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m_dejean
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The complete works of Else Marie Pade are now available online[/b]
Else Marie Pade (b. 1924) is one of the pioneers of electronic music in Denmark. From the beginning of the 1950s, she, in close co-operation with technicians and assistants on Radio Denmark, produced a substantial amount of concrete and electronic music, partly in the shape of independent works for radio broadcasts, partly in the shape of accompaniments to various radio dramas. She started taking private lessons in composition from both Vagn Holmboe, Jan Maegaard and Leif Kayser. It was in 1952 that Pade discovered the means by which she could bring into being her universe of sound. The impulse came from a broadcast on Radio Denmark about Pierre Schaeffer, the originator of the new movement within the French field of electronic music: musique concr??te. After visiting Schaeffer in 1952, Pade began to study the concrete aesthetics of music and the technique behind it. In the latter half of the 1950s, Pade, together with Lauridsen, organised an interimistic electronic sound studio at Radio Denmark, where one could work with both concrete and synthetically produced sound material - a synthesis which was also a prominent issue in the new Italian sound studio, Studio de Fonologia Musicale, where people like Luciano Berio, Henri Posseur and John Cage were working. From 1957 until the middle of 1960s, Pade experienced a productive period in which she created a long series of electronic works and thereby made a name for herself, both in Denmark and to a certain extent in international electronic circles.Add to this that she was active in the underground resistance during WW2, fighting the Nazi occuption. She was arrested by Gestapo in 1944, which resulted in an internment at the Fr??slev prison camp. Only by a stroke of luck did she avoid being sent to a german concentration camp. The experience affected her deeply and compelled her to dedicate her life to music.She is still alive; a small, elderly woman with a peculiar voice and her resilient spirit is still intact. I've seen interviews with her, and she kind of reminds me of a mix between Zelda Rubinstein and Anne Ramsey. Quite a character.
All her works including seminal compositions like "Symphonie Magnetophonique" and "Seven Circles" are now available onlineHERE[/b]Do yourself a favor and spend a few hours with this goodness. Now where's that "take that shit to waxidermy.com" graemlin when I need it?
Else Marie Pade (b. 1924) is one of the pioneers of electronic music in Denmark. From the beginning of the 1950s, she, in close co-operation with technicians and assistants on Radio Denmark, produced a substantial amount of concrete and electronic music, partly in the shape of independent works for radio broadcasts, partly in the shape of accompaniments to various radio dramas. She started taking private lessons in composition from both Vagn Holmboe, Jan Maegaard and Leif Kayser. It was in 1952 that Pade discovered the means by which she could bring into being her universe of sound. The impulse came from a broadcast on Radio Denmark about Pierre Schaeffer, the originator of the new movement within the French field of electronic music: musique concr??te. After visiting Schaeffer in 1952, Pade began to study the concrete aesthetics of music and the technique behind it. In the latter half of the 1950s, Pade, together with Lauridsen, organised an interimistic electronic sound studio at Radio Denmark, where one could work with both concrete and synthetically produced sound material - a synthesis which was also a prominent issue in the new Italian sound studio, Studio de Fonologia Musicale, where people like Luciano Berio, Henri Posseur and John Cage were working. From 1957 until the middle of 1960s, Pade experienced a productive period in which she created a long series of electronic works and thereby made a name for herself, both in Denmark and to a certain extent in international electronic circles.Add to this that she was active in the underground resistance during WW2, fighting the Nazi occuption. She was arrested by Gestapo in 1944, which resulted in an internment at the Fr??slev prison camp. Only by a stroke of luck did she avoid being sent to a german concentration camp. The experience affected her deeply and compelled her to dedicate her life to music.She is still alive; a small, elderly woman with a peculiar voice and her resilient spirit is still intact. I've seen interviews with her, and she kind of reminds me of a mix between Zelda Rubinstein and Anne Ramsey. Quite a character.All her works including seminal compositions like "Symphonie Magnetophonique" and "Seven Circles" are now available onlineHERE[/b]Do yourself a favor and spend a few hours with this goodness. Now where's that "take that shit to waxidermy.com" graemlin when I need it?
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and she has aged beautifully
She looks cute in the pic with the cigarette and reel to reel!
Totally, she looks so waxidermic, but she didn't know it.