Islands Matter Seminar Confirmed. Working with music and ancient instruments as a tool for curating history and the Nordic Celtic Connections
Throughout the past decade, Christine Kammerer has specialised in curating the Viking-, Iron Age, and the Nordic/Celtic connections through original compositions and ancient music, storytelling and immersive performances, workshops and concert lectures - with her trusty lyres in hand.
In this webinar Kammerer will demonstrate how she utilizes her background in Musicology, Comparative Cultural Studies and Music Production to activate history through music, and to explore the connections between the soundscapes of the Nordic and Celtic worlds - past and present.
She will share examples of her music and unfold the research and methods behind her work - including the concept of method-writing. Demonstrating how one can begin to approach a pre-historic soundscape and create one's own tool-box of ancient sounds and music.Kammerer will also demonstrate how approachable such a method of curating cultural history can be - and how powerful. To that end, she will demonstrate how available the lyre is as an instrument for activating history, and hopes to inspire more people to be curious about the instrument.
CHRISTINE KAMMERER is a Danish-born award-nominated artist, known for her versatile talents as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer. Since 2022 Kammerer has lived in Scotland focusing on curating Scottish-Scandinavian connections through music history and symphonic folk fusion, and on curating the history of women – and witches – in the alcohol industry in her and Jane Ross’ critically acclaimed Musical Whisky Experience “Whisky & Witches”.
Kammerer has a BA in "Musicology and Comparative Cultural Studies", and a Master of Arts in "Modern Culture and Cultural Communication" specialising in Ethnomusicology and the Curation of Cultural Heritage through Living History, from Copenhagen University. In 2023 she also finished a 2-year course in Music Production from MPW.