Placements

From 22 March – 8 September 2013, Strange Party Orchestra present the site-specific sound installation Placements in Palæhaven (the garden).

Strange Party Orchestra consists of the composers Anders Vestergaard and Kåre Elers. Vestergaard and Elers compose soundscapes based on the notion that sounds speak to the human imagination and that certain sounds are often connected to very specific sound sources. With Placements, Vestergaard and Elers play on the unexpected meeting with sounds that are not usually experienced or expected in a garden. The listener is presented with sound impressions and aural stories based on a variety of sounds that the artists have recorded on their travels around the world. The result is an index of over a thousand sound recordings and each one is precisely one minute long.  There are sounds of metal, water, glass, machinery and so on.  The sound images in Placements are put together from this index and therefore comprise a range of sound snippets from around the world. The sounds are worked with in a compositional way, where they are repeated, displaced, placed layer upon layer and create both harmonious/inharmonious and rhythmic/unrhythmic structures. 

Strange Party Orchestra’s artistic production spans over 27 years within sound and music. They have performed more than 500 concerts, released 8 albums and have composed music and soundscapes for theatre productions, film, new circus, radio/TV and sound art exhibitions around Europe. 

Read more about Strange Party Orchestra: www.strangeparty.net

Placements is part of the project The Museum goes downtown.