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If you’re curious about how I work — my methods, my process, the way pieces move from voice to electronics and back again — I recently spoke about all of it in this podcast. It’s a good place to start:

Over the past few weeks, a lot has come into the world at once.

We’ve just released IKI’s new album Body. It moves between the acoustic and the electronic — sometimes beginning as a simple melody, other times as a texture that grows into something more physical. Playing the release concerts at Momentum and Christianshavns Beboerhuset was incredible. We performed in a black box with new visuals, new outfits, new masks.

ALBUM, LP - THE BODY : https://ikivocal.bandcamp.com/album/body

Live, the electronic parts transform completely. Sometimes we imitate the electronics acoustically, letting the two layers melt into each other. I’ve always loved when the album and the concert aren’t the same creature. On stage, we also lean into some very tight melodic structures — “hockey style,” where we each sing one tone at a time, and the melody only exists because all of us are present inside it.

Two tracks have already been played on BBC, and we received a beautiful review from Westzeit (DE): ★★★★★

With their impressive voices, the women of IKI conjure a beauty that is as magical as it is surreal over the electronic foundations of Body (Tila). From pulsing loops to transcendent whisper (‘Run’), to radiant female choirs over unintelligible yet beautiful vocal smears (‘Remember’), this is the finest a cappella art, sometimes with accompaniment and sometimes without (for example in the particularly lovely short ‘Circuit’ pieces).

I also released a wonderful album with Christian Rønn called Shadow Moves in October. We had a great release concert where friends, family and collegues came- thank you all for coming. Shadow Moves consist of my voice, live electronics and Christian on prepared grand piano. This is our second collaborative album - following the critical acclaim debut Head ̈Space, on Chant Records. We continue to develop a shared sonic language rooted in improvisation and exploration. Shadow Moves is a journey into new musical terrain, where extended vocal techniques, prepared grand piano, and distinctive use of live electronics merge into a singular, organic whole. The music oscillates between lush acoustic textures and raw, abstract soundscapes.

Listen and buy LPs here https://nische.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-moves-2

Lovely review here: https://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/13205

What’s next

I’m now preparing to open an exhibition at Bornholms Kunstmuseum.

On the opening day there will be performances, and I’m creating the music inside a work by the artist Anders Herwald Ruhwald. His piece is called Den trætte sol (“The Tired Sun”), so my work is titled Behind the Sun. I’ll perform it with saxophonist Thomas Agergaard.

https://bornholms-kunstmuseum.dk/kalender/engangsarrangementer/%C3%A5bningsfest-anders-herwald-ruhwald/

And later this month, on November 24, I’ll be working with Linda Edsjö (SV) in the countryside of Paris. We are composing and developing together with Ingvild Rømo Grande (scenographer, NO) a concert/performance called Jeans in and hour — Ingvild will sew a pair of jeans in exactly one hour while we perform.

A recommendation

If you’re interested in new, experimental music — and appreciate curation from actual humans — I highly recommend this concert calendar:

https://knaekmusik.dk/

Dear listener,

As autumn arrives, I have a handful of releases, concerts, and collaborations I’d love to share with you:

• Sept 22–24 — Four school concerts with IKI at the LMS Festival in Silkeborg.

• Sept 26–28 — Performing Flammenwerfer with Hotel Pro Forma, Blixa Bargeld & IKI at Teatro Argentino in Rome.

• Sept 26 — Shades, the first single from my upcoming album Shadow Moves, will be out. I’ve made a video I’ll share here soon.

• Oct 4 — Concert in Nicolai Kirke, Rønne with Tobias van der Pals (Cello), Thomas Agergaard (piano) & Jørgen Messerschmidt (organ)

• Oct 9 — IKI hosts a pre-listening of our new album BODY at Gloria Biograf, Rådhuspladsen, 20:00.

• Oct 14 — Shadow Moves release concert with Christian Rønn at Metronomen, Frederiksberg.

