TJ Stef & Millophonia Mike - Live from Harp Art Lab, sept 6, 2014

The first in a series of live concerts at Harp Art Lab, Sweden. Millophonia Mike invites artists to jam with Millophonia - a self playing pipe organ permanently installed in Harp Art Lab, Harplinge Windmill.



BZZZ! INTERNATIONAL SOUND ART FESTIVAL 2014
a project about the life and death of honey bees

The BZZZ! Festival is over for 2014 and all the wonderful artists that made this possible has left Harp Art Lab. The festival was well documented and we will bring you the best from all the concerts and performances in the coming weeks. Thanks again to all the artists, beekeapers and the audience who made BZZZ! to a great success!

About BZZZ! International Sound Art Festival, Sveriges Television

About BZZZ!
In recent years, bee colonies have collapsed in several parts of the world. Nobody knows for sure why, but a variety of different and sometimes contested theories have been presented and debated.
To put focus on this issue HARP ART LAB invited artists and beekeepers to create installations and performances connected to the theme of honey bees, thereby transforming Harplinge windmill into a "hive" of sounds. The response have been overwhelming with participators from Sweden, Poland, Ireland, UK, Norway, Lithuania, USA, Finland and Turkey. The ambition to create processes in the community between local residents and artists from abroad, have been achieved.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Charli Clark/Can Uzer
Agnes Mercedes
Rima Otilia Qvale
Leif Holmstrand
Michele Collins
Ruta Vitkauskaite
Bioni Samp
Maciej Baczyk/Aga Jarzabowa
Mikael Reuter
Simon Mattisson
Klara Andersson
Niklas Sjösvärd
Softday (Mikael Fernström/Sean Taylor)
Rickard Fredborg/Ann Louise Liljedahl
Stefan Isebring/Hanna Östergren
Sara B Nilsson
Mikael Ericsson
Zabutom

Curator: Kajsa Magnarsson

EXHIBITION: July 4 - aug 17, 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARP ART LAB, Harplinge Väderkvarn, Kvarnliden 8, Harplinge, Sweden
Contact: ericsson@trumtrum.se / 0046 70 7304631
Free entrance

Niklas Sjösvärd - in front of "Flower Hive Variations" - an audiovisual work for two projections and sound


Hymenopteran Bosatsu - Sound Sculpture by Leif Holmstrand 2014

AORISTEN
Film and Dance Performance - Rickard Fredborg
Music - Ann-Louise Liljedahl


Charli Clarke and Can Uzer installing SWARM - an interactiv sound sculpture


Non Camera Animation by Maciej Baczyk and Aga Jarzabowa

Bioni Samp - "Beespace or Hive Synthesis"


Agnes Mercedes

Ruta Vitkauskaite - "Something Personal" - a one-to-one performance


Simon Mattisson in front of "Interactive Flower and Bees"


Rima Otilia Qvale preparing her performance: "It’s not a complain its a prayer"


Klara Andersson performed a new piece for the BZZZ! festival


From Softdays concert "Sonic Pareidolic Ceromancy" at BZZZ!


Michele Collins


Mikael Reuter - Mobile Sound Healing of Harplinge and Halmstad

Stefan Isebring and Hanna Östergren are preparing their performance for 35 reel tape recorders, cello, theremin, nyckelharpa, bumblebees and vevlira with director of artistic operations Mikael Ericsson.

Pressphotos, films and texts about the artists, click here!
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Contact: ericsson@trumtrum.se / 0046 70 7304631

Harplinge, near Halmstad on the Swedish west coast, is not only a beautiful place to visit. When the wind blows, you hear the magnificent sound of ”Millophonia”, a permanent sound installation in Harp Art Lab, Harplinge windmill. The Society of Swedish Composers Journal No 3, 2014 more press here: English Svenska

Harp Art Lab is a laboratory for sound art situated in Harplinge Windmill on the Swedish west coast. The Lab is a unique platform for developing, innovative, interdisciplinary ideas and we work with artists and communities of interest to create performances and installations.

Our main methodology is a socially engaged and discursive sound art practice. The motivations behind our work are predominantly environmental, political, and social in as much as we are attempting to re-mediate contested territories in a scientific and creative way to the public.

Founders: Mikael Ericsson and Julie Ericsson.