in brief
23.11.2022

Milde skaber

Thomas Blachman: »Oh Yes My Maker«
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Så er der endelig godt nyt til de mange husejere med gasfyr. Sultanen af nedsablinger i primetime, Thomas Blachman, har med suiten Oh Yes My Maker skabt et værk, der består af så rigelige mængder varm luft, at energikrisen nu må være ovre.

Blachman har i forbindelse med udgivelsen udråbt sig selv til den symfoniske musiks frelser. Og forberedt gud og hvermand på, at »parnasset« og »snobberne« nok vil synes, at suiten – der foreligger som ren og skær MIDI-musik, fordi genialitet ikke kan holdes nede – er noget »frygteligt lort«.

Det er simpelthen en fornøjelse, når udgivelser ledsages af så nøjagtige anmeldelser fra kunstnerens egen hånd, at man ikke føler trang til at opponere. For Blachmans plastiske MIDI-suite er en kontrarevolution. Han er på sin største mission hidtil: at overbevise os om, at fortiden er fremtiden.

I dette parallelle univers væves revolutionens lydtæppe af Schönbergs ekspressionisme, Stravinskijs neoklassicisme, Bernsteins symfoniske jazz og tidligere tiders filmmusik. Jovist, det lyder tungt som et arkivskab, støvet som gammel cognac og mørkt som en undereksponeret spionfilm. Men tjek det her ud:

Musikken spilles af et computerprogram! Et vaskeægte computerprogram. Kan man forestille sig noget mere moderne? Thomas Blachman, der nu i tyve år har solgt sig selv som originalitetens sendebud, kan ikke. Han kalder det »en ny æstetisk dagsorden for kontrapunktisk partiturmusik«.

Men »frygteligt lort« ligger bare bedre i munden.

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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.«