Lotte Anker: Sculpting Air in the Sub Habitat

In an open lecture saxofonist and composer Lotte Anker will present the fruit of a two year artistic research project (Kunstnerisk Udviklingsvirksomhed or KUV in Danish) titled 'Sculpting Air in the Sub Habitat - texture and form in composition for larger ensemble of improvisers'. 

The presentation also includes a performance with her ensemble Sub Habitat which consist of:

Lotte Anker: saxophones
Mazen Kerbaj: tp*
Katt Hernandez: violin
Nina de Heney: doublebass
Sten Sandell: piano,voc
Andrea Neumann: inside-piano, electronics
Burkhard Beins: drums/perc
*Mazen is absent this date

'Sculpting Air' is an investigation and unfolding of creative processes in composition FOR larger (6+
musicians) ensemble of improvisers as well as the processes IN the ensemble rehearsals/
concerts.

In 'Sculpting Air', Lotte Anker explores, examens and develop compositional tools and materials from a sonic/timbral starting point. She investigate form and emergent form structures, conceptualization and musical communication in scores for improvisers.

Lotte Anker does this in dialogue and together with the musicians of Sub Habitat, a research ensemble where she is also a performer. She/they explore and develop the material further by playing, testing, suggesting, discussing.

Texture, timbre, noise, silence, tactility, instability, friction, intervention, subtlety, timespace, blurred contours, resistance, crystallizing, extracting, reducing, moulding, stretching, challenging, redo, reconsider, reflecting, listening.

In 'Sculpting Air' she/they also identify and discuss questions and issues related to musical interaction,
listening, composer/performer role, as well as more general questions related to the often subtle
interconnections, dynamics and entanglements in the field between predefined composition and
"free" improvisation.