The most coherent route through Copenhagen’s coming concert weekend runs through ALICE, from Thursday 10 September to Sunday 13 September. Three visiting or returning artists approach electronic music as something handled, struck, rubbed, breathed through and allowed to hang in a room. Mike Sheridan brings a new work built around the Cristal Baschet on Thursday; Tara Clerkin Trio arrive from Bristol with plainhead on Saturday; French harpist Ange Halliwell closes the sequence on Sunday. It is a small run with a strong internal logic: sound first, genre labels second.[1][2][3]

Thursday: Mike Sheridan’s glass-and-synth release concert

Mike Sheridan opens at ALICE at 20:00 on Thursday 10 September with a release concert for Touch. The Copenhagen composer, producer and musician frames the album around touch, presence and minute shifts in sound, using analogue electronics alongside the Cristal Baschet. That instrument gives the night its physical centre. The Baschet Sound Structures Association describes the Cristal Baschet as a 1950s design played by wet fingers on glass rods, with resonators that can extend its palette into percussive territory. Sheridan’s own career has crossed club culture, experimental composition and work for film, stage and visual art, making this an especially good entry point for listeners curious about electronic music with an exposed instrumental surface.[1][5]

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Saturday: Tara Clerkin Trio and the porous Bristol song

Saturday 12 September shifts the route toward the porous edge between songs, improvisation and studio texture. Tara Clerkin Trio play ALICE at 21:00, with Munich collective plainhead opening. The trio—Tara Clerkin, Pat Benjamin and Sunny Joe Paradisos—have developed a language where dub, jazz, minimalism and off-centre pop meet. Their 2026 album Somewhere Good is built from harmonium, upright bass, acoustic guitar, winds and keys, a combination that explains why their electronic element reads as atmosphere and arrangement as much as beat-making. World of Echo identifies the group’s members and traces the record through arrangements and improvisations that leave space for each sound to settle. Come early for plainhead’s guitar, clarinet, melodica and sample-loop setup, which makes the double bill feel deliberately assembled.[2][4]

Sunday: Ange Halliwell’s ceremonial harp

Ange Halliwell closes the run at 20:00 on Sunday 13 September, in a seated ALICE show. Halliwell’s harp practice turns strings into percussive figures and blurred drones, with hazy electronics around the instrument. The venue places the work between ambient folk, gothic romanticism and experimental performance, while describing a vocabulary of hypnotic arpeggios, ghostly repetition, voices and emotional intensity. After Sheridan’s glass instrument and Tara Clerkin Trio’s collectively shaped songs, Halliwell offers the weekend’s most concentrated image: one acoustic instrument recast as a source of ritual, rhythm and resonance. Doors are at 19:00. For all three nights, recheck ALICE’s official pages for tickets, access information and any schedule changes.[3]

Sources

  1. Mike Sheridan DK — ALICE
  2. Tara Clerkin Trio UK + plainhead DE — ALICE
  3. Ange Halliwell FR — ALICE
  4. Tara Clerkin Trio - Somewhere Good — World of Echo
  5. The Cristal Baschet — Baschet Sound Structures Association