in brief
01.04.2022

Menneskehedens ellevte time

CPH:DOX – Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin: »Sans Soleil« live-score
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Ofte føltes det slet ikke korrekt, soundtracket til Chris Markers fragmentariske dokumentarfilm Sans Soleil, som Rahbek og Valentin skabte fra deres bord med alskens elektronik. Hverdagsscener – et besøg ved et gravsted, mennesker i kø, trafik – blev understøttet af en musik, der med dystre og halvt opløste synth- og sampletemaer gav det hele et sært og usammenhængende præg. Det skærpede sanserne. Selv begivenheder, der i vores levede liv ikke tillægges nogen synderlig værdi, syntes nu skelsættende. Det var som at være vidne til menneskehedens ellevte time, de sidste stunder inden bomberne ville falde. 

De momenter, hvor billede og lyd faktisk gik op i en højere, mere konventionel, enhed, stod stærkt. En mand, der i en menneskeflok på en travl metrostation får øje på kameraet og vinker. Han var bare endnu en passager, men i dette få sekunder korte klip, med et glitrende synthcrescendo i ryggen, var han noget af det smukkeste, jeg nogensinde har set. Definitionen af, hvad det vil sige at være menneske.

Rahbek og Valentin bevægede sig bevidst ude af takt med billedsporet og skabte derved et soundtrack, der var surrealistisk, mægtigt, intimt og fjernt, overvældende og livsbekræftende. Som fundamentalt ændrede oplevelsen af Markers film. Og som mindede os om skønheden ved livet, døden og alt derimellem. 

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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.«

»What music is to me? Where have the great feelings gone?«.

Gellért Szabó is a composer, conductor and performer based in Leipzig, Germany. His work combines contemporary composition with influences from free improvisation, noise and the expressive richness of the late nineteenth century. He is the founder and artistic director of the 23-piece Ideal Orchestra, an ensemble dedicated to large-scale experimental music of sweeping emotional intensity. Alongside this work, Szabó performs internationally with his solo project Radical Radio Show, exploring symphonic textures and immersive sound worlds through a single electric guitar and live electronics. His music is driven by a search for intensity, vulnerability and uncompromising emotional expression.