SALAD DAYS FESTIVAL

14.+15.08.2026
Kultursalen at Sambiosen, Samsø

Mark your calendars for two days of new music, sound art, avantgarde jazz and experimental electronics!

GRØN MUSIK is 4-day manifestation on Samsø of sound art and music, which has strong bonds with and a collaborative relationship with nature!

Thursday 4.9., 7pm – KNULP, Langgade 12a
MUSIC FOR GREEN EARS
The experimental visual artist and composer Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) comes alive, when his son Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen plays music excerpts from vinyl records and talks about working with his father’s extensive archive.
(Presented with Samsø Library)

Henning Christiansen created art from the 1960s until his death in 2008. He was a visual artist, performance artist and composer, trained as a clarinetist and music teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He lived and worked on the island of Møn, always with an open telephone line to the rest of the world – and to nature. He was part of the artist collective ‘Eks-skolen’ (with Poul Gernes, Per Kirkeby and Nam June Paik, among others) and a lifelong member of the worldwide FLUXUS movement. Often he created his works in collaboration with others, such as the german artist Joseph Beuys and the danish Bjørn Nørgaard.

As a composer, Christiansen worked with classical music, avant-garde and film music – and with field recordings with his tape recorder. “You have to listen to nature”, Henning Christiansen said, and painted one of his ears green. Just as he also painted stones and violins green, created hammer music and invented the concept of “Music as Green”.

His son Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen tells all about it on Thursday 4 September at Knulp in Tranebjerg. Thorbjørn has worked for many years with digitizing 30,000 documents and 400 reel-to-reel tapes and 100 cassette tapes. The aim is to publish and perform works in the spirit of Henning Christiansen. To make the artist’s archive come alive.

After the lecture, the ‘Henning Christiansen Homemade Orchestra’ will perform the composition Music for Green Ears, Symphony Natura 1985-2025.

Friday 5.9., 4pm – AGERUPGÅRD, Agerup 6
SHEEP INSTEAD OF VIOLINS / SOUNDING CRISIS / GREEN LIBRARY / GREEN DINNER
Sound art, performance, exhibitions and dinner! Henning Christiansen – ‘Sheep Instead of Violins’ – sound installation with sheep as musicians in a castle of straw bales / Ania Mauruschat ‘Sounding Crisis’ – sounds and energy in a time of climate change.

4pm – SHEEP INSTEAD OF VIOLINS
‘Schafe Statt Geigen – Opus 186’ (‘Sheep Instead of Violins’) is a sound installation with sheep as musicians in a castle of straw bales, originally created by the Danish composer and Fluxus artist Henning Christiansen. The work was first performed at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria in 1988. For GRØN MUSIK it will be recreated by scenographer Rachel Dagnall and visual artist/archivist Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, together with a flock of Spælsau sheep.

In Agerupgård’s old horse stable there will be an exhibition with Henning Christiansen’s original sketches and drawings for ‘Sheep Instead of Violins’, as well as documentation of previous performances of the work.

5pm – SOUNDING CRISIS
Sound researcher Ania Mauruschat presents her project ‘Sounding Crisis’ about sounds and energy in a time of climate change, seen in a global perspective from Australia to Samsø. The focus is on three case studies: on so-called ‘songlines’ among Aboriginal people in Western Australia, frame drums among the Inuit in Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland and the use of music at demonstrations by climate activists in Copenhagen. In her lecture, Ania will play audio clips and open a conversation with the audience.

Ania Mauruschat is a journalist, author and researcher with a focus on radio, sound, art and nature. She was born and raised in Berlin and has lived and worked in Munich, Basel, Sydney, Copenhagen and Nuuk, among other places. Since the winter of 2024/25, she has been living and working in Stauns on Samsø.

6pm – GREEN LIBRARY
The green room at Agerupgård used to function as a meeting place, where shared meals were served for the farm’s employees. For GREEN MUSIC, the room will function as a library and shop with relevant publications in relation to the weekend’s themes, collected by TERRAFORM and Henning Christiansen Archive. The library will open with a short introduction to the collection’s highlights.

6:30pm – GREEN DINNER
For the occasion, artist duo Juliane Schreiber and Hannah Giese will prepare a green long table dinner. Their usual artistic specialty is textile and text / textile and space, respectively. But during dinner on Friday night it will be all about texture and color! The food will be vegetarian and local. Different types of fresh herbs will dominate the green menu.
Price: 200 kr (drinks can be purchased at the bar)
Reserve your spot via payment to MobilePay 76664, or via Paypal to terraform.island@gmail.com

Straw castle, exhibitions and Green Library are also open for visits Saturday and Sunday from 11am – 4pm.

