Spring 2024
Upcoming:
Performing my new work; Possible reconciliation for solo alto saxophone
Feb 8th, Koncertkirken, Copenhagen, Denmark
March 1st: Colliding Bubbles (surface tension and release) featuring Quatuor Bozzini is released by Important Records
April 1st- April 14th: Rendering ab/normality - solo exhibition at Captive Portals
May: Inauguration of "Du er ikke alene" in Struer.
Autumn 2023
Will be performing my new work; I Am Sitting on a Chair
August 23rd, Struer Tracks, Struer, Denmark
Quatuor Bozzini (CA) will be performing Colliding Bubbles (Surface tension and release)
September 9th Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht, Holland.
Spring 2023
After Nature a film documentary produced by Bloom Festival and directed by Esther Elmholt is now available on youtube. It is a film about man-made mass extinction and how humanity's pursuit of wealth might lead to an ecological collapse. I am proud to be a part of this film and is in great company with researchers Carsten Rahbek, Naia Morueta-Holme, Jens-Christian Svenning and Simon Leed Krøs. In the film I am talking about feedback loops in nature (some caused by humans) and also my work Birdsongs is featured; a study in (audio) feedback for numerous parabolic microphones.
Quatuor Bozzini (CA) will be performing my new piece for string quartet + 4 hamonicas titled Colliding Bubbles (Surface tension and release).
The dates are:
January 19th Klub Katarakt Hamburg
January 22th ALICE, Copenhagen (+ album recording)
January 29th Groupe Le Vivier January 29th Montréal
Autumn 2022
September 13th - What Sounds Do - Keynote performance, RMC, Copenhagen
October 6th - Talk at GRASP Festival
October 15th - Birdsongs at Nordic Music Days, Reykjavik (IS)
October 18th - Performing new work at Göteborg Art Sounds (S)
Spring 2022
June 11th - Personal Sensitive Music. Concert and artist talk at Nikolai Kunsthal - Copenhagen Art Week
June 9-18th STOFskifte - Music composed for STOFskifte a performance by dancer Torda Balslev.
April 5th - Birdsongs - Feedback study for parabolic microphones at CPH:DOX
September + October 2021
My new performance titled Toast has been made public
Upcoming:
October 24th - Rønnebæksholm
November 22nd - Alice (Copenhagen) - release of Personfølsom Musik
July - Hiatus
June 2021
Music for Krügerrand - Quartet for Gold Bullion Coins received a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2021!
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May 2021
Hiatus
April 2021
Saturations
Music for 19 clarinets has been released by Important Records both digitally and as a beautiful 12" LP edition.
March 2021
Personal Sensitive Music (Personfølsom Musik) performed live on National TV is now on youtube.
February 2021
Thermal has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize and will be exhibited as one on the 20 finalists at York Art Gallery (From May 28th-Sep 5th).
January 2021
Nemorial has been reveiled and can be experienced here: www.nemorial.dk
Slagwerk den Haag will be performing SOUND X SOUND - Music for Hi Hats at a live streamed concert on February 2nd (videolink will be available shortly)
December 2020
Hiatus
November 2020
To the right:
Personal Sensitive Music performed at Copenhagen Contemporary November 12th, 2020
October 2020
Past and upcomming events:
- November 12th - Copenhagen Contemporary - Personal Sensitive Music and Sing Along! (you´re either with us or against us)
- November 10th - Krabbesholm Højskole - Personal Sensitive Music and Sing Along! (you´re either with us or against us)
- September 13th - Rønnebæksholm - Triangular Mass & panel debate with Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen and others.
- September 3rd - Aarhus Kunsthal - Personal Sensitive Music and Sing Along! (you´re either with us or against us)
August 2020
New works:
Trumpet encased in acrylic.
The first creation in a series of works titled Instrument.
(you´re either with us or against us),
A series of vacuum packed Højskole-songbooks.
September 2020
Music for Krügerrand - Quartet for Gold Bullion Coins
has been released!
Also my two latest TV appearances on Danish National Television is up on youtube (In Danish)
July 2020
Open lecture available on youtube.
Title: Utopia & the Sustainability of Potentiality
About the lecture:
Our fantasy has crumbled - yet we must go into utopia to articulate alternative realities that will allow us to escape the current systems we are living in and by. What can we do if we only dream pragmatic and rational dreams that speak into already existing paradigms and systems?
