HIT THINGS
First performance: 11.03.2026 @Basement, Copenhagen
Works for percussion in an intense programme that explores obsession, ritualisation, interplay with lofi electronics, and the complex resonant sounds latent in everyday objects stemming from glass, wood and metal. Curated by Matthew Grouse, Joss Smith and Irene Bianco
Programme:
Irene Bianco - Diomedea
Inti Figgis-Vizueta - To give you form and breath
Anna Thorvaldsdottir - AURA
Thomas Meadowcroft - The Great Knot
Performers:
Irene Bianco, Katerina Anagnostidou, Matias Seibæk - Percussion
Stills by ©Spektrals
Diomedea - Irene Bianco
AURA - Anna Thorvaldsdottir
To give you form and breath - Inti Figgis-Vizueta
The Great Knot - Thomas Meadowcroft
Diomedea - Irene Bianco
To give you form and breath - Inti Figgis-Vizueta
AURA - Anna Thorvaldsdottir
The Great Knot - Thomas Meadowcroft
AURA - Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Diomedea - Irene Bianco
The Great Knot - Thomas Meadowcroft
AURA - Anna Thorvaldsdottir
To give you form and breath - Inti Figgis-Vizueta
The Great Knot - Thomas Meadowcroft
To give you form and breath - Inti Figgis-Vizueta
AURA - Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Diomedea - Irene Bianco
The Great Knot - Thomas Meadowcroft
Video documentation (visuals by Spektrals / sound mixes by Irene Bianco, Joss Smith and Matthew Grouse)
Diomedea | Irene Bianco
Performed by Irene Bianco, Katerina Anagnostidou, Matias Seibæk
Diomedea takes its name from the scientific genus of the albatross. Exploring the nature of these giant birds, capable of flying for years, sleeping in flight, and covering vast distances, the piece investigates their symbolic presence in poetry, particularly in the work of italian writer Alda Merini. Incorporating both melodic elements and noisy analogue electronics, the music explores the tension between vastness and fragility, grounding and flight.
To give you form and breath | Inti Figgis-Vizueta
Performed by Irene Bianco, Katerina Anagnostidou, Matias Seibæk
Inspired by the poetry of Joy Harjo, this piece centers the nature of creation stories in relation to indigenous identity. Much of native belief and collective knowledge stem from oral traditions and the lens they provide is core to our understanding of the world and the spirits that live with us. To give you form and breath seeks to channel portions of that understanding through the use of 'ground' objects and manipulations of rhythm as manipulations of time.
AURA | Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Performed by Irene Bianco, Katerina Anagnostidou, Matias Seibæk
Three sides of the same being
The Great Knot | Thomas Meadowcroft
Performed by Irene Bianco, Katerina Anagnostidou, Matias Seibæk
The Great Knot is inspired by the migratory patterns of the bird, the great knot. This species breeds in Siberia in the summer but heads to Australia and Southern Asia during the Northern winter. (The great knot is also sometimes vagrant in Europe, although whether this is by accident or providence, one cannot be sure.) What for humans is a long-haul flight, the bird makes with only one stopover. The great knot is now considered vulnerable as a species. The piece The Great Knot attempts to approach the event horizon of the species' extinction without despair by using the bird's flight path as a model for music composition, namely 'how to get from A to B.
Ear Transplant are grateful to the following foundations for supporting our inaugural concert season: KODA Kultur, Knud Højgaards Fond, Poul Johansen Fonden, Nordjyllandsfonden, Dansk Musiker Forbund, Københavns Kommune, William Demant Fonden, Hoffman og Husmans Fond, Frederiksberg Fonden and Frederiksberg Kommune