Zafraan Ensemble: Else Marie Pade - Zum 100. Geburtstag

In the organizer's words:

Respectfully called "techno grandmother" by her followers and celebrated as a Danish pioneer of musique concrète, Pade has played a pioneering role in the field of electronic music. Her personal career is equally remarkable. At the age of sixteen, Pade joined the only all-female resistance group in Denmark. In 1944 - when she was just 19 years old - the Gestapo picked her up from her parents' house and she was transferred to a prison camp in Frøslev. She did forced labor here until the end of the German occupation in May 1945. Pade scratched her composition sketches into the cell walls, composing became her survival strategy, and throughout her life she remained a versatile, creative and alert artist. Her 100th birthday provides the Zafraan Ensemble with the impetus for an artistic exploration of her life and work and for a further dissemination of her oeuvre, especially her chamber music.

Program
Introduction: Katja Heldt
Circles of Sevenths (electronic) (1959)
Afsnit I (1961) for violin and percussion and 3 loudspeaker groups
from: Aquarellen über das Meer I-XXI (1968-1971/2024) as an instrumental arrangement for violin, violoncello, piano, percussion
Græsstrået (1964) for prepared piano, violin, electronics
En digter og en komponist: I. Sang om amerikanerne i Vietnam (1970)
En digter og en komponist: IV Se det i øjnene (Original Version) (1970)
Et spil for cello (1962)

Zafraan Ensemble
Clemens Hund-Göschel, piano
Martin Smith, violoncello
Emmanuelle Bernard, violin
Daniel Eichholz, percussion
NN: electronics/sound design
Katja Heldt, introduction and panel discussion

In collaboration with transmusikale e.V. and with the kind support of Musikfonds e.V.