INA grm commissioned three new compositions by contemporary composers, premiering on  31 May and 1 June at the Akousma concert series, part of in the GRM Multiphonies season 2024-2025 in Paris, France.

31 May – Hilde Marie Holsen and Mariam Gviniashvil – Serene Din
31 May – John McCowen and Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir – Roföldur
1 June – Maria W Horn – All Solids Melt Into Aether

Hilde Marie Holsen and Mariam Gviniashvil – Serene Din
Serene Din is a new work for trumpet and multichannel live electronics.

John McCowen and Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir – Roföldur
Roföldur is a new work for contrabass clarinet and tape.

Maria W Horn – All Solids Melt Into Aether
All Solids Melt Into Aether is a new work for tape.

Hilde Marie Holsen
Norwegian Hilde Marie Holsen has carved out something very particular and niche in music. Processing her trumpet in the electronic realm, she blends the mournful tone of the brass instrument with the explorative field of electronic music to create music that lies somewhere between jazz, contemporary, and drone. Holsen’s music has unpicked the frayed boundaries of traditions, calling in a new generation of artists that abandoned stale and repetitive conventions in favour of establishing something unique in the realms of contemporary music.

Mariam Gviniashvili
Mariam Gviniashvili works as a sound artist and composer, combining electronics, electroacoustics, and 3D sound with visuals, dance, and live performance to penetrate deep into the physical and emotional essence of sound and space. Music has followed Gviniashvili through her life since early childhood. Growing up in Georgia, she sang and played piano, and gradually found her feet as a composer and visual artist while studying composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Festivals, major venues, and radio programmes have presented Gviniashvili’s music, including the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, BEAST FEaST, Transitions at CCRMA, MA/IN, ICMC, Mixtur Festival, ARD Radio Play Days at ZKM, BBC Radio, Ars Electronica, Klingt Gut, In Situ Festival, Heroines of Sound, and Ultima Festival.