artworks to feed back into research practices. This is a kind of artistic research process he calls probing.

A shimmering ornament of silt

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Rebecca Bruton, Sofia Härdig

18 August 2022 - 16 September 2022

A sound installation and performance work co-created by Canadian composer Rebecca Bruton and Icelandic composer and PhD student at Malmö Music Academy, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir. Through 'a shimmering ornament of silt' the two musical creators attune to one another’s practices in experimental music, sound, and the interconnectedness of art and ecological systems. Together, they sift through ancient soil, sediment, and fossilization, and consider what the silt carries when it greets us in the present.

Open call for blind and visually impaired participants in Skåne!

Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete

5 September 2022 - 11 September 2022

We are looking for visually impaired participants for a workshop of music and gestural expression! This workshop makes part of the PhD research done by classical guitarist Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete at the Malmö Music Academy in Lund University. The workshop will be divided in two parts. A first part in which you will hear a series of sounds that you will associate with different materials and a second which will be a free expression clay workshop with music.

Immersive Days #2

22 November 2022 - 24 November 2022

Under the title ’Public immersion’ this year’s Immersive days will relate to questions on how immersive technologies change the way we conceive, experience and engage with sites and localities today, and maybe tomorrow. The programme includes a series of projects in public space and one day of lectures and artist presentations. Participating artists: Justin Bennett, Axel Berger & Josh Vyrtz, Francis Patrick Brady, Jonas Dahlberg, Christina Kubisch,Patricia Reed, Jacob Remin, Alona Rodeh, Hans Rosenström, Sara Wallgren, Yann Coppier and Charlotte Østergaard.

Exploring MaxMSP

Region Skåne

16 November 2022 - 18 November 2022

Max is a visual programming software environment for creating interactive sound, graphics, video and computer works. On November 16-18, IAC in collaboration with Region Skåne will host public lectures open for anyone curious to see what Max can offer for creators wanting to explore software-based interactions and connections. The lectures offer both an introduction to various ways of working with Max as well as an opportunity to meet Max users from different areas. On Friday evening we conclude and celebrate with a concert by Collettivo_21!

VARA VARD – anonymous material, phase 4

Elise Brewer , Sanna Blennow, Maria Westmar, Majula Drammeh, AdeY, Lendl Barcelos, Alexis Rodríguez Cancino

29 August 2022 - 11 September 2022

"VARA VARD – anonymous material, phase 4" is the fourth phase of a longer research project initiated by the artistic duo Brewer & Blennow. The project derives from an interest in the oral storytelling tradition of folk tales, where the specific points of departure have been investigating a sounding and listening body, magic(k), gathering around a common activity, rest and a lack of an author. This time around, the artists will start the process by looking further into what an anonymous material is.

Malmö Gallery Weekend 2022

Laurits Jongejan, Dag Kewenter, Joe Kessler, Helena Fernández-Cavada, Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete, Elin Lundgren & Petter Pettersson, Therese Bülow, Zahra Moein, Kirstine Lindemann, Yasmine El Baramawy

23 September 2022 - 25 September 2022

Experience the exciting environment of the IAC as we host an Open House during Gallery Weekend 2022 with new art projects by Laurits Jongejan, Dag Kewenter, Joe Kessler, Helena Fernández-Cavada, Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete, Therese Bülow, Zahra Moein, Kirstine Lindemann, Yasmine El Baramawy and Elin Lundgren & Petter Pettersson.

Region Skåne residency

Freja Andersson, Erik Peters

12 September 2022 - 14 September 2022

SØNTH collective, Crush String Collective & Cecilie Sadolin

Sofie Søe, Cecilie Penney, Cecilie Sadolin, Tove Bagge, Pauline Hogstrand, Julija Morgan, Oda Dyrnes

8 August 2022 - 21 August 2022

This project is a collaboration between the two feminist, Copenhagen-based collectives, SØNTH and Crush String collective and the Danish sound artist Cecilie Sadolin. During their Make Sound residency at IAC the artists will create a tribute to the programming language "COBOL" which was invented by Grace Hopper in the 1960s. The aim is to create alternative notations/scores based on "COBOL"'s program structure and to create an improvised concert based on these.

