Resonating Rooms

The movie for “A WORLD REVEALS” will be having its world premiere at CPH:DOX 2023

For more info visit www.cphdox.dk

“Resonance Concerts” coming up on Nørre Vosborg d.23+24 februar. Get info here

A few weeks ago, a unique concert with 40 talented wind players took place at the Turkis venue in Aarhus. Some had been playing for 3 weeks and others 30 years – together we ignited 5 large metal plates that the audience wandered between.

One of the listeners who took the chance and came to the concert wrote afterwards: “My soul is sounding. I am vibrating – with you. Thanks!”

The project was a collaboration between Aarhus Jazz Orchestra’s talent program “Jazzfabrikken” and Resonerende Rum.

Resonating Rooms will be doing a live installation at the town hall in Holstebro on februar 1oth at 17:00.

Resonerende Rum received the award for “Best Transdisciplinary Release of the Year” at the Danish Music Awards for “A WORLD REVEALS”.

Emil De Waal will replace Hanne Boel as chair of the board from 2023-2025.

Hanne Boels has been invaluable, as she has contributed with extensive inputs during the institution’s start-up phase. Emil De Waal has in addition to his career as a drummer and composer, been appointed to several cultural committees and boards. He will thus be able to contribute both professional and strategic advice to Resonating Rooms.

The vinyl record “En verden, der melder sig” has been nominated to Danish Music Award in the category “best interaesthetic release of the year”.

The winner will be named at the award show on the 7th of December 2022.

Watch the documentation from a mini-festival, curated by Resonerende Rum and held in the former slaughterhouses in Holstebro.

The festival took place over three days in June 2024. Composer and woodwind player Lars Greve had transformed the old blood tubs into  sounding wells that amplified the music from the four performances. Fragments from all of these were embedded as a sounding memory in the tubs, and an uncontrollable interplay between the performers arose. The concerts were:

Friday evening: Lars Greve solo
Saturday noon: The choir from Holstebro’s Industry and Craftsmen’s Association
Saturday evening: MGK MidtVest
Sunday dinner: Ensemble MidtVest

During the concerts, the audience moved around, to feel, hear and see the music unfold. 

A heartfelt thanks to all performers and the Slagteriet for their committed participation.
And thanks to Holstebro Municipality and the Statens Kunstfond for kind support.

HEART (Herning Museum for Contemporary Art) has invited sound artist Lars Greve to create a work the exhibition “Hour of the Wolf”.

It is a memorial exhibition for the artist Ingvar Cronhammar, where Greve is the only artist represented besides Cronhammar. The two artists shared aesthetics across disciplines and generations, and collaborated on several works.  Greve’s work is called “Sometimes” and takes shape as a sounding wall that surrounds Cronhammar’s work “Attack”. The sound consists of recordings from projects and experiences they shared. It starts over every  hour.

About the work, Greve says: “When the full moon is above us, walls, memories and the mystique will be rekindled by the sound of “Sometimes” – like an echo from what was – and still is.”

You can experience the exhibition from 08.10.2021 – 18.08.2023.

Lars Greve is composing music for documentarist Peter Hammers coming film “Revir”. As a part of the film, Greve is transforming the physical scenography into a speaker. Trees, grass, walls, stones and humans are sounding!

Nordisk Panorama Film Festival premiered it for best work-in-progress-documentary. The film will premiere in spring 2023.

New video for “The Sound Every Day @ Refshaleøen” –  a new method for creating site-specific and community enriching sound installations.

For more info, read the “about” text below the video on YouTube.

Resonating Rooms is running several people-pertinent projects in the municipality of Holstebro Kommune. An attempt to create workshops which gives selected citizens the power of action. Citizens which usually do not see themselves as a part of cultural activities. It’s a way to reach out, cultivate and create connections across social borders.

