The Bakery - a 5 hour rondo and voxpop pop-up shop (2024)

Structured as a long chain rondo of approximately 5 hours The Bakery stretch between a bakery, a conversation salon, listening games, new music in trio format and other doughy stuff.

When the bakery opened it doors during the MINU festival 2024 homemade cakes and waffles was served in an attempt to create situations that might suggest other ways of being together than what is often the case when a new work is premiered. The episodes of the rondo would varie throughout the day. Among the episodes, one could experience “Stop - Waffle Time!”, “The Soft d”, “Sounding Coconut Macaroons”, “Sights and sounds in ophthalmology”, “Softening for saxophone (performed by Niels Lyhne and special guest; James Black)” and “Overhead (soft) Clapping Piece.” The bakery seeks to establish itself a softer place, or a place that is not fully baked.

A key concept related to the work is reconciliation – The Bakery explores how, through the softening of the hard, we might reconcile with traumas and perhaps build bridges, friendships, and create changes across previous conflicts, divisions, privileges, and structural conditions (also in the environments surrounding new music in Denmark).

The Bakery was commissioned by Minu Festival & Remember Sound (comprising composers and musicians Niklas Brandenhoff and Dylan Richards).