Region Skåne Residency

Amanda Monceau, Matthias Hahne Thorbjörnsson, Ilkka Häikiö, Tim Bishop

8 August 2022 - 28 August 2022

Teater Insite will explore how digital formats such as virtual reality and 3D sound can be used for interactive storytelling and to create immersive, site-specific, interactive and sensory encounters. During their Region Skåne residency, they will work together with Tim Bishop and visit the Multisensory Experience Lab, part of Aalborg University in Copenhagen. The aim is to share their experiences in the form of an interactive experience, followed by an open talk.

Region Skåne Residency

Freja Andersson, Erik Peters

1 June 2022 - 17 June 2022

Thelma In The Underworld

Lotta Fahlén, Maria Naidu, Oliver Lindman, Mary Toreld, Vera Ceginskas Lindström, Amanda Lebert, Lisa Mårtensson

24 June 2022 - 26 June 2022

In this performance Absurdum is investigating the coequally creative and destructive forces in humans through different stories of death. We follow Thelma to Hades after she has driven off the cliff in the Grand Canyon. We follow the creation of plastic bags, from ancient dead organisms, through oil and polymer, and on to convenient but overrated tools of mass suicide.

Konstmusiksystrar and Damkapellet

Konstmusiksystrar, Damkapellet, Juliana Hodkinson, Jennifer Torrence

18 June 2022 - 19 June 2022

In the workshop, the participants will explore the concepts of Risk-taking and Resonance together with prominent artists and researchers Juliana Hodkinson and Jennifer Torrence. The event is part of Nordic Network for Feminist Collaboration in New Music – A collaboration between Konstmusiksystrar and Damkapellet which brings together composers, musicians and researchers in a series of workshops in 2022.

Modus Operandi

Nicklas Lundberg

9 June 2022 - 23 June 2022

'Modus Operandi' is an interactive exhibition with an accompanying performance where Nicklas Lundberg presents the result of his sound research work at IAC during the last year. During the exhibition the audience is invited to through headphones explore an instrument utilising objects, physical phenomena, and different forms of sound synthesis.

Three Shields / Laurits Jongejan

Laurits Jongejan, Mads Thomsen

15 June 2022 - 3 July 2022

‘Three Shields’ is a piece that explores ways of recontextualizing the technology of voice synthesis, by bringing it into a physical media producing it acoustic and mechanically. The piece takes form as three special designed gongs, each of which are mechanically controlled, tempered, and tuned to produce a somewhat “human voice”.

Master of Fine Arts in Artistic Research (MFAAR)

Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Karin Hald, Sanna Jarl-Hansson, Vala T Foltyn

23 May 2022 - 30 May 2022

We are pleased to announce the exam exhibition by the first group of graduating students from the Master of Fine Arts in Artistic Research (MFAAR) programme at Malmö Art Academy. The exam projects are the conclusion of two years of thinking through the visual and developing large-scale research projects and research proposals. The exhibition at IAC is a unique possibility to engage with each of their findings as potential new beginnings.

Mylla

Liv Kastrup Vesterskov, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Gylleboverket, Adam Knapasjö, Ida Lundén, Johannes Nästesjö, Nguyen Thanh Thuy

7 May 2022 - 8 May 2022

Mylla is a musical performance piece that addresses our emotional, economic and vital relationship with the earth and how it is changing. The performance is based on 9 compositions and stories inspired by the current situation of farmers in Skåne. Mylla unites Liv Kastrup Vesterskov (idea, direction), Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir (sound design, composition), Gylleboverket (scenography) and Adam Knapasjö (dramaturgy) and improvisers Ida Lundén, Johannes Nästesjä and Nguyen Thanh Thuy.

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Pernilla Grahn, Ronald Beghetto

9 May 2022 - 13 May 2022

This year’s project will focus on “Uncertainty and Possibility” emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as students and researchers seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. The week at IAC is an incubator and innovation hub where teacher students experiment on how creativity can engrain music teacher education and future music education is schools from a cross art disciplinary perspective.

IASPIS residency

Joe Kessler

8 August 2022 - 30 September 2022

Artist, cartoonist and co-founder of Breakdown Press, Joe Kessler (London), is invited to Malmö as part of IASPIS International Programme for Visual and Media Artists. Joe Kessler is currently contributing to the development of comics with new design techniques. Inspired by risography, he colors his images in different layers with the help of a computer, and then has them offset printed with selected colors. The residency is hosted by K3, the Department of Arts, Culture and Communication.

