Lucy Railton is a British, Berlin based cellist, composer, cross-disciplinary collaborator whose practice reflects an endlessly innovative and restless approach to the cello and artistic self-expression. For the last two decades, her work has moved freely between Classical and contemporary music, electronic composition, improvisation and sound installation. Following a string of celebrated releases on labels including ECM Classic Series, Modern Love, Shelter Press and PAN, her solo cello album Blue Veil is a deeply intimate, meditative set of compositions for solo cello, released last year on the Paris label Ideologic Organ.
TMS is an experimental electro-acoustic noise-performance project by the artists Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen (DK) and Malte Steiner (DE/DK). The format of the TMS project is improvisational performances built out of Madsen and Steiner’s sonic interactions, where noise-scapes and complex structures emerge when they activate sounds collectively and in dialogue.
The tools used in each TMS piece and performances depart in custom software, synths and effect pedals, or self-built controllers, where inputs are analogue as well as digital; modulated, transformed, and distorted. The physical interactions with materials have since the beginning been a specific focus point for TMS, and to create a more performative and visual sound experience.
“What was heard from within the Womb” is a musical piece imagining how one might experience yet-to-be familiar voices and songs from outside the comfortable, dark, womb.
The piece is performed in a multichannel format where space is moving, time is warped, sometimes in slow motion, and voices are human-like, though from the perspective of a being that has yet to form its own understanding of human-ness and familiarity.
On this year's Lydknust, Astrid will also perform a solo-rendition of her choral work Sommerrådne Blomsterkrop in 8 channel-format. Expect voice-centered music drawing on influences from ambient music, spectralism as well as minimalism.
Alexander Rye is an audiodesigner, and audiovisual artist, who works with narratives and storytelling through light and sound. His oeuvre focuses on site-specific, sensual installations, in which light as medium and room as canvas blends into one experience.
“Lysfloden”(river/flood of light), is an audiovisual experience, which explores the ways in which we as people can connect with nature in general, and specifically water, in the city milieus of the future. By recreating abstract phenomena of nature, like the movements, rhythms and energy of water, in an urban space, the installation facilitates a sensual experience of ‘the room coming alive’. A flood (river) of light, that moves through the room, accompanied by a living landscape of sound, based on both raw and processed recordings of water.
Forest Song is the solo project of the Finnish cellist, vocalist, and composer Linnea Hildén. It draws inspiration from Finnish mythology and its relationship with forests and nature and investigates this old wisdom through sound, music and text.
Collecting influences from classical music, electroacoustic composition, jazz and folk music the project intertwines cello, voice, live electronics, and fixed media compositions into sound masses, modern spells, portals to the invisible world.
Emilie Lykkegaard (cand.it Audiodesign) develops sound-art, which explores how we listen in times of crisis.
Through works centered on water pollution, climate-grief, ‘slowness’ and landscapes, she tries to get to the bottom of how we access the world in empathy, through the act of listening.
She is especially interested in creating spaces for patient listening - as a response to stress, the ever increasing optimization of time and narratives of catastrophe.
