Month: January 2016

MARTIN HALL ABOUT EMP 1924–2016

On the 18th of January 2016 legendary Danish avant-garde composer Else Marie Pade died. EMP was born in 1924 and was an active part in the Danish resistance movement during WW2. She got arrested by Gestapo in 1944 and was imprisoned, but survived the war. At the end of the 50's she began pioneering electronic music and was a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen during the 60's. You'll find a full description of her life at Wikipedia.

In 2003 she was rediscovered by a new generation of young laptop composers. Martin Hall collaborated with EMP in 2007 and she's featured on both his Catalogue and Hospital Cafeterias albums. You can hear one of their works together on the track "P.O." here:

 

 

Very surprisingly the video caused quite a media stir at the time of its release – as an example YouTube banned the recording due to its "offensive content" (quite thought-provoking since current videos with executions of civilians as well as sexist pop-standards caused no censorship).

Martin Hall is featured in recent DR and GAFFA articles about her:

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HALL IN BOWIE NEWS FEATURES

Martin Hall was interviewed alongside the Danish newspaper Politiken's cultural editor Rune Lykkeberg (the Danish equivalent to The Guardian) in the news programme Deadline on Danish national television in relation to David Bowie's death on January 11, 2016. The show's host is Nynne Bjerre Christensen.

You can see the 15 minute feature here:

On February the 8th Hall furthermore participates in Politiken Plus' big Bowie arrangement at Pressen, Politikens Hus, where the singer's work and life will be discussed. The panel consists of Martin Hall, poet and publisher Asger Schnack, music journalist Pernille Jensen as well as moderator Kim Skotte.

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