Catherine Christer Hennix’s Kamigaku Ensemble
Catherine Christer Hennix’s Kamigaku Ensemble
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Malmö Konsthall is proud to present a long-duration and large-scale performance by Kamigaku Ensemble, Catherine Christer Hennix’ last ensemble and major musical work. The concert is part of the exhibition program for ‘CC Hennix’, on view until 17 May.
In a three-hour concert the ensemble presents the further life of Kamigaku, a music characterized by precision-tuned and continuously sustained tones on trumpet and shō—the Japanese free-reed mouth organ—tones which fuse with electronic sound through combination tone harmony, a fascinating phenomenon in which tones holographically give rise to new, lower tones – similar to how the waves of the sea can combine to form larger and more powerful movements.
In Hennix’s characteristic style of combination tone harmony, tones fuse into a massive sound field with a seemingly autonomous force, a sonic reality in which the members of the ensemble navigate the subtle movements of tone through precise tuning, at once guided by and guiding the emergent process of harmonic structuring.
The audience is here invited to take part of this sound, comfortably seated, wave by wave brought closer and closer to the center of Sound, where habitual distinctions in perception and thought start to dissolve.
Limited seating. Entry may be closed if the venue reaches capacity.
Information
What: Concert
When: Tuesday, 10 March, 6:00–9:00 pm
The art hall and restaurant Smak close at 9:00 pm.
Where: Exhibition Hall
Free admission. No registration required, but limited seating.
Visitor information
High sound levels – hearing protection is recommended.
Seating is on the floor.
You are welcome to enter and leave during the concert.
Mattias Hållsten (b. 1997, Stockholm) is a Swedish composer and shō player. His music has a special focus on precise intonation and the different ways harmonicity manifests in listening experience. Hållsten is studying shō for Japanese musician Ko Ishikawa.
Amedeo Maria Schwaller (b. 1992, Lugano) is a Swiss Italian self-taught artist based in Basel. Son of an organist, grandson of an accordion maker; Amedeo Maria studied Flower Arrangement, Dance and Music in Tokyo, Japan.
Ellen Arkbro (b. 1990, Stockholm) is a composer and musician working with precision-tuned intervallic harmony and minimalist drawn-out form in slow music for acoustic instruments. Arkbro’s music focuses on the textural and spatial qualities of harmonic sound.
Susana Santos Silva (b. 1979, Porto) is a Portuguese trumpeter, improviser and composer based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is interested in expanding the sonic possibilities of her instrument, and creatively exploring the dissolution of boundaries of perception, genre and media.
Marcus Pal (b. 1991, Stockholm) is a sound-artist, composer and theorist focusing on the phenomenology of intensity, clarity and possibility as it manifests in the perception of tones, chords and harmony. Marcus worked closely with Hennix between 2013 and 2023.
