░ DR P8

DR (The Danish Broadcasting Corporation) made a 50 minute reportage from a day in the life of Christian Skjødt one cold November day last year. The programme was made by Mikkel Rønnov and broadcasted on DR P8 December 23.2011 and will air again March 22.2012.

░ Africa

A snapshot from the car on the way to the hotel after a long but giving day at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers et Multimédia de Bamako (CAMM) in Mali, Africa.

░ New instrument

New noise instrument housed in an old Braun shaver box.

░ Platform4 Awards 2011

"Sometimes you meet a project that just has something inexplicable about it. Something that excites curiosity, and gives a desire to feel and explore. The feeling that it opens up. InsideOut Vol. II has it - that inexplicable thing. The twitch. InsideOut Vol. II possesses a good calm as well as many layers to explore, and one senses that a great effort has been put into the expression." The jury's statement about the winner project of the Platform4 Awards 2011.

░ VARIA Improvisation Festival

Since 2006 - An acknowledgement to the art of improvisation and the interaction of multiple art-forms and people… Performance, presentation, workshop - dance, music, video, light. October 6th - November 4th Göteborg & Strömstad, Sweden

░ Punkt Festival 2011

░ Mini Marathon of Electronic Music

░ Tonometer Music synth001

New noisy and quite chaotic synth. Commissioned by the great Zsolt Sores.

░ Inside Out vol.II

2nd edition of the real-time bio feedback installation, Inside Out, is now finished, and can be found as a part of the 'In-A-Box' exhibition at Platform4. Check the 'installations' page for more info.

░ Open Days

From the solo performance at Biffen Art Cinema during the 2011-edition of the Open Days Festival. Thanks to Edit E. Vizer for the intense stroposcopic video work on the big screen!

░ New instrument

Old transistor radio circuit bended during the Open Days Festival 2011 in Aalborg.

░ Perceptual Ecologies: Symphony

Experimenting with the relationship between body, space and time by creating new sonic instruments. A collaboration with Electrotexture Lab. Pictures from the exhibition at Platform4 July 2011.

░ Recording waterfalls

Just returned from a trip to Greenland where time was spend recording waterfalls and melting ice, but also meeting up with partner-in-crime Mikkel Ring who has been living in Nuuk for the past two years.

░ Innocent Square

The April edition of The Wire Magazine is now out including the 25th edition of The Wire Tapper cd. The cd is featuring a small piece conceived through a homebuilt nonlinear analogue synthesizer.

░ Balloons

Experimenting with large weather balloons for the project Perceptual Ecologies · Symphony.

░ The Wire Tapper 25

A new solo piece has just been selected for the next volume of The Wire Tapper cd. Since it's creation in 1998, this ongoing series of new music compilations is issued with editions of The Wire Magazine. The 25th edtion of the series will be available with all copies of the Apil 2011 issue.

░ Roham Budapest

From the performance at Roham, Budapest.

░ Meet the dominos

Two new noisy synths have seen the light of day.

░ As I Got Kvium

Finished composing a new piece for the brasillan dancer Sandro Masai. The first performance will be a part of the 'Modern Dance Festival' at Transformator.

░ Synth #3

░ New instruments

After attending the inspiring 'Neanderthal Electronics' workshop by Derek Holzer at the APPARAT.Lab festival a diy-synth-spark has now been lit! At this point two quite noisy machines have been conceived, and more is in the experimental phase..

░ Instrumental Aural Environment

Just recieved a positive reply regarding an open call for new works in connection to the upcoming Musikkens Hus (House of Music) in Aalborg. The project is again a collaboration with Electrotexture Lab and the work will begin ultimo January and continue till July 2011. Det Obelske Familie Fond are behind the initiative.

░ Apparat, day 4

Snapshots from the fourth and final day of the APPARAT.Lab festival 2010. Photos: Søren Skjødt

░ The mines are open

Perceptual Ecologies is finished and the exhibition deep in the limestone mines of Thingbæk Kalkminer is now open! Photo: Morten Hilmer

░ Perceptual Ecologies

The experimental response environment Perceptual Ecologies have now gone into the final production fase, and the setup in Thingbæk Kalkminer will start in the beginning of October. The exhibition opens October 15.2010, and the installation is a part of the Port2010 festival. Photo: Søren Skjødt

░ Opening of Port 2010

The duo with Sandro Masai (BR) will be performing a site specific piece at the opening of the contemporary art festival, Port2010. The event will take place thursday the 14 of October and is located at Aalborg Airport. Photo: galimathies.dk

░ Red Sky Algorithm

Sune Petersen: light & visuals. Christian Skjødt: electronics. Dan Overholt: Overtone violin.

A snapshop from the opening performance of the experimental pavilion, Rød Pavillon, made by Electrotexture Lab.
Photo: Søren Skjødt

░ Tuba Trio

Erik Andersson (CA), Jacob Danielsen and Christian S at Transformator September 23.2010. Photo: galimathies.dk

░ Varia Goes Nordic?

From a performance in Göteborg with dancers Lisa Larsdotter Petersson (picture), Giorgio Convertito, Erikk Mckenzie and sound artists Lisa Dillan and Christian S. The performance was the ending of a meeting discussing ideas regarding organising improvisation festivals in the Scandinavian countries.. Photo: Mona Wallström

░ R33

From the performance at R33 in Budapest July 24.2010. Photos: Kamil Karnowski

░ New setup

Working on a new quite compact live setup based on electro-magneticly amplifed objects and analog equipment. The setup is driven by batteries only. Photo: Kamil Karnowski

░ InsideOut

Involved as sound artist in the real-time media performance InsideOut. It is a project by Edit E. Vizer and Sofie Lauritsen and will be displayed September 3.2010 at Platform4 as a part of the Culture Night.

