I en serie af mini-interviews spørger Seismograf/DMT forskellige aktører på musik- og lydkunstscenen til aktuelle anbefalinger af værker eller events. Se her komponist og lydkunstner Sandra Boss  spændende anbefaling.

1a) Hvilket værk vil du gerne anbefale til andre?

Jeg vil anbefale at tage op og kigge på Compenius-orglet, der står oppe i Frederiksborg Slotskirke. Hver torsdag kl. 13.30 bliver orglet demonstreret, og det er en performance i sig selv: Det der ligner et stort, ornamentet træskab forvandles langsomt til et orgel ved at låger åbnes, der afslører 1001 piber, og skuffer med tastatur og pedaler trækkes ud. Herefter sættes kalikanten igang med at pumpe luft ind i bælgene, der herfra spreder sig ud i piberne. Det er en højst bemærkelsesværdi klang, instrument genererer, hvilket først og fremmest skyldes, at piberne alle er lavet i ædle træsorter, og dernæst at orglet spiller i sin originale middeltonestemning. 

2) Hvorfor er dette værk/denne event særlig?

Det er en mulighed for at opleve et af verdens ældste orgler, der står i sin originale stand. Og en mulighed for at opleve en klang, som hører fortiden til, men som lyder som noget fra fremtiden. 

3) Hvad arbejder du selv med lige nu? 

Sjovt nok arbejder jeg med orgelmusik! Jeg har tidligere arbejdet med at skabe lydkunstværker for orgler, (senest i samarbejde med Jonas Olesen, hvor vi lavede en koncert for syv orgler i Sct. Andreas Kirken i København.) Nu har jeg imidlertid fået fingrene i et transportabelt midi-styret pipeorgel, der har 61 piper. Og det er det instrument, som jeg arbejder med for tiden, og som fik sin ilddåb med en performance forleden på Kunsthal Aarhus.

Derudover går jeg og venter på at min nye plade med titlen Perfekt Termisk snart kommer. Det er en plade bestående af udelukkende elektronisk musik, genereret via de mest opslidende gammeldags metoder, der har inkluderet brug af spolebåndoptagere, tonegeneratorer og gamle filterbokse. Man kan sige, at pladen afspejler en slags nørdet, mediearkæologisk udredning. 

Læs mere om Sandra Boss’ projekter her.

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»Music is a deep, but not serious, spiritual practice, in which creator, collaborator, and consumer alike are their own personal pope.«

James Black (b. 1990) is a composer, performer, and artistic director of Klang Festival – Copenhagen Experimental Music. Originally from Bristol, England, they moved to Copenhagen in 2013. Black's works have attracted a large amount of attention both nationally and internationally for their signature combination of artistic courage and vulnerability, described by the Danish Arts Council as »a universe of real madness where everything goes«. Their work is a deep and personal exploration of topics such as religion, loss, and queer identity, that is unafraid to be stupid or serious in any direction.

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»Music is just something for me.«

Christian Juncker is a Danish musician and songwriter who has released a number of Danish-language albums. He debuted in 1995 with the band Bloom. Together with his friend Jakob Groth Bastiansen, he formed the duo Juncker in 2002. He is also behind the Christmas carol »Luk julefreden ind« from 2024.

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»Music, for me, reveals the emptiness of boundaries and definitions – in consciousness, in space, and in music itself.«

Idan Elmalem is an oud player and composer working across world and popular music, now presenting his debut instrumental EP and live performance project. Following years of collaboration within the Israeli music scene, he turns toward a more personal and intimate musical voice, blending traditional oud with a contemporary sensibility. Influenced by his studies with master Nissim Dakwar, Elmalem’s music explores the space between tradition and innovation. His debut EP, Time, features three live-recorded pieces that move between past, present, and future, combining classical Arabic and Persian elements with jazz, minimalism, and cinematic sound. Based in Tel Aviv, Elmalem draws on his Moroccan-Danish heritage in his work. He is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Haifa, alongside his work as a player and composer.

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On May 29, the Aalborg-based collective Datahaven9000 takes over the venue Skråen, transforming its main hall into a concentrated one-day festival of electronic music. The event is part of the concert series Bystanders #3, where the stage is handed over to local scenes rather than the venue’s in-house programming.

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Two of contemporary music’s most uncompromising material thinkers meet on Music for Intersecting Planes: the American organist Kali Malone and the French cellist Leila Bordreuil. Malone works with oversaturated blocks of sound and sonic mass as a sustained pressure, while Bordreuil seeks friction – her cello a recalcitrant organism that creaks and resists.

What they share is an ascetic attention to the specificity of their instruments. The organ and the cello are pushed to their outer limits, where recognizability dissolves and overtones emerge like hidden entities.

The title pieces, »Intersecting Planes I» and »II«, unfold as undulating ruptures of sound: animalistic, almost elephantine cries that surge forward and recede again. Only rarely can the sound be identified as organ or cello. (»Pilots in the Night« comes closest to a familiar balance between the organ’s gravity and the cello’s resistance.) Otherwise, the music moves within a field between the metallic and the electronic, as if the sound originates neither from strings nor pipes.

It is not mass that is being explored here, but rather a kind of hollowness: an airiness that is not light, but permeated by an indeterminate resonance – something ancient, almost ceremonial. The album holds something far more porous and open than Malone and Bordreuil’s earlier works. The sound appears as a concave form, bending inward, like an absence of material. The sonic landscape carries its own dissolution within it as an inherent delay – as if the music exists, first and foremost, as the erosion of something one thought one heard.

English translation: Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek