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Musikhuset Aarhus

Komponist: Geir Lysne

How Does Architecture Sound?

Aarhus Festival 2012
Venue: Toldkammerbygningen
Composed by: Nils Klein

Read more Toldkammerbygningen Info from architect Anne Qvist:
Toldkammerbygningen (The Customs House) in Aarhus’ harbour is from 1897 and is designed by architect Hack Kampmann, who also designed other characteristic buildings in Aarhus, including the Aarhus Theatre. It is a lovely brick structure - rich in detail and rich in the use of materials and craftsmanship - which boldly turns its back on the city and instead focuses on its relationship to the harbour.

Toldkammerbygningen was declared a listed building in 1985 and today reminds us of how well an edifice can place itself in the harbour so the buildings behind still have a view of the harbour and the water. May it serve as inspiration for future buildings in Aarhus’ new waterfront area!

Composer: Niels Klein
German saxophonist and composer Niels Klein has won numerous awards in his homeland and has both played with, and written for, a long list of prominent German musicians on the modern jazz scene.

Niels Klein speaks about the composition: “Toldkammerbygningen”
My piece reflects a walk around the building from left to right. If you look at the first two pages of the score side-by-side, you can actually “see” in the sheet-music landscape the building’s middle section between the two, round towers. The bass tones form the lowest level, the light trombones and deep trumpets are the three arches in the middle, and the alto saxophones and light trumpets are the windows and rooftop in the middle. The last measures of the composition lead one away from the building, toward the water.

How Does Architecture Sound?

Aarhus Festival 2012
Venue: Vadestedet/The Square
Composed by: Claus Waidtløw

Read more Vadestedet Info from architect Anne Qvist:
Vadestedet (“The Crossing”), with its café milieu and outdoor scene, is situated in the centre of Aarhus, but this lively neighbourhood already existed at the time the city was founded. Viking merchant vessels anchored here, but with time the ships grew too large and the stream that gave the area its name fell into disuse.

In the 1920s it was decided to cover the stream with a wide boulevard, but in the beginning of the 1990s it was uncovered again, resulting in a bustling café and shopping milieu in the same location where the town’s first residents also met and did business.

Composer: Claus Waidtløw
Claus Waidtløw plays 2nd tenor saxophone in the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra. On and off throughout his career he has composed for both the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra and other large ensembles. He has released three critically acclaimed CDs in his own name.

Claus Waidtløw speaks about the composition: “The Square”

Part 1: Water; Part 2: The Square; Part 3: Reflexions
Vadestedet/Abegrotten is situated down on the level of the stream that flows right by, and the gliding, flowing water can be heard throughout the composition. Visually, the space itself is basically divided into three levels separated by large steps up to street level. This inspired me to work with a chord structure that employs major thirds (Parts 2 and 3).
The big clock on the Magasin department store’s facade can be seen clearly from the area, dictating a tempo of 60! And the reflection in the glass facade of the modern building on the other side of the stream inspired me to work with reflections in the music. (Part 3 – Reflexions - is a retrograde version of Part 1.)

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Aarhus Festival 2012
Venue: Møllestien
Composed by: Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard

Read more Møllestien Info from architect Anne Qvist:
Møllestien (The Mill Lane) dates back to the 1300s, but today most of the houses are from around 1750, built upon the remains of those from times past. Thus Møllestien stands in downtown Aarhus as a nostalgic, country village idyll that likes to call itself “the world’s smallest big city” with its narrow street characterized by cobblestones, its colourful variation in the painting of the houses, and its hollyhocks.

Composer: Niels Lyhne Løkkegård
Both as Aarhus Jazz Orchestra’s 1st alto saxophonist and as composer, Niels Lyhne Løkkegård has a distinctive personal voice that inhabits the borderland between free improvisation and strict, thoroughly composed music. He has released four CDs in his own name and has received numerous awards for his music.

Niels Lyhne Løkkegård speaks about the composition: “Møllestien”
As a composer taking part in this project I felt like an architect designing an addition to an old, half-timbered house: Should one make it coincide with the old, original style, or have it represent the times we live in and thus become an idiom radically different from the original? I chose the latter.
Some will say the language in my composition is avant-garde and thereby in strong contrast with the idyllic hollyhock aesthetic. However I feel the work is in accordance with Møllestien since, in its own way, this hollyhock oasis in the midst of a modern city is avant-garde – like an old, mawkish Danish film (by Morten Korch) almost seems when seen through present-day glasses.

How Does Architecture Sound?

Aarhus Festival 2012
Venue: De 5 søstre/Five Sisters
Composed by: Peter Jensen

Read more De fem søstre Info from architect Anne Qvist:
De fem søstre (The Five Sisters) is a silo facility situated on Kornpieren (The Grain Pier) in the southern portion of Aarhus harbour. Designed by Hjalmar Kjær in 1927, its industrial “expression” and use of reinforced concrete was considered by many at the time as unsightly.
Today, however, “De fem søstre” stands as a marvellous structure that ought to serve as an inspiration for all theboring, conventional commercial buildings to be found in Denmark today. It is a romantic reminder of times past, when architects put more thought into industrial design, and in 2007 it was classified as a national industrial monument by the Heritage Agency of Denmark.

Composer: Peter Jensen
Peter Jensen has risen to prominence as composer and arranger for a majority of Denmark’s large jazz ensembles. As trombonist he has been a member of the Danish Radio Big Band, which for over ten years has benefited from his talents as both arranger and trombonist.

Peter Jensen speaks about the composition:
This music is 100% me – and at the same time resembles nothing of what I have written until now.
The architect drawings of the building were measured up so I could make a kind of “player-piano roll” of it and accordingly “play back the facade”. I chose not to repeat the same structure five times as the architect had, but instead let two of the silos appear as reflections in the water to give everything a bit of poetic variation. The building’s facade takes some dramatic leaps, and this can be heard in some abrupt changes of interval and dynamics. In addition, the drums have been given quite a free hand that can be interpreted as the muck clinging to the base of the facade where grain dust has given the white surface a brown tone.