© Hans Hulbækmo

»Musik er frihed. Eller en vej til frihed. En måde at tænke sammen uden for sprogets kategorier. En vej til nye begyndelser. En måde at lytte til/opleve/deltage i verdens livlighed.«

Heida Karine Johannesdottir Mobeck kunstneriske baggrund er som udøvende tubaist og komponist inden for fri improvisation, free jazz, eksperimenterende pop og samtidsmusik. Sideløbende med musikken har hun arbejdet med andre æstetiske udtryk, billedkunst, poesi, kuratering, drevet pladeselskab, scenografi og musik til danseforestillinger. Hendes kunstneriske handlinger, der på mange måder har afløb, men hun ser det som en helhed, en udforskning af overgangen mellem improvisation og komposition, i samspil og med et socialt udgangspunkt, med forskellige materialer i tid og rum.

© Malthe Folke Ivarsson

»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.

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23.01.2022

Finnish Space Travel

Tomutonttu: »Hoshi«
© Tomutonttu: »Hoshi«
© Tomutonttu: »Hoshi«

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.