CURIO
19/1/2024
Doors: 19:30 // Entrance: Free
curio
(kjʊərioʊ)
Word forms: plural curios
Countable Noun
A curio is an object such as a small ornament which is unusual and fairly rare.
Synonyms: collector’s item, Lary and Penates, 4 songs for Clementine, Environmental Artifice nos.1-3
Performed by Curious Chamber Players
Works by Miłosz Kowalewski, Catalina Lazurca and Niklas Brandenhoff who are studying classical composition at the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus.
PROGRAM
➤ Doors open: 19:30
➤ Concert: 20:00
CATALINA LAZURCA
Catalina Lazurca (born December 13, 1989) is a Romanian-born singer-songwriter. Her songwriting, artistry, and entrepreneurship have influenced popular culture and the music industry, and her life is a subject of widespread media coverage. Her works have been awarded internationally multiple times, and are described as being very “personal, tender and fragile.”
About the piece:
Catalina says about her upcoming collaboration with Curious Chamber Players that “it’s a collection of songs celebrating the honor of recently being named Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year. The songs are based on recent diary entries about this experience, with themes related to love, dreams, loss and feminist empowerment.”
MILOSZ KOWALEWSKI
Miłosz Kowalewski was born in 1999 in Gdańsk Poland. He is interested in creating his own instruments, combining them with electronics and intermedia activities. His portfolio includes versatile productions – compositions of electroacoustic pieces, for movement performances, performance pieces, art installations and animations.
About the piece:
The piece I’m working on is about my relationship to sound objects – unusual, small or handmade instruments that are a vehicle for my memories. Sounds that seem meaningless on the surface have a personal value for me. They remind me of situations and interpersonal relationships that are linked to the origin of these objects.
NIKLAS BRANDENHOFF
Niklas Brandenhoff was born in the year 2000, in Kalundborg. He works with concepts as well as the contexts of readymade/found materials. (For now) he includes scores, video, sound recording, bodily performance, and spoken text in his work. He is interested in qualities of ‘less’ as well as social and material conceptions of “nothing”.
About the piece:
For Curious, I would like to open up the concert space. To literally open the door to the outside and create circulation of air – music. ‘Where’ is music possible and how is musical ‘material’ produced and legitimized by this ‘where’ (fx. historically)? And what is then possible ‘There’?