May 8, 9, 10. Thick Time Research Group
Thick time refers to the idea of a moment in time embodying both its past and future potential. This new quartet formation will bring a variety of recirculating processes together – radio broadcasts, analog electronics, constellations of movement, digital sound processing and acoustic soundings – to explore how they might conjure a shared sense of time’s thickening.
May 8 at 7m
May 9 at 7pm
May 10 at 7pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book: book.weld.se
Sybrig Dokter — Dance, Choreography, Movement
John Chantler — Analog Synthesis, Radios, Portable Speakers.
Mattias Hållsten — Shō, SuperCollider.
Daniel M Karlsson — Zithers, Bowls, Bells, Electronics, SuperCollider.
Mattias Hållsten
is a Swedish composer and musician. His music has a special focus on precise intonation and the ways harmonicity can be manifested in the listening experience, realised in improvised, notated as well as recorded musical contexts. In addition to previous studies in composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Hållsten is studying shō for Ko Ishikawa. He is also composing solo music for the instrument, which he has performed across Europe, and plays in ensembles for improvised and contemporary music. He is since 2023 a member of the Kamigaku Ensemble, initiated by the late CC Hennix, with performances across Europe and USA, and he has an ongoing collaboration with the groundbreaking Swedish butoh-artist SU-EN. Hållsten released the album Breathing, bowing (2023) on the Stockholm-based label Thanatosis, which included music for viola da gamba and shō. The album was nominated in the category ”Best experimental music” at Manifestgalan 2024.
John Chantler
is a musician and organiser living in Stockholm, Sweden working with synthesis and exploring the aesthetic implications of different infrastructure for electronic music performance. Originally from Australia he spent a decade in London before moving to Sweden in 2014 where he has directed an annual festival for ‘other music’ in Stockholm called Edition and runs Fönstret — releasing music by local artists and surfacing material from the festival’s archives. His solo recording Tomorrow is too late (October 2019, ROOM40) was originally commissioned by INA GRM for the 2018 Présences Électronique festival in Paris. His most recent release Hell or High Water (2023) is a collaboration with Daniel M Karlsson for computer controlled analog synthesis.
Daniel M Karlsson
is a long standing fixture of Stockholm’s experimental electronic music scene. He’s been an important part of its key infrastructure including Fylkingen, Norberg Festival and the fabled Elektronmusikstudion EMS where he now teaches various courses. As a composer, he works extensively with algorithmic composition to organize sound in a way that brings texture and timbre to the fore.
Sybrig Dokter
is a choreographer and performer in the field of contemporary dance, visual arts and contemporary theatre. She has her base in the physical, choreographed, body and her works manifest in a variety of materials. Her performance work and teaching have taken her amongst others to the Baltic countries, Austria, Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia, France, Bulgaria, Russia, Scandinavia and Great Britain. With Benno Voorham she founded LAVA-Dansproduktion in 1997. Sybrig is an associated artist of Weld and a member of Weld Company 2013 – 2022.
Weld is supported by the City of Stockholm, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm.