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a COLOSSAL WEEKEND WILL RETURN. Mark May 16-18 in your calendar. More new soon!

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A Colossal Weekend in VEGA LAB VEGA LAB dishes out a full program during A Colossal Weekend

🇬🇧 A VR experience: Teo Ala-Ruonam, Lacuna

Finnish Teo Ala-Ruona’s performance Lacuna, which took place on the floor of Lille VEGA in February 2023, is shown on the VR glasses in VEGA LAB. The work’s aggressive, abstract, but also symphonic and very self-giving nature is a moment of liberation – a distortion and transformation of body and voice and the connotations that govern them.

Video game: Cult of Luna, Cold Burn

VEGA LAB, Cult of Luna and the design company and music video creator North Kingdom invites you to step out on The Long Road North. As you enter VEGA LAB, you also enter The Long Road North-universe and with keyboard and mouse where you can play your way through the universe to the Cult of Luna track Cold Burn.

A screening of LITURGY’s Origin of The Alimonies

As artist in residence LITURGY will not only play three different shows during this weekend. A screening of LITURGY’s film Origin of The Alimonies will be shown in VEGA.

About VEGA LAB

VEGA LAB is an experimental exhibition space for the live scene which works with immersive experiences. The space’s 360-degree setup, both in sound and image, means that the audience can move around the room and have an active, self-selected experience depending how they move.  With the project VEGA LAB, the venue VEGA investigates the boundaries between tech, sound, and video formats in the search for works that expand and develop the concert experience and the sphere around live music.

VEGA LAB aims to give the audience access to new experiences and musicians access to the technology and the opportunity to experiment and explore new ways of composing.

 

🇩🇰 A Colossal Weekend i VEGA LAB

VEGA LAB disker op med et fuldt program under A Colossal Weekend

Teo Ala-Ruonam, Lacuna

Finske Teo Ala-Ruonas performance Lacuna, der udspillede sig på gulvet i Lille VEGA i februar 2023 vises på VR-brillen i VEGA LAB. Værkets aggressive, abstrakte, men også symfoniske og meget selvudleverende natur er et frigørelsens øjeblik – en forvrængning og transformation af krop og stemme og de konnotationer, der styrer dem.

Cult of Luna, Cold Burn

VEGA LAB, Cult of Luna og designvirksomhed og musikvideokreatør North Kingdom inviterer publikum til at træde ud på The Long Road North. Når du træder ind i VEGA LAB, træder du også ind The Long Road North-universet og med keyboard og mus kan du spille dig igennem universet til nummeret Cold Burn.

Liturgys, Origin of The Alimonies

Som artist in residence spiller LITURGY ikke kun tre forskellige shows i løbet af denne weekend. En visning af LITURGY’s film Origin of The Alimonies vil blive vist i VEGA LAB

Om VEGA LAB

VEGA LAB er et eksperimenterende udstillingsrum for livescenen, der arbejder med immersive oplevelser. Lokalets 360 graders opsætning både i lyd og billede gør, at publikum kan bevæge sig rundt i rummet og få en aktiv, selvvalgt oplevelse alt efter, hvor de bevæger sig hen. Spillestedet VEGA undersøger med projektet VEGA LAB grænserne mellem tech-, lyd- og video-formater i jagten på værker, der udvider og udvikler koncertoplevelsen og sfæren omkring live musikken.

VEGA LAB giver publikum adgang til nye oplevelser og musikere adgang til teknologien og muligheden for at eksperimentere og afsøge nye måder at komponere på.

Teo Ala-Ruonam
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LINGUA IGNOTA CANCELS EUROPEAN TOUR INCLUDING THE APPEARANCE AT A COLOSSAL WEEKEND 2023

🇬🇧 It’s with heavy hearts that we just received the news that Kristin can’t make it to Europe this week. We’re waiting for a full statement from her. This cancellation also means that Midwife has to pull out of this year’s lineup as they were supposed to travel together.
With such short notice and the fact that Lingua Ignota + Midwife were the only acts to perform on Sunday, it doesn’t make much sense to try and find a suiting replacement for Sunday’s lineup.
 
