Smerz + special guests

Smerz is the duo of Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg, based in Oslo and Copenhagen. They recently released Big City Life, a fabulous and melancholy record that earned widespread critical acclaim. Using collages to capture moments of everyday life and dreams, Smerz tell stories lived and imagined—of apathy, loneliness and internal monologue, love and friendship.

Smerz operates at the intersection of genres, drawing inspiration from compositional techniques in classical music, the experimentation of computer music and the immediacy of pop music, in the palettes of girly existentialism.

Support comes from Felicity J Lord.








C2C Festival was founded in Turin in the early 2000s as Club To Club, the festival has grown from a pioneering European dance event into an international platform for experimental and cross-disciplinary sound, bridging the worlds of music, art and technology.

Produced by the Barbican in association with dollop and C2C Festival