in brief
03.08.2021

Hovedspring i containeren

Støberiet: »Sa(l)vages«
Ensemble K!ART. © Gert Sørensen
Ensemble K!ART havde kurateret koncertinstallationen »Sa(l)vages« på Støberiet på Nørrebro. © Gert Sørensen

I hjørnet af Støberiets forsamlingslokale hænger en brudekjole af det pureste hvide plastik. Den tilhører POSY aka. James Black som bizar runaway bride i et multikøn af pap og PVC. På en skærm ses POSYs trivielle hverdag sløjfe sig som korte modløse Instagram-videoer. Hurtige sprittuschtegninger på væggen tilføjer en orakelstatus til Blacks vidunderligt mærkelige karakter – i denne installation går det trivielle og det sensationelle i hårdknude.



POSY II – The life of POSY er del af koncertinstallationen Sa(l)vages kurateret af det entreprenante ensemble K!ART. Fem solooptrædener kredser om begrebet affald/spild. To af komponisterne spiller på hjemmelavede skraldeinstrumenter. Emil Vijgens trækasse med fjedre spændt på toppen har klanglig dybde; formen efterlades dog lovligt søgende i Spring Pastludes, og Kristin Warfinges Space Junkyard taber mig omvendt i brugen af loop-sekvenser. Nærværet sættes over styr.



Neli Pantsulaias højttalerværk Just the Simplicitity of Life er et spøgelsesopkald fra 00’erne: En gruopvækkende surftur på bilradioens FM-bølger med Britney Spears og sælgerstemmer monteret med nødopkald og elektroniske støjeffekter. Before, Behind, Between, Above, Below af Connor McLean lyder også hacket. Mikkel Schou agerer cyborg: Autotunet til at være out of tune med sin westernguitar plastret til med slimede effekter. 



Aftenens højdepunkt var Rob Durnins trommesæt-etude these gizmos are totally ill-suited for my birthday bash, mom: Hsiao-Tung Yuan udstyret med de underligste trommestikker i form af asiatisk snakkende højttalere, som bragte barneleg ind i en stiliseret afmontering af den kultiverede trommeslager. 



Summa summarum om Sa(l)vages: Der er spildmateriale derude, som ikke må gå til spilde. Spændende idéer og lyde materialiserer sig ofte i randområderne af objekternes egentlige intention. Men jeg savnede noget mere skrald i affaldstematikken, der kun glimtvis bed fra sig. 

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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.«