Exhibition and concerts in collaboration with Ebeltoft Kunstforening
Kunstbygningen Tinghuset in Ebeltoft, january 4th-31st 2025
ARTIST TRIO
Karina Asta Jensen: Painting
Vibe Ulbrandt: Music and calligraphy
Niels Ulbrandt: Music
CONCERTS WITH TONEREGN:
January 4th at 3 pm:
“Sound and poetry from Kettle Holes” – vernissage concert
January 18th at 3 pm:
“The Sound of Langemose” and “Cycle”
Artist talk with the artist trio after the concert
January 25th at 3 pm:
“Small Pasque Flower” and “The Water Sheet”
Artist talk with the artist trio after the concert
Photos: Vibe Ulbrandt
The beautifully shaped landscape of Mols Bjerge consists of countless kettle holes. The exhibition is a whole that is particularly inspired by the kettle holes locations named Helligkilde, Tinghulen and the more hidden at Langemose.
The artist trio is concerned with conveying nature’s story, which is revealed through geological landscape forms, flora and fauna. Mols Bjerge shows major events that have shaped the earth’s crust, and reaches far beyond our own lifetime and culture. The three artists collaborate through various visual and auditory expressions, to find inspiration for how we can listen to, understand and be part of nature. They have researched, experienced and worked amidst the subtle beauty and dynamics of the kettle holes, and translated it into condensed form into painting, music and poetry.
Karina Asta Jensen:
– Oil on canvas
– Watercolour on handmade paper
Read more about Karina Asta Jensen
Vibe Ulbrandt:
– Sound installation
– Calligraphy on rice paper
– Mobile sculpture
– Concerts
Niels Ulbrandt:
– Sound installation
– Concerts
SOUND INSTALLATION
The two composers Vibe Ulbrandt and Niels Ulbrandt have each made their own sound installation, which was played out of the loudspeakers as part of the exhibition.
“Nightingale and Blackbird” by Vibe Ulbrandt
“The Sounding Bog” by Niels Ulbrandt
Read and listen HERE
ABOUT THE CONCERTS
Music inspired by Mols Bjerge was premiered at three concerts during the exhibition period. The music was written by the two composers Vibe Ulbrandt and Niels Ulbrandt, and was performed by Toneregn in various constellations.
VERNISSAGE AND CONCERT January 4th
“Sound and Poetry from Kettle Holes”
Sound collage and poetry reading, with interpretation of impressions from Mols Bjerge. A short atmospheric concert, with impressions from the kettle holes named Helligkilde, Tinghulen and Langemose.
Niels Ulbrandt: Piano and laptop
Vibe Ulbrandt: Poetry reading, Celtic flute
CONCERT + ARTIST TALK January 18th
The two composers have been staying in Langemose in Mols Bjerge, where the water is the last remnant of the ice age. Now a birch swamp full of life and death has emerged.
The concert was in two parts, where Vibe Ulbrandt was inspired by the air element with bird voices, and Niels Ulbrandt interpreted the deeper parts of the swamp.
After the concert, you could participate in an artist talk with the artist trio behind the exhibition “Kettle Holes – Painting and Music created in Mols Bjerge.
“The Sound of Langemose” – Vibe Ulbrandt.
The beautiful melodies of the nightingale and the blackbird are sung and played on flute and piano. The melodies are part of a combined collage work with impressions from Langemose using loop pedal, voice and a lot of mood-creating instruments. Poems from Langemose are read out as part of the concert.
“Cycle” – Niels Ulbrandt.
Langemose is an understated and diverse place in Mols Bjerge, where life and death unfold undisturbed. The composition moves down into the dark water, dives into the world of crawling animals and follows the stages of plants from living play with light and shadow, to rotting in the swamp.
Vibe Ulbrandt: Voice, Celtic flute, frame drum, loop pedal etc.
Niels Ulbrandt: Piano and laptop
CONCERT + ARTIST TALK January 25
Two works for piano and cello, composed by Vibe Ulbrandt and Niels Ulbrandt. The musical language is “crossover” in the borderland between classical and rhythmic genres.
Niels Ulbrandt has a background as a pianist as a jazz musician. Cellist Malthe Volfing Højager is classically trained in the soloist class at the Royal Academy of Music in Jutland.
After the concert, you could participate in an artist talk with the artist trio behind the exhibition “Kettle Holes – Painting and Music created in Mols Bjerge”.
“Small Pasque Flower” – Composer: Vibe Ulbrandt.
Small Pasque Flower is one of the characteristic flowers that grows in Mols Bjerge. The piece has six movements, each describing a phase in the flower’s life, from when it breaks through the ground to when it releases its seeds and says goodbye, carried by the cosmic tide.
Supplemented by Vibe at the exhibition with photos, a poem and notes written in calligraphy.
“The Water Sheet” – Composer: Niels Ulbrandt.
The composition is inspired by the water sheet in the bog, where every movement creates concentric circles that interact with each other. He also gets very close to the wildlife, both what you can see and what you can’t see.
Malthe Volfing Højager: Cello and effects
Niels Ulbrandt: Piano and laptop