Inevitable Ruptures

Artist name: Asli Emre

Year: 2025 [premiere]

Description: An interactive computer quiz game where you will find out info about yourself and hear your own personal beautiful music at the end of the quizzes.

Bio:

Asli Emre, born in Turkey in 2003, is a composer based in Denmark and currently studying composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. From 2016-2021 she studied piano and composition at The Purcell School. She is also a lyricist and occasionally writes film music for the director students at York University. 

Artist name: Jens Rønsholdt

Year: 2025 [premiere]

Description: Trap song #1/Balloon Piece #2 is a continuation of my balloon-series and a sequel to my piece ‘PUST’ for four singer-performers that premiered earlier this year. In this piece I am reflecting on (and exaggerating) my own relationship to this cute object xx

Bio: I am a Danish composer-performer based in Copenhagen. Recently, I have been fascinated with aesthetics that I encounter in my daily life, which has impacted my compositions greatly. I scroll a lot on instagram reels, and I like cute and cool things.

Artist name: Jonas Wiinblad

Year: 2025 [premiere]

Description: An aging man experiences a sunset.

Bio: 

Hi, my name is Jonas Wiinblad, I like to work with video and performance as well as sound in my pieces :0)"

Credits: 

Jonas Wiinblad (lights, composition, script) 

actor: tba

Artist name: Shadwa Ali

Year: 2025 [premiere]

Description: 

An audiovisual work that captures the emotional weight of modern existence,

The Plague of Burst explores the tension between the suppressed human psyche and the relentless pace of contemporary life. In a world that demands motion without pause, emotions become an unspoken burden—hidden, suppressed, yet ever-present. 

The piece contrasts a 12-minute montage of relaxing & ASMR found footage with an immersive soundscape of field-recorded ambient noise. The imagery, serene and meditative, contrasts starkly with the underlying tension of recorded urban soundscapes—waiting queues in metro stations, banks, and bustling streets—interwoven with subtle, rhythmic breathing sounds, symbolizing the quiet struggle beneath the surface of everyday life. At its core, the artwork draws a parallel between human emotional suppression and the natural world’s latent chaos. Like an impending avalanche or a dormant volcano, these emotions remain beneath the surface, waiting for the inevitable rupture. In this way, the work reflects both personal and planetary tension, hinting at an eruption yet to come.

Bio: 

Shadwa Ali is an Egyptian Alexandria-based multidisciplinary artist and Fine Arts graduate whose work spans printmaking, installation, video, sound, and music. Shadwa's work explores societal issues, human psychology, and urban chaos, often highlighting overlooked details. Her recent projects examine cultural definitions of "noise" in cities, viewing culture as a sonic tapestry. Shadwa has exhibited in Egypt and internationally, with features in international events and radio programs.

Credits:

This work was created during Shadwa Ali’s three-month residency in Struer, organized in collaboration between Sound Art Lab, Struer Tracks, KLANG, Another Sky Festival and MINU. The residency was supported by Statens Kunstfond.  

Artist name: Kari Watson, Jennifer Torrence 

Year: 2025 

Description: 

The core inquiries of this piece have been circling for quite some time, tracing back to my first reading of Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto, which Jen prompted during our first conversation back in 2017. The questions and provocations that emerged after reading Cyborg Manifesto have since been an ongoing thread in my artistic practice, spawning a number of musical and non-musical creative offshoots. When Jen and I reconnected at Darmstadt in 2023, I shared with Jen just how influential our 2017 talk about Haraway’s writing had been and asked whether we might create a piece together—one that explored threads of Haraway’s Manifesto, particularly–gender, queerness, posthumanism, and the electronic extension and mediation of the body. In doing so, I was curious about how we could continue challenging binaristic thinking and further theorize the cyborg as a way to reimagine identity as fluid, partial, and constructed—not fixed or essential, and inherently mediated by the technological world. 

Drawing on Jen’s singular practice—at the intersection of percussion, physical theater, collaborative composition, and a deep engagement with queer theory—the piece unfolds within an activated landscape where the lines between body and machine constantly blur, creating a kind of cyborgian entanglement. The drum set functions as a quasi-feedback machine, with Jen’s body acting as a live filter—shaping, distorting, and mediating the oscillations between microphones and speakers. The piece ultimately explores states of overload, fragmentation, and sonic excess—demonstrating the impossibility of the human body becoming fully mechanized. For Jen Torrence is not only a meditation on Haraway’s cyborg, but also a tribute to artistic kinship and collaboration, iterative inquiry, and the potential of performance as a space to investigate identity, embodiment, and our entanglements between human and machine. 

Bio:

Kari Watson (they/them) is a composer, performer, and intermedia artist. Their work explores the intersections of contemporary concert music, electroacoustic music, live performance, and interactive installation work. 

Jennifer Torrence is an Oslo-based percussionist/performer working internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, collaborative artist, improviser, composer, and artistic researcher. She is a member of Pinquins and Associate Professor of Percussion at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

Credits: 

Kari Watson (composition) 

Jennifer Torrence (percussion)

Lua Borges (video)

Photo by Kristof Lemp.

This piece was commissioned by and premiered at the 2025 Darmstadt Festival in Darmstadt, DE.

Year: 2025 [premiere]

Venue: Huset [cinema]

Artist name: Aske Kai Tengberg

Bio: My name is Aske Kai. I’m a composer. I’m based in Copenhagen.