Saturday 6.9., 5.30pm – BISGAARD, Bisgaard Forte 14
KNUD VIKTOR – LA SYMPHONIE DE LUBERON (1976)
We listen to Knud Viktor’s quadraphonic concert Image VI, which the artist himself considered as his masterpiece, in the beautiful forest at Bisgaard Forte. The evening starts with green food and an introduction by Viktor’s son Mark Viktov and Jacob Eriksen, director of Sound Art Lab, Struer..
(Presented with Bisgaard Forte and Samsø Art Council)

Knud Viktor (1924-2013) is an artist from Samsø – he grew up in the town of Pillemark from the 1920s to 40s, after which he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and then moved to Provence in southern France, where his groundbreaking work with sound was born.

Viktor used recordings of nature sounds to create complex compositions, which he called ‘sound paintings’. Viktor’s oeuvre constitutes a pioneering work in sound ecology and documentation of the biodiversity of a specific area. He manages to bring us very close to the unheard sounds around us, in a way that is as humble as it is moving.

IMAGE VI is Knud Viktor’s attempt to create a unified soundscape of the Luberon mountain, at the foot of which he lived for more than 50 years. He called it “a sound synthesis”, which is both a description of the mountain, but just as much a description of his own relationship with it. To realize the work, Viktor invented the instrument TETRAMIX: an electronic device that allowed him to compose for four sound channels.

Knud Viktor wrote himself about the work:
“… I do not consider it as music, but rather as a sound painting created from the sounds of nature around me. A depiction of the impressions I have received through 13 years of living in the Luberon mountains. By selecting the sounds that group themselves into different sound intensities and that I find most surprising, contrasting, modulating, dissonant, I try to achieve a feeling of the air, the light, the wind, the rain, the rock and the wild spicy vegetation of the Luberon.
Alternatingly, I emphasize the feeling of the underground life, like the cicada, and the experience of the great space and the expanses of the air: THE BROAD MOUNTAIN. The sound comes almost silently and scattered, and suddenly it unfolds, exuberant and explosive: THE HIGH MOUNTAIN. The cicada’s transformation, THE METAMORPHOSIS and THE DREAM OF MORNING will complete the work.”

The work is a quadrophony – a way of constructing a multidimensional sound space, where four speakers, placed in each corner of a square, play one channel of a four-channel sound work.

As a prelude to the concert, there will be an introduction by the artist’s son Mark Viktov and Jacob Eriksen, director of Sound Art Lab – a centre for the production and dissemination of contemporary Sound Art in Struer, Denmark.

At 5:30 pm, green food will be served by artist duo Juliane Schreiber and Hannah Giese. Drinks can be purchased at the bar. Admission to the event is free.

Bring a blanket or cushion to sit on, and appropriate clothing in cold weather.

8.15-10.30pm – STAUNS FJORD, Kanhave 1
BIRD WHISTLING AND BAT SOUNDS
Stavns Fjord is a fantastic natural area in the middle of Samsø. There is a rich birdlife here and at dusk it can be clearly heard – sandpipers, great shearwaters, geese, ducks and seagulls perform a symphony like no other. We are going out to hear it. We also use electronic aids to reveal some of the sounds we cannot hear: the calls of bats. What species of bats are found in the area? How do they find their way around at night?
(Presented with Samsø Naturskole)

Meeting point: Kanhave 1, 8305 Samsø (at the “boat” in Kanhavekanalen)

Children are welcome, so bring the whole family. It is perfectly okay to slip away when the children (or the adults) get too tired.

Practical information:
The sunset over Sælvigbugten is at 7:59 p.m., so it is obvious to enjoy it first. We will be out all evening, so clothing according to the weather and practical footwear is an advantage. We have lanterns with us so we can see where we are going. Leave the headlamp at home.

We have 6 bat detectors that you can borrow on the trip. They are plug-in ultrasonic microphones that plug into your smartphone’s charging port (type USB-C). To use the detectors, you need the app “Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector” from Wildlife Acoustics. The app is free and can be downloaded via Google Play or Appstore.

The night walk is arranged by Samsø Naturskole and supported by Friluftsrådet.

9pm-2am – KNULP, Langgade 12a
GREEN DANCE
Afterparty with DJ Tobi + DJs GENEPI & IKU SAKAN & KNEX

Sunday 7.9., 12-3pm – SAMSØ MUSEUMSHAVE, Museumsvej 10
SOUND INSTRUMENTS FROM THE PAST
– a program with Cajsa S. Lund (music archaeologist) and Ute Goedecke (musician), where you can both hear, touch and do!
(Presented with Samsø Museum)

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GRØN MUSIK er en 4-dages manifestation på Samsø af lydkunst og musik, som har et tæt samarbejdsforhold med naturen!