STRINGS

Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir

11 April 2022 - 7 May 2022

STRINGS is a performative encounter with researchers from the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University about what motivates their research by Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir, THM. The performance explores the driving forces of change and what personal motivations humans have for pursuing their vision. The site of the encounters is the University of Lund with its atmospheric environment, history and divers hubs of knowledgemaking in Lund and Malmö.

INTONAL 2022

Martyna Kosecka, Yann Coppier, Jenny Gräf, Jaleh Negari, Daniel M Karlsson, Magnus Bunnskog, Ambulance on Fire (Jūra Elena Šedytė & Mėta Gabrielė Pelegrimaitė), Arturas Bumšteinas, Antanas Dombrovskij, Alessandro Perini, Francesco Del Nero, Jakob Riis

21 April 2022 - 24 April 2022

This year’s Intonal programme at IAC is supported by and curated in collaboration with the partners in a Nordic network for sound-based residencies, where both IAC and Inkonst are members. The other network partners are Notam (Oslo), EMS (Stockholm), Danish Composer’s Society (Denmark) and Rupert (Vilnius). And in addition to this we continue our long-term collaboration with the Ars Nova Ensemble and their festival SOUND SPACES. As a response to the pandemic, we have decided and prioritized only to have live acts this year. We will have seven acousmatic concerts (in the Red Room) and three live performances (in the Black Room).

Nanocosmic Investigations

Tim Bishop & Beniamino Gentile, Christine Kettaneh & Natalia Milas, Ish S & Bryan Jones, Jeannette Ginslov, Keith Lim & Emil Rofors, Ashley Middleton & Swati Aggarwal, Axel Straschnoy & Iain Sutton

5 April 2022 - 10 April 2022

A group exhibition and seminar at IAC as the final event of the "Artists in conversation with ESS (residency) programme", showcasing some of the output from all the artists and scholars who have collaborated in this programme. The opening event is open to the public and will include a short introduction and an artist-guided tour of the exhibition. The seminar will focus more on the process of the collaboration between all artists and scientists, and even reflect on future perspectives and how to further develop the field of arts and science.

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Pernilla Grahn, Ronald Beghetto

21 March 2022 - 25 March 2022

IAC Art Film Club

Salomé Lamas, Harun Farocki, Ben Rivers

17 February 2022 - 30 June 2022

IAC Art Film Club is a study group for everyone interested in films made by artists. Each month we will watch one or more films that we discuss afterwards. IAC Art Film Club is hosted by Margot Edström and Hans Carlsson in collaboration with Inter Arts Center.

IASPIS residency

Joe Kessler

21 March 2022 - 19 April 2022

VKBP Malmö Producer Meet-Up

Sabina Husberg Götlind, Silas Lilo Jensen, Lotta Fahlén

26 March 2022 - 27 March 2022

A full weekend of workshops, songwriting and production sessions, and knowledge sharing. Vem kan bli Producent aims to challenge structures in the studio and producer world and make technology accessible to underrepresented groups. The full programme will be announced shortly. Pre-registration is required.

Region Skåne Residency

SPECT scenkonst, Tim Bishop

25 January 2022 - 10 February 2022

Together with Tim Bishop, SPECT scenkonst will work i. a. on ideas and techniques for sound installations. The project will explore three ideas in particular: senses in the dark, headphone encounters and staged sociograms. At the IAC, they will create a space using various tools such as spatial sound devices, lighting technology, biometric sensors, texts and scenographic elements. The experiences from the project will end up in a podcast.

Region Skåne Residency

Stefan Stanisic, Emma Bexell, Jesper Berger, Robin Jonsson

14 February 2022 - 27 February 2022

Together with dancer and choreographer Robin Jonsson, Bombina Bombast will explore how rehearsals can work remotely in a shared live virtual environment. The aim of the collaboration is to develop a system that enables dancers, choreographers, actors and directors to rehearse remotely embodied as avatars. Lessons from the project will be taught in a public seminar.

THE VOID

Malene Begtrup, Mario Ochoa, Lise Kroner , Hannes Bennich, Nikoline Jørgensen

14 March 2022 - 17 April 2022

THE VOID is a journey in Virtual Reality, where live music and a 360 degrees movie is mixed into an intimate and interactive concert-performance, where all your senses will be activated. You are invited to a universe, where everything is possible. The performance will use VR to create an abstract dreamworld, where the audience is situated in the middle of the performance.

