Jubilæumsfest for avantgarderne

Marcela Lucatelli: »Skrrt, Skrrt«

Marcela Lucatelli. © PR

Sune Anderberg. © Alexander Banck-Petersen

Jeg tror ikke, man har talt så meget om sporene af den historiske avantgarde, der titter frem i Lucatellis værker. Det her er en god anledning! De gamle elektronmusikstudier spøger i sinusbølgerne og den elektroakustiske knitren i Skrrt, Skrrt. Og velkendte traditioner går igen i form af talt tekst, støjsamples, volapykvokal og en slags nøgternt afmålt slagtøj.

Glimtvis minder det måske ligefrem om en jubilæumsfest for tidligere tiders fremtidsklang. Hvilket egentlig er uventet, for jeg er vant til, at Lucatelli griber mig i kraven og tvinger mig ind i morgendagen. Det her er en mere noir oplevelse, der i lange stræk nærmer sig en abstrakt meditation.

Her slipper hun den stramme styring med formen og lader det timelange værk udvikle sig til et mere eller mindre improviseret støjdigt sammen med K!art-ensemblet. Ud fra den heftige programtekst havde jeg ventet noget skørrt, skørrt eller skrattende, skrattende. Jeg kan simpelthen ikke finde ud af, hvad jeg skal synes, synes!

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.