QARIN WIKSTRÖM

Singer / Musician / Composer / Lyricist / Educator

Qarin Wikström has been an active part of the avant-garde and experimental music scenes in Copenhagen, Denmark, for over two decades. She is an experimental musician who works with hardware electronics and voice. Combining composition, improvisation, and sound experimentation, she performs both solo and in various collaborative constellations.

She is currently active in collaborations such as de Heney/Wikström, Müntzing/Wikström, Sekten, and TING, as well as in ad hoc constellations and performative projects.

Qarin has released more than 20 albums as a composer or co-writer, spanning genres from alternative pop and avant-garde jazz to Swedish troubadour songs and freely improvised music. These releases have appeared in a variety of formats, including tape, vinyl, CD, matchbox, headband, and video miniatures. She has been nominated multiple times for the Danish Music Awards, including for UP UP UP (solo album), Ping Pong Punktum (Müntzing/Wikström), and Earth Core (Shitney).

She has composed music for opera, theatre, and contemporary dance, and has toured in Scandinavia, Europe, Japan, and the United States with various collaborations, performing both improvised and composed music. Qarin is a faculty member at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, where she teaches Artistic Development.

Over the past decade, she has focused her musicianship primarily on a sound-exploratory practice in which manipulated voice plays a central role. This work is expressed through freely improvised music, performative concepts, and composition.

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