Live on Kökar, Åland, Finland - Trajectories & Kristianstrand @ Hembygdsmuseum Stensalen
We’re performing our first international Trajectories set in Kökar, Åland, Finland with 3/4 members Connor Cook, Malte Leander, and myself. We’ll be sharing some new sounds that have been developed throughout our residency here (Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence)!! I'm beyond excited!! We're super lucky to have very randomly met Erik Strand (Kristianstrand), who works at the post office/pharmacy/bank on the island! We were purchasing postcards and got into conversation about our residency stay. It was revealed to us that he is most likely the only ambient music producer on Kökar. Fate is with us! More info below.
Show Info
October 19, 2023 - 17.30
Event: Live on Kökar - Trajectories & Kristianstrand @ Hembygdsmuseum Stensalen
Kökar, Åland, Finland
konsert med elektroniska Ijudlanskap presenterat av Kökar Kultur
electronic soundscape concert presented by Kökar Kultur
Schedule
17.30 - Kristianstrand
18.00 - Trajectories
Group photo by Luciana MontañoCatacora
Trajectories
https://www.trajectories.net/epk
Trajectories is a collective of electroacoustic composers and interdisciplinary artists from Montreal, Quebec. The group, comprised of Charles Harding, Malte Leander, Connor Cook, and Michael Pinsonneault, focuses on generating an ever-expanding catalog of multi-disciplinary projects exploring diverse and relevant subject matter. Reflecting and commenting on contemporary issues, events and areas of research, each individual creator’s perspective interactively shapes the collective’s direction, and vice-versa.
In February 2023 the group released their first full-length album Blood & Breath, an hourlong odyssey of dark ambience, synthesis, and noise. For Trajectories, Blood & Breath represents the silver lining that came out of the global pandemic lockdowns of 2020-21 and their aftermath. Collaborating over Zoom and using shared drives, the group engaged with the unique circumstances and states of mind, body and emotion being personally and generally experienced in that historical moment, and the result was this album’s 10 tracks. Source materials were personal and intimate: recordings of apartments and private journeys and spaces, made into communal, holographic fabric when shared and reinterpreted amongst all members. As the pandemic raged on, the context shifted and tilted. So too did the relationship change between artists and their compositions.
Kristianstrand
https://kristianstrand.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-museums
Kristianstrand is a variety hobby project somewhere out in the Åland archipelago.
"Music for Museums" is a musical extension of your every museum visit.
Best listened to in solitary contemplation.
Property of The Museum of Fine Arts and Natural History, a permanent exhibition by Kristianstrand.
Kökarkultur rf
https://kokarkultur.wordpress.com/kokarkultur-rf/
The association Kökarkultur rf was founded on the autumn of 1996 on Kökar, with the aim of promoting the interest in culture, raising the level of the culture life, improving the environment and bringing together individuals, associations and organizations for common cultural activities. The association manages it´s own projects, organizes cultural events, discussions and courses. As well as together with other associations, organizations and projects.
Since 1997 a lot of professional artists has visited Kökar, which has enriched and improved the culture life. In 2017 approximately 50 artists stayed in the residence.
Within the association there are several independent subdivisions that appear separately; gästateljén, kökarform och bildkonstcirkeln.