EMERGING ENSEMBLE: K!ART

K!ART [pronounced klart] is an experimental music ensemble and creative platform based in Copenhagen, Denmark since 2019. The ensemble is characterized by an open-minded and exploratory approach to music and presents intermedial music events ranging from experimental instrumental music to music-theatre, multimedia, and performance art works. At Gaudeamus Festival 2025, they will perform two pieces by nominees for the Gaudeamus Award: Matthew Grouse and Yaz Lancaster.

At the center of Matthew Grouse’s ctrl+Y is the ubiquitous QWERTY keyboard, which becomes a secondary instrument for the musicians through the amplification and filtering of keypresses, through the translation of its data stream into frequency information fed to synthesisers, and recast as a sampler instrument. Exploring trauma and terror, Yaz Lancaster’s Ouruboros sets poetry written by both Lancaster and poet Laura Henriksen, in a musical work which uses sonic qualities to explore fear, dread and anxiety. A trio of female vocalists joins K!ART for the latter piece.

Programme

Matthew Grouse - ctrl+Y
Yaz Lancaster - Ouroboros

K!ART Ensemble

Mikkel Schou - electric & acoustic guitar

Ida Nørby - cello. Rob Durnin - keyboard

Hsiao-Tung Yuan - percussion

Amalie Kjældgaard - violin

with Stephanie Pan, Michaela Riener, Anat Spiegel on vocals. 

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