Juliana Hodkinson (b. 1971, GB) is a composer presently based in Berlin. Her work ranges from intimate semi-staged object pieces and chamber music through instrumental theatre to large-scale electroacoustic orchestral works. Her main works include Why linger you trembling in your shell? (1999), All the time (2001), I greet you a thousand times (2007), and Turbulence (2013). Close long-term collaborations with groups such as Aphids (Melbourne), Ensemble 2000 / Scenatet (Aarhus), and Kammerensemble Neue Musik (Berlin) have enabled her to evolve a developing practice that focuses on a heightened awareness and sensitivity toward artistic contexts and traditions, which her work in turn gently questions and seeks to soften. She has received commissions from Konzerthaus Berlin, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Interfilm Short Film Festival, the Nordic Embassies in Berlin, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Chamber Made Opera and Den Anden Opera. Her latest work Angel View is premiered on 18th March at MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele by the Danish ensemble Scenatet, and an upcoming commission from the South-West German Radio will be premiered by Anima Quartet in June 2014 in Stuttgart.
She studied musicology and philosophy at King’s College Cambridge, and holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen on silence in music and sound art. She has taught composition and musical aesthetics at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, the University of Copenhagen and Technische Universität Berlin, as well as numerous guest lectures. In 2013 she curated Spor Festival. She has published academic articles in Seismograf, Peripeti, and Cambridge Journal of Architecture.
Throughout her career, she has consistently participated in cultural politics and arts advocacy, chairing the Danish Arts Foundation and its music panels, and sitting on a number of boards such as the Danish Composers' Union, Spor Festival and Seismograf. Increasing diversity, and improving international and interdisciplinary flow in the arts are her main focuses.
Expanding Sound In her solo performances Juliana Hodkinson works with short films in synch with live and recorded foley sounds, alienated instrumentals and electronics. The performances focus on expanding the semantic dissolves possible within sonic imageries, when unfolding simultaneously with short films. Both hyper-realistic and timbrally abstract sounds take on new characters as they repeat and transform; over time, the sounds undergo heavy processing and friction with filmic timings, on the way to new relationships between visual and sonic images. For this concert, Hodkinson presents sonic interpretations of three films – Herz Frank’s Ten Minutes Older (1978), Anja Struck’s Allerleirauh (2004), and Germaine Dulac’s La coquille et le clergyman (1928) - as well as a brand-new solo electronic version of her orchestral film collaboration with visual artist Joachim Koester, I greet you a thousand times (2005). Hodkinson’s live electronic performances bring contemporary sounds and sonic impulses into dialogue with each of the films’ individual sensitivities to tempo and timing. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Interfilm Festival and Odense Symphony Orchestra originally commissioned her work on these live soundtracks, and the mix-down of her sounds for Allerleirauh was nominated in the Audio category at the Black&White International Audiovisual Festival, Porto, 2013.photo: Juliana Hodkinson performs Allerleirauh at Volksbühne Berlin / Photo by Brindusa Ioana Nastasa, courtesy of Interfilm Festival
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