PANTROPICAL X TURKIS: JESSIKA KENNEY & EYVIND KANG + NOVA & FILASTINE
21.05.2023
Doors: 14:00 // Entrance: 75 DKK
Pantropical is proud to host its second event in Aarhus, this time in collaboration with turkis. An afternoon with hauntingly beautiful listening music at a unique intersection of contemporary composition, improvisation, and Asian traditional music forms.
PROGRAM
➤ Doors open: 14:00
➤ Nova & Filastine: 14:30
➤ Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang: 15:30
JESSIKA KENNEY & EYVIND KANG
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang (Los Angeles, CA) are a duo devoted to geomusicalities and music at the border of sound. Collaborators for over two decades, their ethereal music arises from their study of land and place, temporal forms, sonic resonances, and transcultural conversations.
A vocalist, composer and sound artist, Jessika Kenney has developed a vocal practice at a unique intersection of haptic and aural sensibilities. She utilizes imaginative approaches to oral traditions and the one-on-one transmission of texts and sounds, as well as the spatialized experience of "diffuse listening".
Eyvind Kang, a multi-instrumentalist and composer, works across genre and discipline, bringing subtlety, fluidity, and emotional intensity to each of his varied projects. Wary of the divisions of music by nation, Kang makes "people music" influenced by geology, collective memory and sonic possibility.
NOVA & FILASTINE
Nova & Filastine are performing artists working to undermine borders. Their music typically collides electronic beat production with dense layers of voice, concréte sounds, analogue synths and strings. At this event they will play a semi-acoustic live set.
Creating unique and fearless interventions to express a radically different vision of the possible, the duo made an official mixtape for 'The Act of Killing' documentary, a sound swarm at the Paris Climate Summit, and a performance in the Calais Jungle migrant camp. Their video series 'Abandon' profiles dances of emancipation from work, filmed in locations from coal mines in Borneo to office cubicles in America.
