04.06.2012

Fra dyb tragik til høj komik

På onsdag (6.6.2012) vil Lorentzen-aficionados blive forkælet med en hel dag helliget komponisten selv og hans yndlingsgenre: Den komiske opera. Seismograf har i den anledning stillet musikprofessor og arrangør af seminaret Lars Ole Bonde fem spørgsmål.

Hvad har komik og kunst med hinanden at gøre?
Der er ingen modsætning mellem kunst og komik. Det vidste allerede Aristoteles. Komedie og tragedie er komplementære genrer. Høj humor kan være stor kunst – tænk på Shakespeare, Holberg, Mozart, Heerup eller Dario Fo.

Er den komiske opera altid sjov?
Det skulle den gerne være, men det kan være på mange måder: Hjertelig, rablende, grotesk, elegant, satirisk, sort – og dermed er der også mange måder at smile og le på. Den komiske opera nåede højdepunkter hos Mozart, Rossini og Offenbach, men derefter har der været længe mellem snapsene.

Hvad er det Bent Lorentzen kan med komikken?
Lorentzen kender de dramaturgiske spilleregler og det klassiske repertoire til bunds, og hans humoristiske palet har rigtig mange farver, fra det sorte til det spraglede.

Hvad er det der fascinerer ved hans værker?
Alle hans værker – herunder de 15 operaer – er meget forskellige, men altid umiddelbart tilgængelige og med en friskhed i det musikalske udtryk. Han skiller sig ud fra andre komponister ved at have andre inspirationskilder (f.eks. brasiliansk musik og Wagners harmonik) og ved at have bevaret evnen til at lege med lyd og musikkens elementer.

Prøv at beskrive hans oeuvre og æstetik i 140 tegn.
Lorentzens musik har drama, drive og direkte appel; spænder fra dyb tragik til høj komik. Hans oeuvre er en udforskning af live og elektronisk lyd som kunstnerisk udtryk.

Læs mere om arrangementet 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.