KLANG - Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival welcomes you to a week of wild avant-garde anno 2013. If you thought that music had stopped kicking, KLANG is the place to go discover quite the contrary. KLANG is a musical platform for the most consistent, daring and uncompromising artists of our time - and we definitely promise that this week will be a living proof to that. The musical avant-garde is explosive as never before and during thirteen concerts you now have the chance to experience music ranging from unbound, dystopian noise music in Yann Robin's “Art of Metal III” for nineteen musicians and live electronics to intimate and fragile solo singing, refined chamber music for toy instruments, a concert for homemade musical instruments performed in a local pub, and an audio-visual concert in a league of its own with one of the most well-known contemporary artists, the Japanese composer Ryoji Ikeda. As a tribute to the roaring avant-garde of the 60s we even take a leap back in time and invite you to experience a rare performance of perhaps the most famous electronic music pioneer: The visionary “Kontakte” from 1958-60 by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Welcome to a week of extraordinary music!

Christian Winther Christensen and Rune Glerup, artistic directors of KLANG.


About KLANG
KLANG – Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival is an independent, young, and international festival for new music. KLANG wishes to create visibility and room for the most daring composers by presenting their newest and most experimental works. The festival seeks to support the development of the pioneering art of our time and potential future classics.
Until this year the festival has been known as Athelas New Music Festival as a satelite project from 2009 by Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen. During the four years since its inception, this festival has grown up to be an independent organization now known as KLANG, but will maintain its enriching cooperation with Athelas Sinfonietta.
During KLANG 2013, seventeen concerts and events will be performed throughout the week. The festival offers a widely electronic and cross-aesthetic profile with the young avant-garde up front presented openly and forthrightly to the general art lover. A range of significant, international names also join the festivities – some of them to participate in workshops for students and amateur musicians and help them refine and present their brand new pieces in mixed concerts.

The artists:

Ensembles

ATHELAS SINFONIETTA COPENHAGEN
CENTER FOR WILD ANALYSIS
CURIOUS CHAMBER PLAYERS
DECODER [ENSEMBLE FÜR AKTUELLE MUSIK]
EKKOZONE
ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE
FAINT NOISE
JEPPE JUST INSTITUTTET

Soloists

ALAIN BILLARD
DAVID HILDEBRANDT
FRODE ANDERSEN
HELENE LANG
LARS KYNDE
MAJA LEE LANGVAD
MANUEL ESPERILLA
MATHIAS REUMERT
MATIAS ESCUDERO SEIBÆK
PIERRE-ANDRÉ VALADE
REI MUNAKATA
RYOJI IKEDA
SOFIA JERNBERG
SØS GUNVER RYBERG
WAYNE SIEGEL
WUBKJE KUINDERSMA

Composers

ALLAN GRAVGAARD MADSEN
ALEXANDER SCHUBERT
ANDREJ KOROLIOV
CLARA IANOTTA
DAJ FUJIKURA
FRANÇOIS PARIS
GÉRARD PESSON
GÉRARD ZINSSTAG
HANNA HARTMAN
JAN FLESSEL
JENNY HETTNE
JENS PETER MØLLER
JEPPE JUST CHRISTENSEN
JEXPER HOLMEN
KAJ DUNCAN DAVID
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
LARS KYNDE
MALIN BÅNG
MARTIN STAUNING
MATTHEW SHLOMOWITZ
MAURO LANZA
METTE NIELSEN
MICHAEL MAIERHOF
NICOLAI WORSAAE
PELLE GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN
REI MUNAKATA
RYOJI IKEDA
SIMON LØFFLER
SIMON STEEN-ANDERSEN
STEFAN PRINS
SØS GUNVER RYBERG
THURIDOR JONSDOTTIR
WAYNE SIEGEL
YANN ROBIN
YLVA LUND BERGNER



For the program: www.klang.dk