in brieflive
25.05.2024

Fantasierne under overfladen 

Spor Festival: »Between Music«
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Hvad var det for mytiske skabninger, der gemte sig lige under vandspejlet i totalinstallationen Breaking the Surface? Kunstnerkompagniet Between Music havde på Spor Festival omdannet Musikhusets sal til et diset grænseland. Den gådefulde tærskel til det undersøiske. Som besøgende drev vi rundt på overfladen, men mærkede, hvor fascinerende dybt fantasierne om livet under vand rækker. 

Der var low arousel – tenderende til det behagesyge – i det lysdæmpede udstillingsrum. Pirrende klange som i værket Sirenes, hvor små vandfaste højttalere hængt op i wire, blev sænket og hævet i glaslanterner med vand. Som en kølhalende parafrase af Janet Cardiffs Forty Part Motet, hørte man sirenernes toner drukne og stemmerne gispe efter ilt. Lydkunstgrebet var næsten for tydeligt: de akusmatiske stemmer i materiel transformation, ringene i vandet fra højttalermembranernes vibrationer, den besøgendes frihed til selv at søge ind i klangen. Men værkets lavmælte poesi var alligevel nok til at vække en interesse for lydens overgange.

Men det var de skabninger, der befolkede installationens loopede videoer, som jeg var mest betaget af. Hvem var den nedsunkne brud i værket The Neck, der spillede på sin klangkvalte violin blandt døde fisk og ålegræs? Havde hun været der hele tiden, dømt til at spille, eller gik noget forud for denne bizarre scene? Det mystiske videoværk inviterede til videredigtning, og en hel sagnverden åbnede sig for mit indre. Fortryllende. 

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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.