Twin sisters Pauline and Nicole Hogstrand bring their individual artistic practises into a shared exploration of sound, where acoustic strings and electronics meet. With backgrounds in contemporary classical music, improvisation and electroacoustic practises, they work with microtonality, resonance, and the spatial movement of sound through slowly evolving layers of timbre, drones, and intimate noise. Their close musical connection creates a voice that is both unified and contrasting — music in which sound becomes motion, carried by a playful balance of strength, fragility, and finely tuned interplay.
Pauline and Nicole Hogstrand originate from Piteå in northern Sweden and are now based in Copenhagen. Together, they draw on extensive experience from ensembles such as Damkapellet, Crush String Collective, Halvcirkel, and Blue Lake, and from collaborations with artists including Terry Riley, Valgeir Sigurðsson, and Ellen Fullman. Their work has been released on labels such as ...
Twin sisters Pauline and Nicole Hogstrand bring their individual artistic practises into a shared exploration of sound, where acoustic strings and electronics meet. With backgrounds in contemporary classical music, improvisation and electroacoustic practises, they work with microtonality, resonance, and the spatial movement of sound through slowly evolving layers of timbre, drones, and intimate noise. Their close musical connection creates a voice that is both unified and contrasting — music in which sound becomes motion, carried by a playful balance of strength, fragility, and finely tuned interplay.
Pauline and Nicole Hogstrand originate from Piteå in northern Sweden and are now based in Copenhagen. Together, they draw on extensive experience from ensembles such as Damkapellet, Crush String Collective, Halvcirkel, and Blue Lake, and from collaborations with artists including Terry Riley, Valgeir Sigurðsson, and Ellen Fullman. Their work has been released on labels such as Warm Winters Ltd., FatCat/130701 and Solen. Together, the sisters cultivate a practice rooted in exploratory listening and an ongoing curiosity for the unfolding possibilities of sound.
Ola Sandberg (b. 1988) is a Malmö based musician, composer and sound artist focusing on sound as phenomena rather than symbol. Working with improvisation, extended duration, intonation and tonal clusters as tools for practising listening and exploring the inherent properties of sound. Sandberg also works with architectural spaces as listening devices, musical instruments and compositional elements. Using ambisonic recording as a way to capture and document audible aspects of buildings, creating a growing sonic archive. He is also a member of the duo Den Osynliga Manteln.
Erik Klinga, b.1991 in Sandviken, Sweden, is a composer and musician. Klinga is known from the bands Simian Ghost, Light Vibes and Horse Show and has played in multiple projects as a drummer including acts such as Solen, Dolce and Mi von Ahn.
He has a studio based practice and creates electronic music with an interest in developing works focusing on timbre, melody and harmony in repetition based form structures. Driven by curiosity in finding new sound relations he’s mainly working with synthesized and acoustic sources together with field recordings. A substantial part of his work involves working with modular synthesis in the Buchla format, on which he composes and performs live. His music moves within and between genres such as dark ambient, drone, minimalism, and electronica.
Klinga has performed his music live at festivals and venues, nationally and internationally, at Norbergfestival, Malmö Konstmuseum, Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen), Mengi (Reykjavik), Ekko festival (Bergen), KET (Athens), Inkonst (Malmö) and Thanatosis festival
(Stockholm) amongst others.
Erik holds a bachelor degree in Electroacoustic Composition at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and a masters degree in Music Creation, at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen....
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