"InsideOut is a real-time multimedia performance/installation based on elementary phenomenological studies where re-acting bodies are playing together. In this live art installation the performing body will be the focal point of the a re-active environment where waves formed by the physical and psychological (furthermore the social) body will be transmitted to be the main material for an experimental play with sounds and visual elements."

░ APPARAT.Lab

A part of the four-person group organizing and curating the new festival Apparat which will take place at Platform4.

"Four days in October Platform4 will be transformed into a special experimental space with installations, live performances and workshops. Several artists and artist groups from the field of sound, visual and performative arts will be hosted by the festival, where they all will present some new works and create other ones in co-operation with local participants."

░ Latex loudspeaker experiments

One of several experimental latex loudspeaker prototypes developed for the project Perceptual Ecologies.

░ Sunday

Screencaps from a video shooting of a performance with dancer Enikő Buday a June afternoon in Aalborg. Video editing in progress. Video: Edit E. Vizer

░ ARoS

From a performance at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum June 16.2010 together with actor Morten Burian and dancer Sandro Masai. This second part of the performance was located in the very powerful Michael Kvium room, while the first part took place at the more introvert Vilhelm Hammershøi section. More documentation to come. Photo: Edit E. Vizer

░ 3.Relative (Cross)Hearings International Contemporary Music Meeting

Thanks a lot to Zsolt Sores for a wonderful festival!

░ Buday - Skjødt duo

The duo with Enikő Buday at Tüzrakter in Budapest turned out great, and it seems our work together will continue in the future. A short video of the performance can be found on YouTube.

░ This week in Budapest

This final week of May brings two very different events in the capital of Hungary: Thursday a duo performance with dancer Enikő Buday at Tüzrakter and Saturday a performance at the 3.Relative (Cross)Hearings International Contemporary Music Meeting with Don’t Eat Group feat Ahad (aka Zsolt Sores).

░ Neo tribal studies

Snapshots from a solo performance at Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg Maj 07.2010

░ The Wire

The Wire finally came through and did a review on a Tonometer Music release! Byron Coley ends this quite nice review in the May 2010 edition of the You Had Me At Hello 7" records "... the conceptual basis of these singles is pretty massive. It'd be great to have a jukebox full of them."

░ Red Pavilion

The adventures with Electrotexture Lab continue as Tonometer Music will be curating the music programme for an experimental pavilion in Aalborg early September 2010.

░ Perceptual Ecologies

Just recieved fundings for a new collaboration with Esben Skouboe Poulsen and Electrotexture Lab. The project is an interactive installation that is to displayed at Port 20:10 this fall. Port 2010 is a new festival for 'Contemporary Art and Social Technology' in the northern part of Jutland, Denmark. Check www.perceptualecologies.com for more info.

░ Duo tour with Adrian Myhr in Norway, March 2010

Check the aganda for dates and venues.

░ Andrew D'Angelo / Morten Mosgaard / Christian Skjødt

Live at Kunsthal Nord February 19.2010. Photo: Søren S. Sørensen

░ New videos

New (and old) videos can now be found in the media section.

░ It's A Boring Century

Grand opening of a new association - It's A Boring Century – to promote and organize experimantal concerts and performances in Aalborg. The opening took place at Transformator (February 4.2010). More info can be found at itsaboringcentury.com
Photo: galimathies.dk

░ On tour with Ab Baars

░ Two new 7" records – release date March 1.2010

░ Chadbourne / Klapper / Skjødt

Below you can find a link to a video from a performance together with Eugene Chadbourne and Martin Klapper. It was recorded November 4.2009 at Det Poetiske Bureau in Copenhagen by TVMarineret. [1st part] [2nd part]

░ Pessoa

Just returned from a 5-day workshop at Odsherred Teatercenter with actor Morten Burian (on the photo), dancer Sandro Masai, magician David Tholander, and I as a musician. The purpuse was to generate material for a performance in 2011 with work and life of Portuguese poet and writer, Fernando Pessoa, as the main inspiration.

░ Noisy Budapest 2010

Two pictures from yesterdays quite noisy concert with amazing Zsolt Sőrés aka Ahad at Cökxpôn Café Theater in Budapest, Hungary. The concert was also recorded on tape... Photo: Edit E. Vizer

░ Duo performance: Ahad & Christian S

A video from the performance December 19.2009 at Vajda Lajos Stúdió in Szentendre, Hungary with sound artist Zsolt Sőrés aka Ahad can be found on [YouTube]. Photo: Edit E. Vizer

░ New babies

Two new 7-inches are coming to this world in the beginning of 2010! It's the group You Had Me At Hello featuring the great reed players Oliver Lake (us), Michael Moore (us) and Ab Baars (nl), and it will be the first ventures in acoustic music to be released on Tonometer Music. Dragan Tanaskovic at Bohus Studios in Sweden did a great job on the mastering, and the production is now started

░ Varia Improvisation Festival 2009

Organizer and performer Lisa Larsdotter Petersson next to the drum kit. Thanks for a great festival in Göteborg!
Photo: © VARIA/Mona Wallström

░ Information Overload

Performance at Platform4, October 9.2009. Photo: Martin Lynge

░ Miss Hecker

A snapshot from a performance September 25.2009 with musicians Reed Wallsmith (sax), Alexander Beierbach (sax) and Simon Beuer (bass & electronics). This fantastic venue or rather 'private living room' is called Miss Hecker and is located in Berlin