INTONAL 2022

Big Brave, Bill Ruyle; Peter Zummo & Members Of MSO: Arthur Russel's Tower Of Meaning, Dj Bone, Fulu Miziki, Fågelle, Grouper, and many more

20 April 2022 - 24 April 2022

This year, Intonal has invited artists from all over the world to Malmö, connecting them with local heroes and participants. Some are true legends in their fields – like Grouper or DJ Bone, others are legends in the making, like Kinshasa based Fulu Miziki or Manchester’s Space Afrika. We will also present several world premieres commissioned by the festival, in many cases by artists working with Intonal residencies, like Hiro Kone, Vincent Bahar and Japanese duo WaqWaq Kingdom.
And much more, as ever.

Reaching for the utmost limits

Johannes Nästesjö

10 January 2022 - 21 January 2022

For 20 years Johannes Nästesjö has worked as a professional double bass player and teacher in the genres of modern jazz, improvised and contemporary music. He currently conducts artistic research at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. Johannes will demonstrate how the music evolves and becomes a part of a personal and independent musical language; hence, the importance of studying, learning, and then transforming and personalizing already existing techniques from contemporary music.

GSTL / Make Sound Residency

Alma Hede

3 January 2022 - 23 January 2022

GSTL is an immersive sound art research-project and exhibition that seeks to engage an audience in exploring their auditory perceptive abilities. In a complete immersive musical experience, how much do you hear and where do you have to stand to perceive the music in its completion? GSTL is a gentle offering for the audience to explore themselves and the music they are moving in.

Game Changers

Elin Lundgren, Petter Pettersson

7 March 2022 - 13 March 2022

The work-in-progress project Game Changers’ – is a workshop in electro-composition and choreographed audience interaction in 3 parts. During January and February Lundgren & Pettersson will explore the 2nd and 3rd parts. Lundgren & Pettersson has during the last term in 2021 explored and done an electric soundscape in collaboration with the Malmö based musician & singer Cecilia Nordlund. Now Lundgren & Pettersson will continue the pre-study and investigate group affiliation and exclusion with a focus on the viewer's attitude and what governs the narrative and group dynamics in a live work through workshops at IAC.

Family life – recomposed / Make Sound Residency

Yann Coppier, Gry Søbye

3 January 2022 - 16 January 2022

Family life, and children in general are commonly associated with chaos and unsolicited noise. This project aims at recording the everyday life in a family through a network of 16 microphones set in an apartment located on a pedestrian street, in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, in a family of four. The technique used will be adapted to the place, capturing its acoustics in ways that won’t allow to dissociate the place from the people nor from objects used.

Sound Interaction Through Physical Phenomena

Nicklas Lundberg

7 December 2021 - 2 January 2022

Nicklas Lundberg continues to explore and research interaction with sound through interfaces that use physical phenomena as the vehicle for generating content while the human performer remains the agent in terms of form. Many inspiring questions arise when using an environment like this: about the nature of musical gestures, the correlation between agent and sound; topics that are as important today as they have been in the past, not the least in the history of electro acoustic and acousmatic music and theory.

Radical Listening Session #1: POINTS OF TRANSDUCTION / Make Sound Residency

Jenny Gräf Sheppard

10 January 2022 - 16 January 2022

'Radical Listening Sessions' will be collective research and workshopping around several themes contained within Jenny Gräf Sheppard’s PhD 'Communicating Vessels: re-defining agency through sounding'. Each theme will be explored through experiments with electronics, movement, readings and discussion. The outcome of each session will be a document, sound piece or video that is a reflection of the research. It may take the form of an art piece or of a documentation.

HUSH

Elin Maria Johansson, Vibeke Bryld

8 December 2021 - 14 December 2021

The project takes it outset in the previous work, ‘Hush’, a 10 min sensorial VR installation that lets the user become the subject of a Northern myth. During their research time at IAC, the artists will experiment on how to deepen the relationship between the inner experience and the physical space around us. For this purpose, both light, image and interactive techniques are used. The aim is to shift the sensorial experience from the virtual area to the real one, thereby strengthening the sensorial experience of the work.

Sounding the Body Electric / Make Sound Residency

Jenny Gräf Sheppard, MV Carbon

16 December 2021 - 22 December 2021

The Body Electromagnetic is a tactile and audio instrument-sculpture developed with feedback from residents from three social institutions in Denmark; one for the blind, one for youth with psychological issues, and one for older people with Dementia. The work involves activating flat speakers that produce sounds via coming in contact with hand held magnets controlled by the users. The aim for the Make Sound residency is to develop the instrument-sculpture further and to record and mix the sounds produced from it by the residents of the institutions as well as those Jenny makes herself.

