Gravitational Shift is an inclusive choral work that aims to explore the potentials of collectivizing lonely and isolating pain and trauma experiences through music, in a desire for dialogue with the terrifying instead of reproducing its affect. Based on the melody of first her own and later a handful of anonymous women’s recordings of birth cries, composer Katinka Fogh Vindelev has created an elongated, beautiful and meditative expression that stands in stark contrast to the composition’s immediate dramatic starting point. Pain is beyond gender and age – it must and can be shared.

Since 2019, Gravitational Shift has manifested itself through various workshops, including at Khio in Oslo with students from the visual arts and opera department, with women with birth trauma in the Women’s Building in Copenhagen, a songbook, a sound installation at the Psychiatric Hospital on Amager, gravity walks, community singing-based live performances, an album featuring Nina Brewer (soprano), Morten Grove Frandsen (countertenor) and Frederik Rolin (Baryton), as well as the vocal group Ilinx and the senior choir Allegro.

Composition & performance Katinka Fogh Vindelev
Conceptualized in collaboration with Marie Kølbæk Iversen
Visualization Marie Kølbæk Iversen

Gravitational Shift has been performed at Henie Onstad Museum, ARIEL – Feminisms in the Aesthetics at Kvindernes Bygning & Rundetårn in Copenhagen.
Gravitational Shift was released on album by MoBC

Gravitational Shift is released on vinyl
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