K!ART

K!ART [pronounced klart] is an experimental music ensemble and creative platform based in Copenhagen, Denmark since 2019. The ensemble is characterized by an open-minded and exploratory approach to music and presents intermedial music events ranging from experimental instrumental music to music-theatre, multimedia, and performance art works. At Gaudeamus Festival 2025, they will perform two pieces by nominees for the Gaudeamus Award: Matthew Grouse and Yaz Lancaster.

At the center of Matthew Grouse’s ctrl+Y is the ubiquitous QWERTY keyboard, which becomes a secondary instrument for the musicians through the amplification and filtering of keypresses, through the translation of its data stream into frequency information fed to synthesisers, and recast as a sampler instrument.

This concert is part of the Ulysses Platform, co-funded by the European Union, and made possible by financial support from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.