One of these projects is “The little improvisors”. It takes place a the local library, and is run by Lis Raabjerg Kruse. At the first meeting 6 persons showed up – the next time it was 60. Lis is both a musician and author about oral improvisation.  She uses her multifaceted expertise in improvisation to play the parents and kids. She makes music that stimulates the little ones, while their parents gains musical self confidence from playing and getting advice on how valuable and useful the art of improvising is.

Lars Greve was invited by The Royal Danish Academy’s opening. He made a live-performance and presentation of he works with physical rooms as a part unfolding musical compositions. The picture was taken during the live-performance, where blank easels were transformed into sounding objects.

“Point of You” is  a new series of public sound installations, about how life sounds from a specific perspective.

The first perspective in this series are the students from “Sprogenheden”. Throughout the last year, Resonating Rooms has tought children in improvisation at “Sprogenheden” in Holstebro – a public school for children who had to flee. Together with the oldest class, we have made a piece of music which shares their sonic point of views. Layers of field recordings and improvisations have been mixed together, creating a 10 minute long piece.

The Sound installation will be installed in a shopping stores window in the middle of Holstebro – inviting all kinds of people to experience another point of view.

You can hear it every full hour between 08:00-20:00 from 17.06.2022-01.07.2022 at Nørregade 13 – in the middle of a shopping street in Holstebro.

Lars Greve will be doing several events and concerts at “Slagteriet” in Holstebro in May and June.

It is an empty slaugterhouse, consisting of huge halls. Greve will use some the big blood-tubes and convert them into singing objects.

Check the facebook-page for Slagteriet to get updates.

A key part of the work with “Resonating Rooms” is to develop new listening formats. In other words, a lot happens that does not reach the public space – right away. But hang on, we’ll share as soon as we can!

The dance performance “Høst” made as a collaboration between Recoil-Performance-Group and Resonating Rooms will soon be at Sismograf in Spain.

For more info click here

Zugang zur Zeit,

The artist-driven exhibition space @kv_leipzig is located in downtown Leipzig, in a a cozy neighborhood with independent stores.

In front of a packed house, Lars Greve performed and recorded three solo pieces; sunrise, solar noon and sunset.  A reminder and access to time – a “Zugang Zur Zeit” which is the title, in German. The sound of the clarinet improvisations where live transmitted to three windows,  making the music audible and tactile in- and outside.

+200 came by for almost all 14 of Lars Greves concert installations at Copenhagen Contemporary. Some were asked what the thought of about it, and here are a few of their responses:

You can now buy a vinyl containing the first improvisation Lars Greve performed at Copenhagen Contemporary.

It is sold as a vinyl, pressed in 350 numbered and signed editions. The improvisation lasts for 32:25 seconds and is cut on Side A. The Side B is a resonating engraving made by Carl Krull. The artwork was made by laying all 350 white covers in a circle, which were sprayed with a fluorescent orange spray.

You can purchase it through by clicking here

Lars Greve will be performing 14 solo concert-installations at Copenhagen Contemporary during winter break – 14-21.02.

With improvised clarinet solos, Greve will ignite Copenhagen Contemporary’s 600 m2 hall 6 with sounds. A more than 100-metre-long ventilation pipe, which was once parts of the shipyard B&W’s welding hall, is brought to lift with sounds and music that invite guests to move to a unique listening experience.

For more info, please visit the art centers website here

Click here to see an interview made by local TV-MidtVest. The project is about cultural inclusion, through workshops with improvised music.

“Vår Dag” premieres at Skånes Danseteater 28.11.2021.

“Vår Dag” both means “our day” and equinox in Swedish. This performance is about life in Skåne, a western part of Sweden. Greve found the title and concept for the piece, which was developed together with choreographer Tina Tarpgaard. All sounds and movements were collected in Skåne – all kinds of citizens shared their music, breaths, favorite sounds and brought into a one-hour compositions.

Greve wanted the audience to feel the sound, and there designed sounding benches. You can literally feel the sound of Skåne.

“Vår Dag” will be touring in fourth months in public houses in 2022. Visit Skånes Dansteaters website for more info: https://www.skanesdansteater.se/en

The national newspaper “Information” brought the five pages portrait;”One of the most interesting musicians of the time, Lars Greve, learned the history of jazz and wrote his own”.

You can read the paper here

Resonerende Rum will be doing an exhibition for KV Leipzigs  “Zero Gravity” in november 2021.

(update: postponed to 2022 due to corona restrictions)

“Pilgrim” is a sounding sculpture where you can hear, see and feel the music. All surfaces are like a speaker: the metal waves with the music, and the bass rumbles up off the ramp.

As the name suggests, “Pilgrim” can travel. The sculpture will be ignited with sound for the first time at GRASP Festival, which is Roskilde Festival’s new sister, which together with a number of partners, acts and talks focuses on the role of culture in social and environmental sustainability.

The music sounds 24/7, but you can experience when the music is embedded in the sculpture. It’s free and happens: d.18.11 kl10: 00 + d.19.11 kl11: 30 + d.20.11 kl18: 30

Check out www.graspfestival.dk for more info.

A new music for “I håbets skygge” [“In The Shadow Of Hope”] is now online.

Click here to watch it.

Resonating Rooms will be opening Roskilde Festivals new festival for sustainability; GRASP-festival. 

DEDI (Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative) just published this article about the collaboration between Maurice Louca and Lars Greve.

Resonating Rooms’s collaboration with Gong Tomorrow turned out to be three sold out concerts.

Lars Greve made a sounding scenography consisting of four resonating walls, containing audiences and musicians. The line-up was:

Jacob Anderskovs for Holstebro Music Schools Horn Ensemble
Lars Greve & Maurice Louca
Søs Gunvor Ryberg

Videos of all acts is coming up.

Listen to a (Danish) interview Maurice Louca & Lars Greve on Danish National Radio, by clicking here.

Long interview as a teaser for Resonating Rooms take-over at Gong Tomorrow.

Resonerende Rum vil kuratere og sætte soniske rammer for en aften på Gong Festival 2021.

Tjek www.gongtomorrow.dk for mere info.

Lars Greve will be doing a residency and concert with Egyptian musician Maurice Louca.

The residency is organised as a partnership between DEDI (Danish Egyptian Dialouge Initiative) and Resonating Rooms. The concert will be a part of Gong Tomorrow 2021 –  more info to come!

Lørdag d.17 juli kl20:00 you can hear Lars Greve’s latest composition “I håbets skygge” [In The Shadow Of Hope], performed by Aarhus Sinfonietta.

The concerts takes place in “Den Gamle By” as a part of Aarhus Jazz Festival 2021.

Read a short QnA with Lars Greve, unfolding thoughts about the visions behind Resonating Rooms. The text can viewed here

Quote from review of Høst:

“It’s extremely effective, when the music vibrates up through the stage floor, as if it came deep down from the earth” – Vibeke Wern

Quote from review of HØST:

“The fact that the whole stage becomes a kind of speaker for the music’s drumming, on the other hand, works very effectively in AUTUMN, just as the dancers also literally sit down and drum on stage. Music, body and movements merge completely, as the dancers’ bodies have to move on and with the bouncing speaker stage. Classical dichotomies dissolves” – Mette Garfield

Resonating Rooms just did a video with horn players from different music schools. Greve wrote a new piece of music especially for the young players, and build a sounding scenography the workshop.

You can read more and see a video from it by clicking here

Click on the picture to see the trailer for HØST

Resonating Rooms is appointed as “Special Ensemble” by The Danish Arts Foundation from 2021-2023. It is the first time in Denmark, that a non-classical ensemble and soloist is appointed. The decision is based on Resonating Room’s vision of being a beacon in modern contemporary music and the mission to spread knowledge of the genre to a wider and more diverse audience.

Read about it here (in Danish): Læs nyheden på Kulturmonitor