PROJECTS
DUO
DUO is a collaborative project between composers and musicians experimenting with the duo format.
Anna Jalving leads the project and for each edition she sets up a new duo constellation as a base for the experiments.
"It has been a necessity for me to create an artistic space where instrumentalists and composers can meet each other as equals in the creative process. The new contemporary music does not only belong to the composers, but also the musicians who play the works.It is in this process of sharing and creation that we can really move things!" - Anna Jalving
TOILE - Lyden af skjulte steder
The sound of my hidden places
Listening to the sound and playing with it
My inner sounding world
Toile - Lyden af skjulte steder is the first solo release by violinist and improviser Anna Jalving. During the COVID-19 lockdown, with no access to concert halls or her usual working conditions, Anna took her violin to new places to rediscover her violinistic and singing voice in these strange times.
Through a mix of compositions and improvisations recorded in various outdoor locations and at the Museum Køn, Anna explores each site’s acoustic personality and invites listeners on a sonic walk through the city of Aarhus.
These places provide more than just a stage for the music in this record. Their acoustic and historic presence stands in like a live audience, providing the feedback and emotional resonance during a period of isolation from human contact.
Released September 30, 2022
Music by Anna Jalving
Vocal score on the track AIRS by Line Tjørnhøj
Recorded by Anders Ørbæk, Klavs Kehlet and Frederik Sakham
Mix and master by Anders Ørbæk
Cover art by Lea Charbonnier
Released by MoBC
Special thanks to Frederik Sakham and Klavs Kehlet, Anders Ørbæk, Line Tjørnhøj, Katinka Fogh Vindelev, Lea Charbonnier and Milena Salazar
Generously supported by Aarhus Kommune, Support Your Local Artists by Music City Aarhus 2022, Fonden Voxhall & Promus, Slots og Kulturstyrelsen, KODA Kultur and Augustinusfonden.
COLLABORATIONS
UMLAUT QUARTET
Is an ensemble consisting of Amaryllis Billet (violin), Anna Jalving (violin), Fanny Paccoud (viola) and Noémi Butin (cello) Their strong musical voice and varied musical backgrounds, creates an innovating and open minded expression where the boundaries between written music and improvisation tend to blur. Collaborations with composers from the world of improvised music and classical contemporary music is the foundation of the musical language of the UMLAUT Quartet.
Ghost Trance Project
Ghost Trance Project is the result of a research project dedicated to
performing and exploring the different interpretational possibilities of Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music (GTM) in both solo as group contexts.
To explore the unique communal and universal aspect of Braxton’s GTM compositions, how GTM allows for a diverse group of musicians to join forces
(trans-idiomatic) and intuitively connect in an intense musical interplay
(multi-hierarchic), I have formed the Ghost Trance Septet, a mixed group of musicians coming from different backgrounds, looking for common
ground (or not) in performing Braxton’s GTM.
Selected press for Ghost Trance Septet
There’s a clear mastery of this often unwieldy material that’s almost giddy i
n its energy. Each of the four pieces, spread out over two CDs, is packed
with detail and quick-blink episodes, delivering such densely crafted journeys
that I hope others will follow suit and give Braxton’s pieces the treatment they deserve. - Best of Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp June 2022,
P. Margasak
My own view is that Van Cauwenberghe and his septet have redefined the landscape of Braxton recordings.
- The Rambler, T. Rutherford-Johnson
Braxton's equations turn out to be readily accessible sounds if you leave your preconceptions about music and the nature of time at the door. Kobe Van Cauwenberghe's Ghost Trance Septet remembers both a Braxton future and a Ghost Trance past. - All About Jazz, M. Corroto
A festival of creativity, joy and surprise.
- All About Jazz, J. Sharpe
Ghost Trance Septet plays Anthony Braxton is one of the best interpretations
of Braxton’s music yet by an ensemble not including Braxton himself.
Very well done.
- Avant Music News, M. Borella
The Ghost Trance Septet have created a blueprint in how to play this music.
More crucially, by emphasizing each member’s talent as well as Braxton
sequences, they’re come up with an original piece of work true to t
hemselves and the composer. - Jazz Word, K. Waxman
INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS
Interview about DUO for
SPOR FESTIVAL 2020
(interview in danish)
DUO is a collaborative project between composers and musicians experimenting with the duo format. Anna Jalving leads the project and for each edition she sets up a new duo constellation as a base for the experiments.
"It has been a necessity for me to create an artistic space where instrumentalists and composers can meet each other as equals in the creative process.
The new contemporary music does not only belong to the composers, but also the musicians who play the works.
It is in this process of sharing and creation that we can really move things!" - Anna Jalving
Interview on Radio4 'SMÅT OP!'
about new music and
AUT - Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere
(interview in danish)
(interview in danish)
Talking about the project 'Toile' and how
covid-19 is forcing the artists to rethink and create in a (maybe) new way.
The interactive opera Be My Superstar is a collaboration between director Alexandra Lacroix and composer Šimon Voseček.
The performance — for everyone above 14 — is based on Yann Verburgh’s H.S. tragédies ordinaires, a touching text about bullying. Sooner or later, from nearby or at a distance, it affects young and old.
The omnipresence of social media, in time as well as in space, hardly leaves any room for escape. Lacroix and Voseček translate everyday harassment in word, image and music thus confronting us with the banality of the violence we are all capable of.
soloists:
Astrid Stockman, sopraan
Logan Lopez Gonzalez, contratenor
Musical performance by SPECTRA ENSEMBLE:
Pieter Jansen (violin), Anna Jalving (viola), Hanna Kölbel (cello), Cédric De Bruycker (clarinet)