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The boundaries between sculptural sound art, performance art, and experimental music dissolve as the two composers, Swedish Amina Hocine and local Barbara Skovmand, transform Basement’s raw surroundings into a total experience, where new electronic music forms the soundtrack to a performance in which ancient organ pipes interact with dystopian science fiction.Date: Friday 06.11.26
Doors: 19:30
Show: 20:00
Price: 145 dkr + fee in presale / 165 dkr at the door
Venue: Basement, Enghavevej 42, 1674 København V
Amina Hocine (SE)
Swedish composer, sound artist, and instrument builder based in Stockholm, with a master in electroacoustic composition from the Royal College of Music. Her practice moves within the tension field between acousmatic music, notation, and physical sound production, with a particular focus on long-form compositions, minimal harmonic movement, and static rhythmic gestures.
At the core of Hocine’s work is a self-built organ constructed from PVC pipes and HVAC components, powered by compressed air. Inspired by foghorns and sirens, the instrument produces intense drones and complex layers of frequency, which she describes as “sound crystals.” From this starting point, she explores the psychoacoustic potential of sound and its ability to shape perception depending on space and context – each performance unfolds as a unique spatial installation, where the vibrations of the pipes interact with the acoustics of the room.
Hocine’s compositions revolve around timbre and resonance, inviting introspection and deep listening. Drawing on spiritual science, practices, and therapeutic processes, she approaches sound as a transformative and healing medium. Her works often unfold as spatial, almost ritualistic ceremonies, where sound appears as a living, communicative presence.
Through spatial configurations in which sound replaces language, her concerts develop into a form of wordless theatre. Here, frequencies and resonances carry tensions, states, and inner movements, inviting the listener into a sensory and contemplative space.
Barbara Skovmand (DK)
Barbara Skovmand is descending into Basement, Copenhagen, for a visceral, one-of-a-kind performance with her extraordinary après-Baschet sound sculpture in an intimate underground setting.
Since 2021, Skovmand has designed and built four rare and highly specialized acoustic sculptures rooted in the French Baschet Brothers' principle of generating sound by rubbing glass rods with wet fingers. The vibrations travel into large, mirror-polished stainless-steel forms that amplify and distort them — producing an almost otherworldly, sci-fi resonance that fills a room and lodges itself in the body. The sculptures were developed in collaboration with engineer Martí Ruids and Rafael Fernandez.
Skovmand has performed with the sculptures approximately forty times, including at Art Hub (2026), the Round Tower (2025), Brønshøj Water Tower (2025), and ArtCenter Silkeborg Bad (2024). She has also collaborated with composer Toke Odin on a series of concert evenings in architecturally distinctive spaces — Grundtvig's Church (2024), the Marble Church (2023), and the dome hall of Dansehallerne (2022) — each chosen to let the sculptures' resonance breathe and expand. The Basement concert continues this ongoing exploration of how space and sound shape each other.
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Basement CPH, Enghavevej 42, 1674 København V, Danmark, Copenhagen , Denmark
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