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.

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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.

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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.