18.12.2014

7 værker fra 2014 premieres af Statens Kunstfonds Legatudvalg

Statens Kunstfonds Legatudvalg har netop udpeget og belønnet 7 stærke værker fra 2014. Legatmodtagerne modtager 50.000,- for hvert værk.

Begrundelsen for udvælgelsen er, at værkerne har udmærket sig kunstnerisk. Legatet kan ikke søges, men gives frit ud fra de koncerter og forestillinger, som legatudvalget har set og hørt i løbet af året.

Blandt legatmodtagerne er:

Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen med ”Toccata for orgel og orkester”. Værket fremhæves blandt andet fordi det placerer orgelet i en særlig koncentrerende rolle, og fordi stykket er opfindsomt.. Legatudvalget beskriver værket som ”prægtigt og betagende”. ”Toccata for orgel og orkester”. Blev uropført med Aarhus Symfoniorkester d. 30. oktober 2014. Læs mere om Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen på Seismograf.

“It’s the most basic thing you can do on a boat” af Jeppe Zeeberg (Album, Barefoot Records) er komponistens første udgivelse i eget navn. Begrundelsen for legatet retter sig mod værkets ”generøse” og ”nutidige” karakter, der vidner om Zeebergs modenhed. Værket består af 7 ompositioner, der legende og improviserende blander genrekendetegn fra klassisk jazz, free jazz og 1900-tals avantgarde.

Broken Twin / Majke Voss Romme har med debutalbummet ”May” (Album, Anti) imponeret den internationale så vel som den nationale musikscene. Broken Twins univers fremhæves for kombinationen af sårbarhed og styrke. Især Majke Voss Rommes stemme er central og karakteristisk for etableringen af det univers og det udtryk.

Klarinetkoncerten ”Gemmer mig for Rosetta” skaber et billede på noget inderligt menneskeligt, der har ramt legatudvalget. Intimiteten skaber Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki gennem et sart musikalsk udtryk, hvor fagottistens manglende beherskelse af instrumentet bliver en del af intimiteten, fejlbarligheden og dermed det menneskelige element.

De samlede legatmodtagere er:

Broken Twin / Majke Voss Romme: ”May” (Album, Anti)
Minds of 99: Minds Of 99 (Album, No3)
Cancer: ”Ragazzi” (EP, Tambourhinoceros)
Alpha Trio / Peter Navarro-Alonso: ”Le Quattro Stagioni, Concerto grosso for Alpha and strings“
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen: ”Toccata for orgel og orkester”
Jeppe Zeeberg: “It’s the most basic thing you can do on a boat” (Album, Barefoot Records)
Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki: ”Gemmer mig for Rosetta” (Clarinet Concerto)

Legatudvalget for musik

Legatudvalget, der har valgt modtagerne, består af Peter Bruun (komponist og formand for udvalget), Alberte Winding (sanger og sangskriver), Bo Gunge (komponist), Lotte Anker (komponist og saxofonist) samt Annette Bjergfeldt (sanger og sangskriver).
Læs mere om legatudvalget her.

playlist

14.05

My name is Marcela Lucatelli – would you like to see my playlist?

»Music to me is movement, trance, transformation. The rest I won't tell you.«

Marcela Lucatelli is a vocalist and composer. Born in Brazil and based in Denmark, she has gained international recognition for her boundary-pushing performances — sensuous, politically charged, and uncompromisingly original. Described by The Wire as a composer of »scores for the limits of bodies and voice,« Lucatelli challenges conventions with her fearless vocal experimentation and bold compositions. Her works have been performed by Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Vocal Ensemble, and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. She has appeared at major festivals and venues, including Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, DR Koncerthuset, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, IRCAM, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Ultima Festival, Borealis Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Cafe Oto, A L’ARME!, DMA Jazz – Danish Music Awards, WOMEX, and many more. Lucatelli's work has earned her several prestigious awards, including the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Prize (2019), Pelle Prize (2021), and the Danish Music Awards' 2023 Vocal Jazz Release of the Year, which shows that vocal jazz has many faces – and does not necessarily belong only to the soft end of the spectrum.

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14.05

My name is Salim Washington – would you like to see my playlist?

»What is music to me? Here’s a quote from Nietzsche: ‘The people dancing all seemed crazy to the people who couldn’t hear the music.’«

Salim Washington is a saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, academic, and activist from Detroit who has been highly active on the American jazz scene since the 1970s, and also in South Africa, where he became a central figure. The spirit of John Coltrane hovers over his music, which carries both spiritual and social dimensions.

playlist

11.05

We are DØGNKIOSK – would you like to see our playlist?

»Music for us is the perfect language that we love to speak. A language where it is the individual's feelings and imagination that determine what is right and wrong. Everyone can speak the language. You don't have to be able to write or understand, but just listen. Some music requires that you listen carefully and maybe hear it several times. A bit like when you talk to someone from Norway or Sweden, you also have to listen a little extra.«

DØGNKIOSK is a Danish punk rock band with roots in Silkeborg. The band consists of bassist and singer Anders Ejner, who has been active on the Danish underground scene for several decades. Musically, DØGNKIOSK moves in a field between classic Danish punk and alternative rock. In the spring of 2026, the band will release their second album, Tæt på kanten.

news

05.05

A Critic on the Move – In Memory of Andreas Engström

It is difficult to comprehend that Andreas Engström is no longer with us. Just a couple of months ago, he wrote – as he had done so many times before – with an ambitious proposal: he wanted to review a box set of twenty releases by Dror Feiler. In the same message, he mentioned plans to come to Aarhus for the recently concluded Spor Festival.

in briefrelease

04.05

The Escape From a Hotel That May Not Exist

RÖM: »Whispering Dub«

Traverse, 30.04

Simon Heggum

Ladies and gentlemen, we’re deep underground – indeed, all the way to France. This EP is the latest conceptual release from French electronic producer Romain Martin, who works under the name RÖM in the borderland between ambient and techno. Whispering Dub unfolds across five tracks, drawing heavily on dub while telling a story about an escape from a fictional hotel. Escomel’s background in African percussion studies and his fondness for analog gear surface in the mysterious sonic textures and the stark contrast between arranged percussion and dubbed-out echoes, underscoring the concept’s tension between mysticism and reality.

»Oilbird« opens in dystopian ambient before sliding into the rhythmic »Eastern Temple«, which constantly shifts between filtered synths, frantic percussion, and sudden breakbeats. Things cohere more fully on the title track, which blends minimal techno into the mix and stands out by maintaining a steady pulse, while echo-laden drums cast an unsettling atmosphere within the dance framework. On the closing »Hotel Amnesia«, the narrator awakens again in a collage of the record’s electronic tendencies, questioning their own existence in the album’s only use of vocals.

Whispering Dub isn’t wildly groundbreaking or bizarre enough to push the senses into extreme reactions. But as a well-produced and effective piece of electronic music, it invites the listener into a compelling game of whispers.

English translation: Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek