Ingri Høyland - Container for Wee Objects (2026)

'Container for Wee Objects' is the new full length album by Copenhagen based, Norwegian composer, producer and sound artist Ingri Høyland. The record emerged largely in the surroundings of her family cottage in the Norwegian mountains as a form of musical regionalism. Not pastoral, not nostalgic, but a new perspective on childhood spaces revisited in adult life, sparking old senses of time and imagination. With this position comes an increased attention to the small things around you, and 'Container for Wee Objects' is an examination of exactly this state of mind.

Each track serves as its own world, small clusters of new patterns, new rules. Serving as openings into spaces that don’t care too much about getting somewhere, rather wishing to stay in one place long enough to calculate the internal correlations, coincidences, mistakes. The slow eeriness of opener Dead objects / Objects of the dead morphing into the unruly Brudd og Knekk, which again dissolves into trickling light. Or the meeting between Høyland's foggy, electronic stabs, a curious clarinet, played by Carolyn Goodwin, and a pensive viola, played by Pauline Hogstrand, both of whom are featured throughout the album.

Sonically, the record occupies an electroacoustic space with a personal sound which has become signature to Høylands practice. Synthetic sounds imitate the acoustic and the other way around - the tools, material and position of the composer are turned upside down. Pretty and ugly sounds are investigated on the same terms, suddenly finding euphony in what started out as noise.