Göteborgs Konserthus Late night: Organ impro in the gaming world

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When the autumn darkness descends, the Paris-based organist Hampus Lindwall offers a night concert in the Great Hall. Come and feel the room vibrate in an audiovisual experience with improvisation to moving image by Canadian artist, filmmaker and essayist Jon Rafman. Hampus Lindwall is active in many fields ranging from contemporary classical to experimental and electronic music.

Jon Rafman creates culturally critical stories from virtual worlds. The film is a surreal dystopia, a fever nightmare described as Hieronymus Bosch raised on 4chan. We get to follow two young men, Billy and Minor Deamon, who both have an unusual talent for virtual reality games.

The film contains strong scenes with elements of violence.

Billy, a spoiled boy, is president of a student union at an elite school. Abandoned by his parents at birth, Minor Deamon is a childlike asthmatic raised in a child labor camp. After a nightmarish sequence of events, these two are incarcerated in the same high security prison. They band together and challenge their virtual prison guards in a championship, which will grant the prisoners freedom. After a devastating loss in the grand final, the prisoners plan an intricate escape. Billy betrays the Minor Deamon when the escape fails and flees to another planet. There, Billy climbs the career ladder into an intergalactic criminal underworld, while Minor Deamon suffers the horrors of prison. When he is finally released years later, Minor Deamon is fixated on revenge and tracks down Billy on the violent, alien planet. In a place where dreams are paid for in blood, Billy and Deamon meet in a final duel that seals their fate.

Jon Rafman’s artistic work revolves around the emotional, social and existential impact of technology on contemporary life. His artwork has received international attention and was exhibited in 2015 at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He is widely known for exhibiting found images from Google Street View in his online artwork 9-Eyes (ongoing 2009).

The organist Hampus Lindwall has released many albums, as a soloist and in collaborations. He is the Titular Organist in the church Saint-Esprit, Paris, and professor of improvisation at the Institut supérieur de Musique et Pédagogie Royal (IMEP) à Namur. He was the last disciple of Rolande Falcinelli and won the 1st prizes in the International improvisation competitions “Orgel ohne Grenzen, Air Art 2003″ in Saarbrücken, Germany, and the “Prix Boëllmann-Gigout”, 2004 in Strasbourg, France.

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