artist
Marie Højlund, Julian Toldahm Juhlin & Christian Albrechtsen
Denmark
Albrechtsen, Højlund og Juhlin are working together for the first time on the MOMENTUM project Svanesang, to be performed 13 June and 14 June in Moss Church.
Christian Albrechtsen is an artist and set designer with a special interest in iconography. He has composed music and scenography for a number of performances and plays, a.o for the performance IKON at Statens Museum for Kunst, several plays at the Royal Danish Theatre and staging the concert “Intet Er Nok” by Marie Højlund..
Marie Koldkjær Højlund is a composer, sound artist and lecturer in Sound Studies at Aarhus University. She has created sound atmospheres for hospitals, composed music for Aarhus Theatre, and the solo project KH Marie. In 2020 she released the solo album “Intet Er Nok”.
Julian Toldahm Juhlin is an artist and set designer. With a special interest in the transition between childhood and adulthood, he has exhibited his personal history in everything from his childhood home in Frederiksberg to Times Square in New York to Copenhagen Contemporary.
Marie Højlund, Julian Toldahm Juhlin & Christian Albrechtsen
Svanesang, 2025
Sound
Svanesang (Swan Song) is a work-in-progress sound installation exploring the brief, vulnerable moment when a boy’s body and voice begin to change. Over a year, artists Albrechtsen, Højlund, and Juhlin recorded transitional voices in Herning Kirkes Drengekor (Herning Church Boys’ Choir) as luminous, pure tones gave way to cracks, huskiness, and tonal shifts. These carefully arranged samples weave vulnerability and unity into a sonic tapestry at once corporeal and sacred. Svanesang highlights vocal ‘imperfections’ to challenge traditional ideas of beauty, revealing new expressive potential.
Premiering at MOMENTUM 13, in Moss Church, it focuses on the delicate threshold where childhood overlaps with adulthood. The result is a mesmerizing portrait of voices in flux, capturing changes that usually pass unnoticed. Svanesang underscores the liminal zone of transition. By focusing on the ephemeral shift of the human voice, it illustrates the profound shift that occurs when diverse worlds are being reorientated.