New Music for Strings 2023

New Music for Strings Festival 2023:
Sound as Image

24.-31. August – Aarhus & Rønde

Theme: Sound as Image – What happens when artists interpret sound as image? Can music even be “translated” into visual art, or the other way around? How does the unique sonic world of string instruments translate into image?

These questions are at the center of the 2023 festival. The festival presents audiences to a concert series, which prominently features premieres of new works exploring these questions and more – as well as a lecture series with in-depth perspectives on our perception and sensory faculties. More info at the homepage: https://www.newmusicforstrings.org/

Concerts

Details at the festival’s homepage

Solo – 25 August – 19.30
Godsbanen Aarhus, Remisen
Festival artists

Nordic Lights – 26 August – 19.30
Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Kammermusiksalen
Festival artists and RAMA students

The Sounding Body – 27 August – 19.30
Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Kammermusiksalen
Festival artists and RAMA students

Sound As Image – 28 August – 19.30
Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Kammermusiksalen
Festival artists and RAMA students

Your Ocean, My Ocean – 29 August – 19.30
Kulturhotellet Rønde
Festival artists and RAMA students

Image of God – 31 August – 19.30
Vor Frue Kirke Aarhus
Festival artists and the RAMA Orchestra

Public lectures

Abstracts: https://www.newmusicforstrings.org/lectures-2023

24 August (Thursday) – 16-17
Thomas Alrik Sørensen (Aalborg University): “Are Synaesthetes Special?”
Godsbanen, Remisen

26 August (Saturday) – 16-17
Eivind Buene (Norwegian Academy of Music): “The Lonely Ear: Technology as a shaping force in new musical works”
RAMA, Kammermusiksalen

27 August (Sunday) – 16-17
Judy Lochhead & Nirmali Fenn (Stony Brook University New York): “Music’s Sensorium: seeing with our ears”
RAMA, room 222

Masterclasses & workshops

– for RAMA students
Faculty bios: https://www.newmusicforstrings.org/faculty-2023

24 August (Thursday) – 19-20
Eugene Drucker (Emerson String Quartet): online violin masterclass for RAMA students
Godsbanen, Remisen

25 August (Friday) – 14-15
Mari Kimura/John Crawford (University of California Irvine): MUGIC sensor workshop for RAMA students
RAMA, Kammermusiksalen

30 August (Wednesday) – 17-18
Philip Setzer (Emerson String Quartet): online violin masterclass for RAMA students
RAMA, Klubscenen