Electronic experiments breathe side by side with baroque approaches, and improvised passages are incorporated into precisely cut compositions with intuitive grace.
Astrid Sonne⤬
Astrid Sonne is a Copenhagen-based composer, producer and viola player.
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Her latest album 'outside of your lifetime' was released on Danish label Escho in September 2021, following critically acclaimed previous works Cliodynamics (2019) and Human Lines (2018) (both also on Escho).
“Each song suggests its own era and its own space, and the cumulative effect is a garden of forking paths where every listen leads somewhere new.” — Pitchfork Best of 2021
Key performances and commissions to date include Berlin Atonal, where she performed new work Ephemeral with a choir; Rewire Festival, who commissioned her to write and perform Cycles of Lost and Found; plus and a set of site specific compositions for the ruins under the Danish Parliament and a stretch of the Copenhagen Metro as part of Strøm Festival.
"a delicious garden of sound to explore... liquid natural magic" — The Wire