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Jenny Hval’s performance aesthetic turned the Hotel Cecil concert into a time capsule of perfume, prose, and performance art.

What makes her music great is the attention to detail

Jenny Hval, the Norwegian composer and vocalist, delivered performance art that reached the audience’s senses—nose, eyes, and ears—at Hotel Cecil. Foto: Mads Nissen
Jenny Hval, the Norwegian composer and vocalist, delivered performance art that reached the audience’s senses—nose, eyes, and ears—at Hotel Cecil. Foto: Mads Nissen
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The concert with Norwegian composer and singer Jenny Hval began even before the lights dimmed and before she picked up the microphone. While we waited, Jenny Hval and her two fellow musicians were busy spraying perfume on a nearly transparent white chiffon cloth they had spread over the synthesizers and samplers that stood like a motherboard in the middle of the stage.

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