Featuring Randi Pontoppidan, Kirstine Lindemann, Pauline Hogstrand and Greta Eacott
Damkapellet is a professional musician and composer collective with a mission to create diversity on the Danish music scene. They perform music by women, non-binary and trans people and experiment with collective co-creation of music based in art music - from improvisation to opera to performance.
Composer, vocalist and performer Randi Pontoppidan (b. 1970) is, among other things, known for her experimental mix of vocal work and electronic live processing of the voice. In her work 'DEMIURGE', Pontoppidan explores the demiurge, who is the Platonic and Gnostic deity who shapes the material world, based on her voice and Damkapellet's instrumentation.
With a particular interest in the body and movement, the work of instrumentalist, composer and performer Kirstine Lindemann (b. 1987) revolves around the space between you and me. With the orchestra, Lindemann has prepared a version of 'Further & Back', which includes the musicians' voice and breathing and adds a primitiveness and physicality to the piece.
Violaist and composer Pauline Hogstrand implements structures in cyclical and extended forms in her solo works. The work 'Chants' is immediate and bodily, a musical ritual that seeks to meet the audience in both challenging and conciliatory ways, in close co-creation with Damkapellet.
British/Swedish composer Greta Eacott (b. 1990) is known for her uninhibited approach to composition and her experimental percussion works. The work 'Gestalt Minimal III' was composed for Damkapellet in 2020 and although the overall aesthetic can be considered 'dark', the work is a love song that perhaps conveys an alternative point of view on romance.
The concert is part of SPOT FLUX, a collaboration between the Danish Composers' Society and SPOT Festival, which presents new orchestral music in a new setting. SPOT FLUX is presented in collaboration with Art Music Denmark and is supported by the Augustinus Foundation.
