17.01.2013

100 års musik

Dansk Komponistforening har 100 års jubilæum i år. Torsdag den 24. januar er det første arrangement i rækken af mange, for igennem hele 2013 vil foreningen fejre den ny klassiske musik og kunstmusikken i hele Danmark.

Den 24. kl. 21 åbner Komponistforeningen deres jubilæumsår med en fernisering i Skåret på Den Sorte Diamant. Til Skåret er der skrevet nye værker af Ane Østergaard, Søs Gunver Ryberg, Jonas Olesen, Jonas R. Kirkegaard, Morten Riis og Kristian Hverring. Til ferniseringen vil de seks værker blive spillet live for fuld styrke, herefter vil værkerne blive afspillet hver man-lør kl. 13 i Skåret indtil juni måned 2013, herefter præsenterer Dansk Komponistforening igen i samarbejde med Det Kongelige Bibliotek seks nye komponisters værker.

Fra februar til og med juni vil der hver måned være mellem to og seks arrangementer, der involverer den nye musik i samarbejde med Komponistforeningen. Arrangementerne er planlagt i samarbejde med danske og udenlandske musik- og kulturaktører og har fokus på talentudvikling, nye koncertformer, publikumsengagement, børn og unges møde med musikken og internationalt samarbejde.

Fra den 1. marts kan man på Komponistforeningens hjemmeside downloade en app med kalender over arrangementer og info om program, værker og komponister.

Læs om ferniseringen torsdag den 24. januar
Læs om komponisterne og de nye værker
Se første halvårs kalender for fødselsdagskoncerterne.
Programmet for sidste halvår af 2013 kan downloades på Komponistforeningens hjemmeside i juni.

playlist

11.09.2023

My name is John Grant – would you like to see my playlist?

»Music has been a healing balm for me.«

John William Grant is an American singer, musician, and songwriter holding both American and Icelandic citizenship. He first came to prominence as a co-founder, lead vocalist, pianist, and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band The Czars. After releasing six albums between 1994 and 2006, the band disbanded, and Grant withdrew from music for four years before embarking on a solo career.

He returned in April 2010 with a critically acclaimed debut album recorded in collaboration with Midlake. Queen of Denmark was named Album of the Year 2010 by Mojo magazine and was also selected as one of the ten best albums of 2010 by The Guardian’s music critics and writers.

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.

in briefrelease

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.