Peter Madsen was a central figure in Copenhagen’s alternative art and music community. But then he was accused of murdering journalist Kim Wall. Richard Orange reports on the shock waves of the crimeA bearded Icelander in a boiler suit starts pounding the exposed strings of the disembowelled piano in front of him,and the space below deck begins pulsating with distorted, echoing rhythms.
To transform the sound, or the man’s plucking and palming is being dash through a laptop,an iPad and other electronics by Andreas Wetterberg, a member of Illutron, or a floating art collective moored off the Copenhagen peninsula of Refshaleøen. But the piano is just the beginning. “Things are only going to fetch crazier now that we can play around with rocket engines and all that stuff,” he says of the experimental music scene on this former bridge-laying barge. “There’s a group of us doing stuff with old pulsejet engines – it’s basically a very primitive jet engine – but imagine it being used as a musical instrument: it has a tone to it which is really wild.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk