{"id":24229,"date":"2022-07-05T16:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/sound-passage\/"},"modified":"2022-09-20T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:48:13","slug":"sound-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/en\/sound-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Passage – by Randi Pontoppidan"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sound bath on 9 Copenhagen bridges<\/strong><\/h5>\n
TIME & PLACE – see map of the 9 bridges here<\/a>
\nFri. 5 Aug.<\/span>:
\n15.00<\/span>: Marmorbroen
\n16.30<\/span>: Cirkelbroen
\n18.00<\/span>: Knippelsbro (inner city side)<\/h6>\n
Sat. 6 Aug.<\/span>:
\n18.00<\/span>: Inderhavnsbroen (inner city side)
\n19.30<\/span>: Trangravsbroen
\n21.00<\/span>: Dyssebroen, Christiania<\/h6>\n
Sun. 7 Aug.<\/span>:
\n10.00<\/span>: Langebro (inner city side)
\n12.00<\/span>: Bryggebroen (inner city side)
\n14.00<\/span>: Slusen (inner city side)<\/h6>\n
WHAT: Sound performance
\nDURATION: 15 min. each place
\nFOR FREE<\/h6>\n

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Composer and singer Randi Pontoppidan wants to bathe the city in sound. On nine of Copenhagen’s bridges, she appears with her expressive voice and her live electronics to create surprising, melodic soundscapes on a journey through the city.<\/p>\n

Each bridge gets its very own 15-minute work. With her voice as an instrument and with the sounds of the city as backdrop, Randi captures the mood of the place and time and translates it into music. The water that flows beneath. The church bells that call for assembly. The bikes whizzing by. The ships’ clattering steel cables in the masts. The car wheels against the road.<\/p>\n

Tempo, acoustics and atmosphere are very different from place to place, and the musical expression is like a chameleon changing shape and sound according to its surroundings. The heavy slowness of the big bridges versus the light speed of the bicycle bridges. The tinkling metal constructions versus the dull stone pellets. The energetic rush of the morning or the meditative contemplation of the evening.<\/p>\n

Everything is united on the spot in a partly improvised sound universe, where the music takes shape. You can face the sound, capture it from a distance or let it envelop you, depending on where the musician settles down. On the bridge, under the bridge, climbing the bridge railings…<\/p>\n