Clip from the opening concert January 4th, 2025. “Sound and Poetry from Kettle Holes” with Vibe Ulbrandt and Niels Ulbrandt. The poem “The Water Sheet” and nightingale melodies played on celtic flute.World premiere of the composition “Small Pasque Flower” for cello and piano, by Vibe Ulbrandt. Each movement begins with a poem describing the life stages of the flower from birth to death. On the wall hangs sheet music like calligraphy, where one bar from each movement is enlarged. On the same day, Niels Ulbrandt’s work “The Water Sheet” for cello and piano was also world premiered.Toneregn: Niels Ulbrandt, Vibe Ulbrandt and Malthe Volfing Højager.
World premiere of the work “The Sound of Langemose” by Vibe Ulbrandt. Solo performance with poetry reading in a sound collage created by instruments, voice and loop pedal. Dance with frame drum after the poem “Tango”, where the future invites the past to dance – and there is only YES.
Vibe Ulbrandt exhibited visual works of the Small Pasque Flower, which grows in Mols Bjerge. She has photographed the same plant for several months, and this has inspired a description of the phases of life with photos and sketches of the flower, as well as note calligraphy that matches the musical composition by enlarging one bar from each of the six movements.
Photo of Small Pasque Flower in its most fertile stage, matching the “Mazurka” movement in the composition. In the poem about the flower’s life stages, this stage is described as: “A beguiling black hole – the cycle of life thickens – shines around me”Vibe Ulbrandt has listened to melodies from nightingales and blackbirds. The melodies have been included in both the sound installation at the exhibition and in the concerts. The bird voices have also become visual art, here as a large mobile titled “The song hung in the air”, which shows the nightingale’s song as graphic movement.The poem “The Bear Guardian”Snapshots from the proces in the swamp “Langemose”
Vibe Ulbrandt exhibited poems as calligraphy in the windows. At some spots in the exhibition rooms, you could follow the artist trio’s process in Mols Bjerge in the three kettle holes “Helligkilde”, “Tinghulen” and “Langemose”.
“Helligkilde”, oil painting by Karina Asta Jensen. The motif is the large kettle hole called Helligkilde, named after a holy spring that you can still see as a deep eye surrounded by reeds, if you walk up to the edge among the trees on the left in the picture.
