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Som 16-årig begyndte billedkunstner Rose Eken at arbejde som scenetekniker på Café Teatret og til live punk, rock og hardcore koncerter på forskellige spillesteder i København, hvilket har haft stor indflydelse på hendes kunstneriske virke. Roses kunst kredser ofte om musik, fankultur og mørket som farvetone og eksistentielt fænomen. Hun er bl.a. kendt for sine store keramiske installationer og skævvredne skulpturer af hverdagsobjekter og efterladenskaber som askebægre, cigaretskodder, morgenkaffen, fest make-up’en, ens udtrådte Dr. Martens støvler og slidte fan t-shirts. Hun har boet og arbejdet i London, Berlin, New York og København.



»For nogle år siden, efter en Slayer-koncert på Copenhell, fik jeg ideen til en installation bestående af flere tusind objekter i keramik. Jeg hang ud foran den store scene sammen med min veninde og ventede på, at hele rykket mod udgangen blev lidt mindre crazy. Jeg kan huske, jeg stod og kiggede ud over pladsen med hundredvis af nedtrampede plastikkrus, afspærringshegn og andet debris og tænkte: 'Det her skal jeg lave i keramik'….. Det blev til installationen Aftermath, som nu er en del af den permanente samling på Horsens Kunstmuseum.



»Musik for mig er energi, evig inspiration, plads. Der hvor jeg kan finde frihed – og mig selv. Musik er en portal til andre universer, som kan indramme stemninger, følelser, øjeblikke – sige ting, vi ikke kan beskrive med ord. Musik er privat, helt unikt for mig, men samtidig også den ting, der binder os sammen, den oplevelse, vi kan dele, være samme om – om det er på teenageværelset eller foran Orange Scene. Med musik forstår vi hinanden bedre. Musik er, hvor jeg søger hen og finder inspiration, samtale, frihed, fest, glæde.« 

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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.«