Complete Electronic Works 1955–2012
Complete Electronic Works 1955–2012
This book contains the complete EMP Series, a collection of digital albums released by Dacapo Records featuring Else Marie Pade's electronic works with accompanying texts by Jonas Olesen, a leading expert on Pade. The series provides a fresh digital perspective on her extraordinary music as it features both newly digitized versions of known works and works that have previously been unavailable or overlooked. The collection is virtually complete, though some additional electronic material may yet emerge.
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All albums in the EMP Series are available on streaming platforms and as downloads. At the beginning of each chapter, you’ll find a QR code linking directly to the corresponding album, allowing you to listen as you read. At the back of the book, you’ll also find a CD with five selected works. Text in both Danish and English.
A lifetime of electronic works
By Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg
When we go to assess the significance of a composer’s life’s work, whether for their contemporaries or for posterity, what should we base our judgement on? The number of works they have written, on performances, commissions and prizes, or their place in a music-historical context? Certainly the works themselves must be central, but often the composer’s personality or life story influences the recognition they receive during their lifetime. It is therefore not so unusual for the qualities of their works to become more clearly appreciated later in the composer’s life or even posthumously.
In the case of Else Marie Pade, her life became intertwined with her body of work, so there isn’t a steady relationship between the significance her works had in her own lifetime and that which they have had since her passing – a process often described as a ‘rediscovery’. In respect of Else Marie Pade’s works, we have to work through many layers of oblivion before we can form an overall view of her work’s ‘significance’. It is a ‘work-in-progress’!
Excerpt from the book © Dacapo Records
Uncovering and making Else Marie Pade’s collected works available was therefore a necessary first step. The process has been multi-layered: since the rediscovery of her works in the electronic music milieu around the year 2000, the next great step forward came after her death in 2016, when her son, Morten Pade, donated many cardboard boxes of music, letters and tape recordings to the music publishing house Edition·S. Without knowing the full contents or the depth of this treasure trove, Edition·S asked the undersigned to digitize approximately 80 reel-to-reel tapes, while also scanning sheet music and letters and revising scores. From 2017 until 2019, we fought to grasp the overall scale of the rich materials. A new picture emerged, of an extremely versatile composer, enriching the one-sided picture of Pade as a purely electronic composer which had dominated hitherto. As well as the previously known electronic and concrete works, there were instrumental, orchestral, religious works, radio plays, fairy tales andnarratives, tv ballets and for children and even an children.
This publication by Dacapo Records makes it possible to draw a more nuanced portrait of Else Marie Pade and her artistic development through the years. Even though she has been well covered within the milieu of music research, the material published here will facilitate deeper study. Else Marie Pade emerged in a conservative period, dominated by neo-classicism, and became a nationally known composer in the era of television and radio. Later in life and out of the public view, she developed a personally and religiously founded view of life and art. We can follow this development through Jonas Olesen’s well researched and illuminating commentaries on the works while also getting to know a significant group of works that were nearly lost – had it not been for a quick-witted technician from the Danish Broadcasting Corporation who called Pade and asked if she wanted to preserve her tapes!
It is in the nature of these discoveries that we can now also begin to grasp Else Marie Pade’s instrumental works which have now fortunately been made available to be performed. Hopefully the enthusiasm for Pade’s youthful and optimistic expression which followed her rediscovery will continue to branch out into all corners of musical life through the present publication. Thanks to Jonas Olesen’s and Edition·S’s invaluable dedication, there is now a solid basis for the broader interpretation of Pade’s life work which she deserves.
And to all the curious: this new register of Else Marie Pade’s electronic works is entirely her own fairytale garden to explore. It contains many amazing works devised by a splendidly inspired artist. As if this was not enough, in 2024 Morten Pade delivered another three boxes of tape reels from Pade’s time as a radio producer. Though there is no sign of a wholly unknown electronic masterpiece (something which Pade would have probably hinted at), it is clear that fully understanding Else Marie Pade is a work in progress.
Enjoy!