When a catastrophic or sudden event occurs we often say that reality exceeds fantasy, this being the exception of the norm, but what if reality exceeding fantasy is in fact the norm - and not vice versa? - what if our fantasy has crumbled in such a degree that we only are capable of imagining realities and solutions which already fit into a dysfunctional system? Are we doomed? - or do we dare to go full on into utopia?
In the artistic research project; Music for the inner Ear - Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard looks into the realms of imaginary sound and sonic potentiality unfolded within different artistic domains - raising the questions; Is it possible to create imaginary music only hearable for the inner ear of the listener & when does something actually exist? In the project the notion of potentiality is a main driver both in activating the listener but also simply by addressing the potential of potentiality.
The sustainability of potentiality:
Usually a potential is given value with the expectation that the potential should somehow actualize itself and become something else. Actions can of course be a good thing and indeed we live in a time where action is needed. But what if we were to let some of the potentials remain in a state of potentiality - never becoming something else - remaining within the oscillating state of potentiality? An open question without an answer - a habitat of numerous different answers oscillating between countless utopias within a state of multiversal reality. Could a more sustainable way of living be achieved by allowing ourselves to remain within a state of potentiality and not hail the action of actualizing in all its forms?
April 2020
Topos has launched its digital release series Topos 00/00/00.
Topos is an independent arts organisation, founded in 2019 by three artists and composers, Jacob Kirkegaard, Tobias Kirstein and Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard , to pursue their shared commitment to cross cultural and cross media activities that move beyond the strictures and boundaries of separate fields and disciplines. Its projects and program use various modes of presenting, publishing and releasing contempor ary and archival material, generated or discovered by Topos.
Topos is collaborating with Julie Martin, Director of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) to research and publish selected material from the organization's extensive archive of sound recordings that include performances, interviews and other sound material produced by E.A.T. activities over the past 50 years. A double vinyl gatefold of John Cage's Variations VII from the legendary 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering in New York City in 1966 marked the beginning of Topos's collaboration with her. Their main focus is on sound generated in the 9 Evenings performance works by artists such as John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman.
March 2020
Upcomming performances:
- March 26th - Crisis Collective - Bergen, Norway (Cancelled due to COVID19)
- May 14th - Birdsongs - feedback study for 19 parabolic microphones - Bloom Festival (Cancelled due to COVID19)
- May 30th - Personal Sensitive Music - OvergadenXSort/Hvid (Cancelled due to COVID19)
- June 4th + 6th - Magmatic - a basic descend - Klang Festival/CPH stage (Cancelled due to COVID19)
- July 2nd - Personal Sensitive Music - Aarhus Kunsthal (Cancelled due to COVID19)
January 2020
Happy New Year
- The SOUND X SOUND series (2014-2016) has now got its own website.
Please go to www.soundxsound.com and have a look.
- Upcoming- release of Anthology of Sound (February 7th 2020)
- To the right - pictures from Akusamta Polyphonic in Helsinki, performing Personal Sensitive Music and Music for Chromatic Tuners.
December 2019
Upcoming performances & releases:
- January 18th - Akusmata, Helsinki, Finland.
Performing Personal Sensitive Music, Triangular Mass, SOund Navigation And Ranging and other pieces - as a part of the Akusmata Polyphonic 2020.
- Upcomming- release of Anthology of Sound
November 2019
- On november 7th and 8th the Personal Sensitive Music series was premiered in Brorsons Chruch, performed live on church organ and at Copenhagen Contemporary - performed on alto recorder.
October 2019
- Music for Standard Oscillator Ensemble released on Montreal based Archive Officielle. Music for Standard Oscillator Ensemble is a composition by Nicolas Bernier and Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard. It consists of a 24:06 minute track performed on 10 old school oscillators and was recorded in Montreal during Suoni Per Il Popolo in June 2019.
Listen/buy here
- Documentation of Kristklangen which was premiered in September is now online:
September 2019
- TOPOS has been launched!! Performing Variations VII with TOPOS and Julie Martin in Aarhus & Copenhagen. More info here
July 2019
Out of office
August 2019
Upcoming performances:
- September 3rd - Variations VII - Aarhus Festuge
w. Jacob Kirkegaard, Tobias Kirstein & Julie Martin
- September 6th-7th - Kristklangen - Rued Langgaard festival, Ribe
A 24 hour long piece for 9 oscillators, 2 church organs & choir (premiere).
