Damkapellet is a professional collective of musicians and composers with a mission to promote diversity and inclusion in the Danish music scene. They perform music by women, non-binary, and transgender people, and they experiment with collective co-creation of music rooted in the broad spectrum of art music – from contemporary composition and improvisation to opera, baroque, and children's performances. At their concert at SPOT Festival 2025, the ensemble will present works by Kirstine Lindemann, Greta Eacott, Tine Surel Lange, and a collectively composed piece.
Instrumentalist, composer and performer Kirstine Lindemann (b. 1987) is interested in the space between you and me. In the field of tension between symbiosis, synchronicity, empathy – discrepancy, alienation and friction, she explores the drive towards the other – as a primordial force and existential conflict. The work “Forsøg i Gentagelser” (“attempts in repetitions”) is an investigation of the transformation in repetition. With a few notes, the music travels between the voices with a repetition that bends, twists, stretches and pushes the music into a recurring question about how we, in harmony with others, can separate, flow together and perhaps change?
“En skog av lyd” (“A forest of sound”) is a sound work composed by the Danish-Norwegian composer Tine Surel Lange (b. 1989) for Damkapellet. The work is inspired by how individual, scattered trees slowly grow together to form a forest, and by how the fungus mycorrhiza functions as a symbiotic network between plant roots, enabling mutual communication, exchanging nutrients and warning each other of dangers.
British/Swedish composer Greta Eacott (b. 1990) is known for her uninhibited approach to composition and her experimental percussion works. The fourth installment of Greta Eacott’s “GESTALT MINIMAL” series, is a long form one note composition written especially for Damkapellet. Expect a frissonistic and pummeling rhythmic massage.
“Signature”, a work composed collectively in Damkapellet, is a listening organism that examines the friction of the individual in a collective perspective. The musicians become the composers and vice versa. Each contributes their unique voice and perspective. The work is a dynamic experience in a mission to create cohesion between musicians and audience. The work is composed by Josefine Weber Hansen, Irene Bianco, Nadia Okrusko, Nicole Hogstrand, Randi Pontoppidan, Mika Persdotter, Julija Morgan, Kirstine Lindemann, Pauline Hogstrand and Tove Bagge.
