October 28+29. Elektrakomplexet / Anna Westberg
Elektrakomplexet is a solo of dance and text, created and performed by the swedish choreographer and dancer Anna Westberg. In a lecture like setting the performance revolves around life and art of women pioneers of electronic music, interweaved with choreography cored to their compositions. They are artists who are seldom highlighted in the canon of electronic music. Uncompromisingly they worked against expectations of what a woman should and could do, as well as conventions on what is called music. Elektrakomplexet is a collaboration with light designer Viktor Wendin and illustrator Ronja Svenning Berge, presenting these artists through text, image, sound and movement.
The composers who appear in the performance are:
Daphne Oram (1925 – 2003) who for many years worked for the BBC, creating sounds and music using tape recorders and sine wave oscillators. She invented Oramics, a composition machine where drawn symbols are transformed into sound.
Delia Derbyshire (1937 – 2001) nick-named ”the Sculptress of Sound”, is best known for her sound effects in the TV series Dr Who. She created soundscapes and music for movies that took place in the distant past, in an unknown future or deep inside the human psyche. In other words; music for places where an orchestra may not be so adequate.
Else Marie Pade, born in Aarhus Denmark in 1924, composed Denmarks first examples of both musique concrete and electronic music. When she was only nineteen years old she was detained after having participated in the resistance against the German occupiers. In the isolation cell, she decided that if she would survive this, the rest of her life must be devoted to music.
Laurie Spiegel, American composer and developer of computer techniques for creating music, whose music is representing humanity on the Golden Record aboard the spaceship Voyager since 1977. Another of her compositions was recently used in the film The Hunger Games.
Beatriz Ferreyra, originally from Argentina but with her homebase in Paris since the 60´s, when she collaborated with Pierre Schaeffer on the sound research at the GRM studios. At the age of 78 she is still active and playing at music festival around the world.
Performed in English
Supported by: Statens Kulturråd, Göteborgs stad and Danscentrum Stockholm | standardmodellen 2015