- September 19th - Variations VII - Copenhagen Contemporary
w. Jacob Kirkegaard, Tobias Kirstein & Julie Martin
- October 5th - Lyt til Ribe, Ribe
- New solo piece for 10 oscillators & a new trio piece performed by Esbjerg Ensemble (premiere)
- November 7th - Brorsons Kirke - Personfølsom musik (for church organ)
- November 8th - Topos evening - Gong Tomorrow/Copenhagen Contemporary
- November 15th - Triangular Mass - Nordic Music Days, Bodø, Norway (Norwegian premiere)
New release:
- Egis Ce Asc will be released on september 3rd on Topos - an intermedial platform formed by Jacob Kirkegaard, Tobias Kirstein and myself.Egis Ce Asc is a piece in 6 movements for solo pipe organ & a calibration of the human ear
June 2019
It is finally here!
'Symphony No. 1 – Music for the Inner Ear'
The symphony was released by Forlaget Vandkunsten on May 30th.
I finished the symphony back in the spring of 2016 and after having 4 different layouts the symphony finally found it´s right form in collaboration with the good folks at Vandkunsten.
'Symphony No. 1' consists of 3 movements; Moderato, Largo & Concerto for piano and microtonal crotales.
The Symphony inhabits multiple states at the same time - being in constant fluctuation between alphabet, word, language and meaning - & between book, score, written text and imaginary music.
The symphony can´t be approached from only one of these positions- the symphony inhabits all these states at the same time and is hovering within a superposition.
The reader becomes the listener. The listener becomes the composer.
May 2019
Upcoming performances:
May 25th, Bloom Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Presenting Birdsongs (worldpremiere) - a feedback study for 20 parabolic microphones generating birdlike sounds.
June 3rd-8th, Suoni Per il Popolo, Montreal, Canada.
Presenting XV (worldpremiere) - music for 15 oscillators created in a collab with Nicolas Bernier- supporting Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
Triangular Mass (North American premiere)
June 15th, Organ Sound Art Festival 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Presenting Egis Ce Asc (worldpremiere) - Music for pipe organ i 6 movements.
June 22nd, Mengi, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Presenting new work for 5 saxophones and SOUND X SOUND music for 30 chromatic tuners.
April 2019
Le Passe-Partout (2014-2019)
In Denmark the Nem ID (Easy ID) is a cardboard master keycard printed with multiple 6 digit codes which gives acces to all official digital platforms needed to be a citizen in Denmark such as your tax affairs, the doctor, the school - pretty much everything.
Once you've used all the codes on the NemID keycard you will have a new NemID keycard, and what is left is all the used codes that sum up all your actions within a given period of time (actions which are all traceable).
A self-portrait of a kind and the story of your life.
The series is a called 'Le Passe-Partout' (The Master Key) and so far it counts 18 keycards.
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March 2019
999999 actions
999999 actions is an ongoing series of works which deals with how to understand metadata within an analogue context.
Each time the numeroteur (a numeric band stamp) is pressed down a number is left on the paper - so the action of pressing down the stamp itself is registred in numbers - much like all our actions within the digital world is traceable.
The numeroteur used for creating these pieces are made with 6 digits, which means that the highest number that is available is 999999 - therefore this stamp can register 999999 actions.
The best guess is that the numeroteur reaches it´s maximum number within 30 years from 2019 wrapping up the series in 2049.
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February 2019
Release of Recepteur d´observation de la nature - a selfdestructing 12" acetate record relased in 1 copy which investigates what happens when matter is mediated within post-thruth times.
The sound on the acetate record features field-recordings from the spring of 2018.
On one side; recordings from the beaches of Fanø and on the other side; ambient sound from my office at the RMC in Copenhagen.
The experience of the actual sounds from the beach and the office got lost in the second they were recorded and played back - in the second they were mediated.
Each time the acetate record is played back, the acetate gradually deteriorates due to the softness of the acetate, and each time the sound gets even more distorted offering a new sound just as (non)real as the inital sitespecific recording.
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January 2019
A new year and a new website.
Music for Krügerrand - quartet for gold bullion coins will be performed in Harpa, Reykjavik on Feb. 2nd, as a part of the Dark Music Days Festival.
The ensemble will consist of Skúli Sverrisson, Helgi Jonsson, NLL and Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir.
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