AUT presents: CALLS TO THIS NUMBER ARE BEING DIVERTED

Name: AUT presents: CALLS TO THIS NUMBER ARE BEING DIVERTED
Start: 2025-10-24T18:15:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-24T20:45:00+02:00
Location: Huset I Magstræde

Schedule

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 06:15 pm to 08:45 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Huset I Magstræde | Copenhagen , SK

(ENG)
CALLS TO THIS NUMBER ARE BEING DIVERTED
AUT, in partnership with Second Sound, presents prize-nominated evening length music theatre set in an absurd call centre, written by composer Matthew Grouse. There will be 2 showings at Xenon (HUSET), Copenhagen on the 24th and 25th of October 2025. Each performance is preceded by a participatory installation in the theatre's foyer. The performance is predominantly in English and lasts 90 minutes
DATES:
Friday 24.10 - Doors open for installation at kl.18:15 / Performance starts at kl.19:15
Saturday 25.10 - Doors open for installation at kl.18:15 / Performance starts at kl.19:15
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Tickets: 115kr standard / 75kr students (and under 26)
Tickets available at the Billetto link. Any remaining tickets will be sold on the door (mobilepay or cash)
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About the performance: At the data collection agency ‘Re-sounding Success’, call centre workers equipped with instruments sit behind their computer screens, waiting (played by Andreas Borregaard and Anna Jalving). While they wait to be transferred, the hold-music of each company on their call-list is played by a live house band that can only be glimpsed as silhouettes behind an illuminated screen. (hold-music trio: Kirstine Elise Pedersen, Hsiao Tung Yuan and Joss Smith). Operating at the boundaries of new music, experimental theatre involving audience participation, and interactive installation art, the project’s central themes land on the unsettling musicality buried in repetitive labour, cold-calling and workplace technology; the psychological effects of hold-music; and existential questions surrounding time, purpose and agency.
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TEAM:
Composition/concept: Matthew Grouse
Produced by: Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere
Soloists: Andreas Borregaard (accordion and voice) and Anna Jalving (violin and voice)
Ensemble musicians: Hsiao Tung Yuan (percussion, keyboards, voice), Kirstine Elise Pedersen (cello, guitar, voice), Joss Smith (clarinet, whistles, melodica, voice)
Staging/directing consultation: Anna Sofie Keller Brandsborg
Sound technician: Morten Elkjær
Contributions to installation and visuals: Jan Giedroyc
Voice acting: Jan Giedroyc, Lily Grouse, Sam Wilson, Harry Gorski-Brown, Mathilde Schelin, Matthew Grouse
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AUT is extremely grateful to the following foundations for financially supporting the project: William Demant Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Dansk Musiker Forbund, Indre By Lokaludvalg, Københavns Kommune, Statens Kunstfond, Aarhus Kommunes Musikpulje
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The event is suitable for people 12 years and up
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(DANSK)
CALLS TO THIS NUMBER ARE BEING DIVERTED
AUT og Second Sound præsenterer prisnomineret musikteater i aftenlængde, der foregår i et absurd callcenter, skrevet af komponisten Matthew Grouse. Der vil være 2 forestillinger på Xenon (HUSET), København mellem 24. og 25. oktober 2025. Forud for hver forestilling er der en deltagerbaseret installation i teatrets foyer. Forestillingen er for det meste på engelsk og varer 90 minutter
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DATES:
Fredag 24.10 - Dørene åbner for installation kl.18:15 / Forestillingen starter kl.19:15
Lørdag 25.10 - Dørene åbner for installation kl.18:15 / Forestillingen starter kl.19:15
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Billetter: 115kr voksne / 75kr studerende (+ under 26)
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Om forestillingen: Hos dataindsamlingsbureauet ‘Resounding Success’ sidder callcentermedarbejdere (spillede af Andreas Borregaard og Anna Jalving) udstyret med instrumenter og et foruroligende kunstigt smil bag deres computerskærme, og venter. Mens de venter på, at deres opkald bliver stillet om, høres firmaernes ventemusik spillet af et husorkester, der kun anes som silhouetter bag en belyst skærm. (hold-music trio: Kirstine Elise Pedersen, Hsiao Tung Yuan og Joss Smith). Projektet opererer på grænsen mellem ny musik, eksperimentelt teater med publikumsdeltagelse og interaktiv installationskunst, og projektets centrale temaer lander på den foruroligende musikalitet, der ligger begravet i gentagende arbejde, 'cold calls' og arbejdspladsens teknologi. De psykologiske virkninger af ventemusik og eksistentielle spørgsmål omkring tid, formål og handlekraft.
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TEAM:
Komposition/koncept: Matthew Grouse
Produceret af: Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere
Solister: Andreas Borregaard (accordeon og stemme) og Anna Jalving (violin og stemme)
Ensemblemusikere: Hsiao Tung Yuan (slagtøj, keyboards, stemme), Kirstine Elise Pedersen (cello, guitar, stemme), Joss Smith (klarinet, fløjter, melodica, stemme)
Iscenesættelses/instruktions konsulent: Anna Sofie Keller Brandsborg
Lyd tekniker: Morten Elkjær
Bidrag til installation og video: Jan Giedroyc
Stemmeskuespil: Jan Giedroyc, Lily Grouse, Sam Wilson, Harry Gorski-Brown, Mathilde Schelin, Matthew Grouse
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AUT er meget taknemmelig for den økonomiske støtte til projektet fra følgende fonde:
William Demant Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Dansk Musiker Forbund, Indre By Lokaludvalg, Københavns Kommune, Statens Kunstfond, Aarhus Kommunes Musikpulje
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Arrangementet er egnet for personer fra 12 år og opefter.
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Event photo: ©Malte Bülow Photography