Chimeraxis
A premiere of a first-time collaboration between vocal artist and composer Johanna Sulkunen and electronic music artist Bjørn Svin. 
The interplay between the "body instrument"—the organic human voice—and current technology forms a meeting point that transcends genre limitations, allowing for new expressions and the emergence of fresh auditory and emotional connotations.  A journey between the organic elements of the voice and machines as raw material. 
Visual artist Tapani Toivanen will complement the sound with a generative, interactive live visualization system, handcrafted from the ground up and integrated with the audio, producing complex, organic, emergent patterns.

Bjørn Svin is a lifelong sonic creator, sound designer, composer, and performer of rhythmic electronic music. For nearly three decades, he has released experimental and innovative music on various labels in Denmark, England, and Germany. While his roots are in club culture...

Chimeraxis
A premiere of a first-time collaboration between vocal artist and composer Johanna Sulkunen and electronic music artist Bjørn Svin. 
The interplay between the "body instrument"—the organic human voice—and current technology forms a meeting point that transcends genre limitations, allowing for new expressions and the emergence of fresh auditory and emotional connotations.  A journey between the organic elements of the voice and machines as raw material. 
Visual artist Tapani Toivanen will complement the sound with a generative, interactive live visualization system, handcrafted from the ground up and integrated with the audio, producing complex, organic, emergent patterns.

Bjørn Svin is a lifelong sonic creator, sound designer, composer, and performer of rhythmic electronic music. For nearly three decades, he has released experimental and innovative music on various labels in Denmark, England, and Germany. While his roots are in club culture, Bjørn often moves beyond dancefloor conventions to create a liberated yet still distinct rhythmic expression. Bjørn combines electronic music production, sound design, and live performance. In this project, Bjørn will perform using electronic rhythms, sound, and compositional frameworks while also processing Johanna’s sounds, creating a unique situation where the overall “sound” outcomes as a sensitive and improvised interaction.

Johanna Sulkunen is a Finnish experimental jazz vocalist, composer, and improviser based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Initially recognized as an exciting voice in the alternative jazz scene, Sulkunen’s work now spans genres including jazz, free improvisation, electronic music, and avant-garde. Her significant portfolio includes multiple DMA nominations, work grants, commissioned works, and numerous collaborations across disciplines.  In her compositions, the voice is often used both as a tool and as material, with electronics ranging from solo pieces to larger ensembles. 

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Herman Müntzing and Qarin Wikström are an improvising duo committed to embracing the moment and plunging headfirst into energetic sound exploration. 
With a fearless approach to sound, beats, and texture, they craft chaotic, danceable, and noise-infused landscapes using a diverse array of electronic devices, voices, objects, and machines. Expect spacey escapism, electro disasters and broken techno, with occasional glimpses of abstract beauty. Or, as a music journalist once wrote about this duo: “ an apocalyptic party game"

Herman Müntzing og Qarin Wikström er en improviserende duo, der dedikerer sig til at omfavne øjeblikket og kaste sig hovedkulds ud i energisk lydudforskning.
Med en frygtløs tilgang til lyd, beats og tekstur skaber de kaotiske, dansable og støjfyldte landskaber ved hjælp af en mangfoldighed af elektronisk apparatur, stemmer, objekter og maskiner. Forvent eskapisme, electric disaster og broken techno, med sporadiske glimt af abstrakt skønhed. 
 
Herman Müntzing has been treating electronic and acoustic devices since the late 80’s, Qarin Wikström started the game two decades after. They met and started performing live as a duo in 2014, and released their cassette&book album, Ping Pong Punktum in 2020, that received international acclaim, and was nominee for a Danish Music Award Jazz in 2021. 

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Claus Poulsen will perform the audiovisual work “Pyramidemusik” in KoncertKirken. The work consists of composed parts bound together by improvisation. The world premiere of “Children of the stars” - composed of recordings of 100 children (2014 + 2021), and at the other end of the scale “Missing” - composed of recordings of metal pipes (2021) together with zither improvisation.
“Pyramid Music” is simultaneously accompanied by video of CP - or does the music accompany the images?

CP has been part of the electronic and experimental scene in Copenhagen since the nineties. CP creates soundscapes with the contrasts between hi-fi and lo-fi and acoustic and electronic sound emitters. In recent years, the focus has been on the zither, experimenting to find new sound possibilities together with electronics and extended techniques.
CP works both solo and in collaborations and releases music on tape CD, LP and digitally (on labels such as Insula Jazz, Soundholes, Kornmod, Grisaille, Grubenwehr Freiburg, Krater Recordings, Nofigore, Invisible City, Chocolate Monk) and regularly tours Europe....

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