GESTALT MINIMAL; the love songs

Greta Eacott, Aase Nielsen

7 December 2021 - 8 December 2021

GESTALT MINIMAL; the love songs, is a collaboration between the percussionist/composer Greta Eacott (One Take Records/ G·Bop Orchestra) and the producer Aase Nielsen (MC Boli, Boli Group). In December they will spend an intensive two day session at IAC's Sound Studio A to produce a full length record of the five works. GESTALT MINIMAL is a series of five instrumental works composed by Greta Eacott that deals with expanded notions of rhythm – in particular; the series explores creating instrumental ensemble works that are constructed without having any singular solid spine or unifying backbone.

Traces of costume material sampling salons / Exhibition

Charlotte Østergaard

15 November 2021 - 2 December 2021

The exhibition offers a glimpse into Charlotte Østergaard’s costume research process as 'remains of her PhD project “Costume sampling. Embodied making and moving experimentation/conversations”, that took place in the Black Room from 1 to 11 November. During the individual sessions the participants explored, experimented, and discussed particular costume material though the acts of making and moving. The exhibition consists of a textile installation and a sketchbook.

DRAUMR

Eva Sidén, Christian Rønn

25 November 2021 - 28 November 2021

Eva Sidén and Christian Rønn are one of the most interesting duos in the artistic filed of both creating and performing new music. They are both classical trained as soloists on the keyboards, (piano and organ) but have developed a unique style of combining composition and performing with different keyboard instruments and electronics. Sometimes their work and concerts are transformed to installations with sound and video and graphic scored-performances.

ლოცვა / LOTSVA

Mariam Gviniashvili

22 November 2021 - 26 November 2021

During the residency, Mariam will be working on a second version of her piece for multichannel electronics - ლოცვა / LOTSVA, commissioned by Ny Musikks Komponistgruppe. The piece is based on the prayers and chants from around the world that Mariam began collecting during the March 2021 lockdown. As she collects the recordings, she creates a new version of the piece each time it is performed. The first version of the piece was performed in Oslo, Fredrikstad and Trondheim and consisted of 24 songs from 20 countries. The second version will be composed during the residency and presented at the IAC on November 26 (more info TBA).

Female Prayers

Nevin Tuna Erönde

15 November 2021 - 21 November 2021

'Female Prayers' is based on the idea that one day we will hear female voices calling for prayer in public spaces. A peaceful message, where soundscapes are used as a medium to explore social and cultural issues, religion and gender through the lens of intersectionality. The story is unfolding through spoken letters addressed to the artist Nevin Tuna Erönde’s, late maternal grandmother, who was a practicing Muslim. Erönde re-connects to her by drawing parallels between the Muslim spiritual practices, and her own yoga practice. The performative art installation removes the boundaries between the audience and scene.

NJYD feat. James Black / Nya Låtar (’new songs’)

Marie Sønderskov, Mikkel Egelund, Jonas Weitling, Anja Nedremo, James Black

1 November 2021 - 14 November 2021

Nya Låtar (Swedish – ’new songs’) is a work of instrumental theatre by composer-performer James Black in collaboration with NJYD quartet. The work will have its roots in the contemporary classical tradition, but will include large elements of performance art, cabaret, and theatre. The piece will last between 20 and 30 minutes, and will be performed by NJYD quartet and the composer themselves. All aspects of the piece – staging, costumes, video, etc. – will be made by the composer and the quartet. The piece will be premiered at Klang Festivalen 2022 in Copenhagen.

Oracle

Justine Maxelon, Caroline Daish, Laszlo Umbreit

21 October 2021 - 29 October 2021

‘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.

PARADIGM

Kaia Zoe

18 October 2021 - 24 October 2021

The project “PARADIGM – Holobionts, interconnected matter and stories from the periphery” consists of several media – here a spatial installation with a smaller selection of sculpture, sound, light and xerox excerpts from a book in becoming together with a first version of the book. A holobiont is made up of a host organism serving space and sharing nutrients with other life forms, like sub species in the human microbiome. Together with the external microbial and molecular world the entity of our cells and microbes form an ecological continuum – we are nature even when culture has cut out our awareness of that interdependence.

