Anton Friisgaard

 

Compositions & Original Works Portfolio

Teratai Åkande Album

Copenhagen-based producer and electronic musician Anton Friiisgaard travels new paths, as he explores gamelan music from his own artistic perspective in close collaboration with Balinese musicians, affiliated with Ubud’s acclaimed Gamelan scene.

Conceptually, Teratai Åkande seeks to create a synthesis of acoustic and electronic expressions, establishing two worlds on each side of a metaphorical portal that the listener is welcomed to traverse. The result is a musical landscape which at once feels mysterious and hypnotic, while at the same time manifesting a sense of groundedness. With its lucid underpinnings, the music thus feels as the crossing of a more mundane portal; namely that of slowly letting go of consciousness and falling into deep sleep, only to find oneself in the midst of vivid dreaming.

The album received coverage from:
Bandcamp
Seismograf
HHV Mag
Boomkat
The Lake
Fifteen Questions

    Minor Blossoms

    Minor Blossoms is a collection of ambient vignettes, crafted to evoke and nurture inner emergence. Through analog processing and re-amping, Anton Friisgaard conjures nine sonorous petals, guiding listeners into a state of contemplative emergence.

    Released via VAAGNER.

      Brahms Strygerkvartet No. 1 (Anton Friisgaard Remix)

      Collaboration with Esbjerg Ensemble.
      Together with Esbjerg Ensembles string quartet, I got the chance to remix Brahms’ String Quartet No. 1.
      The remix was performed live on a reel to reel tape player, an akai MPC1000, a tape delay and an analogue mixer and transmitted live on Danish National Radio – DR P2.

      I live-recorded the string quartets concert performance onto a short tape loop capturing, repeating and altering the very performance the audience had just heard.

      Over Mellem Under

      As his first full-length release, Hviledag has created the piece ‘Over Mellem Under’. The album is built up from archival recordings and ideas, which has been given new life through post-production, recontextualization and timbral manipulation. The musical expression moves from an eternally reflective tone, which spans from the dark and gloomy to the melancholically beautiful and thoughtful, which in parallel both fantasizes and remembers

        Album Found

        Through the joint project ALBUM FOUND and FILM FOUND, we explored loss of control by working with physical mediums of sound and film.

        ALBUM FOUND originates from the reel to reel tape loop-based score composed for the experimental animation film FILM FOUND directed by Claudia Munksgaard- Palmqvist. The two products FILM FOUND and ALBUM FOUND was made in a symbiotic and organic process, simultaneously, influencing each other along the way. ALBUM FOUND is made with a special setup of two quarter inch tape machines that let me iterate and develop the tapeloop as it’s playing. The two tape recorders are placed head to head with a tapeloop running between them and which makes it possible to continuously record or delete audio on the tapeloop.

        Purchase via:
        Bandcamp

          MUSIKZAG at Glyptoteket

          Quadrophonic composition and performance for Strøm Festival’s reiteration of MUSIKZAG – the electronic concert on danish ground, in glyptoteket.

          The work was a reinterpretation of Gunner Møller Pedersens mater tapes from the original concert in the 70’s.
          One of MUSIKZAG’s original creators, 81-year-old Gunner Møller Pedersen participated in the re-enactment, using the original machines and reel-to-reel tapes from 1972, drawing direct threads from the past into the present.

          MUSIKZAG was created by the composers and electronic music pioneers Fuzzy and Gunner Møller Pedersen. Their vision was to create a ‘living organism directly addressed to the listeners, as opposed to the industrially created muzak that everyone is being forcefed in shops, offices and public transport’. “We want to sharpen the senses of the listeners instead of dulling them, as commercial industrial music deliberately does,” they said about MUSIKZAG in 1972.

          Passive Aggressive review

          Liminal Tape Loops

          I do performances on a system of two linked reel-to-reel players.

          I record music onto audio tape and play it back from the 2 stereo sets from the reel-to-reel players to create long live-looped transitory loops, that develops throughout a performance.
          The sonics are repetitive, ethereal and spiritual and moves between grandiose harmonics, intimate stillness and crushing noise.

          Liminal Tapeloops has been performed at:
          Intonal Festival, VinterJazz, ALICE, Xenon, Inkonst, Koncertkirken, Mayhem, Øen, Christianshavns Beboerhus, Super Aarhus m. fl.