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 where my heart is. The place where I feel the most freedom and possibility to express myself. It's also the place I seek to when I need to calm down.«

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