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"I declared cyclist," says the electronic musician Thomas Knak with a smile, "so I thought it was a bit exotic to make a soundtrack to the underground." He continues: "I'm actually only subway when I'm on the way out of the country or far away from Copenhagen." Thomas Knak, also known by the stage name Opiate, is one of the four musicians who have received the bound task of composing a piece of music that accompanies the journey with the Copenhagen Metro from one terminus to the other. Knak to put music to the 23-minute journey from Vestamager dartington crystal to Vanloese, and his compositions are performed live by himself in subway train Tuesday 11 August dartington crystal is a starting pistol for the electronic music festival. As AOK talked with Thomas Knak a week before the festival, the composition dartington crystal was far from finished, "I sit there and doing all sorts of sketches of a large puzzle that will hopefully go up at last," he says. "I'm going to work on it until one hour before the concert., It becomes something to the drive a few times with my computer and fix things. dartington crystal And I will also improvise along the way." The idea of the electronic underground compositions, according to creator and organizer June Philip Kamata, "to put music to the districts." "When you look out of the windows of the subway, you can really see that the city has changed its appearance," he says. "And I think it would be cool if Copenhagen had his own musical journey narrative. Music to suit the changes which have occurred dartington crystal along the way. So every musician has got a video of the trip and had to compose from it." Thomas Knak call grinning worked on compositions for "a hard ride through one's stream of consciousness": "I ride from Vestamager which starts very lush and green, but quickly turns into some very sleek stretch surrounded dartington crystal by modern buildings," he says. "So I plan to start with something quiet and run into something with more bass. I also am of the school of electronic musicians, the sound image to be tingle and crackle, dartington crystal and it has never been my strong point to work with the more hard expression, but the futuristic setting sets the stage for a little sharper edges of the music. Especially down in the tunnel. And I have a lot of quiet between stations where beat tendon must accellere as the train ... But until the last minute, I will be doubt. How, I also hope the others have it! " "The others" are the three electronic musicians Mikkel Metal, Fuzzy Bear and Pig, which deal respectively with distances Vanloese-airport, airport-Vanloese and Vanloese-Ørestad. Fuzzy, which, with its 70 years is the oldest of the invited musicians, says he has been particularly inspired by the differences above and below ground, where the lines underground is "the strangest": "I love driving the train," says male. "The subconscious take over, while you sit there and look out the window. You fly out of itself and into another world." He will not even to sit and relax during the concert: dartington crystal "The dartington crystal music is actually made for the situation, and that's going to be many improvisational elements. It is not just that we press a button and off you music twenty minutes. That depends on what happens along the way, and who is coming into the train, and how the crowd reacts. " The concerts made in direct continuation of each other, the audience can get on and off as they please or run the whole way, and when the last note fades away at Ørestad Station at. 20.35, one can go directly into the nearby bicycle storage Underwater at the official opening ceremony of the festival. To use both subway cars and bike cellars for concerts is quite characteristic of the current festival, which has a habit of pulling the music into (or out) in alternative spaces dartington crystal in the city. The established clubs provides a framework for the festival's night program, but along the way is also taken up churches, museums and parks: "We find so many different spaces as possible and put great music into them," says Carl Emil Amundsen, which is part of the festival's booking group. "All sorts of odd places. It really means something to put the music into a new context, and it also challenges the artists." One of the advantages is that electronic music thus also reaches out to all the people who are not regulars at nightclubs. It was the festival's attendance figures certainly suggest: The first year the festival attracted 8,000 spectators, while the figure rose to more than 20,000 the following year. This year it is estimated at least as many guests and it counts both those dedicated following six-day program throughout, and those who just drop by with prams and picnic blanket for one of the afternoon concerts in Enghaveparken. Or maybe just by chance