Pauline Hogstrand is a Swedish-born, Copenhagen-based violist, electronics player, composer, and sound artist whose work spans classical performance, electroacoustic music, and collective creation. Her music is marked by a trust in sound’s own unfolding, with its layered intensities and gradual transformations, where intimate noise, detailed textures, and organised chaos coexist with structural clarity, and with an openness that invites both performers and listeners into shared presence.
Chants is Hogstrand’s third solo album. It is a five-movement, minimalist suite commissioned by KoncertKirken, written in the final months of her pregnancy, and premiered in 2023 shortly after the birth of her twins. It is a meditation on openness, co-creation, receptivity, and the clarity that emerges through presence. The album version features the Crush String Collective, a
