Tingshusparken returns as an off-site stage for festival visitors and town inhabitants alike to enjoy an early afternoon program of two concerts. On the Saturday, Tingshusparken will host two meditatative live performances by Anton Friisgaard and ****&c., perfect after a long festival night. The concerts are open to the public and free of charge.

Anton Friisgaard

Anton Friisgaard is a multifaceted musician and soundmaker, with a masters degree in electronic music, from the Danish National Academy of Music. He works intuitively, with a variety of electronic and acoustic sound tools. His artistic curiosity takes him many places, both musically and physically, and he works from a foundation of solid knowledge about composition, audio production and cultural references.

Friisgaard recently departed from his ambient alter-ago Hviledag, to widen the possibilities of his musical landscape. He has gone on live- explorations with classical ensembles, ambient church events, as well as into the worlds of clubs and body-shaking soundsytems. Embracing this wide array of sonic cultures and expressions has nurtured a musical agility and ability to create from a deepfelt love for the multiplicity of expressions within music.

****&c. (IDM)

Electronic music for emotional outbursts and untroubled overthinking. Never did you think 175bpm could sound so soft. Never did you think something so soft could hit so hard.

****&c. fuses modular synthesis, digital dirt, breakbeats and abstract textures into something warm and ragingly nostalgic. Their IDM set is a more introspective sibling to their chiptune work — less pixelated, more sideways. Less consequent, more fragmented.

Based in Aarhus, Denmark, Tanis Silke Nielsen creates music that’s too emotional to be academic and too sketchy to be polite — it’s IDM with a punk heart and a poet’s flow.