Af Simon Christensen

Som en svanesang på det lille odensianske diy-label Pladeselskabet Pladeselvskab har musiker/radiovært Jonas Torstensen samlet en ambitiøs kompilation med bidrag fra de forskellige eksperimenterende musikscener rundt om i landet. Titlen er “En Samling Af Ny Dansk Musik”, og den udkommer på dobbelt-kassettebånd med håndlavede covers. Fra i dag er udgivelsen også tilgængelig via musikarkivet Sounds.

Musikalsk spænder samlingen over mange forskellige udtryk fra det inderlige og ambiente, til sfæriske sangere og svævende lydcollager. De medvirkende omfatter velkendte eksperimenterende kunstnere som Sonja LaBianca, Bona Fide, Gry Bagøien, Marie Eline Hansen, Asger Valentin, Brynje, Ydegirl og Xenia Xamanek Lopez, der bl.a. har udgivelser på eget værelse, Escho, Visage og Anyines bag sig, samt flere nye navne, der udgiver noget for første gang.

“Der er noget helt vildt fedt over at sidde og prøve at samle musikken fra det vildt fantastiske miljø, vi efterhånden har i Danmark. Også bare for at prøve at forbinde små miljøer rundt omkring i landet på tværs af genre. Kunstnerne er jo meget forskellige og er egentlig mest samlet ud fra, at de alle er folk, jeg har stor respekt for og som har gang i spændende ting. Så har jeg forsøgt at bygge båndene op, så de mere eksperimenterende stykker mikses sammen med noget der er mere ligetil,” fortæller Jonas Torstensen i et mailinterview.

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Interview by Astrid Hald

Iconic composer and sound designer extraordinaire Suzanne Ciani made her way by Malmö last month to give a live quadraphonic performance at the culture house Inkonst, dedicated to experimental art and music. While being classically trained American Ciani entered the forefront of the world of electronics in the ‘60s when encountering synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla and thus the Buchla analogue modular synthesizer – the instrument which has become inseparable from her name ever since. After debuting with the experimental “Voices of Packaged Souls” in 1970, she has produced an endless string of masterpieces, all of which have contributed to the expansion and humanisation of the experience of electronic sound – and earned her 5 Grammy-nominations over time – through albums, films scores and commercials, such as one of her iconic ‘voice-over’ to the computerised washing machine.

After a 40 year break from performing live with the Buchla, she returned in 2016 and has been touring on and off since then. But no performance is a given, she tells Passive/Aggressive in Malmö. “The day it breaks is the day I stop. It’s not an automatic thing like, “oh, you’re gonna do another Buchla concert?” It’s like am I gonna do another?”

Ahead of her performance, we sat down with her for a conversation about being a female pioneer that has paved the way for a new generation of analogue aficionados.

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