PRESS RELEASE#1
27 February 2008

SPOR 2008 is a 24 Hour Experiment. The festival will explore and place emphasis on experiences with and over time - both musical time and the time that elapses during the course of a day.

The framework for SPOR 2008 is at the same time a social action. The festival concerns itself not only with the relationship between work and listener but also between the listeners themselves. Instead of announced concert times it will be personal choices as well as the public's exchanges with one another that generate their flow through the festival. The public is challenged to lay out their own festival route, to go on an expedition of exploration in Musikhuset Aarhus (the Concert Hall Aarhus) and challenge the natural rhythm of the day - don't forget your sleeping bag!

SPOR08 will take place in the new Concert Hall in Aarhus, Denmark - from 9th May at 16:00 to 10th May at 16:00.

The festival presents a wealth of orchestral music, performance, sound-installations, video-art and electronic music. Experience, amongst others, Vienna Vegetable Orchestra (Au), Staalplaat Soundsystem (NL), asamisimasa (N), Rebecca Saunders (UK), Hanna Hartmann (S), Curious Chambers Players (S), Carl Emil Carlsen (DK), DYGONG (DK), SCENATET (DK) and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra (DK).

Visit  www.spor-festival.dk and keep up with info, when more artists and works are revealed in the near future.


Welcome to SPOR 2008!

Address:

Musikhuset Aarhus
Thomas Jensens Allé
DK-8000 Aarhus C

SPOR festival
Strandlodsvej 9A, 1. (as of 1/3 - 08)
DK-2300 Kbh. S
Email: info@spor-festival.dk


Sponsors SPOR 2008: Austrian Embassy - Copenhagen, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968, Danish Composers´ Society, Danish Arts Council, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Wilhelm Hansen Fundation, Århus Kommune

Collaborators SPOR 2008: Musikhuset Aarhus, Royal Academy of Music (Aarhus)