24 & 25 October 2025 18:15 o’clock @Xenon (HUSET), Copenhagen

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 https://billetto.dk/e/calls-to-this-number-are-being-diverted-music-theatre-by-matthew-grouse-produced-by-aut-billetter-1585393?utm_source=organiser&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy_link&utm_content=1585393&fbclid=IwY2xjawMVA99leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE5allqN054YjA0dGV2Y01KAR6gnSQpyebplwxwa3OaoE6yT97-RUDneE2lWVld4Mte1TYeNvl8C5iWZRUysw_aem_-KVL5qQGVY_bypxQC1QYSg

CALLS TO THIS NUMBER ARE BEING DIVERTED
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.

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

More info https://www.matthewgrousemusic.com/

Photo credit: Malte Bulow Photography