Damkapellet performs a new work - Chants - which was written for the music collective by musician and composer Pauline Hogstrand, for whom are a member of the group. With an instrumentation for strings, percussion and organ, the audience is drawn into an intimate musical space that spans between closeness and infinity, where cyclical structures take over each other and are constantly becoming new. The composed work has been given to Damkapellet with room for the ensemble's musicians to develop and shape the music to their own.

The work was commissioned by the Concert Church and supported by the Statens Kunstfond and the Danish Composers Association.

Pauline Hogstrand (SV) is a violist and based in Copenhagen since 2009. With a masters degree in viola from DKDM (2017) has she since studied electroacoustic composition under Kent Olofsson (Malmö Musikhögskola) and composition under Fredrik Högberg (Piteå Musikhögskola) and performs as an artist in differ...

Damkapellet performs a new work - Chants - which was written for the music collective by musician and composer Pauline Hogstrand, for whom are a member of the group. With an instrumentation for strings, percussion and organ, the audience is drawn into an intimate musical space that spans between closeness and infinity, where cyclical structures take over each other and are constantly becoming new. The composed work has been given to Damkapellet with room for the ensemble's musicians to develop and shape the music to their own.

The work was commissioned by the Concert Church and supported by the Statens Kunstfond and the Danish Composers Association.

Pauline Hogstrand (SV) is a violist and based in Copenhagen since 2009. With a masters degree in viola from DKDM (2017) has she since studied electroacoustic composition under Kent Olofsson (Malmö Musikhögskola) and composition under Fredrik Högberg (Piteå Musikhögskola) and performs as an artist in different constellations in the Danish musicscene. Her work implements composed structures in cyclical and expanded forms for instruments and syntheses in electroacoustic and acoustic formats. The compositions examines the inherent spectral qualities of sound and their ability to transcend time, space, body, and unity. Pauline Hogstrand released her debut album as a soloartist "The Enterer" in 2020 on the record label No Technique. In September 2021 premiered her piece "Inside Out", which she composed to Damkapellet and the Festival Gong Tomorrow in collaboration with Oda Dyrnes and Irene Bianco. The forthcoming album "Áhkká" is expected to be released in august 2023.

Damkapellet is a musical collective consisting of 15 women, with a background in classical music, which has existed since 2016. They perform music by female composers from all times, with the aim of supporting women in the world's music scenes. Through learning about and challenging traditions, as well as raising awareness of power structures, they search for artistic diversity and alternative ways to create, form and share music. Damkapellet expresses itself in various constellations, such as orchestras, sound installations, chamber ensembles, solo and gives lectures about the project.

SOUNDING SOCIETY is an improvising quintet born out of artistic research about marrying sounds of traditional world musics from many different cultures, including traditional Moroccan Gnawa music, Indian Ragas, far Asian percussion music, Armenian funeral music, and others, with electronics, improvisation, ambient, and grooves, and at the same time creating an immersive experience for the audience, that reaches far beyond a typical concert. 

Feb 16, 2023, is also the release date of SOUNDING SOCIETY's debut album entitled "HOMECOMING MEDLEY or SOCIETY INTO SOUND" which will be available as a CD and digital download. The album will be released on the independent music label Gotta Let It Out (www.gottaletitout.bandcamp.com)

https://gottaletitout.bandcamp.com/album/homecoming-medley-or-society-into-sound
https://youtu.be/oJe6g0sDviU 
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