Is a Danish trombone player, improviser and composer. The acoustic sound of her instrument amplified creates an output that draws inspiration from drone and noise music. What is normally not hearable is presenting itself, movements, metal and breath becomes a swirling part of her compositions. Changing organic patterns are emerging, tiny sounds becomes brutally clear as well as the range of overtones of the instrument.
She is one of five cofounders of the Copenhagen based art collective eget værelse founded in 2010. Apart from her work as a solo artist she performs an composes in groups like GESH (a new project with drummer Jaleh Negari) Selvhenter the notorious four piece noise rock band Nina Garcia & Maria Bertel duo improvised noise outlet G.E.K duo with saxophone player Johannes Lund, and more. She holds a master from RMC in Copenhagen and has worked as a musician/composer since. She has presented her music in various festivals like Flow Festival (FL) Supersonic Festival (UK) Raw Power festival (UK) Sonic Protest (FR) Gong Tomorrow (DK) Borealis (NO) OFF festival B-sides festival (CH) Meteo festival (FR).
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