LUMEN PROJECT // SOFIE BIRCH + CARA TOLMIE - MONDAY NOVEMBER 22nd
:: November 22nd ::
:: 18:30 sharp ::
:: Eric Ericsonhallen ::
:: 200 SEK + fee ::
billetto.se/e/lumen-project-sofie-birch-tickets-577433
Hello we are back to bring you some evenings of sound and light, starting out with sound artist and composer Sofie Birch + Cara Tolmie
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Copenhagen based sound artist and composer Sofie Birch works primarily with synthesizers and field recordings to create ambient and melodic sound collages. Sophie uses improvisation, analogue synthesis and instrumental experiments which are carefully fused into soothing minimal soundscapes.
She began releasing solo works in 2017 through Danish label Infinite Waves. In 2019 she released the albums Planetes through German label Seil, and Island Alchemy through California-based Constellation Tatsu. In 2021, Sofie released WHISPER FOLD BRUSH. Her latest, REPAIR TECHNIQUES, is a collaboration with cellist Johan Caroe.
When performing Sofie uses her surroundings and the impulses from her audience to build one-of-a-kind live shows.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6kEyGr2dFnzcKGxpHmnJnn...
https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/optimistisk-ambient
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Cara Tolmie works from within the intersections of performance-making, music and the moving image. Her works have been performed and exhibited widely at music festivals, art galleries, biennials and in the public space.
Her practice at large centres itself upon the voice, the body and the complex ties between the two. All at once subjective as well as socially determined, she explores voice and body as two codependent entities able to confirm as well as contradict one another. Within this there is keen attention paid to the role of listening both as a practice witnessed by the onlooker and a relationship between the performer and audience member.
Collaboration is also a key aspect of her ongoing practice both in the making of works as well as more expanded research projects. She has recently worked with Moa Franzén, Martin Gustavsson, Stine Janvin, Zoë Poluch, Kim Coleman, Will Holder, Seymour Wright, Paul Abbott in group ULAAPARC, and on artistic research projects The Glossary of the Event with Frida Sandström and Aleksei Borisionok. She also conducts 'Gender of Sound', an ongoing project with Susanna Jablonski in which they host listening events that endeavour to listen together through the frame of ‘gender’ in order to find a shared language that can accommodate multiple testimonies of listening. They have also produced a series of ‘Listening Curtains’ as part of this collaboration.
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SUGGESTIONS FOR ENJOYING THIS EVENT
Bring something to sit/ recline on from home
Turn off/put away your phone.
Remove shoes + uncomfortable clothing.
Applause is not necessary.
Relax. Sleep if you wish.
As we navigate this new era of being together, we want to provide a worry free and comfortable environment for our audience and the artists. With this in mind we ask that those who attend be vaccinated, and/ or be able to show a recent negative Covid test. This is on the honor system, so please take into consideration. Many thanks, as as always we look forward to seeing you.
Eric Ericsonhallen has a wheelchair ramp and an accessible toilet. There is a parking space for disabled by the hall.
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Lumen Project is a non-profit organization creating immersive experiences, employing sound / light / and space to inspire awe and stillness.
With support from and thanks to:
Stockholms stad
Musikverket
Viriditas Foundation
Illustration by Maja Zetterberg
Graphics by Caroline Igel