IASPIS residency

Francesco Fonassi

1 October 2021 - 31 December 2021

Francesco Fonassi is an Italian artist, sonic researcher and musician operating in the field of live media, contemporary art, transmission art and experimental music since 2006. His work, developed through actions, recordings, environmental configurations, radio transmissions, listening sessions, sculptural prototypes, experimental music and the creation of audiovisuals and sensory spaces, has been featured in institutions, museums, festivals and independent spaces in Europe, Asia and United States.

Sound Interaction Through Physical Phenomena

Nicklas Lundberg

2 October 2021 - 17 October 2021

Nicklas Lundberg will through this project explore and research interaction with sound through interfaces that use physical phenomena as the vehicle for generating content while the human performer remains the agent in terms of form. Many inspiring questions arise when using an environment like this: about the nature of musical gestures, the correlation between agent and sound; topics that are as important today as they have been in the past, not the least in the history of electro acoustic and acousmatic music and theory.

HÉR! An Exploration of Artistic Agency / 75%-seminar

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir

30 September 2021 - 1 October 2021

Doctoral candidate, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, presents her artistic research project in Music. September 30 sees a special live performance of 'Violin with Þytur' by Kent Olofsson, performed within the 9 mono channel installation 'Þytur' by Stefánsdóttir. The event is part of her 75% doctoral seminar with Professor Marcel Cobussen from University of Leiden/Doc Artes acting as opponent. Currently titled 'HÉR! An exploration of Artistic Agency', Stefánsdóttir's work is set to provide a further understanding of the situated, emergent agency in music and sound art.

CATALYSTS – Bodily Interfaces

Susan Kozel, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Jeannette Ginslov, Keith Lim

23 August 2021 - 28 January 2022

Bodily Interfaces / CATALYSTS is an artistic research project that deepens the artistic collaboration between Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Susan Kozel, Jeannette Ginslov and Keith Lim. The distinct somatic and choreographic approach to Augmented and Mixed Reality (AR/MR) developed by the team for the earlier work 'Conspiracy Archives' is expanded with a particular emphasis on investigating the capacity of AI within this context.

Thousand Times Yes

Essi Kausalainen, Marja Ahti, Jenny Kalliokulju

20 September 2021 - 26 September 2021

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 (Turku), librettist Jenny Kalliokulju (Bjuv) and director Essi Kausalainen (Helsinki) 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

Inter Feral Arts

Bremer Schlagzeugensemble, Gageego! & Elefantöra, Felicita Brusoni, Bertrand Chaviarra-Aldrete, Vortex Ensemble, Fernando Garnero, Ensemble L'Itinéraire

6 October 2021 - 29 October 2021

During October 2021, the Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University and the Inter Arts Center will hold the next Inter Feral Arts Festival. The festival will include concerts, lectures, workshops, a panel discussion on art and science, and three 25% PhD seminars. Our guest ensembles include: ensemble l’itinéraire (France), Gageego! (Sweden), Bremer Schlagzeugensemble (Germany), ensemble Vortex (Switzerland), and Elefantöra (Sweden).

Malmö Gallery Weekend 2021

Jacob Remin, Dennis P Paul, Sasha Bergstrom-Katz, Sebastian Moske, Moa Franzén, Saga Gärde & others, Filip Vest, Axel Berger

24 September 2021 - 26 September 2021

This year's Malmö Gallery Weekend is a unique opportunity to see artists live at the IAC as we open the doors to a wider audience. You are invited to examine works by Sasha Bergstrom-Katz, Make Sound residents Jacob Remin and Dennis P Paul, IASPIS resident Sebastian Moske and finally, on Friday a series of performances in our open Café area with Moa Franzén, Saga Gärde, Filip Vest and Axel Berger.

Primal Data / Make Sound Residency

Jacob Remin, Dennis P Paul

13 September 2021 - 26 September 2021

‘Primal Data’ explores sound and light as direct links between our own neural networks (AKA wet computers / bodies) and computer networks. Through a series of explorations of algorithmic composition and media experiments, generative complexity and brutalistic repetition, we are on the search for peak data <-> body resonance.

On the Subject of Tests: Rehearsing the Examination

Sasha Bergstrom-Katz

23 August 2021 - 29 August 2021

'On the Subject of Tests' is a practice-led research project that examines the designs and procedures of psychometric testing. Specifically, it opens up and analyses three twentieth-century-intelligence tests developed to assess children and adults in the United States and beyond. Interwoven in the history of eugenics, education practices, military and prison regimes and the neoliberalisation of workplaces and schools, these intelligence tests deserve an affective and embodied unpacking. Using the IAC’s Black Room as site, artist and researcher Sasha Bergstrom-Katz will record extended rehearsals of the tests' manuals in a project entitled 'On the Subject of Tests: Rehearsing the Examination'.

