Get right up close to the essence of Music at The Round Tower from 23 February - 9 March 2008. You can blow into tubes, ring bells, play on strings and keys, listen to and read about music, acoustic patterns, and harmonies of every conceivable kind at Skye Løfvander's exhibition project Spiral Tonalities at the Round Tower.

Music theory for all
The world doesn't listen with the same ears: notes that sound fine to us may sound false in an Indian musician's ears and vice versa. The explanation lies in the way the structure of the notes is built up – something that is culturally determined and therefore differs widely.

A more explicit and detailed explanation will easily become too technical and difficult to grasp, but overtone singer, instrument maker, author, lecturer and philosopher Skye Løfvander has been explaining the essence of music for many years so that it can be easily understood by others than music theoreticians.

Cardboard tubes and umbrellas
One of the methods is to materialise sounds with the help of installations that the public can experiment with. The spiral walk in the Round Tower will be filled from entrance to top with tubular bells, corresponding to the first seven octaves of the natural tone system. And visitors can explore an entire universe of sounds in the exhibition room in the tower with a "drainpipe organ" and a spiral organ made of cardboard tubes, 30 singing aluminium bowls, a forest of umbrellas equipped with bells, a piano tuner's workshop, and a corner with CDs, as well as fine antique books from the Danish Music Museum. Skye Løfvander has also arranged workshops in the exhibition room and seven concerts, each of which provides examples of music from other parts of the world and eras. Per Nørgård speaks about tonality and plays the piece TURN at the concert on Sunday 9.

Music shows the way
Our approach to music is very important for the way we view our surroundings. Music weaves time, space, and logic together, so we can learn a great deal if we obtain a broader, more extensive understanding of its basic structure. If we understand the essence of music, we can understand more about how the world is put together and this is the motive force that underlies Spiral Tonalities and all of Skye Løfvander's works with music and its construction.

Time & place
23 February - 9 March 2008
See opening hours


Rundetaarn
Købmagergade 52A
1150 Copenhagen K

Read more about the exhibition and concerts at www.rundetaarn.dk

List of concerts
The exhibition hall every day from 20:00

Monday 3 March: Pentatone evening.

Anders Nordin, kyotaku. Lecture by Michael Schilling.

Tuesday 4 March: middle tone tuning.

Oliver Hirsh, chamber organ.

Wednesday 5 March: Balinese slendro and pelog.

Gabriella Maria Medici & I Made Swisnaya, joged (bamboo xylophone)

Thursday 6 March: ”Strange tunings”.

Gösta Petersen, vocal, with others.

Friday 7 March: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier.

Elisabeth Westenholz, piano. Lecture by Lars Pryn.

Saturday 8 March: 22 shrutis, Indian micro-tones.

Ashish Sankrityayan, vocal.

 Sunday 9 March: Per Nørgård's pure tuning.

Per Nørgård speaks about tonality and plays TURN at the piano

LINensemble performs the works: Spell, LIN, etc.

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Links to press photos:
Robert Fludd's copper engravings The Temple of Music:
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Ashish Sankrityayan is absolutely one of today's most accomplished dhrupad singers. He will be singing at Rundetaarn on 9 March:

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Anders Nordin will be playing in Rundetaarn on 3 March on his metre-long bamboo flute, kyotaku, which is made from the root of a special species of bamboo that grows only on the island of Kyushu:
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More information:
Skye Løfvander
(+45) 20 97 07 01
skyelof@hotmail.com