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AFM x Ultima: Four Compositions on Francis Al\u00ffs’ Children’s Games<\/h2>\n\n12 Sep, 16:00 \u2014 17:15<\/span>\n\n
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Concert with the Cikada Ensemble. Music by Kim Myhr, Pierre Slinckx, Aleksandra Gryka and Ang\u00e9lica Castell\u00f3. Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival 11\u201420 Sep, 2025 <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Since 1999, Francis Al\u00ffs has recorded children at play around the world in a growing series of videos. From flying kites in Afghanistan and playing knucklebones in Nepal, to dancing with oranges in Denmark, children\u2019s ability to transcend difficult environments through imagination forms a thread that connects many of these films. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this concert, four composers respond with new works for the Cikada Ensemble, diving into the rhythms, logics, and emotional stakes of play, as serious as it is fleeting, as politically specific as it is universal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Myhr<\/a> sees children\u2019s games as acts of total presence\u2014not light distractions but intense and absorbing moments. His music invites adult listeners to reconnect with the immediacy, rawness, and wonder of childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierre Slinckx<\/a>\u2019s #29<\/em> builds on a haunting image: children climbing and hurling themselves down dusty slopes of mining waste in Lubumbashi inside of discarded tires. Like small Sisyphus figures, they repeat the ascent\u2014a cycle that echoes both the persistence of colonisation and the hidden costs of extractivism. Slinckx responds with a fractured echo of \u201cTwinkle, Twinkle, Little Star\u201d\u2014childhood innocence thrown into stark relief by the weight of the landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aleksandra Gryka<\/a> hears play as quiet resistance, as connection. Her music lingers where body, environment and imagination blur. Each film inspires a distinct constellation of instruments, echoing the fleeting emotional textures in Al\u00ffs\u2019s images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ang\u00e9lica Castell\u00f3<\/a>\u2019s Juglariceando<\/em> lets the musicians play\u2014quite literally. Using a score built like a card game, she invites unpredictability, accidents and surprise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can music sound like play feels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tickets and more information at Ultima<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Films by:<\/strong> Francis Al\u00ffs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music by<\/strong>: Kim Myhr, Pierre Slinckx, Aleksandra Gryka, Ang\u00e9lica Castell\u00f3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cikada Ensemble<\/strong>: Magnus S\u00f6derberg (double bass), Torun Stavseng (cello), Bendik Foss (viola), Sara \u00d6vinge (violin), Karin Hellqvist (violin), Kenneth Karlsson (piano), Bj\u00f8rn Rabben (percussion), Rolf Borch (clarinet), Anne Karine Hauge (flute) and Christian Eggen (conductor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produced by:<\/strong> Cikada Ensemble, Astrup Fearnley Museet and Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In collaboration with:<\/strong> Cikada Ensemble, Warsaw Autumn, Wien Modern, Concertgebouw Brugge, Musea Brugge \u2013 BRUSK, MAK \u2013 Museum f\u00fcr Angewandte Kunst Wien and Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supported by<\/strong>: Arts Council Norway, Music Norway, Government of Flanders, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Embassy of Austria in Oslo, Stiftelsen Thomas Fearnley, Heddy og Nils Astrup<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A special thanks to:<\/strong> Finella Hannigan and Al\u00ffs Studio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Concert with the Cikada Ensemble. Music by Kim Myhr, Pierre Slinckx, Aleksandra Gryka and Ang\u00e9lica Castell\u00f3.<\/p>\n

Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival 11\u201420 Sep, 2025 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6375,"template":"","meta":{"afm_hide_title":false,"afm_event_from":"2025-09-12T16:00:00","afm_event_to":"2025-09-12T17:15:00","afm_event_recurring":"","afm_event_recurring_interval":"","afm_event_recurring_end":"","afm_event_weekdays":"","_afm_post_new_title":"","afm_terms_sep_event_event-audience":", ","afm_terms_sep_event_event-cat":", "},"event-audience":[],"event-cat":[],"class_list":["post-6374","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nAFM x Ultima: Four Compositions on Francis Al\u00ffs' Children's Games - Astrup Fearnley Museet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/events\/four-compositions-on-francis-alys-childrens-games\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFM x Ultima: Four Compositions on Francis Al\u00ffs' Children's Games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Concert with the Cikada Ensemble. 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