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“Would you like to paint a picture that will hang between a couple of Rembrandt’s masterpieces?”

We’re very pleased to announce that Bjørn Svin, Cristian Vogel, and Xavier Bonfill are all on the line-up for a special Modular Edition of Frankenstein’s Lab.

Do you also have a favourite album that you want to share with someone, or wish to hear some undiscovered music?

Knud Riishøjgård died suddenly last week at the age of 59.

Frankenstein’s Lab presents Monrad & Helms

Frankenstein’s Lab will be lighting the fireplace in Kødbyens 5e for an afternoon/evening with presentations/tryouts of three quite different projects.

Helmut Lachenmann famously stated that “composing is building an instrument.” In the upcoming Frankenstein’s Lab (18.05) we’ll be taking a look at how building instruments can be taken as an approach to composing.

Five years have passed since the first Frankenstein’s Lab was held on a warm June evening in Literaturhaus.

An exciting and somewhat unusual lab lined up for Frankenstein’s upcoming excursion to Dansehallerne.

Frankenstein’s Lab is back, this time in the wonderful Dome of Visions.

For the next Frankenstein’s Lab, curated by Lars Kynde, we will be moving out to Illutron for an on-site peek into the workshop of four instrument inventors who will be sharing their thoughts and give us a demonstration of some of their latest projects.

The word ‘opera’ evokes visions of celebrated singers filling plush opera houses with large voices conveying equally large emotions. Nothing could seem further away from the concerns of present-day composers of ‘new music’. Yet a large number of them have embraced precisely this genre as an outlet for their creative efforts.

The next lab, in which we explore the theme of creating unusual concerts using self-made instruments in alternative spaces, is coming up on the 6th of November.

Anders Monrad has created Virtuoso, an iPhone app soon to be released on the App Store. We got together on Skype for an interview in which I asked him about his motivations for creating the app, his background as an artist, and the cultural and technical hurdles along the long path to creating it.

After a small break in our schedule Frankenstein’s Lab returns on the 17th of June with an exciting line up and special (international) guests.

Do it anyway was the theme of this year’s SPOR festival and title of the mini seminar it hosted on the topic. Johnathan Marmor, a New York composer and programmer with a day job at Spotify, filled us in on the motivations behind holding hackathons and their ever increasing popularity in the tech world over the last decade.

2013 is drawing to an end and we’ve decided to round off this years activities with a slightly more easy-going lab with some extra space for improvising and drinking glögg together. There will also be a special focus on ‘apps’ as Anders Monrad and Niels Rønsholdt & Signe Klejs present their work in this field.

Frankenstein’s Lab enters a new season and finds a new home on the web. From now on news and posts can, in addition to our Facebook page and events, be found here on frankensteins-lab.net.

The line-up for Frankenstein’s Lab tonight is going to be mostly acoustic for a change so we’ve decided to set a theme for the closing impro session and make it open to acoustic instruments/objects only. No loudspeakers or laptops this time round.

It’s Frankenstein’s birthday today! Two years have passed since the first lab in Literaturhaus on a warm June evening in 2011.

Rudiger Meyer in conversation with Spencer Topel

The line-up for the next Frankenstein’s Lab coming up at Literaturhaus on Sunday: