Mit navn er Magnus Plejdrup – vil du se min playliste?

»Musik for mig er en måde at komme i kontakt med dybtsiddende og svært beskrivelige følelser og erkendelser, som sjældent kommer til overfladen, men som jeg finder stor livsværdi i at beskæftige mig med. Kun langdistanceløb kommer for mig tilnærmelsesvis tæt på at kunne det samme!«

Magnus Plejdrup (f. 1995) er komponist og dirigent, baseret i Aarhus. Han er stifter og kunstnerisk leder af Aarhus Kammerorkester og med i den kunstneriske planlægning bag Aarhus Kammermusikfestival. Han har modtaget Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Legatets Talentpris i 2023 og Léonie Sonnings Musikfonds Talentpris 2022. Han studerede fra 2018-21 klassisk komposition ved Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium og i 2021-23 orkesterdirektion ved Royal Conservatoire of Scotland i Glasgow. Blev i 2024 udvalgt til første generation af det nye danske initiativ Dirigentløftet.

playlist

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.