KLANG Festival 2026
Come to Klang Festival 2026, which, as is tradition, will also be held at The Black Diamond, where you can enjoy a first performance with Vinyl Terror & Horror, Esbjerg Ensemble and George Kentros.
Programme
Vinyl Terror & Horror (Camilla Sørensen and Greta Christensen): [sweeping instrumental music playing on tv] (2026)
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The concert
Klang Festival, in collaboration with The Black Diamond, presents the world premiere of [sweeping instrumental music playing on tv] . The work is a commission from KLANG Festival and is premiered by Esbjerg Ensemble. This version was created in collaboration with the ensemble and George Kentros.
Mechanical sculptures and video are interwoven and subtitled for the hearing impaired, acting as a living score for the ensemble in real time. Film clips and still images provide structure, while the music alternately follows, interprets and challenges the subtitles. The result is a live experience with precise, often understated shifts between sound and image, focusing on how sound creates meaning, mood and sensation.
The first performance will take place at Klang Festival 2026 in the Queen's Hall at The Black Diamond.
Cast
Vinyl Terror & Horror is the artist duo Camilla Sørensen and Greta Christensen, who work with sound, objects and sculpture at the intersection of installation, composition and performance. The duo is behind the artistic idea and sonic universe of the work.
Esbjerg Ensemble, which performs the work, has, since its formation, a long tradition of collaboration with living composers and first performances of new music.
George Kentros (SE/US) is a violinist and sheet music transcriber specializing in new art music. He is an artistic collaborator and is responsible for the transcription and arrangement of the work for Esbjerg Ensemble.
The three composers in New Voices are supported by the Augustinus Foundation.
Rune Glerup's work is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation's grant support committee.
