Sofia Jernberg, born in Ethiopia and raised in Vietnam and Sweden, is a composer, singer and voice artist who presents her work for the first time in Spain with this multi-layered vocal solo. Her creative activity focuses on unconventional techniques and sounds, such as non-verbal vocalisation, split tones, atonal singing and distortion.
| Target audience: | General public |
| Location: | Patio |
| Duration: | 30 minutes |
| Price: | 10€ |
Sofia Jernberg’s solo vocal performance focuses on the sonic qualities of the human voice. Text or anything that can be perceived as language has been eliminated in the creative process. Without electronic effects and with a single voice in a room, she aims to achieve a multi-layered structure.
Programme:
Ethiopian traditional
Adwa: song about the Ethiopian victory in the first Italo-Ethiopian war.
Gigi's Lament: a song about a broken heart.
One Pitch (2015): birds for distortion and mouth synths.
Sofia Jernberg. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Vietnam and Sweden, she is an exceptional singer and composer. She studied jazz and composition in Sweden and lives and works in Stockholm. Her creative activity focuses on unconventional techniques and sounds, such as non-verbal vocalisation, split tones, atonal singing and distortion.
Musical theatre and contemporary opera play an important role in Jernberg’s artistic work. She participated in performances of Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in 2010 and Salvatore Sciarrino’s Lohengrin in 2014 by the Swedish ensemble Norrbotten NEO and played roles written specifically for her in new works such as Emily Hall’s Folie à Deux and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s UR_. The production of Pierrot Lunaire, directed by Marlene Monteiro Freitas and conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, presented her as soloist together with the Klangforum Wien at the Wiener Festwochen 2021 and at the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen 2022.
Another recurring feature in her work is the collaboration with other visual artists, such as Camille Norment in her pieces Rapture and Lull. Sofia Jernberg can be seen as a singer in the film Union of the North alongside Matthew Barney, Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson. She has received several commissions for compositions and is currently working on a piece for children’s choir, soprano, voice and chamber ensemble for the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival.
La Casa Encendida has joined forces for this event with La Capella.
