SPOR X TURKIS: A SONG OF WOES, WE OFFER STEEPS
24/5/2024
Doors: 20:30 // Concert: 21:00-22:00
A SONG OF WOES, WE OFFER STEEPS AF NISCHAL KHADKA
A Song of Woes, We offer Steeps, curated by Nischal Khadka, is a musical performance that travels through various songs, stories, and melodies from diverse geographical landscapes of Nepal and Himalayan regions. It is a captivating composition and a collection of joys, sorrows, rituals, festivals, struggles, migration, and urbanization that evokes the contemporary Nepalese and Himalayan experience.
The collaboration between the musicians Jason Kunwar, Ranav Adhikari and Turi Leng Seong brings together various instruments such as singing bowls, Tibetan cymbals, woodwinds instrument the Radung, Bamboo flutes, string instruments like the Nepalese Sarangi, Nepasese drum Dhimay of Newar people along with electronic soundscapes. Their performance experiments with various traditional and contemporary styles of Nepalese and Tibetan musical repertoires incorporating electronic elements. The result is a mesmerizing sound that transcends cultural boundaries and transports the listener to unexplored sonic realms. It's a truly immersive musical adventure.
CREDITS
Curator: Nischal Khadka
Supported by: Creative Europa, @Sounds Now
Presented in collaboration with Ultima Olso Contempoary Music Festival as a part of an open curator call to participants of the Sounds Now Curating Diversity Courses held at Onassis Stegi, Athens (2021), Time of Music, Viitasaari (2022) and Ultima, Oslo (2023).
ONSTAGE
Jason Kunwar
Ranav Adhikari
Turi Leng Seong Agostino
SPOR FESTIVAL TICKETS
An early-bird full festival pass costs 250 DKK (+ fee).
After April 7th, full festival passes cost 350 DKK (+ fee) for individuals under 30 years old // 500 DKK (+ fee) for adults over 30 years old.
Find more information about the program and tickets at: sporfestival.dk
ABOUT SPOR FESTIVAL
SPOR's vision is to thematise, actualize and promote the contemporary music and sound art, nationally as well as internationally. SPOR creates a platform for stronger connections to the international sound art and music scenes - and therefore fruitful exchange which can inspire artists and further develop the Danish contemporary music.
The main activity of SPOR is the annual festival, which was held in 2005 for the first time, taking place each year in May in the city of Aarhus, Denmark. Since June 2007 Anne Marqvardsen and Anna Berit Asp Christensen have been the festival directors of SPOR.