in brief
02.05.2023

Kvinder uden grav

Olga Ravn, Jeanett Albeck, Liv Helm, Freya Sif Hestnes: »Hex«
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I Skuespilhuset giver den tværæstetiske musikforestilling Hex stemme til en række historiske personer under 1600-tallets uhyrlige trolddomsprocesser. Der er udelukkende kvinder både på og bag scenen, og manuskriptet af Olga Ravn og Liv Helm er skrevet over historiske retsdokumenter, teologiske skrifter og gamle magiske remser. 

Monologerne flyder med stor musikalitet og står stærkest ved en magisk voksdukkes poetiske vidneberetninger: »Hvis jeg havde haft øjne, der kunne græde, havde jeg grædt.« Kvinderne bevæger sig langsomt som Butoh-ånder og gjalder gåsehudsfremkaldende flerstemmig sang over melankolske folketoner og ritualistiske trommerytmer. Jeanett Albeck er værkets komponist og performer også selv sammen med en perkussionist og en cellist. Hun personificerer renæssancesamfundets ultimative horrorfantasi – djævlen selv – og sætter undervejs gang i en grotesk dæmondans med åben mund og svirpende nippletassels over pulserende trancemusik, ond latter og kvindestøn i loop. Henover resonerer hendes dæmonisk manipulerede stemme tungt og ironisk: »Når kvinder tænker alene, tænker de ondt.« Det er som et syretrip gået galt.

Forestillingen er så sansemættet, at den bliver uklar i sin historiefortælling. På trods af smukke og stærke idéer undervejs, sidder man som publikum tilbage med en usamlet oplevelse og en følelse af at være slået omkuld uden forklaring. En ujævn sammenblanding af mange kunstneriske udtryk og niveauer af tid gør, at man aldrig helt kan give sig hen til den samlede fortælling. Som et uforståeligt ritual, der er lukket inde i sig selv.

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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.«