Sound Archaeological Salon

It will be an evening of lectures, talks and performances by and with Felix Kubin, Andrea Zarza Canova, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Daniel Wilson, Marie Eline Hansen and The Institute of Danish Sound Archaeology.

Discover works by Lene Adler Petersen, Bent Lorentzen, Henning Christiansen, Christian A. Volf and many others. There will also be dinner and a bar.

The Institute of Danish Sound Archaeology adds new sections to the story of Danish sound art and the history of Danish electronic music. The institute serves both as a record label and as a kind of alternative art institution that takes care of works that have been overlooked or forgotten.

- Institutionally speaking, sound has had a way of falling between two stools. Especially when it comes to art. There are a lot of things that have not been picked up by the traditional institutions because they do not fit into the categories, says the people behind The Institute of Danish Sound Archaeology.

- We have tried to put together the sort of event that we would most likely be attending ourselves. We have invited international guests who work in similar ways as us - and hopefully it will be a bit like visiting the institute “at home”.

The Institute of Sound Archaeology provides access to material that has so far been inaccessible. It could be unattainable records or previously unreleased works; works which may have only been played once on the radio or featured in a single exhibition.

Among their releases are the compilation 'Danish Tape Amateurs 1959-1976', Henning Christiansen's 'Satie i høj sø', two audio works by Lene Adler Petersen, as well as several releases by Danish sound artist Knud Viktor.

Felix Kubin

Electronic musician, entertainer and composer with a passion for retro futurism. This evening he will open up his practice and explain how sound archaeology is involved in the creation of his music.

Andrea Zarza Canova

Curator at the British Library Sound Archive and co-founder of the independent record label Mana Records, which publishes works at the intersection of contemporary and archival sound.

Marie Eline Hansen

Danish singer and songwriter. She will perform presentations - archaeological reconstructions if you will - of artist Lene Adler Petersen's ‘Sangen on kaffekoppen’ (The Song About the Coffee Cup) from 1973 and a number of Henning Christiansen's unreleased communist songs. Lene Adler Petersen has created a scenography for the performance.

Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen

Music theorist and composer. This summer, the Institute of Danish Sound Archeology re-released the cassette ‘Humlebier' (Bumblebees), which contains microtonal synthesizer music, composed and recorded in 1990. Bergstrøm-Nielsen will talk about the creation of 'Humlebier' and also elaborate om his time in Gruppen for Alternativ Musik.

Daniel Wilson

British composer, researcher and builder of musical instruments. Wilson will be giving an introduction to Delawarr Laboratories that worked with ‘radionics’ in the 1940s - a peripheral field of medical science that experimented with healing through electromagnetic radiation and sound treatments. Delawarr Laboratories built a number of electroacoustic instruments for this purpose.