https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/serene-din
Serene Din is a live electroacoustic performance born from the first collaboration between trumpeter and composer Hilde Marie Holsen and composer and performer Mariam Gviniashvili. The 25-minute performance unfolds as an exploration of contrast and convergence, where the organic warmth of live trumpet playing meets densely layered noise. The title Serene Din alludes to this paradox—something that is loud or complex yet carries an underlying sense of calm and clarity.
The work premiered at Radio France as part of the GRM Akousma concert series and was later performed at Sonic Acts at Paradiso in Amsterdam, as well as the Borealis Festival in Bergen.
“Hilde Marie Holsen and Mariam Gviniashvili allowed calm and unrest to coexist within the same field of tension. The trumpet’s warm, elongated tones drifted in and out of dense electric noise surfaces, where glitch and drone unfolded into a slowly pulsating, trance-inducing soundscape.»
– Seismograf
“The most immersive listening experience of Borealis 2026 – theoretically much dryer, but thanks to the non-stop rain that fell throughout the festival that’s not really true – came at a concert titled ‘Sonic Entanglements’ in the club space of Østre. Both performances explored the interiority of sound, seeming to position us deep within the music, such that it overwhelmed and subsumed, providing an eye-of-the-storm-like revelation of intricate detail within massive quantities of energy. Serene Din, a fantastically-titled work by Mariam Gviniashvili and Hilde Marie Holsen, took trumpet as its starting point. The tentative opening belied the duo’s intent, transporting us into the midst of an epic, effluvial torrent of wind and noise, a welter of details clearly discernible within the centre of this maelstrom. In due course the perspective seemed to shift uncannily; Holsen’s trumpet turned lyrical, underpinned by throbbing bass, and the tumult – by now less intense and variegated than before – became more impenetrable, suggesting we had unknowingly passed outside it (or it had passed through us?), arriving at a place of pure vestige, final buzzes and gusts petering out.”
– 5:4 / Simon Cummings
credits
released September 4, 2026
Commissioned by INA GRM
Supported by Re-Imagine Europe and the Norwegian Arts Council
Mariam Gviniashvili: electronics, mix
Hilde Marie Holsen: trumpet and electronics, mix
Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab
Cover photo by Angelina Nikolayeva at Sonic Acts Biennial «Melted for Love», 28 February 2026, Paradiso, Amsterdam