• Oct 24 — IKI BODY release concert at Momentum, Odense.

• Oct 31 — I’ll join Damkapellet’s mini-festival in Aalborg — concert starts at 17:00.

• Nov 2 — Trio concert at Strandingsmuseet, Ulfborg with Simon Toldam, Thomas Agergaard & visual artist Louise Hindsgavl.

• Nov 5 — IKI plays BODY at Christianshavn Beboerhus (Loco series).

• Nov 22 — We will perform ‘Behind The Sun’ composed for the exhibition, tba.

And — soon I’ll be sharing a little song a moment from a trip to Morocco. If you’d like to support my work, you can do so by becoming a member here — it’s the price of a coffee a month, and it gives you access to these more intimate and unreleased sounds. It means a lot, both to me and to the music, to feel that kind of support. Also, let me know if you want me to share something specific

Warmly,

Randi

Some things take longer than planned... Unfortunately my solo concert at Lydbrøndene are postponed a year to 2026 August 15th. BUT - You can come and enjoy my release concert with Christian Rønn. October 14th, 20:00 at Metronomen, Godthåbsvej 33

We have made our second album called: Shadow Moves.
Enjoy our little video teaser:

Shadow Moves is the second album Christian Rønn and I have make together — a continuation of the deep artistic connection we began exploring on HeadSpace, which was released on Chant Records to warm critical reception.

This time, we pushed further into uncharted sonic terrain. Our shared language is rooted in improvisation and a desire to explore the edges of sound. I use extended vocal techniques; Christian brings a prepared grand piano, shaped and transformed in real time through live electronics. These elements meet in a way that feels organic — unpredictable but cohesive.

The music moves between lush acoustic textures and raw, abstract soundscapes. Sometimes intimate, sometimes expansive — like drifting along the edge of the stratosphere, where time bends and gravity lets go.

Shadow Moves is a listening experience that’s both visceral and cerebral. It asks for attention and rewards it. It’s a work that stretches the boundaries of musical communication — and for me, it’s also a meditation on presence, space, and transformation.

The album is partly inspired by Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows — especially the way he writes about slowness and subtlety. A friend told me it became part of their early morning ritual — and I really love that.

“Listening to them before the day begins became a meditative ritual.” George Platts, 5:00 a.m., Vancouver, June 22, 2025

Have you ever had music become part of your ritual?

Summer was for family. For slowness.
Now I’m easing back into sound.

This October, Christian Rønn and I are releasing a new album. You might know our earlier project, Headspace.
For this one, Christian’s been preparing a grand piano with magnets and metal balls—turning it into something strange and alive. Mechanical. Percussive. Melodic.
Our friend George, a musician from England, has been listening to it in the mornings. Just to feel what it does in that kind of quiet.
I’m happy to share something with you soon.

I’m also working on a new piece called Genius Loci II—Latin for the spirit of the place.
It’s a term from architecture: does something belong where it’s placed? Does it respond to the space, to nature?
That’s how I think about music too—how it breathes with a place.

Genius Loci II premieres August 31st, early afternoon, at Solbjerg Plads.
After that, it will surface at set times—woven into the rhythm of the day.

And then there’s IKI.

We’ve been experimenting a lot.
Our new album, The Body, comes out in October too.
It’s somehow become a meeting of Kraftwerk and Meredith Monk.
Still secret for a little bit.

Thanks for reading, and please leave a comment and say hi or ask a question?

Elektronisk poesi – en hommage til Else Marie Pade

Den 13. juni spiller jeg solokoncert i Unitarernes Hus, Østerrbro. Det bliver en aften i lydens og kroppens tegn, hvor vi hylder pioneren Else Marie Pade. Koncerten har titlen Vox et Corpus – stemme og krop på latin – og bevæger sig i et ambient univers med elektroniske lag og sanselig nærvær. Koncerten starter kl. 21:30 køb billet her:

https://koncertforening.safeticket.dk/elektroniskpoesi

Glæder mig - håber vi ses.