Born Without Hands

Maja Karlsson, Leif Holmstrand, Samuel A.D. Martín

8 July 2021 - 18 July 2021

'Born Without Hands' is a chorus with an unknown number of voices (belonging to an unknown number of species) giving thanks, praise and head, exorcising and conjuring all of this love wrath. The tools include prayer, knitting, terror, candelabras, breathing and dying.

Fuga dall’Egitto

Yasmine Elbaramawy, Miriam Selima Fieno, Nicola Di Chio

22 June 2021 - 28 June 2021

Miriam Selima Fieno and Nicola Di Chio,l two Italian actors and theater directors, are now creating with Egyptian musician, sound artist, Oud performer and composer Yasmine El Baramawy the documentary theater show "Fuga dall'Egitto", a work that which sheds light on the phenomenon of the post-2013 Egyptian diaspora, or on all those activists who, betrayed by the military and threatened with repression and torture in Egypt, they were forced to choose the precarious and painful path of exile.

IASPIS / Malmö Konsthall residency

Sebastian Moske

20 June 2021 - 30 September 2021

Sebastian Moske works with literature, that he cuts up to open and suggestive text tapestries read out by performers. These texts become part of a rhythmical video filmed on locations that are in interesting tension to the texts accumulated. He will read The Poetic Edda, different Swedish Crime Novels and is very interested in “Kallocain” by Karin Boye.

Immersive Days #1: Blackout

tim bishop

9 June 2021 - 13 June 2021

"Blackout" is a sensory performance and sound work for one person at a time. The work takes place in total darkness and uses spatial audio and haptic feedback to create a multi-sensory and evocative environment for a powerfully self-reflective experience. An unseen voice and a physical guide encourage participants on an introspective journey, exploring both virtual spaces and the physical room through 3D sound and touch.

Immersive Days #1: Hush

elin maria johansson, vibeke bryld

8 June 2021 - 13 June 2021

"Hush" invites the viewer to tune in to an ancient world that generations of northerners once knew - when man, animals and nature were connected, and nature was animated. The work provides the opportunity to experience a mythological landscape that is brought to life and communicates with the viewer in a three-dimensional universe, where nature and myth are united in a poetic and sensual experience.

Immersive Days #1: Lundahl & Seitl and ScanLAB Projects

Lundahl & Seitl (Christer Lundahl & Martina Seitl)

8 June 2021 - 13 June 2021

In this series, Lundahl & Seitl join up with British digital studio ScanLAB Projects to combine pointcloud laser scans in VR, with choreography and sculpture. The piece creates a complex matrix which can be experienced as an immersive world in which you, the observer, are embedded, and as a physical display of hyperconnected objects with unseen realms inaccessible to you.

INTONAL 2021 at IAC

Francesco Del Nero, Alessandro Perini, Ingvild Skandsen, Lola Ajima, Lasse Munk, Paolo Pastorino, Sophie Delafontaine

18 June 2021 - 20 June 2021

The acousmonium is back and ready to diffuse a selection of brand new electronic and acousmatic pieces as well as some classics. It is now 10 years since the acousmonium was first set up at Inter Arts Center. The world was very different then. Nevertheless we continue to renew the collaboration between Inkonst, IAC and SOUND SPACES to present a window on the current status of acousmatic music in Europe. Have a look at the programme...

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Eva Saether

10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

This year’s project will focus on ”Uncertainty and Possibility” emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as students and researchers seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. Advancing a practical agenda for future making, it will reveal how uncertainty can be engaged as a generative ”technology” for understanding, researching and intervening the world.

BARBARA

Moa Franzén

3 May 2021 - 6 June 2021

The project “Barbara” (the feminine form of the Greek word barbarous, meaning strange, uncivilized, someone who speaks a broken speech) will depart from Moa Franzén’s work with voice as a choreographic material and tool. Through vocal practices Moa will explore different expressions of what is considered human – as well as nonhuman, or “subhuman” – and how we use them or suppress them according to gendered, social, ideological or private grounds. Where and how is the border between the human and the animal crossed? Where, and when, are the in-betweens and how do they sound? For which bodies?

