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16.06.2022

Moog til folket

Klang Festival: »The Minimoog Project« – Sebastian Berweck
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En bedaget døs af musikhistorisk revisionisme meldte sig i Musikhusets forgyldte lokale: Nu skulle Minimoogen skrives ind i den klassiske kanon med koncerten The Minimoog Project. »Synthesizernes Stradivarius«, som hovedpersonen Sebastian Berweck varedeklarerede. 

Der gik Darmstadt i den: Skulle vi nu til alt det med de »nie erhörte Klänge« én gang til? Ikke rigtig. Futurisme var ikke en del af startopstillingen. I stedet havde man sat retromani på banen i form af Dorit Chryslers theremin-tryllerier i værket Fracture 22. Magien udeblev i det forudsigelige plot, hvor instrumenterne startede i hver sit frekvensland men til sidst fandt sammen i fælles filtrering.

Heldigvis blev der skiftet ind med værker, der rent faktisk havde noget på hjerte. Juan David Perez’ støjende tandrodsbehandling i Abstraco Model – Ducil Artefacto gjorde nas. Misha Cvijovics filmiske granatchok Iktuarspok var – trods den slidte symbolisme – en smagfuld drone, som smidigt mixede Moogens bløde og hakkende kurver. 

Befriende var det, da Kirstine Lindemann stødte til og førte synth-æstetikken væk fra sig selv og ind i kroppen. Værket TRIO fascinerede i sin telepati mellem de to performere, der – med lukkede øjne – virkede introspektive og forbundne på samme tid. Hænderne bevægede sig op og ned som scannere i penduler med den opkoblede vejrtrækning. Hvad viste Lindemanns røntgenbillede? En nysgerrig forløsning af Minimoogen som en del af et kropsligt ritual.

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»Music is, to us, a kind of closed club of nepotism, networking and Copenhagen cowboy energy. But in reality, it’s got nothing to do with expensive guitars or technical skill. For us, music is something you can feel in your chest, or something that gives you goosebumps. The best concerts are when someone screams so earnestly that the rest of us don’t have to. The best music expresses emotions in a way that would get you picked up by an ambulance if you did it out on the street. For us, music should fuck with the people who have it too comfortable, and give those who have it fucked a feeling that they’re not alone. Boom. And what the fuck is a chord and a key anyway? Kisses from Nightmaries.«

Nightmaries blend saws, guitars and voices into a dark-country, no-wave, cowboy-doom nightmare. They create the kind of soundtrack that feels like a fever dream you somehow don’t want to wake up from. As the world gets stranger and darker, Nightmaries lean into the madness, serving up slow-burning songs that creep under your skin like a poison that takes its sweet time. Put on your favourite steel-toe boots, dip your smoky eyes in an ashtray, and prepare yourself for sloppy doom with punk energy.

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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.«