Torsdag 4.9. kl. 19 – KNULP
Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen holder foredrag om sit arbejde med arkivet efter sin far Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) – en komponist, performance- og billedkunstner fra Møn.
(Præsenteret i samarbejde med Samsø Biblioteks Brugergruppe)

Fredag 5.9. kl. 16 – AGERUPGÅRD
Henning Christiansens værk Schafe Statt Geigen – Opus 186 (1988) vil blive genskabt af Rachel Dagnall og Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen. /// Lydforsker Ania Mauruschat præsenterer sit projekt ‘Sounding Crisis’. /// Åbning af det Grønne Bibliotek. /// Langbordsmiddag med grøn mad.

Lørdag 6.9. kl. 17.30 – BISGAARD
Opførelse af det kvadrofoniske lydværk Image VI – La Symphonie De Luberon (1976) af den lokale lydkunst pioner Knud Viktor. Introduktion ved Mark Viktov og Jacob Eriksen. Med grøn mad.
(Præsenteret i samarbejde med Bisgaard Forte)

20.15-22.30 – STAUNS FJORD
Fuglefløjt og Flagermus – lyttevandring om natten med flagermusdetektorer
(Præsenteret i samarbejde med Samsø Naturskole)
Se mere her.

kl. 21-02 – KNULP
Efterfest med DJ Tobi + DJs GENEPI & IKU SAKAN & KNEX

Søndag 7.9. kl. 12-15 – SAMSØ MUSEUM
Foredrag om lydarkæologi og workshop om, hvordan man bygger musikinstrumenter af lokale planter, med pioner i musikarkæologi Cajsa S. Lund og musiker Ute Goedecke fra Sverige.
(Præsenteret i samarbejde med Samsø Museum)
Se mere info her.

kl. 15:30 – PILLEMARK (ved gadekæret)
Indvielse af Knud Viktors lydskulptur Allo La Terre.
(Præsenteret i samarbejde med Samsø Billdekunstråd og Pillemark Borgerforening)

Adgang til alle programpunkter er gratis, bortset fra foredrag/workshop på Samsø Museum som koster 50 kr.

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GRØN MUSIK is kindly supported by Samsø Municipality’s Fund for Cultural Activities and a collaboration with Samsø Library and Samsø Library’s User Group, Henning Christiansen Arkiv, Bisgaard Forte, Samsø Naturskole, Samsø Museum, Samsø Art Council, Pillemark Borgerforning, Agerupgård and Knulp. /// GRØN MUSIK er venligst støttet af Samsø Kommunes Pulje for Kulturelle Aktiviteter og et samarbejde med Samsø Bibliotek og Samsø Biblioteks Brugergruppe, Henning Christiansen Arkiv, Bisgaard Forte, Samsø Naturskole, Samsø Museum, Samsø Billedkunstråd, Pillemark Borgerforning, Agerupgård og Knulp.

BUILDING A SPEAKER-INSTRUMENT
with JENNY GRÄF SHEPPARD
07.-09.02.2025
Agerupgård, Samsø

Are you working with sound art, experimental music or sculpture, and would you like to experiment with building a sculpture that can also work as a speaker? Now you have the opportunity to participate in a 3-day workshop with sound artist and researcher Jenny Gräf Sheppard, where we build unpredictable sounding speakers out of found materials like tree branches, bark, stones, wood, metal or other.

Objects with the following properties are especially suitable: firm but flexible like large pieces of bark, very thin but firm plastic sheets, things that have a sound already like large seedpods or thin porcelain or metal. We will also provide some materials to choose from, should you prefer.

At the start of the workshop, we will learn about the historical development of the speaker and its different applications as well as the history of transduction, where one form of energy is converted into another (such as electronic signal to audible sound). In addition we will discuss notions of control and dialogue with energies in instruments, which Gräf herself is invested in.

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BYG ET HØJTTALER-INSTRUMENT
med JENNY GRÄF SHEPPARD
07.-09.02.2025
Agerupgård, Samsø

Arbejder du med lydkunst, eksperimenterende musik eller skulptur, og kunne du tænke dig at eksperimentere med at bygge en skulptur, der også kan fungere som højttaler? Nu har du mulighed for at deltage i en 3-dages workshop med lydkunstner og forsker Jenny Gräf Sheppard, hvor vi bygger uforudsigeligt lydende højttalere af fundne materialer som trægrene, bark, sten, træ, metal m.m..

