Søs Gunver Ryberg / Pan Daijing / Richard Devine

In today’s relentless pace and digital saturation, this concert is an invitation to immerse yourself in an experience of sensory-stimulating music which is intended to be a profound act of resistance and renewal. As we face the uncertainties of the future, this experience reminds us of the importance of presence and awakening our senses through music. How will music shape our collective future? Through the evocative power of sound and rhythm, I seek to inspire creativity and resilience. I’m interested in transforming the listener, opening up your consciousness. Listening is not a passive act; it is a gateway to heightened consciousness and attunement. In a world dominated by digital distractions, the act of listening with intentionality becomes a revolution- ary act – a means of reclaiming our sensuous being and cultivating a deeper connection.

SØS Gunver Ryberg

Blending fragments from her previous opera compositions, Pan Daijing’s presentation channels the voice and operatic techniques, creating a sense of infinity that dissolves the distinction between beginning and end through continuous layering. Using analogue synthesisers, field recordings, machine-based compositional techniques, and vocal material from her ensemble of opera singers, Daijing explores the fragility and vulnerability inherent in the human voice, as well as how operatic techniques might express the extremes of human ability and the human psyche. Daijing’s practice is a constantly evolving creative process that merges performers, audience, and environment into one porous entity. Emerging off the improvisatory and raw performative nature of Daijing’s works, the listening piece sharpens musical perception and expand imaginative responses to storytelling. Daijing’s work challenges boundaries between forms, artist and audience, exhibition and performance, object and experience—allowing music to distort how time affects the tale.

Taïca Replansky

The pieces are from Deconstruction, a collection of pieces from my new album in which each modular patch was designed with a specific idea dealing with time. Over that timeline, the pieces start to fall apart and change/morph into entirely new forms and rhythmical structures. These pieces deal with the breaking down of sonic objects once connected but now breaking down into smaller parts, which become born again into new objects, like the life cycle of the human body of cells. New ones form while old ones die. Some mutate and multiply, and some are regenerated into something completely new. This has been a new approach in my recent compositions, looking at each sound component as a sound object that is organically manipulated and by control voltages and is nested within this system that I created, which is like the human body or cell being born and dying in the cycle of life.

Richard Devine