© Mads Krue Bugge

Ingri Høyland is a Norwegian artist, composer and sound artist. Through the artistic alias Hôy La, she has since 2018 released experimental electronic music with the releases such as X Heads and There's A Girl. She has performed her music at prominent festivals and concert venues in the Nordics, Europe and Japan. Ingri is educated as composer and songwriter at the Rhytmic Conservatory in Copenhagen. Her compositions are often based on a method of electronic improvisation, where she creates spaces and sounds through drones, repetitions and minimalistic melodies and patterns. She often experiments with form, lyrics and language, using her voice as an equal instrument.

As an artist, Ingri Høyland supports the movement for Radical Softness. The understanding and translation of psychological state of minds, emotions and vulnerability is for her a political and artistic starting point, which she takes with her into cross-artistic collaborations, film music and in her own projects. In November Ingri Høyland will release a new sound piece Ode To Stone composed for this years Gong Tomorrow.

kortkritik
25.10.2020

Musikformidling med fikse idéer

DR2: »Her er dit hit«
Carsten Holm og L.O.C. © Thomas Behrndtz/DR
Carsten Holm og L.O.C. © Thomas Behrndtz/DR

Holdet bag DR’s nye musikprogram – der højst usædvanligt faktisk handler om musik – når lige at balancere på kanten af det fortænkte i første afsnit om L.O.C.-baskeren »Frk. Escobar« (2005).

Pligtskyldigt og overfortolkende analyseres temamelodien af en jazzkomponist ved flyglet, studentikost blæser vært Carsten Holm en skoleopgave om lyrikkens »dualitet« op på en containervæg, og fordi hjerneforskeren må være på hurtigkald hos alle kulturredaktioner, får Peter Vuust også lov at fortælle en anekdote om savlende hunde.

L.O.C. griner måbende hver gang, men bærer heldigvis over med redaktionens fikse idéer, tager engageret invitationen til musikalsk næranalyse op, og pludselig sidder rapperen og siger »crescendo« i bedste sendetid lørdag aften. Det er faktisk ret godt gået i sidste ende.

Lad dette være startskuddet til mere lydnær musikformidling på de store medier, også gerne af den mere kritiske slags end her.