09.09.26: Roxane Metayér (FR/BE) + Guro Kvifte Nesheim & Mats Edén (NO/SE)
Mysterious, resonant overtones and bioacoustic principles
Contemporary explorations of the fiddle – from Roxane Métayer’s melting pot of electronically prepared violin and field recordings to Guro Kvifte Nesheim & Mats Edén’s duo Hardanger fiddle ventures into the heart of Scandinavian folk melodies.
The concert is presented together with Fanø Free Folk Festival.
Date: Wednesday 09.09.26
Doors: 18:30
Show: 19:00
Price: 100 dkr in presale / 130 dkr at the door
Venue: Dansepavillonen, KLEIN, Wagnersvej 19, 2450 København
Roxane Metayér (BE)
It is always with the violin, electronics, and field recordings of the nature around us as her point of departure that Roxane Métayer builds her enchanting, sensorially rich sound worlds, where organic noises, breathing, and instrumental movements merge into hypnotic collages.
Based in Brussels, Métayer works at the intersection of music, sound art, and visual art. Her practice revolves around the living world - especially the fauna and flora of the forest - and humanity’s connection to it. Through imitation and bioacoustic principles, she stages a kind of fictional nature, where violin, wind instruments, percussion, and her voice enter into sonic symbiosis with imagined animals, insects, and plants. Her expression moves freely between the poetic, the ritualistic, and the experimental.
She has released music on a number of leading labels within experimental sound, including Kraak, Morc, Primordial Void, and Matière Mémoire. Most recently, she released Vies Sylvestres (on Blickwinkel, 2025), created during a residency in Japan and composed of real-life recordings from temples and the surrounding nature, meeting Métayer’s rippling violin and beautiful voice.
Guro Kvifte Nesheim & Mats Edén (NO/SE)
When the two Hardanger fiddle players, Guro Kvifte Nesheim and Mats Edén, meet, it is an encounter across generations, national borders, and musical points of departure. Drawing on traditional melodies from Scandinavian folk music and the Hardanger fiddle’s mysterious, resonant overtones, they create majestic soundscapes where hypnotic tunes form the framework for surprising improvisations.
Mats Edén is a prominent figure in Nordic folk music, with deep roots in Värmland and decades of influence on the scene, not least through the legendary Swedish-Norwegian group Groupa, which recently celebrated 40 years as an ambassador for Nordic folk music.
Guro Kvifte Nesheim has made her mark with her energetic, captivating, and richly colored playing, including through the project GKN5, and carries forward fiddle traditions from Agder with a strong personal voice.
Together, they released the duo album Den kaldsteikte in 2020 on the Norwegian label for contemporary folk music and improvised music, Taragot Sounds. Here, the duo explores a distinctly Norwegian repertoire, where both waltz melodies and more introspective hymns float on a foundation of hypnotic drones from the old instrument’s beautiful sympathetic strings.