Explore a sonic adventure in the city square with sounds from 32 underground speakers. This year, Strøm has invited the duo Vanessa Amara and Francesca Burattelli & Villads Klint to create a piece each for The Sound Wells.

32 speakers are installed below ground in 32 wells all around the city square of Solbjerg Plads on Frederiksberg, creating an underground sound system and a unique musical platform below our feet called Lydbrøndene (The Sound Wells).

This multichannel sound system allows for musicians and sound artists to create multidimensional and dynamic soundscapes that curious visitors and passers-by can walk through and explore on their own.

This year, Strøm has invited the duo Vanessa Amara and Francesca Burattelli & Villads Klint to create a piece each for The Sound Wells.

You can experience their creations transforming the square throughout the Strøm Festival at specific times during the four days.

Just show up and explore your own sonic adventure in the city square. Let the sounds ripple through you. Pay attention. Move between the speakers, move about as you please, move from the surface of things to the depths. Discover the patterns and experience how the square transforms with the sounds.

VANESSA AMARA: CAFÉ AU LIFE
‘Café au Life’ is a reorganization of appropriated iconic musical material. It is both a processing of information as well as a reflection on context and “originality”.
“In this public space we hope the music, the words and the feeling can work as a gesture towards a shared experience of living a life”, Vanessa Amara says about their composition.

The music of the Vanessa Amara duo (Birk Gjerlufsen and Sebastián Santillana) is purposely difficult to classify. They work within a patchwork of playful absurdity and contemporary classical music. In 2013, Vanessa Amara released their first album “Both of Us” on the Copenhagen-based imprint Posh Isolation and have subsequently had nine releases out on the label. Their ninth full length album ‘Fonetica Amara’ is an adventurous and uncompromising addition. A truly singular voice in Scandinavian experimental music.

FRANCESCA BURATTELLI & VILLADS KLINT: THE WISHING WELL / ØNSKEBRØNDEN
The Wishing Well “Ønskebrønden” is a 32-channel sound piece revolving around the well as a portal to new realities. 32 hymns about thirst and longing. 32 lost wishes singing in choir. A love song wishing you well.

Francesca Burattelli and Villads Klint are Copenhagen-based composers and musicians. They are both tied to the local experimental music scene and have collaborated on several occasions from live shows to performances and releases.

On the cover photo: Francesca Burattelli


Strøm Festival is supported by Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, Frederiksberg Kommune, Frederiksbergfonden, Koda Kultur, Knud Højgaards Fond and William Demant Fonden.