Mimitabu | Fabric Union | TTCM

Gothenburg, Sweden
2021-11-06 – 2021-11-07

For two matinées only, three Nordic contemporary music ensembles are coming together in Gothenburg.

The city’s very own Mimitabu hosts two experimental music collectives from Norway and Finland: TTCM and Fabric Union. Together they will present a varied programme of Nordic contemporary music featuring textile scenography, video, live-electronics as well as prerecorded performances of the Bogstad Farm Cows.  

! Please note the different starting times on Saturday and Sunday !

Tickets:
Tickets 150 SEK (100 SEK concessions)
Link for pre-booking

Where:
Cinnober, Masthuggsterrassen 3, Göteborg
Tram stop: Masthuggstorget

When:
Saturday, November 06th. 14:00
Sunday, November 07th. 13:00

Programme:

Fabric Union
Lauri Supponen – Drapery Studies
Liisa Hirsch – Glides*
Matilda Seppälä – Meno *) on Sunday only

– interval 20 min –  

TTCM
Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir – Cumulus
Martin Rane Bauck – LA VACHE (ou la promenade du bœuf gras)
Martin Hirsti-Kvam – Silent Resistance
Martin Rane Bauck – ghostly light on the tortured face
Martin Hirsti-Kvam – From an Imaginary Landscape
Malin Bång – Purfling

– interval 20 min –

Mimitabu
Ylva Lund Bergner – aq-V-le
Gudmundur Steinn – Hotel natura
Kaj Duncan David – Sound & Vision
Kajsa Magnarsson – Meta-Wheel
Johan Svensson – Intermezzo for fluorescent lights and samples  

**The last set with Mimitabu will feature flashing lights with stroboscopes.**

**The performance is wheelchair-accessible.**  

**Refreshment are available for purchase during the two intervals in between the ensembles’ performances.**  

**The concert is repeated at Cinnober in Gothenburg on Sunday 7th November and in Oslo at Kulturkirken Jakob on Tuesday 9th November**

ABOUT THE ENSEMBLES

FABRIC UNION is a concert installation by the Helsinki-based Union of Anna-Sofia Anttonen, Joasia Cieslak, Martta Jämsä, Annaroosa Lampela, Maritta Manner, Eero Marttila, Matilda Seppälä & Lauri Supponen. Fabric Union is assemble and performed on, with and inside a textile environment. The interaction of the performer and the fabric is a sonic, a visual and a kinetic happening. As an ensemble, Union seeks to make the working environment and intersubject relationships within the ensemble visible in a performative context.  

TTCM is a collective for experimental music from Oslo, consisting of musicians Jennifer Torrence (percussion), Vilde Sandve Alnæs (violin) and Inga Margrete Aas (double bass), and composers Martin Hirsti-Kvam and Martin Rane Bauck. With works by Hirsti-Kvam, Bauck, Malin Bång (SE) and Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir (IC), TTCM will present a concert that combines live music with prerecorded performances, incl. the Bogstad Farm Cows, John Cage, Morton Feldman, violin makers and a chainsaw.  

With its strong commitment to commissioning and performing the newest contemporary music, the Gothenburg-based ensemble MIMITABU has quickly established itself as an important voice on the Scandinavian new music scene. MIMITABU wants to expose audiences to a wide spectrum of sounds in unexpected and surprising contexts. The ensemble actively seek out and collaborate with composers and artists who have a genuine and innovative approach towards sound as artistic material. By exploring the full potential of the acoustic instruments and also experimenting with electronics and everyday objects, the arrangement of differentiated sound sources available is infinitely flexible.

Supported by:
Nordic Culture Point
Statens Musikverket
Swedish Arts Council
Swedish Society of Composers
Arts Council Norway
City of Oslo
Creo’s remuneration fund
FFUK
Music Norway
Finnish-Swedish Culture Fund
Finnish-Norwegian Culture Fund

Small talk – Mimitabu at Cinnober

Gothenburg, Sweden
Mimitabu is finally back at Cinnober to give a concert concert about voice and communication, time, childhood memories and Greek mythology.

Tickets:
Free entrance!

Where:
Cinnober, Masthuggsterrassen 3, Göteborg
Tram stop: Masthuggstorget

When:
Sunday, September 26th 2021. 15:00

Programme:
Rebecca Saunders – to and fro
Ylva Lund Bergner – Achenar
Jenny Hettne – Reed, chanting (I)
Stefano Gervasoni – Duo voce
Rei Munakata- Nagi Flashback

The City Composing Gothenburg

Gothenburg, Sweden

Write music, a poem, a melody, a text, draw the moment, a collage, the gesture, the idea…

“The City Composing Gothenburg” is a project that gives a chance for everybody to become a music composer thus involving people that are non-musicians in the fascinating music creation process. This project invites citizens of Gothenburg to become active creative participants and contributors to the contemporary music making.

The scores are then collected and arranged by Hara Alonso and Johan Svensson and later on performed in a concert by Mimitabu.

From May to September there will be a digital platform where you can participate by creating a score, sending a score, by email, or in case you prefer to send the scores on paper, by post. Everybody is welcome to participate!

The concert will take place in Hagakyrkan the 18th of September at 19:00.

Thanks a lot to all participants for your creativity!

How to participate?

Special webpage to compose your scores: thecitycomposinggothenburg.com

Email: thecitycomposing@gmail.com

Mailbox:
The City Composing
Box 197 Nybohovsbacken 45
117 64 STOCKHOLM

More info here:

https://www.thecitycomposing.com

http://www.levandemusik.org

Mimitabu 10+1 years!

