On 27 November, as part of the Heroines of Sound Festival at Silent Green, we will introduce you to the ‘techno grandmother’ Else Marie Pade, who would have turned 100 in December 2024... On 30 November we will be performing the same programme at Resonanzraum Hamburg and on 9 January 2025 at Haus Eden in Lübeck ! Got curious ? Join us !
Also respectfully called the “techno grandmother” by her fans and celebrated as a Danish pioneer of musique concrète, Pade plays a pioneering role in the field of electronic music. Her personal career is just as remarkable. At the age of sixteen, Pade joins Denmark’s only resistance group led exclusively by women. In 1944 – she was just 19 years old – the Gestapo picked her up from her parents’ house and she was transferred to the prison camp in Frøslev. She did forced labor here until the end of the German occupation in May 1945. Pade scratches her composition sketches into the cell walls, composing becomes her survival strategy, and she remains a versatile, creative and alert artist throughout her life. Her 100th birthday is an impulse for an artistic examination of her life and work, for a further dissemination of her work, especially her chamber music.
Program:
Introduction: Katja Heldt
Circles of Sevenths (electronic) (1959)
Afsnit I (1961) for violin and percussion and 3 speaker groups
from: Watercolors over the Sea I-XXI (1968-1971/2024) as an instrumental arrangement for violin, cello, piano, percussion
Græsstrået (1964) for prepared piano, violin, electronics
Completed by and composer: I. Sang from the Americans in Vietnam (1970)
End digter and composer: IV. Se det i øjnene (Original Version) (1970)
Et spil for cello (1962)
4 Illustrations: Himmelrummet (The Firmament) (1995/2024) – as an instrumental arrangement
With:
Zafraan Ensemble:
Clemens Hund-Göschel: piano
Martin Smith: cello
Emmanuelle Bernard: violin
Anna Viechtl: harp
Vincius Giusti: Electronics/Sound Design
Katja Heldt: Introduction and panel discussion
Management and public relations: Sofia Surguchowa
Photo: Private
In collaboration with transmusikale eV and with the kind support of the Musikfonds eV
Thanks to our partner for the concert in Berlin: Heroines of Sound Festival