Shopping og Poesy presenterer: ASTRID SONNE | CANILLA // Kafé Hærverk

Shopping og Poesy presenterer: ASTRID SONNE (DK) & CANILLA (NO)
Kafé Hærverk
14. mai
20:00
20:00 Vilde Trubadur
20:30 Canilla (live)
21:30 Astrid Sonne (live)
Smerz DJs
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Poesy X Shopping hosts a brand new night at Hærverk with the best experimentalists we could think of. Copenhagens Astrid Sonne is coming to Oslo fresh from a big US headliner tour, and Oslo/Berlin-based Canilla is blessing us with a rare solo-performance. To welcome the audience, Vilde Trubadur will play a few covers of her favourite 2025 releases so far, and Shopping Djs will occasionally pop up behind the booth.
ASTRID SONNE (DK)
Astrid Sonne is a Danish, London based composer and viola player. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours.
On her most recent album “Great Doubt” (January 2024) this skill is refined, now with the distinct addition of the composer's own vocal in the fore. The tone of each track is unmistakably Sonne’s, structured around contrasts through an impeccable sense of timing. Lyrics on the album are sparse, merely highlighting different scenes or emotional states of being, leaving the music to fill in the blanks. Yet they also form a pattern of ambiguity, consolidated through the album title, searching for answers through looking at how and what you are asking, questions for the world, questions of love.
The viola, a trusted companion since Astrid Sonne’s youth, appears effortlessly throughout the album, fully integrated into the sonic universe; through a pizzicato driven arrangement in the poignant track “Almost” or along with booms and claps in mutated cinematic stabs during “Give my all”, paraphrasing Mariah Carey's 1997 ballad. Yet the string section also gives way to explorations of woodwinds, counterbalancing the bowed movements with digital brass and airy flutes. Finally, beats and detuned piano are fresh additions to the soundscape, cementing how Sonne’s practice is always evolving into new territories.
CANILLA (NO)
Canilla is a newly sculpted project by Norwegian sound artist and instrument builder Camilla Vatne Barratt-Due. Frequently composing for dance and theatre productions, she develops sonic fields that often includes electronics and live coded synthesis merged with materials from her extensive accordion collection. Canilla's performative installations have been presented in museums and theatres as well as sound-art, dance and music festivals in Germany, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, UK and Norway. She was recently chosen for SHAPE a European platform for innovative music and audio visual art.
The songs from her debut album You always wanted more in life, but now you don't have the appetite are thought of as conceptual love ballads stemming from trees of a wounded forest – originally coming out of an installation Canilla made for Kontakte Festival at Akademie der Künste in 2019. Behind the stories pumps a mechanical heart, a structure based on creations of dismantled accordions. Canilla works between installation and performance art, turning traditional analog materials such as old tools and accordions into altered mechanical systems played with code. This layering of practices gives electronic music a new physical body tracing the remnants of the past, giving the mechanical objects an afterlife.
ACCESSIBILITY
The nearest HC parking is approx. 40 meters from our entrance, see the Kiwi store in Møllergata. There is a lift in our entrance that can be used by wheelchair users. We have a HC toilet. Please contact us in advance to ensure the best possible arrangements. Companion certificates gives free admission to events.
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