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Gig: Boy Harsher The project of American duo Jae
Matthews and Augustus Muller, Boy Harsher have marked themselves out as artists of dark strange noise since their emergence in 2014 with the Lesser Man EP. Their world is one of harsh synth music, loaded with intensity and emotion that leans towards the colder, heavier side of human feelings and desires. 2019 has seen plenty of music from them, new album Careful along with a re-issue of their County Girl EP, so they’ll be loaded up for their Stockholm show, with support from Chasms. Boy Harsher, Hus 7, Nov 24 Exhibition: Flying Panels The period following the Second World War up until the ‘60s and ‘70s was marked by infrastructural thinking that aimed for innovation, optimism and universality (something that feels very distant today, as another 30 luxury apartments demand every public resource within range of them be shut, like a spray of pesticide on the surrounding area). The humble concrete panel is what fuelled a lot of that optimistic thinking, allowing for rapid rebuilding following the war, as well as the construction of homes that lifted millions out of tenements and slums. Its value can be seen in how it cropped up in imagery from the time, and it’s that imagery, as well as an examination of the panels themselves and their modern descendants that takes pride of place in this ArkDes exhibition. Flying Panels, ArkDes, on display until Mar 2020 “Thanks, cranes!. Yu Cherepanov, Crocodile, No. 24, 1969, Soviet Union Opera: La Traviata “La traviata last night a failure. Was the fault mine or the singers’? Time will tell”. So wrote the composer Guiseppe Verdi to a friend after the opera’s premiere in 1853 had ended in boos from the audience. Time has since told, with La Traviata becoming one of the most popular operas of all time, in constant production with singers who do it a little more justice that its original cast. As Kungliga Operan will hope their singers do, when their new production of the piece starts in November, directed by Ellen Lamm. La Traviata, Kungliga Operan, opens Nov 23 27 Photo: Zach Hart