Thick time refers to the idea of a moment in time embodying both its past and future potential. This new quartet formation will bring a variety of recirculating processes together - radio broadcasts, analog electronics, digital sound processing and acoustic soundings - to explore how they might conjure a shared sense of time’s thickening.
Sybrig Dokter — Dans, koreografi, rörelse.
John Chantler — Analog modulär syntes, radiosändare och handgjorda flyttbara högtalare.
Mattias Hållsten — Shō, SuperCollider.
Daniel M Karlsson — Zithers, skålar, klockor, elektronik, SuperCollider.
Daniel M Karlsson is a long standing fixture of Stockholm’s experimental electronic music scene. He’s been an important part of its key infrastructure including Fylkingen, Norberg Festival and the fabled Elektronmusikstudion EMS where he now teaches various courses.
A well known evangelist for the open source music coding platform SuperCollider, its rare for someone to spend more than five minutes in his company without getting a run down on how you, too can get SuperClean installed on your computer and be making your own computer music in a matter of minutes.
As a composer, he works extensively with algorithmic composition to organize sound in a way that brings texture and timbre to the fore.
Mattias Hållsten (b. 1997) is a Swedish composer and musican. His music explores auditory perception using different synthesis techniques and instrumentations combined with just intonation. He is currently studying shō with Ko Ishikawa.
Recent projects include performing with Catherine Christer Hennix's Kamigaku Ensemble during the Sixth Edition Festival (2023) and at the Munch Museum in Oslo (2023), the performance The Kanji Cabaret in collaboration with choreographer SU-EN, as well as various collaborations with musicians in the Stockholm improvised music scene.
In 2023, Hållsten made his debut release on Stockholm-based label Thanatosis with the album Breathing, bowing, featuring works for shō and viola da gamba, which was nominated at the Manifestgalan 2024 in the category "Best experimental music".
John Chantler is a musician and organiser living in Stockholm, Sweden working with synthesis and exploring the aesthetic implications of different infrastructure for electronic music performance.
Originally from Australia he spent a decade in London before moving to Sweden in 2014 where he has directed an annual festival for ‘other music’ in Stockholm called Edition and runs Fönstret — releasing music by local artists and surfacing material from the festival’s archives.
His solo recording Tomorrow is too late (October 2019, ROOM40) was originally commissioned by INA GRM for the 2018 Présences Électronique festival in Paris. His most recent release Hell or High Water (2023) is a collaboration with Daniel M Karlsson for computer controlled analog synthesis.
Sybrig Dokter is a choreographer and performer in the field of contemporary dance, visual arts and contemporary theatre. She has her base in the physical, choreographed, body and her works manifest in a variety of materials. Her performance work and teaching have taken her amongst others to the Baltic countries, Austria, Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia, France, Bulgaria, Russia, Scandinavia and Great Britain. With Benno Voorham she founded LAVA-Dansproduktion in 1997. Sybrig is an associated artist of Weld and a member of Weld Company 2013 - 2022.
‘I am interested in layering of physical practices to do with synchronicity, mirror-neurons and proximity.’