Do you know the Danish pioneer of musique concrète Else Marie Pade? On 27 November we will be presenting her at the Heroines of Sound Festival at Silent Green. 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 ? Come and see us !
Berlin: Tickets here
Hamburg: Tickets here
Respectfully called the techno grandmother by her followers and celebrated as a Danish pioneer of musique concrète, Pade has played a pioneering role in the field of electronic music. Her personal career is equally remarkable. At the age of sixteen, Pade joined the only all-female resistance group in Denmark. In 1944 – she was just 19 years old – the Gestapo picked her up from her parents’ house and she was transferred to a prison camp in Frøslev. She did forced labour here until the end of the German occupation in May 1945. Pade scratched her composition sketches into the cell walls, composing became her survival strategy, and throughout her life she remained a versatile, creative and alert artist.
Else Marie Pade would have been 100 years old on 2 December 2024. To mark this occasion, Heroines of Sound and the Zafraan Ensemble are devoting themselves to an artistic exploration of her life and work and thus to the further dissemination of her oeuvre, especially her chamber music.
Program:
Circles of Sevenths (1959)
Afsnit I (1961)
from: Aquarellen über das Meer I-XXI (1968-1971)
En digter og en komponist: I. Sang om amerikanerne i Vietnam (1970)
Et spil for cello (1962)
from: Græsstrået (1964)
from: Aquarellen über das Meer I-XXI (1968-1971)
En digter og en komponist: IV. Se det i øjnene (original version) (1970)
4 Illustrations: Eventyrland (Fairyland) (1995) as an arrangement for instruments and electronics
Afterwards: Roundtable: Zafraan Ensemble (Clemens Hund-Göschel), Heroines of Sound Festival (Bettina Wackernagel) and Katja Heldt (moderator)
With:
Zafraan Ensemble:
Clemens Hund-Göschel: piano
Martin Smith: cello
Emmanuelle Bernard: violin
Anna Viechtl: harp
Vinicius Giusti: Electronics/Sound Design
Management and public relations: Sofia Surguchowa
Photo: Private
Kindly supported by: Musikfonds
