Else Marie Pade – 100th anniversary concerts Birthday

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

Daniel Eichholz: percussion

NN: 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