The development of new knowledge is a key part of the Royal Danish Academy's mission and ensures that the education offered is always based on current insights and experiences, which are linked to existing and new research.
At RDAM, work is carried out within three areas: research, artistic practice, and development – collectively referred to as FOKU.
On 3 May the Academy opens the doors to FOKU Festival, and present to the public a wide selection of the projects that teachers and students are currently engaged in.
Visitors will be introduced to exciting new perspectives on interpretation, technique, and pedagogy – and as the Royal Danish Academy put it, they "promise it will be both nerdy and entertaining."
The day is rounded off with a concert, where percussion teacher Lorenzo Colombo, will perform Mads Emil Dreyer's Repeater, quietus.
In Repeater, quietus, Mads Emil Dreyer works with small percussion instruments and electronics. Contact microphones are attached to the instruments, capturing sound, and surface-transducers, a type of small speaker component, that release sounds. This setup creates a series of small, closed circuits where what the microphones capture is sent out by the transducers, then picked up by the microphones and sent out by the transducers again.
This process repeats over and over, transforming the instruments into small, independent and quite fragile feedback loops, where the electronic is completely embedded in the acoustic.
Find more information about FOKU Festival here.
Find the score for Repeater, quietus here.