Partitur is the first international exhibition dedicated to Danish composer and sound artist Else Marie Pade (b. 1924 – † 2016, DK), a path-maker of musique concrète and European electronic music.
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Else Marie Pade, 1962
Over a career spanning multiple decades, Pade approached sound as a visual medium of intensities, multitudes, and dissonance. Her works carry listeners through fairy tales, cityscapes, and nightmares, with scores that capture notation, process, and life’s cacophonous narrative spaces.
With Pade’s seminal musical arrangements and works on paper as its point of departure, Partitur traces the composer’s artistic trajectory beginning in the 1950s.
The exhibition unfolds as an immersive listening space, shaped by the spatial structures of her scores and the language she reimagined for electronic composition.
It is accompanied by a live program that engages with, and extends on Pade’s legacy, featuring Berlin-based sound artists and contemporary discourse on music, collectivity, and the heritage of women artists in electronic music.
- Curator: Sofie Krogh Christensen
