IKI consists of five vocalists from Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Together, they explore the voice as a primary instrument and improvisation as their core artistic method. Performing both acoustically and with the use of live electronics—machines and pedals that manipulate their voices in real time—IKI creates immersive, spontaneous soundscapes in close dialogue with the audience. Their music spans from trance-like sonic textures to simmering avant-garde beats.
IKI has toured extensively throughout Europe and is a frontrunner in experimental art and music in the Nordic region. Constantly pushing the boundaries of vocal and sonic perception, the group seeks to surprise and inspire its listeners through bold artistic expression.
IKI will release their fifth album Body on October 17th. With Body, their most personal album to date, IKI explores the raw, acoustic, and authentic voice — embracing its imperfections — in contrast to the ultra-processed voice, fragmented or manipulated by electronic machines.
“Every sound on the album is created solely with the voice, weaving seamlessly between acoustic and electronic expressions. The album is conceived as a continuous, cyclical movement – one that can be listened to repeatedly, without a defined beginning or end. We wanted to remind ourselves that life extends beyond our living bodies. This aligns with our artistic ethos as a group. As five different vocalists, we work toward becoming a unified organism – one body – while investigating the interplay between the organic and mechanical, the spontaneous and the analytical, the improvised and the composed.”
A little IKI history
IKI began in 2009, when a circle of vocal students at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen started gathering once a week to experiment with their voices. They weren’t trying to form a band — the idea was simply to explore what could happen when singers stepped outside the traditional lead role and into something unknown. But over time, the same nine singers kept returning, and what was once an open experiment slowly became an ensemble.
Their first concert took place in complete darkness in the Conservatory’s concert hall — a choice made partly for effect, but mostly because the dark felt like a safe space for this new kind of freedom. Since then, IKI has continued as a living organism: shifting, evolving, and reinventing itself, while always staying true to its core values of freedom and experimentation.
The original nine members of IKI:
Mia Marlen Berg, Sofie Holm, Guro Tveitnes, Mette Skou, Johanna Sulkunen, Mari Tveito, Kamilla Kovacs, Anna Mose, Anna María Björnsdottir
A SMALL SELECTION OF CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES: Featured in Hotel Pro Forma’s Reumert Award-winning music theatre FLAMMENWERFER (2024/2025). Performances in Sweden, Denmark and Italy: Rome, Italy, Teatro Argentina in September 2025. • Composers and performers in the music theatre production TERROR/IS/ME, Odense Theatre (2021) • IKI: MASSES – Interdisciplinary performance at Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen (2021) • LMS – Live Music in Schools: Ongoing school concert tour (2020–2025) • Roskilde Festival (2019) • ALICE CPH – Showcase (2018) • SPOT Festival – Showcase (2018) • Clay Museum of Ceramic Art – Concert (2017) • Inter Arts Center, Sweden – Performance (2016) • Tønder Art Museum – Concert (2015) • Poetry & Sound – Concert with Jørgen Leth at Store Vega (2015) • TEDx Copenhagen – Performance (2012) • Live soundtrack for the site-specific theatre production 4. tv. (2011)