Artist : Michael Hope
[ music theater ]
Time :
Fri • 21:00 - 22:00
Lokation : turkis
Performance by : Michael Hope & K!ART
Late-Night Lineup is a new music concert in a completely unexpected format: A late-night talk show – hosted by composer Michael Hope. Through interviews and monologues, battles and challenges, we will gain new perspectives on the tropes and our expectations of the new music concert experience.
Info about the piece
Late-Night Lineup is a new music concert in a completely unexpected format: A late-night talk show. Composer and host Michael Hope is joined by the ensemble K!ART as the house band (Mikkel Schou, Hsiao-Tung Yuan, Rob Durnin, and Sarah Pehn), while Sebastian Brix will be his sidekick. His guests will be Rosie Middleton and Dylan Richards, and through interviews and monologues, battles and challenges, we will gain new perspectives on the tropes and our expectations of the new music concert experience.
The late night talk show and new music concert formats share numerous parallels: At the fundamental level, both are tightly controlled environments with specific formal and material expectations. Star talent, anecdotes, games, house band, host and guests in the late night talk show find their analogues in the musical works, virtuosity, ensembles, conductor, and performers that are all found in the new music concert format. Of course, both also share numerous audience rituals: Applause, booing, emotional responses, and so on. In both cases, building and maintaining an instantly recognizable brand is the key to survival – and these days, resistance and dissent sells. Late night talk show hosts broadcast politically-inflected monologues, which claim to hold power to account, while new music claims an inherent subversiveness by unilaterally situating itself outside of mainstream aesthetics and power structures.
But, of course, these are merely useful fictions that allow these formats to be absorbed into the structures of late-capitalist society – while washing their hands of any complicity in its excesses. Still, might some genuinely radical potential still be found in reimagining the signs and symbols that characterise these formats? Late-Night Lineup joyfully seeks out this radicalism latent in even the most mundane of genres. The concert has been commissioned by SPOR festival and is supported by Koda Kultur.
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Web: www.michael-hope.com
Michael Hope (1995) is a UK-born composer, performer and producer based in Copenhagen, whose output encompasses, among other things, instrumental, orchestral, performative, installation, electronic, video, and site-specific works – often situated within the domains of conceptual art and experimental theatre.
His works challenge traditional western art music conceptions of craft, virtuosity, and genius, drawing on the acceleration of waste, cliché, and precariousness endemic to the production and consumption of contemporary society and culture, whilst simultaneously misusing media, technology, and data in an audacious embrace of uncertainty and contradiction.
After completing his undergraduate studies in composition at the Royal Northern College of Music on the prestigious Joint Course with the University of Manchester in 2017, Michael went on to complete his Master’s degree in Composition at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus in 2020.
He is a recent graduate of the Advanced Post-Graduate ‘Soloist’ class at Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen. As both a composer, performer and producer, he has been commissioned by festivals, groups and platforms such as Klang Festival, SPOR Festival, MINU Festival, UNM (Ung Nordisk Musik), AUT (Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere), Radikal Jung, Ensemble Modern, Members of Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble K!ART, Esbjerg Ensemble, and Aarhus Sinfonietta.
He is co-founder and co-director of and a performer with new music platform Current Resonance.