Augmentations
10th of May 2024
Program
Miniature 6
Mads Emil Dreyer
Written for EKKI MINNA premiered in 2023
Jeppe Just Christensen
2024 (world premiere)
Pause
New Work
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir
world premiere 2024 (composed for EKKI MINNA)
About the composers/performers
Mads Emil Dreyer (b. 1986) is a Copenhagen-based composer working within the field of electroacoustic music. His pieces are often very condensed and minimalistic, but even though very little seem to happen, beneath the surface they're always developing. They often use much of the same material from start to finish and thus can be viewed as pictures or sculptures unfolding in the realm of time.
His music has been performed in Europe, US, and Asia and has been seleced for festivals such as Dark Music Days, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Young Nordic Music Festival, Klang Festival, and Nordic Music Days.
He is the recipient of the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Prize 2019 plus the Odd Fellow Music Prize 2019, and has received work grants from Danish Composers' Society, Augustinus Foundation, and Danish Arts Foundation.
He has worked with, among others, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Adapter, and Neue Vocalsolisten, and he's a founding member of the contemporary music group NEKO3.
Jeppe Just Christensen
Born 1978, lives and works in Copenhagen.
The composer Jeppe Just Christensen works with various elements in his music, bearing references to everyday objects, childhood, nostalgia and musical mismatch. He uses and reuses found objects and instruments in new constellations both musically and visually, and he often builds or rebuilds the instruments himself.
One of his strong compositional principles is cutting to the bone and removing everything unnecessary, leaving only the simple material, and creating condensed and personal music. This implies the aim of finding some kind of truth in the banal and naive. Jeppe performs both as a one-man band and together with Matias Seibæk and David Hildebrandt in Jeppe Just Instituttet. Jeppe Just Instituttet also works with other ensembles such as SCENATET, with whom they released the recording Songs and Movements in 2015.
Jeppe Just Christensen is educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, from 1999 to 2008, where he studied with Hans Abrahamsen, Niels Rosing-Schow and Bent Sørensen. In 2005-2006 he began his Post-graduate studies at Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm.
He currently teaches composition at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he is also a part of the artistic team behind the Pulsar Festival. He furthermore leads compositional/DIY workshops with children and adults, and gives lectures at high schools and musical societies.
He has among others received The Wilhelm Hansen Award 2007, stipend from the Léonie Sonning Music Foundation 2009 and 2011-2014, the 3-year grant from The Danish Arts Foundation. His works has been performed on major festivals in Denmark and abroad, by among others Jeppe Just Instituttet, ensemble recherche, Athelas Sinfonietta, SCENATET and Klangforum Wien.
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (1993) graduated recently in Composition from the Music Conservatory in Aarhus. Áslaug’s music has an emphasis on coding and with the use of interactive processes and broadcasting, Áslaug creates sound which exists in the space between the possible and the real. Among her compositional interests is finding new performative strategies. She has worked with bands and projects such as Samaris, JFDR, ZAAR,Source Material, Pamela Angela and EKKI MINNA duo. in addition to composing for dance, theatre and is now collaborating with Mia Ghabarou on an upcoming release.