New Auditorium, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/nordic-music-days-elefantra
Elefantöra
Swedish ensemble Elefantöra shift the order of the musical space, disrespectfully moving through the cracks of the thin walls between the analogue and the digital. The ensemble mainly work with various digital instruments. Expect rich contrasts and cross-border meetings when Elefantöra challenges and breaks the box of what music can be.
Elefantöra opens their concert in Nordic Music Days with a work devised by the ensemble and Hugo Boothby, exploring the auditory aesthetic of Zoom. The exploratory and collaborative making of this piece focused on practices of communal listening and worked to interrogate experiences of online communication under the conditions of a global pandemic.
Created following a collaboration with Swedish composer Rosanna Gunnarsson in 2020, Alter is both an installation as well as an ensemble piece. The musicians in the ensemble shape, re-shape and sculpt the work in a constant state of metamorphosis. Another regular collaborator is Jesper Nordin. His work is a small scale version of a piece for electronics and orchestra, created earlier in 2024.
Finnish folk musician Osmo Hakosalo is the most recent collaborator to work with Elefantöra. Together they created a piece of music featuring the traditional Finnish instrument “Kantele” and electronics. The programme ends with a short piece composed by Elefantöra for the inauguration of the 2022 sustainability festival in Lysekil, on the west coast of Sweden.
Programme
- Elefantöra and Hugo Boothby (Sweden): Listening with Elephant Ears 7’
- Rosanna Gunnarsson (Sweden): Alter 13’
- Jesper Nordin (Sweden): 2nd Retrospective live remix 13’
- Osmo Hakosalo (Finland): “Untitled” 10’
- Elefantöra (Sweden): The sea song 6’
Elefantöra is:
- Ewe Larsson – Electronics, Piano
- Joel Mansour – Electronics, guitar, computer.
- Liv Dahlstrand – Electronics – voice
- Sayam Chortip – Electronics - voice
- Linus Andersson - Sound engineering / design.
1 hour
The Swedish ensemble Elefantöra was Initiated and founded in 2017 by ShareMusic & Performing Arts.