GÖTEBORG ART SOUNDS 2003

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GÖTEBORG ART SOUNDS 2003
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL 11-19 OKTOBER 2003

Welcome to the 2003 GAS Festival, Göteborg, Sweden, 11-19 October 2003

We at Göteborg Art Sounds are now arranging the third GAS Festival – a festival of contemporary creative musical art. It will kick off on 11 October 2003. Some thirty performers, composers and groups will be presenting new shapes and noises on the soundscape! In its short lifetime and owing to its radical programme structure, GAS has come to be seen as one of the major events on the music and arts scene. The underpinning idea is that the programme should be dynamic and mobile – a kind of living expression – and thus GAS critiques both commercialism and traditional art music festivals.

There will be a sneak preview on Friday 10 October, when GAS performers inaugurate the annual Göteborg all night event --“Kulturnatta”. Later that evening we will also host a provocative mixed performance of new and more established music, jointly with Pusterviksteatern.

Beginning on 11 October and for nine intensive days we will go on to display the expansive territory occupied by contemporary new music and sound. Our venues include Pusterviksteatern at Järntorget, Nefertiti jazz club, the Göteborg concert hall “Konserthuset”, the Göteborg University Schools of Music and Theatre, “Artisten” and in the open air on city streets and squares!

At this year’s festival, you will have the opportunity to see Zeitkratzer at their first-ever performance in Sweden. Zeitkratzer is a renowned 8-man group from Berlin, and their programme will include works by Lee Ranaldo, merzbau, Elliot Sharp and others. Musical improviser Jon Balke will be presenting his new version of Magnetic North Orchestra, and double bassist/improviser Barry Guy and violinist Maya Homburger will present a programme in collaboration with the Corona Artis baroque ensemble.

Our full-packed programme also includes vocal artist and sound poet Jaap Blonk, laptop musician Ryo Co, Fe:mail Lotta Melin, Jonny Axelsson, Ensemble MA, Mats Gustavsson, Duo Gelland, Pan Sonic, guitarist Magnus Andersson, oud-performer and vocalist Dhafer Youssef and others.

A new collaboration between Göteborgs Symfoniker (the Swedish national Orchestra) and Peter Eötvös will also begin during the GAS festival, when the orchestra will perform the world debut of a piece by Russian-Swedish composer Victoria Borisova-Ollas. Peter Eötvös will also conduct the ensemble Gageego ensemble in a performance of pieces by Kaija Saariaho and Madeleine Isaksson.

The complete programme will be available on this web site as of 20 August 2003.

The ambition of the GAS Festival is to present visionary performers and artists bold enough to break with convention in their respective fields. Previous festivals have focused on cutting edge artists in specific genres, and the combination of these genres has made the Festival a boundary-crossing event.

This year, GAS has shifted the ambition into the music itself: the groups and musicians will perform work in progress, with free mobility over more or less visible musical thresholds. Traditional concepts will be actively questioned, when the works performed include pieces with and without written scores, improvisations, and visual elements. Although the dust has settled after the multi-media and cross-over hysteria of the 1990s, many of the ideas that sprouted then have continued to grow. Today the boundaries are less strict, and more readily contravened, with greater creative self-confidence in the language the artists use to create their works.

The artists and ensembles who will take part in the 2003 Festival focus on musical art forms that, each in their own ways, challenge the lines of demarcation between traditional and modern, written and improvised, acoustic and electronic, contemporary and baroque, music-visual arts-movement, etc. We hope our ways of questioning the habitual musical sound paths will provide both the audiences and the art itself with breaths of fresh air.

Anders Hultqvist
Festival Director








Göteborg Art Sounds is presented in collaboration between
Göteborgs Symfoniker, Nefertiti/Jazz i Göteborg, Musikhögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg Artist center (GAC), Pusterviksteatern, Rikskonserter, Musik i Väst, Sveriges Radio, Göteborgs Konstmuseum

Göteborg Art Sounds is supported by
Framtidens Kultur, Västra Götalandsregionen, Statens Kulturråd, Kulturnämnden Göteborg, Wikanders Stiftelse, Göteborg & Co

Göteborgs Art Sounds Festival
Fågelsången 1, Box 210 SE- 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
Tel : + 46 (0)31 773 42 52, Fax : + 46 (0)31 773 40 30
E-mail: info@gas-festival.com


Festival Committee
Anders Hultqvist Composer/ Festival Director
Staffan Albinsson Producer, Musik i Väst
Sture Carlsson Director, Göteborgs Symfoniker
Carl-Axel Hall Composer/School of Music and Music Education, Göteborg University
Ingemar Henningsson Principal, School of Music and Music Education, Göteborg University
Ole Lützow-Holm Composer
Staffan Mossenmark Composer/ Sound Artist
Åke Parmerud Composer
Staffan Svensson Musician GAC - Göteborg Artist Center
Nils Wiklander Nefertiti Jazz Club


Festival Director
Anders Hultqvist

Economy Staffan Svensson

Technical co-ordination Fredric Bergström

Graphic Design Nina Nordström

Media/Printed matter Kerstin Nilsson





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Festival Director: Anders.Hultqvist@gas-festival.com
General information: info@gas-festival.com