Mekaniske gys og flade palmer

Vinyl -terror & -horror: »[tense music swelling]«

Kunstmuseum Brandts, 14. okt. – 23. apr.

Sune Anderberg. © Alexander Banck-Petersen

Det må være sjovt at være Vinyl -terror & -horror. Jeg mener, skrivemåden alene! Men endnu sjovere er det heldigvis at være den, der, helst uforvarende, støder ind i lydkunstduoens hjemsøgte installationer.

Som nu her øverst oppe på Brandts i Odense, en etage over de surrealistiske åndsfæller i museets faste samling. Pludselig, inde i mørket, står man ansigt til ansigt med et filmlærred omringet af selvspillende harmonika, roterende panfløjte, snurrende stiletter, sækkepibe, fodpumper, et blafrende gardin og, gudhjælpemig, en mekanisk loftstrappe, der folder sig ud.

På lærredet kører små filmsekvenser, hvor lydsidens stemning er tekstet for hørehæmmede, deraf værkets titel, og den stemning opføres så af det mekaniske instrumentarium i kombination med båndet lyd af harpeklang, telefontoner, orkesterdyb og alskens effekter.

Vi ser skikkelser i mørket og hører et afløb gurgle. Bevæger os gennem mørk skov, mens et par støvler træder i et lille bjerg af båndstrimler og en tordenplade rumler. Holder vejret, da en underbo banker i loftet og bevæger sig ildevarslende langsomt op til støjsynderen, akkompagneret af de roterende stiletter, den mekaniske trappe og, ja, en bevægelig kost.

Midt i det hele ligger en flad plastikpalme i en skriggrøn badering. Vinyl -horror & -terror leger konstant med potentiel energi, ikke al suspense skal forløses, og sjovest af alt er måske, at palmen bare får lov at ligge der uden nogensinde at blive pustet op. Snydt!

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11.09.2023

My name is John Grant – would you like to see my playlist?

»Music has been a healing balm for me.«

John William Grant is an American singer, musician, and songwriter holding both American and Icelandic citizenship. He first came to prominence as a co-founder, lead vocalist, pianist, and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band The Czars. After releasing six albums between 1994 and 2006, the band disbanded, and Grant withdrew from music for four years before embarking on a solo career.

He returned in April 2010 with a critically acclaimed debut album recorded in collaboration with Midlake. Queen of Denmark was named Album of the Year 2010 by Mojo magazine and was also selected as one of the ten best albums of 2010 by The Guardian’s music critics and writers.

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13.06.2023

My name is Allan Gravgaard Madsen – would you like to see my playlist?

»In his music, composer Allan Gravgaard Madsen tries to create a better version of himself.«

Allan Gravgaard Madsen is a Danish composer based in Copenhagen. His most recent works include Träume nicht and Nachtmusik. He tries to create a better version of himself in his music – where his personality tends to be restless, chatty and has an active inner life, his music is controlled, simple and merciless in its expression. He is the recipient of the Carl Nielsen & Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Hæderspris 2022.

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23.01.2022

Finnish Space Travel

Tomutonttu: »Hoshi«

Vauva, 02.12

Kristoffer Møllegaard

The Finnish multimedia artist Jan Anderzén has, with the album Hoshi, released under the solo moniker Tomutonttu, created a true little star. Not only because »hoshi« literally means »star« in Japanese, but above all due to the music itself. There is something cosmic, yet infinitely minute, about the sonic worlds Anderzén conjures—like a galaxy reflected in a puddle, or a space journey in a rocket carved from a hollow tree trunk. Synths emit busy, warm blips and bloops, while ultra-short vocal and instrumental samples create a recognizable blur. At once artificial and organic – soft, rounded, jagged, crackling.

Anderzén approaches sound with a playfulness I simply adore. His music is strange in an incredibly comforting way. It places me in a kind of colorful, trance-like state, only interrupted when, several times over the course of the album, I find myself smiling in delight at a particularly great sound. The synths on »Katse osuu sähköön!« The choral samples on »Kesä oli äkkiä ohi!« Milo Linnovaara’s flute on »Malta lausua ‘AH’!« And many more. Hoshi is an album packed with microscopic moments that together form a frayed, exploding, radiant, idiosyncratic whole—a stellar moment of just under 38 minutes.