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  1. Lars Kynde plays with puppets

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    Lars Kynde plays with puppets

    4. June 2012

    A puppeteer and a composer collaborate in creating a new version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which audiences of all ages have the opportunity to experience this summer.
  2. Tjørnhøj’s Portrait travels to Vordingborg

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    Tjørnhøj’s Portrait travels to Vordingborg

    31. May 2012

    Composer Line Tjørnhøj is in the middle of a great, big project involving a group of 14 year-olds, installation artist Signe Klejs and anthropologist Birgitte Stampe Holst.
  3. A search for memories of sounds

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    A search for memories of sounds

    31. May 2012

    The Belgium sound artist Stijn Demeulenaere and SNYK are in the middle of building a new installation called Soundtracks, and they need your help to finish it.The idea behind Soundtracks is to create an archive of memories of sounds. Soundtracks wants to research what kind of sounds are memorized and how they are memorized. Can we replay those sounds in our heads, or do we only remember the event of the situation; the contour of the sound?
  4. Edition·S experiments with composer portraits

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    Edition·S experiments with composer portraits

    29. May 2012

    Edition·S – music¬sound¬art is experimenting with different ways of portraying our composers and artists.Last year, CEO Klaus Ib Jørgensen interviewed various guests, composers, musicians, arrangers etc. at the annual Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with great success. The interviews were published as short podcasts on our Soundcloud profile.This year, Niels Rønsholdt has been so kind to let us use him as test case.
  5. Line Tjørnhøj sound installation at Platform 4, Aalborg

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    Line Tjørnhøj sound installation at Platform 4, Aalborg

    24. May 2012

    The organisation and house ‘Platform 4’ in Aalborg, Denmark, is an independent user-driven multi-purpose venue that experiments within the art and technology frame. On May 31 to June 2 Edition·S will be represented at this venue by Line Tjørnhøj, with her installation work Portrait – between child and adult, a collaboration between Tjørnhøj, digital media artist Signe Klejs and anthropologist Birgitte Stampe.
  6. Ib Nørholm Premiere at the Carl Nielsen International Music Competition

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    Ib Nørholm Premiere at the Carl Nielsen International Music Competition

    23. May 2012

    Next week the annual Carl Nielsen competition sets off in Odense, Denmark, during which violinists of all nationalities under the age of 30 will be contesting.In the second round the competitors will be performing renowned composer Ib Nørholm’s piece Ménage à trois, composed specially for the competition. Menage à trois is a humoristic observation of a musician, his violin and the bow, for unaccompanied violin.
  7. Nordic Darkness and Electric Light

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    Nordic Darkness and Electric Light

    18. May 2012

    Nordic Darkness and Electric Light is the poetic title of a concert in Paris next week, which is part of the annual Festival Extension for new music and sound art. The concert is a meeting between the French Ensemble Aleph and the Swedish ensemble Curious Chamber Players, and on the programme is a number of Swedish, French, Spanish, Romanian and Danish composers.
  8. Danish premiere of Line Tjørnhøj opera

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    Danish premiere of Line Tjørnhøj opera

    17. May 2012

    Line Tjørnhøj’s award-winning opera Anorexia Sacra was called a masterpiece at the premiere in Houston, Texas in 2009. The opera now stand before its Danish premiere at the Dagmar800 Festival.
  9. Matthias Ronnefeld - the complete series

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    Matthias Ronnefeld - the complete series

    15. May 2012

    Today is our official release of Matthias Ronnefeld's complete series!For quite some time now, Edition·S – music¬sound¬art has worked on finalising all of Matthias Ronnefeld's works and they are now released as a complete series in a new, sleek black design.
  10. Zoë Martlew cabaret performance

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    Zoë Martlew cabaret performance

    14. May 2012

    SNYK and the alternative concert organisation Re:sonans invite you to a unique concert experience at a very special venue: the floating café Kayak Republic, Copenhagen. Our DIVA artist-in-residence Zoë Martlew will perform for the first time some of her latest cabaret numbers written during her stay in Denmark. It will be a small half hour set.
  11. Line Tjørnhøj installation in Lithuania

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    Line Tjørnhøj installation in Lithuania

    11. May 2012

    The festival season is upon us, and this means a performance calendar that is a bit more packed than usual for our composers. The next festival in line is the Druskomanija Festival for contemporary music, which will take place in three different locations in Lithuania: The picturesque resort town of Druskininkai, the capital Vilnius and the Holy Trinity Church in Liškiava.
  12. Edition·S invasion at Athelas next week

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    Edition·S invasion at Athelas next week

    10. May 2012

    No less than nine performances representing six of our composers and one DIVA artist-in-residence are on the programme for this year's Athelas New Music Festival, which will kick off next week in Copenhagen.
  13. Two premieres at SPOR Festival 2012

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    Two premieres at SPOR Festival 2012

    3. May 2012

    When the annual SPOR Festival for contemporary music and sound art kicks off next week in Aarhus, it will be with two Edition·S premieres on the menu: Niels Rønsholdt's Me Quitte and Simon Christensen's Arccos Fallen Tune.
  14. Simon Steen-Andersen in Zurich

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    Simon Steen-Andersen in Zurich

    1. May 2012

    "inside | OUTSIDE - low | HIGH" is the theme of a series of projects shown and discussed at the various departments of the Zurich University of the Arts.
  15. Competition on Twitter - win CD's and more!

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    Competition on Twitter - win CD's and more!

    27. April 2012

    Last week Edition·S – music¬sound¬art gave away five DYGONG: The E·Sessions CD's on Twitter by having five of our followers pay with a tweet. This means that they tweeted a message containing specific information about DYGONG and Edition·S – instructed by us – and thereby earned a CD.
  16. Abyss music and Gothic accordion

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    Abyss music and Gothic accordion

    26. April 2012

    Mariana Trench – tales from the abyss is the title of a concert with music for accordion and electronics, which will take place next week on Thursday May 3 at LiteraturHaus, Copenhagen.The concert is a preliminary culmination on accordionist Frode Andersen's attempt to let the role of the musician and that of the composer intersect. As a musician he has often taken part in the creation of music, and at this concert he will make his debut as a composer.
  17. Langgaard at BBC Proms 2012

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    Langgaard at BBC Proms 2012

    24. April 2012

    It is finally official! Our great composer Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) will be performed at the prestigious BBC Proms 2012.
  18. Klejs & Rønsholdt installation work at CLICK Festival

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    Klejs & Rønsholdt installation work at CLICK Festival

    23. April 2012

    When the only one year old new media arts festival CLICK starts in Elsinore next week, it will be with a new installation and performance work by the artist duo Klejs & Rønsholdt on the programme. The new work is called SKIN and will be presented at the festival on May 3-5 as part of a workshop, which is a collaboration between The Culture Yard in Elsinore, the art and technology center 3LD from New York, and Edition·S – music¬sound¬art.