Velkommen til seismograf 2.0! Seismograf er et redaktionelt uafhængigt website for ny kunstmusik og lydkunst.
Kunstmusik og lydkunst gennemgår en spændende udvikling i disse år. For 25 år siden var disse begreber ensbetydende med finkultur. I dag er det vi kalder kunstmusik en farverig buket af mange subkulturer, idet der komponisterne og lydkunstnerne imellem er ligeså mange forskelle som fælles præferencer. Denne udvikling kræver nye tankemodeller når man skal beskæftige sig kunstnerisk, formidlingsmæssigt og debatterende med musikken. Seismograf ønsker at favne mangfoldigheden og vise de subtile såvel som de indlysende sammenhænge. Fange tendenser som de opstår, og tegne linier på tværs af gamle skel.
Seismografs formål kan deles op i to lag. Det ene er det konkrete indhold: streaming af musik og video, profiler på feltets vigtigste1 kunstnere, musikere, skribenter m.m., anmeldelser, interviews, artikler, features, debat, kalender osv. I det lag kommer vi godt fra start, da en del af startkapitalen for projektet har været allerede eksisterende projekter: det tidligere OpenSpace (som blev støttet af Kulturarvsstyrelsen og KODA), som var en del af Dacapo (men senere blev overtaget af DKF), LytNyt-kalenderen, der er (og stadig vil blive) produceret af SNYK, samt autografs bagkatalog af artikler, features m.m. (incl. den første version af seismograf, der blev til i autograf-regi i efteråret 2007). Dertil vil seismograf løbende producere nyt indhold.
Det andet lag er integrationen af alle disse elementer . Det er de såkaldte meta-data, der beskriver og forbinder indhold på tværs af sitet. Når man læser en profil vil man således blive præsenteret for en buket af relevante informationer, portræt, billeder, nyheder om, og koncerter med vedkommende – eventuelt materiale produceret af denne (blogindlæg, artikler, kommentarer ...). Fra profilen kan man klikke sig videre til en kunstnerisk beslægtede. I tags-boksen kan man se en række af de meste prægnante karakteristika for kunstneren, og hvis man klikker på dem, kommer man videre til det vi kalder indholdsbrowseren, og ser nu en buket af kunstnere der deler netop denne karakter/stil/medietype osv. Tags’ene er således en vigtig nøgle i sitets struktur, og handler i højere grad om at forbinde ting, og dermed bane vejen for nye kunstopdagelser, end om at hæfte særlige etiketter på kunsten.
Faren ved den slags øvelser er naturligvis altid at forsimplingens potentielle dumhed, eller med andre ord, at kunst bliver puttet i kasser og på dåser. En del kunstnere ville ønske den slags uforsagt, og det forstår vi fuldt ud. Vi tror imidlertid at fordelene langt overstiger ulemperne. Ud over at være et uforligneligt navigationsinstrument (for både nytilkommere og professionelle) tror vi at udtalte fejl og debat er langt mere frugtbart og lærende end indforståethed og tavshed.
God fornøjelse! SEISMOGRAF.ORG
Fusion
Per 1. januar 2011 er Seismograf og Dansk Musiktidsskrift fusioneret.
Ovenstående tekst er derfor ikke helt retvisende i forhold til den nye redaktionelle profil. Vi arbejder på en opdateret version.
Sanne Krogh Groth & Jens Voigt-Lund
(redaktører)
SEISMOGRAF.ORG er støttet af Statens Kunstråds Musikudvalg og Dansk Komponistforening/KODA's Nationale Midler
»Music, to me, is … the silence that gropes – like yourself – across a black canvas.
In moments, a hissing emerges.
Nuts are cracked.«
Jørgen Teller has a long career as an electric guitarist, vocalist, electronic musician, and performer. He has released records solo as Static Teller and with Jørgen Teller & The Empty Stairs, Kaptajn Ørentvist … He frequently collaborates with local and international musicians.
»For me, music is a non-figurative process that cannot be definitively categorised.«
Kristoffer Raasted graduated as a visual artist from the Media School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2018 and is currently completing a PhD in practice-based and artistic research. Raasted has been an artist in residence at the Danish Institute in Rome and a visiting researcher at UdK Sound Studies in Berlin as part of his PhD.
»When I search for new music, I search for sound that evokes images in my mind. It is fuel, a gateway to emotion, and my most important writing companion. When inspiration lapses, music is the tool that always jumpstarts it.«
Iain Forbes is a Scottish/Norwegian film director based in Oslo. He has studied film directing at Nordland College of Art and Film and the Norwegian Film School. His graduation film Revisited won a Student Academy Award in 2023. He has previously directed short films such as Snowman (2015) and Semper Fi (2017). His latest short After Dark won Best International Short Film at the Oscar-qualifying Foyle Film Festival in 2024
»Music, to me, is a companion through life, a premise, an excuse, a mystery, an explanation, a point of departure. It is old ideas, overlooked treasure chests, new angles, long concerts, doubt and conviction. It is words, tones, cracked voices, different points of departure, bass in the diaphragm, falsetto in the hair, challenges, rewards, and love.«
Nikolaj Nørlund made his solo debut with Navnløs (1996), an interpretation of poems by Michael Strunge, and released Nye Optagelser (1997) the following year, his first Danish-language singer-songwriter album. He has since worked broadly across music and poetry and is behind around 20 releases, both solo and in various band constellations. Nørlund’s projects range from collaborations with Copenhagen Phil on two orchestral albums, created together with author Naja Marie Aidt. His most recent release is the single »Englenes Park (nu ikke saa dark)«, the forerunner to the album Himlen skiftet ud, due for release at the end of November. In addition to his own work, Nørlund has, through the record label Auditorium, produced and released a number of Danish artists, including Niels Skousen, Ulige Numre, Jens Unmack, I Got You On Tape, and Martin Ryum. He was previously a member of Trains And Boats And Planes and periodically works with the English-language project Rhonda Harris. Nørlund has received a Danish Music Award (2003) and a Steppeulv (2006), both as Producer of the Year, as well as the Niels Mathiassen Cultural Award (2012).
»Music and sound for me is a language, the most present and fleeting one. It’s something that passes through your heart and becomes the past in a second. Music amplifies every emotion, love, happiness, anger, sadness a thousand times over, making me feel everything more deeply and sensitively.«
Sophia Sagaradze is a sound artist, composer, and performer from Georgia, based in Denmark. She experiments with space, multichannel electronics and audio-visual installations. Sagaradze is interested in creating works that explore the boundary between external and internal experiences of space. She holds a bachelor’s degree in classical composition from Tbilisi State Conservatory and a master’s degree in electronic composition from DIEM Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg. In 2022, she received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation’s Talent Award in Composition. Sagaradze has performed in several countries, received commissioned works for ensembles, performed live and created audio-visual installations. She is a founder and artistic director of Aarhus Sound Association (Aarhus Lydforening), Project leader at ROSA and a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg.