Kom ind i kampen, P2

P2: »Kvinder i musik«

Sune Anderberg. © Alexander Banck-Petersen

Et af de ord, jeg lærte i 2020, var dydssignalering. At man udadtil bakker op om en aktivistisk sag, men i praksis fortsætter sit liv som hidtil. Og tak for det ord, 2020, for det beskriver fuldstændig P2’s føljeton om kvindelige komponister, som blev sendt i december.

Landets på papiret mest patriarkalske radiokanal portrætterede navne som Hildegard af Bingen, Else Marie Pade og Louise Alenius. Kvindelige komponister findes, var budskabet. De seks minutter lange montager lød imidlertid, som det ville lyde, hvis Wikipedia stod i spidsen for en folkeopstand.

Ud over en let indigneret intro blev en vigtig kulturpolitisk agenda renset for den mindste smule aktivisme og selvkritik. P2 spiller en nøglerolle i den ulige repræsentation, men tilrettelæggerne greb ikke chancen for at gå mere vovet og konfronterende til værks i serien.

Og effekten udeblev: Mens P2 signalerede fokus på kvindelige komponister, fortsatte kanalen hele december med at spille musik, der i mere end 90 procent af tilfældene var skrevet af mænd.

playlist

13.06.2023

My name is Allan Gravgaard Madsen – would you like to see my playlist?

»In his music, composer Allan Gravgaard Madsen tries to create a better version of himself.«

Allan Gravgaard Madsen is a Danish composer based in Copenhagen. His most recent works include Träume nicht and Nachtmusik. He tries to create a better version of himself in his music – where his personality tends to be restless, chatty and has an active inner life, his music is controlled, simple and merciless in its expression. He is the recipient of the Carl Nielsen & Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Hæderspris 2022.

in briefrelease

23.01.2022

Finnish Space Travel

Tomutonttu: »Hoshi«

Vauva, 02.12

Kristoffer Møllegaard

The Finnish multimedia artist Jan Anderzén has, with the album Hoshi, released under the solo moniker Tomutonttu, created a true little star. Not only because »hoshi« literally means »star« in Japanese, but above all due to the music itself. There is something cosmic, yet infinitely minute, about the sonic worlds Anderzén conjures—like a galaxy reflected in a puddle, or a space journey in a rocket carved from a hollow tree trunk. Synths emit busy, warm blips and bloops, while ultra-short vocal and instrumental samples create a recognizable blur. At once artificial and organic – soft, rounded, jagged, crackling.

Anderzén approaches sound with a playfulness I simply adore. His music is strange in an incredibly comforting way. It places me in a kind of colorful, trance-like state, only interrupted when, several times over the course of the album, I find myself smiling in delight at a particularly great sound. The synths on »Katse osuu sähköön!« The choral samples on »Kesä oli äkkiä ohi!« Milo Linnovaara’s flute on »Malta lausua ‘AH’!« And many more. Hoshi is an album packed with microscopic moments that together form a frayed, exploding, radiant, idiosyncratic whole—a stellar moment of just under 38 minutes.