Mit navn er Else Torp – vil du se min playliste?

»Musik for mig er en nødvendighed. Nyt og gammelt. På tværs af alle genrer. Musik er noget helt essentielt menneskeligt – og for mig er stemmen det mest direkte kommunikerende instrument i verdenen.«

Else Torp debuterede i maj 2023 i tre koncerter med New York Philharmonic i et værk af den amerikanske komponist Julia Wolfe. Hun har tidligere optrådt med bl.a. BBC Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, danske landsdelsorkestre, London Symphony Orchestra og Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Hun synger et omfattende repertoire af Lieder, danske sange og eksotiske værker som William Waltons Façade og Judith Weirs one-voice opera King Harald’s Saga. Else Torp er medlem af Paul Hillier’s Theatre of Voices og har optrådt på internationale scener som BBC Proms, Berliner Festspiele, Lincoln Center og ved flere udsolgte koncerter i Carnegie Hall. Else Torp har medvirket på snart 40 indspilninger på Dacapo, Ondine og Deutsche Grammophon og på den Grammy-vindende CD The Little Match Girl Passion (HMU, USA). I 2016 udkom duetten »Distant Sky« med Nick Cave og Else Torp på albummet Skeleton Tree samtidig med premieren på 3D-dokumentaren One More Time with Feeling om albummets tilblivelse. Hun sang live med Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds i Royal Arena og var igen biografaktuel et halvt år senere. I 2018 sang hun blandt andet Kaija Saariahos opera Only The Sound Remains på Paris' Opera Garnier, Teatro Real de Madrid og Lincoln Center i New York. Else Torp har medvirket i DRs Den klassiske Musikquiz, været deltager i Babettes Gæstebud med Brødrene Price, ligesom hun ofte interviewes til DR P2.

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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.

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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.