S.M.O.K
Svenska Moderna Operaensemblen

… is the ensemble that pushes boundaries – which offers its audience new music, original staging and performance acts that challenge your perception of reality. S.M.O.K delivers stories through voices, bodies, objects, image and sound, and explores the possibilities of the room.

Currently we operate the till disciplinary, ambulatory salon series Calmsleep Chambers. For each salon we invite a musician, artist or other interesting person or group to collaborate with. The salons take place in a new place for each time, so keep an eye out for a salon in your particular place!

  • The corpus of crumbs will rule the world – slow down and crawl

    The corpus of crumbs will rule the world – slow down and crawl

    Anne Pajunens new hybrid work is a sounding, spatial, visual and sensory installation.

    A lament for the importance of the minute. It is in the minuscule, the minute, that we find our hope. Our calls for solutions are mostly meek. We must slow down to sound the alarm, to pay attention to detail. Crumbs will rule the world by slowness – not by rage. We must lower ourselves below the corpus of crumbs to gain worthiness and respect. It is a laboratory for corpus un/mattering. Or an opera in/for the shadows? A theory of white holes as our only hope.

    18-19 October

    Rabbit/Duck festival, Scen46, Göteborg

    On stage at opening night:
    Anne Pajunen andToby Kassel.

    Software code: Fredrik Olofsson
    Sound design: Linus Andersson

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Fler nyheter…

”SMOK triggers a flood of emotions within us..” “Chip and Dale in a digital meat grinder”

Arbetarbladet

”…astonishing virtuoso expressions in a happening-like cantata..”

SvD

”this is grand art: an experiment with language that, with the greatest presence and concentration…”

Gefle Dagblad

upcoming…

Månstruken Moonstruck

Work-in-progress! A new chamber opera is on its way. We welcome you to an open rehearsal and conversations around the process of the work so far. What is going on with our Moon? The one that seduced Pierrot, the one we have projected our dreams, yearnings and passions onto. What has gone down since the magic was lost that fatal day back in 1969? A slippage for mankind?

Music: Magnus Bunnskog
Libretto: Anne Pajunen

Sunday March 3, at 4 pm
Free admission

Uusi Teatteri, Västmannagatan 56, Stockholm
T-Odenplan

Anne Pajunen, voice/electronics
Åsa Karlberg, alto/bass flute
Elsbeth Berg, viola
Louise Agnani, cello
Boa Pettersson, contra bass clarinet
Stefan Lindgren, piano
Mattias Hållsten, sound engineer

Illustration by Tomas Jönsson

With support from
Swedish Arts Council and Swedish Arts Grants Committee

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