Ear Transplant launches with a concert at H15, Copenhagen. A programme of works that engage with intense physical presence, focus and connection between the on-stage performers.

Doors open at 19:00 / concert starts at 19:30

About the pieces:

• Anna Sowa and Cathy van Eck explore the musical potential of choreographed movement
• 2 accordions breathe together in a deep listening exercise by Adriana Minu
• Matthew Grouse invites the audience to intervene, imagine layers of music, engage in staring contests, and heckle the on-stage performers
• Joss Smith threads together a plaintive prayer with a lingering sense of darkness
• Laurence Crane strives for a fresh sense of beauty in familiar, even ordinary musical phenomena

The bar will be open until midnight. Stick around after the concert and celebrate our launch with us!

TICKETS:

80kr. standard / 50kr. student/u.26 (available on the door via cash or mobilepay OR via Billetto)

 Performers:

• Þórhildur Magnúsdóttir - Viola + performance
• Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson - Accordion + performance
• Joss Smith - Clarinet, organ, glockenspiel, voice + performance
• Matthew Grouse - Guitar, voice, accordion + performance

Programme:

• Matthew Grouse - Do this, do that… but not that and not quite yet
• Cathy Van Eck - Wings
• Joss Smith - for the birds (world premiere)
• Adriana Minu - Breathe
• Anna Sowa - Piece for saxophone and violin player
• Laurence Crane - Sparling

Ear Transplant are grateful to the following foundations for supporting our inaugural concert season: Knud Højgaards Fond, Poul Johansen Fonden, Spar Nord Fonden, Dansk Musiker Forbund and Københavns Kommune

ABOUT EAR TRANSPLANT:

Led by composers Joss Smith and Matthew Grouse, Ear Transplant are a new group for contemporary music and interdisciplinary art with five key goals:

1. To invoke a sense of wonder for our audiences

2. To bring music to Denmark that our audiences have never experienced before

3. To contribute to and build a community spirit within the contemporary music field

4. To support up-and-coming artists and commission the most exciting local composers

5. To pursue each aspect of the concert/event experience with a painstaking level of care

Ear Transplant is somewhere between a concert production platform and an ensemble, with 4 core performing members as well as a rotating pool of musicians and collaborators, all of whom specialise in contemporary music performance and experimental art-making. Our flexible roster of performers allows us to programme a huge array of music, whether it embraces a multi-medial approach, novel combinations of instruments, or well known chamber forms, re-imagined and shaped by current attitudes and perspectives.

Core members:

Matthew Grouse, Joss Smith, Irene Bianco, Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson