in brief
01.06.2023

Dystopisk datastorm er en fortryllet lydmaskine

Copenhagen Contemporary: »Yet, It Moves!«
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Byens mest luksuriøse lydrum akkurat nu? Nemt: Ryoji Ikedas enorme videotriptykon Data-Verse 1/2/3 gør ikke kun verden til et stramt mønster af ubegribelige datastrømme – fra landkort, solstorme, hjernescanninger, overvågningskameraer – men forvandler også Copenhagen Contemporarys tømte svejsehal til en fortryllet lydmaskine af digital diagnosticeringslyst.

Øverst i det spændte akkompagnement til billedstormen tikker et konstant lykkehjul, i bunden changerer dyb bas som en dystopisk anelse: Flyver vi for tæt på solen? Ubønhørligt faste sinusintervaller nagler den visuelle hast fast i nøgterne grids, men trods klinisk coolness står værket aldrig stille, takket være hule synthdroners actionjagende springmodulationer.

Lyden i det store, tomme rum er eminent. Sinusbølgerne skærer præcist, men fyldigt igennem med deres oplistning og rensning af data. En pige med rottehaler løber grinende forbi i det blinkende mørke; hvis dette portræt af en verden skrevet i binær talkode er en dystopi, er den til at leve med.

Anderledes organisk, men lige så fascinerende, er Tongues of Verglas, Jakob Kudsk Steensens 3D-visualisering af en kollapset gletsjer i rummet ved siden af: erindringen om det tabte bestøvet af isknitren, new age-fragmenter og et ordløst herrekors tomme intervaller. En rørende besyngelse af natur og forgængelighed.

Fortænkt virker til gengæld Jenna Sutelas installation Pond Brain, hvor sammenhængen mellem et antropomorft vandkar med drypmikrofon og den brummende kvadrofoni af AI-behandlet mælkevejsstøj omkring det er til at overse. Heldigvis skal man tilbage til Ikedas megalomane verdensportræt for at komme ud igen.

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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.«