in brief
06.03.2022

Paradoksernes fest

Grandprixvinderen Reddi: »The Show«
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Grandprix er paradoksets hjem. Et program om musiksmag, hvor ingen taler om musiksmag. En konkurrence, ingen, mindst af alle DR, ønsker at vinde. Et skindemokrati, hvor udvalget af deltagende sange er foretaget helt uden transparens.

Jeg ser grandprix af samme grund, som jeg ser »X Factor«: det spinkle, gennemtæskede håb om, at skønheden, midt i den evige skuffelse, dukker op i et glimt. Kun romantikere kan i dag se fjernsyn.

Og hvad så vi så i aftes? At Adorno havde ret: Vi elsker musik, alene fordi vi genkender den. Showet startede og sluttede med en gentagelse. Først Fyr og Flammes vindersang fra sidst, siden kvartetten Reddis »The Show«, en variation over rockteatralske Måneskin, Eurovisions regerende mestre.

Også på detaljeplan viste Danmarks tre mest statsstøttede minutter musik sig at være en labyrint af gentagelse. Et show i showet, der næsten kan læses som et metaværk over selve grandprixet som fænomen (men ikke her i kortformatet!).

Omkvædets klimaks er åbenlyst selvplagiat. En af de fem sangskrivere, Julia Fabrin, citerer tone for tone – a-h-a-g-e – sit eget fløjtetema fra Emmelie de Forests »Only Teardrops«. »I will never let it go,« synger Mathilde Savery, komponisten Bent Lorentzens barnebarn, imens. Det tror man på.

»The Show« er fyldt til randen med generiske elementer. Lige fra den harmoniske rundgang og de melodiske kvintfald til lyrikkens tomme floskler, springmodulationen og instrumenteringens pludselige overraskelsesrock. Om det fungerer? Jamen det kan ikke andet! Det er vel pointen.

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»To me, music is love. I love how music allows you to skip the small talk and connect directly with people’s innermost selves. It is an extraordinary and moving way to meet one another.«

Fenja wrote her first song at the age of twelve – about a polar bear dying due to climate change – and themes of existentialism, nature, and her own sensitive nature came to define the lyrics and sound she has since developed. She released her debut album, Flugtdyr, in 2021, and in February 2026, she released the album Menneskedyr.

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Danish composer Sofus Forsberg has died at the age of 56. With his distinctive blend of melodic sensibility, electronic processing and rhythmic precision, he created a musical world that moved effortlessly between IDM, pop and the avant-garde.

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»Music for me is my hobby, my job, my outlet, my mood, an endless source of discovering new music and new, old music, some of the best and can be some of the worst. And I love it!« 

Track72 aka Tue Track aka Anders Lundby Brixen. Producer, DJ, rapper and more. Known for his role in the trio Malk De Koijn, which since the mid-1990s has created a personal universe in Danish hip-hop. Has performed in Ponyblod, Xtra Naan, Track Abdullah Rock, Booty Cologne and others.

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On Wednesday, 5 August 2026, it happened again: a chord in John Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) changed after two and a half years. Classic FM reports.

The work was written by the American avant-garde composer John Cage in the mid-1980s. The score consists of eight pages of music, and, as the title suggests, the instruction is to play it »as slow as possible.«

»What music is to me? Where have the great feelings gone?«.

Gellért Szabó is a composer, conductor and performer based in Leipzig, Germany. His work combines contemporary composition with influences from free improvisation, noise and the expressive richness of the late nineteenth century. He is the founder and artistic director of the 23-piece Ideal Orchestra, an ensemble dedicated to large-scale experimental music of sweeping emotional intensity. Alongside this work, Szabó performs internationally with his solo project Radical Radio Show, exploring symphonic textures and immersive sound worlds through a single electric guitar and live electronics. His music is driven by a search for intensity, vulnerability and uncompromising emotional expression.