Tornmusik – Brønshøj Vandtårn

The Copenhagen Clarinet Choir and Swedish composer Amina Hocine present the premiere of Tornmusik (Tower Music), a site-specific work written for six clarinets and the iconic Brønshøj Water Tower. The piece draws on the tower’s dramatic verticality, where sound travels like a living architecture, shifting with height, distance, and perspective.

Tornmusik draws inspiration from the tower’s verticality, reimagining music as a vertical rather than horizontal journey, with its title playing on and springing from the idea of chamber music. The musicians move along the spiral staircase, allowing sound to shift and transform with height, distance, and direction. Using the tower’s long reverberation as an active collaborator, the clarinets weave textures that interact with the building itself. The ensemble maps out a matrix of sound, creating a resonant soundscape where minimal gestures grow into monumental sonorities.

Joining the concert is also Australian born, Stockholm based musician and organiser John Chantler who will present new music, diffusing sounds of an analog synthesizer through self-built hanging speakers, PA and radio, spread around the tower.

Amina Hocine is a Swedish composer and sound artist based in Stockholm. Her music explores immersive textures, minimalist and spiritual foundations, and rich psychoacoustic effects she calls Sound Crystals, focusing on the interplay between space and sound, both acoustically and experientially. She is known for her performances with a self-built modular organ with which she has played extensively around Europe, as well as her acousmatic compositions. Her latest acousmatic piece X3 was commissioned by the Edition Festival in collaboration with INA GRM’s Acousmonium and will be released as part of their Portraits series in 2026. Her debut instrumental album ātamōn was released on Subtext in 2024.

Copenhagen Clarinet Choir, led by Irish woodwind player Carolyn Goodwin, creates multi-colored sonic plateaus through improvisation and open scores. The sextet works with an egalitarian approach to music, where six clarinet voices blend into a deep and organic resonance. Their debut album Organism was released on År & Dag in 2022.