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.

Programm:

Circles of Sevenths (1959)

Afsnit I (1961)

from: Aquarellen über das Meer Nr: 1,7,9,14,15 (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 Nr: 19-21 (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