KLANG Festival 2026

About the premiere

[sweeping instrumental music playing on TV] is an audiovisual work for live ensemble, video and mechanical Foley sculptures, created from film clips which – detached from their original context – are edited into a new, open-ended narrative.

The subtitles from the original film material, describing moods and actions, become a framework for the score. Vinyl Terror & Horror then composes from these descriptions: sometimes taking them literally, at other times contrasting them in humorous and unexpected ways.

Vinyl Terror & Horror works sculpturally with the vinyl medium, using the record player as an instrument. Through manipulated records, a wide range of musical genres, selected based on the ensemble's instrumental lineup, are looped, pitched and arranged into a cinematic sonic narrative. Violinist, composer and long-time collaborator with Vinyl Terror & Horror, George Kentros, has transcribed the composition for Esbjerg Ensemble.

The performance features both the ensemble and mechanical sculptures carrying out precise physical actions, synchronised with the score in a humorous homage to the art of Foley; the designed sound effects of film, such as footsteps, doors, thunder and more.

The result is a live experience with precise, often understated shifts between sound and image, drawing attention to how sound creates meaning, atmosphere and sensation – a genre-defying and thought-provoking fusion of music, sculpture and video that creates an entirely new world of sound and expression.

Free performance at Kirkebybroen before and after the premiere

As an additional experience, audiences can, before and after the performance of [sweeping instrumental music playing on TV], experience How to ruin someone's career as a violist by Danish composer S. Gerup, written for Icelandic violist and performer Þórhildur Magnúsdóttir.

The work was premiered earlier this year at Dark Music Days in Iceland and forms part of the Northern Connection project, which builds new connections between composers, performers and festivals across the Nordic countries.

How to ruin someone's career as a violist will be performed at 7.30 pm and 9 pm at Kirkebybroen in The Black Diamond. This part of the evening’s programme is free, although the 9 pm performance is reserved for guests attending the Queen’s Hall concert, as the building is closed to other visitors at that time.