Hanne Lippard uses text as material in sound installations and performance, where the rhythm and ambiguity of language are laid bare through repetition and displacement. For this exhibition she presents an entirely new site-specific work developed especially for Sankt Ibs Kirkeruin, where simple, sculptural metal constructions with speakers are positioned within the church’s characteristic, austere aesthetic. The voices address and reflect upon the history of the church space and its power as a spiritual gathering place — connecting its spiritual past with something at once contemporary and unrecognisable.

Hajra Waheed explores, in her large 16-channel sound installation Hum (2020), presented at Vaskeriet at Sankt Hans, the simple yet often overlooked practice of humming as a form of collective and sonic protest. The installation is built from eight hummed melodies drawn from protest songs from Africa and South, Central and West Asia — songs still sung in social movements today. Despite its revolutionary messages, the work simultaneously creates an immersive space for reflection and deep listening.

Clara Mosconi is preoccupied with the sounds and meanings that fall outside written language — and with what it means not to fully master a language. In her newly produced installation Between Tongues (2026) she unfolds a personal soundscape from overlapping conversations, while her self-developed paralingual sign system is projected into the space. The work draws on Mosconi’s own experiences of bilingualism and revolves around misunderstanding, uncertainty and belonging.

Julian Abraham ‘Togar’ presents a further development of his long-running project OK Studio (2020–) in the largest space at Gasværket — a physical and speculative space for music, improvisation and community, inviting Roskilde’s many active youth music environments into Togar’s musical universe. The studio is equipped with instruments and statements about sound, noise and music, and alongside it four video works from the series Drummer’s Gonna’ Drum are shown, in which Togar plays hypnotic beats on everything from water and sand to buildings and lampposts at four different locations around the world, the most recent from New York.

Emeka Ogboh engages with places through his senses of taste and listening. Through sound installations and gastronomic projects he explores how private, public and collective memories and histories can be translated into sound, food and drink. In Roskilde, Ogboh develops a brand new beer in collaboration with To Øl — a beer designed by the artist that, together with a bar environment and soundscape, poses critical and existential questions about our understanding of the world, particularly in relation to immigration, globalisation and postcolonialism.

Cally Spooner works at the intersection of performance, film, text and sound. In the video installation WHAT HAPPENED!? A Conversation with my Mother (2024) we listen to a 47-minute unedited phone call between the artist and her mother about upbringing and neglect — with the panoramic view of Lake Geneva from Mont Pèlerin as a laconic and unsettling backdrop. The result is as thought-provoking as it is awkward and funny, moving freely between the personal and the political-historical.

Francesco Fonassis newly produced sound work Gritar, No Caer  is presented on the 32-channel sound platform Lydbrøndene in Frederiksberg. Fonassi’s work can be experienced for the first time on 17 June in connection with an international seminar on what happens when sound is installed and listened to in public spaces.

Also Arendse Krabbe works with sound as a way of directing attention towards the body and the overlooked. In the site-specific work Coloured Water (2026), installed in the bathrooms of Gasværket, visitors encounter narratives about water, body, waste and infrastructure – at once humorous and existential.

Annika Kahrs explores the social and communicative dimensions of music. In Roskilde the performance THIS IS A LOVE SONG (2018) is presented at the Roskilde Festival platform, Saturday 4 July.