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12.05.2021

Lytningen aflyttet

Tine Surel Lange: »Works for Listening 1-10«
Tine Surel Lange: »Works for Listening 1-10«. © Sofa Music
Tine Surel Lange: »Works for Listening 1-10«. © Sofa Music

Tine Surel Langes debutalbum har en tilfredsstillende deskriptiv titel, »værker til lytning«. Nøgleordet værende lytning, for uden en bevidst og fokuseret tilgang til dette album vil det højst sandsynligt ikke gøre det store indtryk.

Works for Listening er oprindeligt blevet præsenteret i ambisonics – en form for sfærisk surroundsound – men er til nærværende udgivelse blevet mikset ned til stereoformat. Albummets ti numre består alle af hverdagslyde, der er blevet klippet ud, sat sammen, rykket rundt og remikset på en måde, der virkelig viser, hvor meget rumlighed og tilstedeværelse man kan opnå med kun to kanaler og et par halvgode høretelefoner.

Det første værk, Metal and Spoon, kommer efter Langes behandling til at lyde som et tidsforvrænget klokkeværk, mens Water and Stone i kraft af sine elementer fremstår langt mere meditativt rolig. Det er ikke musik i konventionel forstand – rytmikken er oftest af naturens uregelmæssige variant, de traditionelle strukturer ikkeeksisterende.

Snarere er det en form for lydskulptur. Lange er billedhugger, og mit indre øre er hendes marmor. De bedre værker, såsom de to ovennævnte, imponerer både kunstnerisk og håndværksmæssigt. De kilder i ørerne og i hjernen, er i sig selv distinkte tableauer. Andre er mindre inspirerende, som for eksempel de tre Roof Work-værker, der på grund af en begrænset palet bare ikke formår at fænge.

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»Music is, to us, a kind of closed club of nepotism, networking and Copenhagen cowboy energy. But in reality, it’s got nothing to do with expensive guitars or technical skill. For us, music is something you can feel in your chest, or something that gives you goosebumps. The best concerts are when someone screams so earnestly that the rest of us don’t have to. The best music expresses emotions in a way that would get you picked up by an ambulance if you did it out on the street. For us, music should fuck with the people who have it too comfortable, and give those who have it fucked a feeling that they’re not alone. Boom. And what the fuck is a chord and a key anyway? Kisses from Nightmaries.«

Nightmaries blend saws, guitars and voices into a dark-country, no-wave, cowboy-doom nightmare. They create the kind of soundtrack that feels like a fever dream you somehow don’t want to wake up from. As the world gets stranger and darker, Nightmaries lean into the madness, serving up slow-burning songs that creep under your skin like a poison that takes its sweet time. Put on your favourite steel-toe boots, dip your smoky eyes in an ashtray, and prepare yourself for sloppy doom with punk energy.

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»To me, music is love. I love how music allows you to skip the small talk and connect directly with people’s innermost selves. It is an extraordinary and moving way to meet one another.«

Fenja wrote her first song at the age of twelve – about a polar bear dying due to climate change – and themes of existentialism, nature, and her own sensitive nature came to define the lyrics and sound she has since developed. She released her debut album, Flugtdyr, in 2021, and in February 2026, she released the album Menneskedyr.

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Danish composer Sofus Forsberg has died at the age of 56. With his distinctive blend of melodic sensibility, electronic processing and rhythmic precision, he created a musical world that moved effortlessly between IDM, pop and the avant-garde.

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»Music for me is my hobby, my job, my outlet, my mood, an endless source of discovering new music and new, old music, some of the best and can be some of the worst. And I love it!« 

Track72 aka Tue Track aka Anders Lundby Brixen. Producer, DJ, rapper and more. Known for his role in the trio Malk De Koijn, which since the mid-1990s has created a personal universe in Danish hip-hop. Has performed in Ponyblod, Xtra Naan, Track Abdullah Rock, Booty Cologne and others.

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On Wednesday, 5 August 2026, it happened again: a chord in John Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) changed after two and a half years. Classic FM reports.

The work was written by the American avant-garde composer John Cage in the mid-1980s. The score consists of eight pages of music, and, as the title suggests, the instruction is to play it »as slow as possible.«