Tickets:
Ticketholders with tickets for Sunday only will have the possibility to either request a full refund or make use of the ticket for one of the other days at the festival.
Ticketmaster will get in touch with you directly ASAP.
If you have a Full Weekend Ticket we understand that Lingua Ignota might have been one of the main reasons for you to buy tickets for this year’s festival. We will make it possible to ask for a refund of 100 DKK for everyone who have bought a Full Weekend Ticket. This is the ‘best worst’ action for us to take to keep the rest of the festival afloat.
When this possibility is effectuated we will let you know.
We’re devastated and hope for your understanding. We sincerely encourage ticket holders to support the festival by swapping their sunday ticket for one of the other days.
New price for Full Weekend tix will now be 750 DKK + fee.
We’re still looking forward to 3 days og glorious gloom and can’t wait to see you all.
 
Kind and semi-sad-yet-exited-regards
The Colossal Weekend Team.
 
 LINGUA IGNOTA AFLYSER EUROPA-TOUR INKLUSIVE KONCERTEN UNDER A COLOSSAL WEEKEND 2023.
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🇩🇰 Det er med stor ærgrelse at vi netop har modtaget beskeden om at Kristin ikke kan rejse til Europa i denne uge og at hele Lingua Ignotas Europa-tour aflyses. Dette betyder også at koncerten med Midwife bliver aflyst, da de to skulle rejse sammen. Der er et statement på vej fra Kristin omkring dette.
Det at vi har modtaget denne nyhed så sent, og det faktum at Lingua Ignota samt Midwife var eneste acts til at spille på søndag, gør at det ikke er muligt, eller giver meget mening, at prøve at finde en afløser til programmet. Derfor aflyses søndagens program helt.
Billetter:
Gæster med søndagsbilletter vil få muligheden for at ombytte deres billet til en af festivalens andre dage, eller få en fuld refundering svarende til billettens værdi. Vi eller Ticketmaster vil tage direkte kontakt vedr. dette hurtigst muligt.
Har du en fuld festivalbillet til A Colossal Weekend, har vi stor forståelse for, hvis netop Lingua Ignota var en væsentlig årsag til at du har investeret i billet til årets festival. Vi vil gøre det muligt at få refunderet 100 kr. som et (lille) plaster på såret. Dette er den ‘bedste, værste’ måde at holde årets festival oven vande. Når denne løsning er mulig tager vi direkte fat i alle købere af partout-billetter.
Vi er ekstremt kede af det og havde virkelig set frem til at kunne dele denne oplevelse med jer. Vi vil opfordre jer til at bytte jeres billetter til en af de andre dage hvis det er muligt, og dermed støtte festivalen.
Fuld weekend/Partout-billetter vil fra nu af koste 750 kr + gebyr.
Selvom det pludselig er på en noget tristere baggrund, glæder vi os stadig helt vildt meget til at se jer alle senere på ugen og dele 3 helt fantastiske dage med jer.
 
De bedste hilsener
A Colossal Weekend-teamet.
 
 
 
 
 
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YEAR OF NO LIGHT WILL REPLACE INTER ARMA

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We are sad to announce that Inter Arma have to cancel their tour and appearances at ACW23! But we have already found a great and suiting replacement with Year Of No Light. Year of No Light (FR) Year of No Light, the sextet from Bordeaux, has a colossal sound, almost claustrophobically dense moving effortlessly between ambient sludge and psychedelic doom. Their new studio album Consolamentum (2021) offers one of the most hallucinating build-ups in the history of post metal: Layers upon layers of guitars and synths gradually tighten the dramatic tension on the track ‘Alètheia’ (‘truth’ in Greek), only on the verge of the suffocating to discharge an orbital, galloping powerchord chaos. Equal measures of sonic threat and alleviative trance. Give them a listen: https://youtu.be/9h9ThvE3D3w