★Dacapo
Electronic Music
2004 release ** "Jørgen Plaetner is best known as one of the pioneers of electronic music in Scandinavia. Born in Copenhagen in 1930, Plaetner played piano as a child and entered the Royal Danish Academy of music at the age of 19, where he studied with Vagn Holmboe, Niels Viggo Bentzon, and Bjørn Hjelmborg. Early on, he became aware of the experimentation going on abroad in the field of electronic music, and at 20 he became one of the first Danes to participate in courses for contemporary music …
Renewal Manifestation
Builder’s anticipated 2024 release is a unique blend of contemporary classical and ambient music. Renewal Manifestation approaches the organ like a living creature - being taught to breathe and sigh. Written for organ, alto saxophone, and Crush string trio, the music brings forth an immense wave of spirit and sound that washes over the listener. As author and critic Tim Rutherford - Johnson writes (The Wire, Tempo, Positionen, Nutida Musik) : “In Renewal Manifestation, Calum Builder, an Australi…
Face It
More from the Danish queen of the tape, this one differing rather significantly from Et Glasperlespil in its more pronounced use of concrète elements and the near-presence of a narrative - Else Marie Pade (b. 1924) is one of the pioneers of electronic music in Denmark. From the beginning of the 1950s, she, in close co-operation with technicians and assistants on Radio Denmark, produced a substantial amount of concrete and electronic music, partly in the shape of independent works for radio b…
Et Glasperlespil
few copies available, long out of print - Else Marie Pade (b. 1924) is one of the pioneers of electronic music in Denmark. From the beginning of the 1950s, she, in close co-operation with technicians and assistants on Radio Denmark, produced a substantial amount of concrete and electronic music, partly in the shape of independent works for radio broadcasts, partly in the shape of accompaniments to various radio dramas. So far, the music has only existed on tapes in the archives of the Dani…
Electronic Music Produced at DIEM 1987-2012
The story of DIEM (The Danish Institute of Electronic Music) is the story of 25 years of believing that the newest technology can move existing musical boundaries, create new sounds, new structures, and pioneer the development of the music of the future. This double CD presents a broad selection of works produced at DIEM from 1987 to 2012; all of them presented in their original form and many of them released for the first time
The story of DIEM is the story of 25 years of believing that t…