Gothenburg, Sweden
Mimitabu has for 10 years conveyed the shifting soundscapes of the newest Scandinavian art music in a playful and virtuosic manner, from scandispectralism, geometric constructivism, coloured noise and junk yard aesthetics to music inspired by Swedish November weather. By stretching the possibilities of the ensemble’s acoustic instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello) to the limits, complemented with electronics and various sounding objects, we can offer unexpected and near limitless sound worlds.

The anniversary concert, originally planned for April 2020, looks both backward and forward – we present highlights from our repertoire in music by Esaias Järnegard, Johan Svensson, Lina Järnegard and Ylva Lund Bergner, as well as a world premiere by the Icelandic composer Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson.

Where:
Atalante, Gothenburg

When:
The concert will be presented as a video in August.

Programme:
Gudmundur Steinn – New work
Esaias Järnegard – Isola
Ylva Lund Bergner – Achenar
Lina Järnegard – Kylan, plötslig
Johan Svensson – Rita cirklar

Presented by Levande musik and Mimitabu with support from the City of Gothenburg and the Swedish Arts Council.

Mimitabu at Cinnober

Gothenburg, Sweden

CANCELED!

UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE TO CANCEL THE CONCERT DUE TO NEW COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS.

Mimitabu is visiting Cinnober and performing a concert with autumn stillness and (visual) interventions. Compositions by Klaus Lang, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Esaias Järnegard, Allan Gravgard Madsen and Johan Svensson.

Tickets:
100/50 SEK (reduced price for students and seniors)

The number of available seats are very limited! Pre-book your seat by sending us an email in advance: info@mimitabu.se

Where:
Cinnober, Masthuggsterrassen 3, Göteborg
Tram stop: Masthuggstorget

When:
Sunday, November 8th 2020. 19:00

Programme:
Klaus Lang – die drei felder im schnee und die scharlachrote sonneBergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir – BAE (before anyone else)
Esaias Järnegard – Utmarker (2)
Allan Gravgard Madsen – Air
Johan Svensson – pixilation

Upcoming concerts in the fall

Due to the pandemic the spring did not turn out exactly as planned. We are now instead looking forward to some fun and exciting projects in the fall! Here are a few things we have planned at the moment but keep an eye on our website since more concerts might happen!

Nordic Ensemble Collective – The Ambulant One-Day Festival
Concert tour in Finland, Sweden and Norway
Mimitabu will involved in the project Nordic Ensemble Collective – The Ambulant One-Day Festival. Together with the ensemble Union (Helsinki) and the ensemble The Torshov Chainsaw Massacre (Oslo) a tour through Helsinki, Gothenburg and Oslo with three performing ensembles will be organized. 

Concert dates

November 5th, 2020
Helsinki, Finland

November 8th, 2020
Gothenburg, Sweden

November 10th, 2020
Oslo, Norway

Mimitabu at Samtida musik’s 60 year anniversary celebration
Stockholm, Sweden
A concert project with double anniversary celebration: the concert series Samtida musik is celebrating 60 years and Mimitabu 10 years. Mimitabu will perform a concert showcasing music composed by the members (historic and current) of Samtida musik and selected works from Mimitabu’s repertoire.

Concert date

November 11th 2020
Stockholm, Sweden

Anniversary concert cancelled!

Unfortunately, due to the prevailing circumstances, we will have to cancel our planned anniversary concert which would take place at Atalante in Gothenburg April 18th. But do not despair! We will share memories from our first 10 years as an ensemble on facebook during the spring, while we plan to carry out a slightly delayed anniversary celebration a little further ahead.

10 year anniversary concert!

Gothenburg, Sweden
Mimitabu has for 10 years conveyed the shifting soundscapes of the newest Scandinavian art music in a playful and virtuosic manner, from scandispectralism, geometric constructivism, coloured noise and junk yard aesthetics to music inspired by Swedish November weather. By stretching the possibilities of the ensemble’s acoustic instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello) to the limits, complemented with electronics and various sounding objects, we can offer unexpected and near limitless sound worlds.

The anniversary concert looks both backward and forward – we present highlights from our repertoire in music by Esaias Järnegard, Johan Svensson, Lina Järnegard, Martin Rane Bauck and Ylva Lund Bergner, as well as a world premiere by the Icelandic composer Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson. There will also be a very special surprise!

Where:
Atalante, Gothenburg

When:
Saturday, April 18th 2020. 19:00

Programme:
Gudmundur Steinn – New work
Esaias Järnegard – Isola
Ylva Lund Bergner – Euphorbia
Lina Järnegard – Kylan, plötslig
Johan Svensson – Rita cirklar
Martin Rane Bauck – tierhaft, engelsgleich
+ surprise!

Presented by Mimitabu with support from the City of Gothenburg and the Swedish Arts Council.

Concert at Atalante

Gothenburg, Sweden
Invited by Levande musik, Mimitabu is visiting Atalante and performing a concert with works by Rebecca Saunders, Malin Bång, Ricardo Eizirik, Hunjoo Jung, Andrew Maxbauer and Sven-Eric Johanson. The works by Jung and Maxbauer were composed for Mimitabu as part of Kalv Composition Academy and had their premiere in August 2019.

Where:
Atalante, Gothenburg

When:
Friday, November 22nd. 19:00

Programme:
Rebecca Saunders – to and fro
Malin Bång – Palinode
Ricardo Eizirik – Junkyard piece IIa
Hunjoo Jung – You won’t/haven’t/hadn’t/know[n] Which Door[s] You will/do/did Open
Andrew Maxbauer – Poem: Intermezzo
Sven-Eric Johanson – Sonata epigramma

Presented by Levande musik with support from the Helge Ax:son Johnson foundation and the Swedish Arts Council.