Genstande med følgende egenskaber er særligt velegnede: faste, men fleksible som store stykker bark, meget tynde, men faste plastikplader, ting, der allerede har en lyd som store frøstande eller tyndt porcelæn eller metal. Der vil også være nogle materialer til stede, hvis du foretrækker det.

VINYL CUTTING WORKSHOP
28.-30. NOVEMBER 2024

Are you working with sound art or experimental music and would you like to experiment with the record medium? Then you now have the chance to take part in a 3-day workshop with composer Jonas Olesen, where we cut sound in CDs, plastic, professional laquer discs, etc.

Together we experiment with which materials soundwise and visually suit the sound being cut. At the start of the workshop, we briefly review the historical development of the vinyl format and the various techniques that can be used. Please note that we work with lo-fi equipment. The focus is on the artistic work with the medium, rather than purely technical.

Jonas Olesen works as a composer with electronic music, sound and installation art. He runs the record company BIN and is a co-founder of the association Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi.

The workshop costs DKK 100 for materials. Please bring sound files on a laptop or usb stick.

Duration: Thursday + Friday from 10-16h (with breaks) and Saturday from 10-12h, after which we finish with a shared lunch. Accommodation and transport for participants from outside Samsø are not included. You can for instance book a room at Agerupgård B&B.

Send a short motivation incl. introduction of yourself and a description of which sounds you want to bring no later than October 27th to terraform.island@gmail.com
Terraform and Sound Art Lab select 10 participants – answers will be received the following week.

The workshop is offered by Terraform and Sound Art Lab, and part of the project “Sounds of the Future”, which is supported financially by Region Midtjyllands Kulturudviklingspulje.

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Vinylskæring workshop

Arbejder du med lydkunst eller eksperimenterende musik, og har du lyst til at eksperimentere med plademediet? Så har du nu chance for at være med til en 3-dages workshop med komponist Jonas Olesen, hvor vi skærer lyd i CD’er, plastic, professionelle laquerdiscs m.m.

Sammen eksperimenterer vi med hvilke materialer der lydligt og visuelt passer til den lyd der skæres. I starten af forløbet gennemgår vi i korte træk den historiske udvikling af vinylformatet, og de forskellige teknikker der kan benyttes. Vær opmærksom på at vi arbejder med lo-fi udstyr. Fokus er på det kunstneriske arbejde med mediet, frem for rent teknisk.

Jonas Olesen arbejder som komponist med elektronisk musik, lyd- og installationskunst. Han driver pladeselskabet BIN og er medstifter af foreningen Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi.

Workshoppen koster 100 kr til materialer. Medbring gerne lydfiler på laptop eller usb stick.

Varighed: torsdag + fredag kl. 10-16 (med pauser) og lørdag kl. 10-12, hvorefter vi afslutter med fælles frokost. Overnatning og transport for deltagere udefra Samsø er ikke inkluderet. Der kan f.eks. bookes i Agerupgård B&B.

Send en kort motivation inkl. introduktion af dig selv og en beskrivelse af hvilke lyde du vil tage med senest den 27. oktober til terraform.island@gmail.com
Terraform og Sound Art Lab udvælger 10 deltagere – svar modtages ugen efter.

Workshoppen er tilrettelagt af Terraform og Sound Art Lab, og er del af samarbejdsprojektet “Sounds of the Future”, støttet af Region Midtjyllands Kulturudviklingspulje.

TERRAFORM 2023

TERRAFORM – IN KNUD VIKTOR’S SOUND TRACKS was a residency program in connection with the exhibition PUT YOUR EARS TO THE GROUND – Sound Painter Knud Viktor on Samsø, where a group of contemporary artists participated in a joint work stay at Agerupgård, Samsø and in Bang & Olufsen’s former research studios at Sound Art Lab, Struer. The four invited artists worked during three weeks with Knud Viktor’s oeuvre and working methods, as a starting point for their own contemporary practice.

Participating artists:

MELISSA VAN DRIE (FR)
is a researcher, performer and writer from France who works with how sound, hearing and listening are important aspects of world-making: how different humans and non-humans use sound to sense and understand their respective environments.

NANNA ELVIN HANSEN (DK)
is an artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, whose practice often focuses on issues related to feminism and migration politics. She often investigates these questions through a collective and collaborative process of film, video and sound production.

SARAH SIKORIE (NO)
is an artist from Oslo who works with sculpture and installation, with a particular interest in the processual formation of our kinship and coexistence with other species. Her works are based on site-specific interactions.

LIEVEN MARTENS (BE)
is an artist from Antwerp, Belgium. He creates conceptual music that hovers between field recordings, ambient, musique concrète and modern composition. He investigates the “sound of islands”, where he has been inspired by the rhythms of archipelagos.

