Randi Pontoppidan performs a site-specific solo work created in and for Ilulissat.

Randi Pontoppidan performs a site-specific solo work created in and for Ilulissat.

Working with the voice as an instrument, combined with live electronics, she builds improvised soundscapes that respond to the place they are performed in. The room, the light, the people present and the sounds of the surrounding landscape all become part of the music as it unfolds.

The concert is part of Genius Loci, a series of site-specific works in which Pontoppidan uses the idea of the spirit of a place as an artistic method. Earlier works in the series have been created for a concert hall at Charlottenborg and for 32 wells on a public square in Copenhagen. This is the third, still in progress.

The work is non-verbal and speaks across language.

Artist bio

Randi Pontoppidan is a Danish composer, vocalist and sound artist. She works with the human voice as an instrument, combining extended vocal techniques with live electronics to create improvised soundscapes.

She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Louisiana and the Philharmonic in Szczecin, and is a member of Theatre of Voices, Damkapellet and the vocal ensemble IKI. With more than twenty album releases, her work moves between free improvisation, electroacoustic composition, sound art and performance. She has been nominated for the Danish Music Awards Jazz and the Steppeulven Award.