“The Garden”, Sound Bench at Botan

Jonna Hägg

3 May 2021 - 24 June 2021

The Sound Environment Centre has acquired a sound bench for different sound experiments, artistic projects and the communication of research. During the Sustainability Week and until mid-summer, the bench will be placed in the Botanical Garden, where a site-specific sound artwork has been developed especially for the bench. For several years, the artist behind the work, Jonna Hägg, has been exploring how the soundscape of the world in general is changing. Human sounds have become so pervasive on earth that we have created a third category just for them: anthropophony. The sound installation is a collaboration between the Sound Environment Centre, the Botanical Garden and the Inter Arts Center, which produced the installation.

INTONAL 2021

16 June 2021 - 20 June 2021

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. An exclusive five day exploration of experimental music and art.

Acousmatic Lab #3

The Absurdum Temporary Art, Hertzbreakerz, Alessandro Perini

29 March 2021 - 18 April 2021

In the Red Room a smaller version of the Acousmonium will be set up with around 20 speakers. For two weeks the space will be open for different practices. In particular the students of the electroacoustic music courses at the Malmö Academy of Music are going to get acquainted with the techniques of sound diffusion, presenting their final work on the 10th of April. Acousmatic music diverges from the standards of instrumental music, composed in a studio and projected live through a constellation of speakers.

HUSH

Elin Maria Johansson, Vibeke Bryld

12 April 2021 - 18 April 2021

Electro moves – Game Changers

Elin Lundgren, Petter Pettersson, Cecilia Nordlund

22 April 2021 - 10 June 2021

The work-in-progress project ‘Electromoves - Game Changers' is a workshop in electro-composition and choreographed audience interaction in 3 parts. Lundgren & Pettersson aim to explore, make a pre-study and an electric soundscape in collaboration with the Malmö based musician & singer Cecilia Nordlund. They will investigate group affiliation and exclusion with a focus on the viewer's attitude and what governs the narrative and group dynamics in a live work through a workshop at IAC.

Lowlands

Karis Zidore, Emma Cecilia Ajanki, Lea Paulsen

26 April 2021 - 9 May 2021

Tumbling into the space after sadness, ‘Lowlands’ is a soft lament to the voice of self critique. The work shapes a meditative landscape of rippling blue tissue paper that lulls and endures. Images emerge evoking a body falling apart and gathering itself together again, a body at sea and a body on a patchwork of waves. 'Lowlands' is a large-scale solo performance by choreographer Emilia Gasiorek that spans the deep blue depths of our personal emotional landscapes and collective geographical environments.

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Eva Saether

22 March 2021 - 26 March 2021

Rêves accaparés / Inkonst Music residency

Uriel Barthélémi

12 March 2021 - 21 March 2021

Drummer & electro-acoustic musician Uriel Barthélémi is continuing his Inkonst music residency at IAC, which started in October 2020. ‘Rêves accaparés’ is a reflection on the different appropriations of sound worlds by state structures and multinationals. An open vision of how sound can become a tool of control, serving to provoke joy, fear, relaxation, violence, torture, the dispersion of the masses, or even to stimulate sales, etc...

IASPIS residency

Paolo Thorsen-Nagel

1 March 2021 - 16 June 2021

For “Your sonic medicine” Paolo Thorsen-Nagel will be conducting practical research on different modes of listening. How we perceive sound in relation to space, both physical and mental, will be the driving question for a series of sonic investigations revolving around our listening sense. These experimental settings aim to produce both, more documentary findings, as well as interactive and performative works.

IN PROCESS – Experiments and errors (part 2)

Oona Libens

1 March 2021 - 14 March 2021

As selected artist for the open call "IN PROCESS – Experiments and errors" by HAUT and IAC, Oona Libens starts the second part of her residency at IAC. Through the research project 'Spider Threads' Oona will investigate the relationship between binary technology and weaving, as part of a bigger question about how the digital technology could be defined by curiosity and inclusivity instead of commerce and surveillance.

Connect 2021

12 March 2021 - 14 March 2021

Connect is a three-day festival, arranged by Tongeneration and the composition students from Musikhögskolan. Its aim is to present a varied take on today's contemporary art music, with music written in the continuous development of Western art music, either for traditional ensemble settings or for more obscure ones. The festival also focuses strongly on exploring and evolving the versatile opportunities provided in an electro-acoustic setting.

Born Without Hands

Maja Karlsson, Leif Holmstrand, Samuel A.D. Martín

25 January 2021 - 14 March 2021