Sweden: Academy of Music and Drama of University of Gothenburg, Lund University – Malmö Academy of Music, The Royal College of Music in Stockholm
Latvia: Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music
Denmark: Royal Danish Academy of Music Copenhagen
Finland: Sibelius Academy
Norway: Norwegian Academy of Music
Estonia: Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Iceland: Iceland Academy of Arts

Coordinator: Music Innovation Studies Centre of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

Three year project (2016-2018) was supported by Nordplus higher education programme. NORD+MIX is an intensive and interdisciplinary workshop for Nordic/Baltic students of composition, sound design, music technology, sound art, contemporary performance and improvisation. Format of the workshop:  lectures, creative tutorials, creative laboratory, interdisciplinary collaboration, group improvisation, production and public performance of newly created spatial music. 

Team of teachers (2018): Mantautas Krukauskas and Jonas Jurkūnas (Lithuania), on-line lecture by Matthias Kronlachner (Lithuania/Austria/USA); Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjaerg (Denmark); Kent Oloffson (Sweden, Malmö), Alejandro Olarte and Andrew Bentley (Finland), Anders Tveit (Norway), Staffan Mossenmark (Sweden, Gothenburg), Hans Gunter Lock and Theodore Parker (Estonia), Henrik Frisk (Sweden, Stockholm), and Rikhardur H. Fridriksson (Iceland).

NORD+MIX schedule

24 students created together with 10 contemporary music students, performing 21 composition adjusted for the sound sphere (3D sound) at the “Kablys” music club in Vilnius.

Concert I (1.34’)

Concert II  (2.01’)

Lectures: I, II and III 

Information about the first and second year projects –  video library of lectures, concerts and documentary films are on nordplusmusic.net.

NORD+MIX (2017) 

LMTA Music Innovation Studies Centre

 

Topic of the workshop – spatial sound compositions and experiments with innovative music technology. Participants: 24 students and 10 composition and music technology professors from 9 Nordic-Baltic partner schools. Students worked in 3 groups: group A developed creative projects with musicians of contemporary ensemble Synaesthesis Marta Finkelštein (piano), Artūras Kažimėkas (bassoon), Vytautas Oškinis (flute), and Monika Kiknadzė (viola); group B created improvised music project in collaboration with students of contemporary music and improvisation – singer Tua Hakanpää (EAMT), Dominykas Norkūnas (guitar), and Kristupas Gikas (flute); group C has worked on electroacoustic pieces. 

 

Lectures and teachers concert:

1. April 20: Lectures
2. April 20: Teachers concert
3. April 21: Lectures
4. April 22: Lectures
5. April 24: Lectures
6. April 25: Lectures

 

PUBLIC CONCERTS performed during the project: 

TEACHERS CONCERT / April 20th at MiSC (+live broadcast)

NORD+MIX concert I (electroacoustic) / April 25th at „Pelėda“ Music Club

NORD+MIX concert II / April 27th at „Pelėda“ Music Club

Coordinating institution: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

 

PARTNERS AND PARTICIPANTS:

Royal Danish Academy of Music and Theatre: professor of composition Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg, students Xavier Bonfill, Niklas Ottander

Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre: teaching staff member Einike Leppik, students Mihkel Tomberg, Henri Viies, Doris Hallamägi, Johanna Kivimägi, Tua Hakanpää

Gothenburg University, Academy of Music and Drama: electronic music teacher, musician and producer Christoffer Berg, students Fabian Roos, Adriana Essén 

Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre: teaching staff member composer Mārtiņš Viļums and Mantautas Krukauskas, students Goda Marija Gužauskaitė (composition), Paulius Bučius (sound directing)

Iceland Academy of the Arts: composer Ríkharður H. Friðriksson, students Veronique Jacques, Örn Davíðsson

Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music: associate professor, composer Rolands Kronlaks, students Evija Skuke, Armands Aleksandravičius 

Lund University, Malmö Academy of Music: professor of composition Kent Oloffson, students Jonatan Sersam, Fancesco del Nero

Norwegian Academy of Music: teaching staff member, composer and soundartist Anders Tveit, students Harald Jordal Johannessen, Terje Sylvarnes

Sibelius Academy: professor PdH Andrew Bentley and Alejandro Olarte, students: Hugh James McDougall Sheehan, Walter Sallinen, Anna Mäkelä, Antti Suomalainen, Camilo Sanchez

 

SCHEDULE of NORD+MIX 2016

Coordinating institution: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Partner institutions: Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Gothenburg University – Academy of Music and Drama, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Lund University – Malmö Academy of Music, Norwegian Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Royal Danish Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Sibelius Academy of Music – UNIARTS.