The Duo Event Horizon of Randi Pontoppidan and Greg Cohen takes on the bold challenge of
making improvised music with voice, electronics and double bass.
The two veterans of improvisation began playing together 2015.
This experiment resulted in a dynamic duo recording (Space Geode) that will be
released later this year. Pontoppidan and Cohen draw from nature and color to direct their sonic endeavours. Each performance is unique and uncontrolled. A musical piñata, of sorts.
The love of sculpting sounds, melodies and pulses, makes this duo a visceral
Greg Cohen Double bass Randi Pontoppidan Vocal, live electronics
The Duo Event Horizon of Randi Pontoppidan and Greg Cohen takes on the bold challenge of making improvised music with voice and bass where own compositions and standards sometimes occur. The music is influenced by Jazz, folk, contemporary and free musik. The two veterans of improvisation began playing together in 2015. This experiment resulted in a dynamic duo recording Space Geode that will be released on Chant Records July 16. 2018. Pontoppidan and Cohen draw from nature and color to direct their sonic endeavours. Each performance is unique and uncontrolled. A musical piñata, of sorts. The love of sculpting sounds, melodies and pulses, makes this duo a visceral and buoyant soundscape.
Greg Cohen NY, Lives in Berlin, is a remarkable bass player and composer who consistently finds himself in the right place at the right time. The right place tends to be alongside the likes of John Zorn, Tom Waits, or Ornette Coleman who utilize his services repeatedly. But his career is long and consistently varied and he’ worked with everyone from Woody Allen to David Byrne, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Antony and the Johnsons, Elvis Costello, Laurie Anderson, Willie Nelson, as well as part of numerous improvisatory ensembles. He’ considered something of a musicians musician having appeared on such iconic albums as 1980′ Heart Attack and Vine and 1999′ Mule Variations for Tom Waits and 2001′ Life on a String for Laurie Anderson.
Randi Pontoppidan is a recognized and sought danish vocalist, improviser and composer. From free improvisation, jazz, performance art to contemporary classical music she is known for her extended and experimental vocal techniques, often mixed with the use of live electronic processing. Pontoppidan uses her voice exploring musical landscapes and bringing forth new sounds. Her voice becomes the instrument. She is known for her collaborations with artists such as Greg Cohen, Paul Hillier, Else Torp, Theatre of Voices, Sissel Vera Pettersen, Thomas Agergaard, Simon Toldam, Lotte Anker, Morten Søndergaard, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Stuart Lynch. Pontoppidan has appeared at festivals around the world with her own music and with the music of Stockhausen, Cage, Berio, Lang and Reich at venues including London´s Royal Albert Hall, Mexico´s Cervantino, Austalien Perth, Berlin´s Festspiele and Carnegie Hall in New York.
With nothing but her voice and live electronics, Danish vocalist, composer and improviser Randi Pontoppidan creates vast sonic landscapes full of organic warmth and poetic sensibility. She invites the listener deeper into the personal sonic world of her voice. Her work draws on inspirations ranging from free jazz and electroacoustic composition to sound poetry.
Artist talk with Mia Irmgard Klit and Sound voyage with Randi Pontoppidan
“Dreams from a hospital bed” is a common project and cooperation between the sisters Mia Irmgard Klit & Torill Marie Irmgard Klit. The project is presented in the exhibition Grief as a visual installation, video and handmade artist book. The works are also part of Mia’s ongoing studies at Photography and Urban Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London.
NW Gallery is also pleased to present a very special and unique performance: Visual sound poetry in dialog with time, space and place.
Vocalist Randi Pontoppidan will perform a sound voyage together with the exhibition Griefs art works and each artists universe. Soul will be feeded with Randis beautiful voice from within.
Kom til en forunderlig intim duo koncert søndag d. 18/11 i yoga-cph´s skønne lokale. Randi Pontoppidan møder den prisvindende fløjtenist Yael Acher, der er på besøg fra New York. De vil med stemme, fløjte, elektronik og syngeskåle føre publikum med på en eventyrlig lydrejse, hvor tid, sted og rum får en rolle. Sjælen bliver fodret med Randi’s og Yaels musik, som finder inspiration i jazz, impro, folkesange og ny kompositionsmusik. Fuglekvidder bliver til melodier, hjerteslag til rytmer, og med klanglig visuel poesi åbnes døren til musikalske rejser.
Dobbelt koncert med Joel Illerhags “The Nephilim Ensemble” + Caribisk @ Bryggekælderen. Tors. d. 29/11 2018, kl. 20:00.
The Nephilim Ensemble v/ Joel illerhag: Denne aften skaber rum til fordybelse. Den anerkendte kontrabassist Joel Illerhag vil fortrylle os med toner, der med følsomhed og indlevelse inviterer dig til at udforske menneskelivets store spørgsmål i musikkens åndelige rum: kærlighed, død og kampen for at finde lyset i mørket. Alle dele vil have en plads denne aften, hvor vi vil søge nærværet for at finde lys og følgeskab i glæden, sorgen, underskuddet eller overskuddet.
Randi Pontoppidan (voice) Johanna Sulkunen (voice) Lo Ersare (voice) Ania Rybacka (voice) Elina Silova (voice) Joel Illerhag (bazantar)