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Carlsen / Friis / Bøje and much more! at 5e

Courtesy of JazzDanmark | Posted on February 12, 2018

Where

5e
Slagtehusgade 5e
Copenhagen
Map
2991 1898

When

Mon, February 19, 2018
22:00

At Door

€50 kr,- one show / 100 kr,- all night!

About

Our distinguished artist in residence in february is none other than the incredible sax, flute, taragot player and composer Morten Carlsen
Its nearly impossible to sum up the carreer of the great Morten Carlsen.
He has simply been a defining voice of Scandinavian creative music for decades.. Throughout his working life he has focused on sound: Concrete sound, synthetic, electronic sound and many different kinds of music. The starting point was the clarinet, saxophone and jazz, free improvisation, folk music from Africa and the East. Later, new music and sound art, both as musician and composer. As improvisor he possesses an extraordinary sharpness and a strong presence which unfolds in an excellent instrument technique. Member of the New Jungle Orchestra 1981 - 2014, he has toured most of the world and collaborated with musicians from China, Vietnam, Bali, Mongolia, Africa and the US. He has been teaching at music academies and institutes for electroacoustics in Denmark and abroad and participated in hundreds of releases. In 2014 he started as lecturer in performance and ethnomusicology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies of Copenhagen University....

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