MERCURIUS is a new sound performance by Amina Hocine and Jacob Kirkegaard, bringing together a bespoke eight-pipe organ, two resonating metal plates, voice and the amplified sounds of touch.
The organ and the metal plates become bodies to listen through. Sound travels into the pipes and across the surfaces of the metal, opening up sounds that are close to, but not quite the sounds we expect from these materials. The voice follows them, extending the sound beyond the instrument and into the body.
At the centre of the work is a meeting between two materials: air and metal. One moves through space, the other holds and returns vibration. Together they form a shifting landscape in which sound moves between object, body and room.
MERCURIUS takes its name from quicksilver, the strange and elusive substance of alchemy. Neither quite solid nor liquid, it refuses to remain in one state.
What happens when we listen to a material not for what it is, but for what else it might be?
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Amina Hocine
Amina Hocine is a Swedish composer and sound artist based in Stockholm. She is best known for her work with a self-built modular organ, which she has performed extensively across Europe in recent years. 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. Drawing inspiration from spiritual sciences, she weaves detailed timbres which encourages deep listening in her compositions. She composes both notated music for musicians and acousmatic works, the latest being a commissioned piece for the Edition festival x INA GRM’s Acousmonium, that will be released in their Portraits series in November 2026. Her work has been presented in contexts including Institut Suédois Paris, ORF Musikprotokoll Graz and the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Her debut instrumental album ātamōn was released on Subtext July 2nd 2025.
Jacob Kirkegaard
Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish sound artist whose practice explores complex, often unnoticed or inaccessible conditions and environments through sound. His work spans sound recording, composition and installation, often revealing the tangible dimensions of otherwise intangible phenomena.
His works have addressed subjects including radioactivity in Chernobyl, melting Arctic ice, global waste systems, human hearing and death, warfare, and geopolitical borders. Since 2006, his research into otoacoustic emissions - sounds generated by the human ear itself - has been a recurring element of his practice.
Kirkegaard’s sound works have been released by labels including Touch and Important Records. His work has been presented internationally at venues and institutions including Museum of Modern Art New York, LOUISIANA Museum of Modern Art, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, The Menil Collection, Rothko Chapel, Sydney Biennale, Aichi Triennale and Mori Art Museum.
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