05.08.2023, 6pm
Agerupgård, Agerup 6, 8305 Samsø
Knud Viktor: IMAGE IX – L’ARMOIRE – quadraphonic concert + Akvarel / Boblerne – short film + lecture by Jan Stricker (Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi) + TERRAFORM – I Knud Viktors Lydspor – premieres + Jonas Olesen DJ set and book presentation

Knud Viktor’s quadrophonic work ‘IMAGE IX – L’ARMOIRE’ and short films ‘Akvarel’ and ‘Boblerne’ are this evening going into dialogue with premieres of the four artists’ new sound works. The program is introduced by Jan Stricker, radio host at The Lake and co-founder of record label Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi, who have published and reissued some of Knud Viktor’s works. This same evening, sound artist and author Jonas Olesen will present his book Pionerer & Outsidere – Dansk Elektronisk Musik 1928-1980 and play music samples with a special focus on Danish electronic composers who have used nature and animal sounds.

Terraform – In Knud Viktor’s Sound Tracks is a collaboration between Sound Art Lab, Samsø Municipality’s Art Council and Terraform.

Curators:
Jenny Gräf Sheppard
Jan Stricker

More info about the Knud Viktor exhibition: https://knudviktorsamsoe.dk

The residency was funded by The Danish Art Foundation, Sonning-Fonden and Art Music Denmark.

TERRAFORM 2021

ADA VAN HOOREBEKE (BE)
ALEXANDER HOLM (DK)
CHRIS SHIELDS (US/IR)
EEVA RÖNKÄ (FIN)
GIJS DEDDENS (NL)
JANI ANDERS PURHONEN (FIN)
WILFRED WAGNER (DK)
ZOË C. MILLER (US)

[EN] Eight international artists have throughout 2021 had the opportunity to live and work on the island for two weeks. They have explored and worked with the island’s resources to experiment, produce and develop new works and publications. A special focus has been put on serial works and multiples, artworks that are produced in several copies and thus can be easily distributed.

In their meeting with the island, technology has served them as a sensory tool, as the artists have used instruments such as metal detectors, surveillance cameras, microphones, scanners and photographic exposure to highlight and document a number of elements specific to the life and nature on Samsø. The results range from original artworks, texts, video and audio recordings to multiples made of different materials such as screen prints, wine, ceramic sculptures and more.

The project received support by Statens Kunstfond and Samsø Municipality.

[DK] Otte internationale kunstnere har i løbet af 2021 haft mulighed for at bo og arbejde på øen i to uger hver. De har udforsket og arbejdet med øens ressourcer for at eksperimentere, producere og udvikle nye værker og udgivelser, hvor der er lagt et særligt fokus på serielle værker og såkaldte multiples, kunstværker der er fremstillet i flere kopier og dermed nemt kan distribueres.

I mødet med øen har teknologi tjent kunstnerne som sensorisk værktøj, idet de har brugt instrumenter som metaldetektorer, overvågningskameraer, mikrofoner, scannere og fotografisk eksponering til at fremhæve og dokumentere en række elementer specifikke for livet og naturen på Samsø. Resultaterne spænder fra originale kunstværker, tekster, video- og lydoptagelser til ​​multiples lavet af forskellige materialer som serigrafiske tryk, vin, keramiske skulpturer m.m.

Projektet har modtaget støtte fra Statens Kunstfond og Samsø Kommune.

About

[EN] TERRAFORM is an association organizing artist-in-residency programs at Agerupgård on the island of Samsø in the danish Kattegat sea. TERRAFORM wants to convey and support innovative artistic practice that is both sustainable and communal. We are currently establishing workshops for art production with an associated residency program, where international artists have the opportunity to go into dialogue with the island community. In close collaboration with local actors and institutions, the project creates a framework, in which work can be done in solidarity and art produced locally, with available materials, methods and techniques. We also organize events and workshops on the island.

[DK] TERRAFORM er en forening, som organiserer et artist-in-residency program på Agerupgård, Samsø. TERRAFORM ønsker at formidle og understøtte en nytænkende kunstnerisk praksis der både er bæredygtig og fællesskabsfremmende. Vi er ved at etablere permanente værksteder for kunstproduktion med et tilknyttet residencyprogram på Samsø, hvor internationale kunstnere har mulighed for at gå i dialog med ø-samfundet. I tæt samarbejde med lokale aktører og institutioner vil projektet skabe rammer, hvori der kan arbejdes solidarisk og produceres kunst lokalt, med tilgængelige materialer, metoder og teknikker. Vi arrangerer også events og workshops på øen.

Contact us here:
terraform.island@gmail.com

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