Dear friends, colleagues and music lovers,
musicians, composers, DJ’s, VJ’s, writers, poets, graphic designers, graffiti artists, fans and ….

We hereby invite you to participate in our "global units - copenhagen sessions".
-  An open artist collaboration and network event.

Come and join us!

The last sunday each month 19-22:30 o'clock, We open the doors for an evening of genre clash and partially improvised sessions. We turn up the microphones and opens for live Internet audio streaming directly to Facebook, and our own webpage. As well as we do video and multi track audio recording for later editing, and concert release on our website. *

The meeting between the genre: We see it as super exciting if artists from different genres wants to participate. Actually, we prefer not think about genre, not that artists from different background would necessarily have to play together, but because one evening with different musical genre/content, will surely be an inspiration to us all.

Open to ideas: both in terms of musicians, composers, VJ artistry, painting and remixing… As long as it is in Global Units spirit! – Please read more here.

The main idea is to have approx. 3 improvised/semi-improvised concerts sessions of approx. 25 min duration each.
This does not mean that this is a closed country for composers! All composers who have an idea for how a 25-minute impro concert is orchestrated and staged is very welcome to come with your ideas. Actually, we consider it as very important and exciting to work with improvisation within a compositional framework so that there will be a positive form and direction of the concerts. As well within the 25 minutes there can be pre-composed material as long as it’s working relation to the rest of the 25 min. A series of pictures, paintings and texts could as an example be a starting point for the concert and its focal point.

About global portraits: We do documentation of all sessions, both as a streaming internet radio show, with the music, video, and interviews, and afterwards as downloads from our website. Each session we see as portraits of the participating artists as single units and how they join the collaboration. At the same time the visuals and the text material should be based on "global portraits" of other selected people from around the world, to add a simple fix point to composition of the performance. The global portraits used in the sessions will be selected by participating artists ahead of the concerts.
We are seeking toward the idea that the participating poets/text writers could do small text associations that is somehow based on there reaction to the portraits picture.
We are therefore seeking poets and text writers who would like to join too!

The program will be as follows:  (There is openness to suggestions for revision)

Doors opens at. 19

19:30 - 20 - interviews and radio with the artists.

20 – 20:30 - 1. concert – (*maximum 25 min of music)

Radio/DJ in bewtween

21 – 21:30 - 2. concert – (*maximum 25 min of music)

Radio/DJ in bewtween

22 – 22:30 - 3. concert –  (*maximum 25 min of music)

22:30...We clean up, hopefully some can help.

* We use bandcamp to upload the music afterwards, and they only accepts up to 25 min of music for each upload.

Join in if you like to participate!
To enable us to put together an exciting and organized program for the evening, it is important  for us to know who wants to participate. Therefore please get a ticket on the top of this page. We naturally hope of great interest and if there should be room for your spot in the first place, do not worry, there is an event again next month for which you can assign already now by selecting next month! In the ticket system above. 

Please forward this link to friends who you think we as well should invite to play . 

What do you get out of it?
New musical ideas, a cozy “network” evening, participation in an exciting musical event that is even streamed live on the internet globally. – If you do not like to exhibit your own name, with the “niche-focused brand value” it might have, feel free to act under a pseudonym – Maybe this pseudonym will be your new big breakthrough 

Please feel free to join the Global Units community as well here.

What the audience gets out of it?
A super exciting and enjoyable evening under relaxed conditions, where they can meet the artists in working in their “idea workshop”.

Why is Global Units project is important to you, too?
We are convinced that the name Global Units, in addition to our website written thoughts, communicate: humility and respect between people, a shared sense of responsibility for our planet’s well being that we in Global Units auspices can meet without religious or other cultural barriers .

As an example:
Please look at the video, the pictures and the audio from our last copenhagen session here.

We need helping hands taking pictures, filming for documentation, set up microphones, be in the bar… etc….

Where is it? (See map below)

Prague Boulevard 49 E, entrance 10, floor 4.  -  2300 Copenhagen S

MAP

Sincerely

August Engkilde & Global Units

By the way
Due to site size, this is a closed event. That is, only by invitation or all who have volunteered their arrival are entering. Even if we wanted to welcome everyone. So get a ticket above!

* All concert recordings and releases are released under Creative Commons – non commercial - Share Alike licensee.