Carsten Bo Eriksen alias MBD73 (b. October 2, 1973 in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, Denmark

Denmark

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) is a Danish

Denmark

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 21st century composer and artist.

Biography

Carsten Bo Eriksen (a.k.a. mbd73) is a prize winning and award nominated composer. He works in the terrain between sound, space, image and form and works freely over genres, as a true renaissance artist. Soundart, installations, videoart, paintings and compositions go hand in hand. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music as a composer (1997-2003), pupil of Professor Ib Nørholm

Ib Nørholm

Ib Nørholm is a Danish composer and organist.Nørholm studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he later taught , becoming a professor in 1981...

, Ivar Frounberg and Hans Abrahamsen. As a painter he is self-taught. He had his debut from the extended studies program in composition in 2003. Furthermore he has studied at Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

, Mass, USA. And has studied the Balinese gamelan

Gamelan

A gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included....

 music in Ubud, Bali

Bali

Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...

, Indonesia, with the musician Pak Tama. In 2004 he was granted by the Danish Arts Foundation with a three year working grant.

Since 1991 he has produced and established ensembles, among others the critical acclaimed ensemble Nordlys and art rockband Melonheads. He has established and been active in the realisation of music and medium festivals like the World Music Days (1996) and ARTRA (2000).And he was a boardmember of the concert society for contemporary music Musica Nova (1997-2000). He's been appointed member of KODA's collective tape funds assets (2003/2004). He's been appointed jury member of ISCM (Danish section)(2000).
In 2002 he was nominated for a Danish Music Award (grammy) for best chamber music release with his ensemble Nordlys on the record label DaCapo Records. In 2001 he was the 1st prize winner of the Danish Art Foundations electronica competition. In 2005 he won the 2nd prize for best journalism on the internet INSOMNIA, creating the sound. He is also committed to work with a broad scope of collaborators, as with multi-scoped artist and singer Martin Hall, visual artist Jesper Fabricius, the symphony orchestra Copenhagen Philharmonics and Athelas Sinfonietta. He has exhibited and performed on the most prestigious venues in Denmark such as the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located directly on the shore of the Øresund Sound in Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the most visited art museum in Denmark with an extensive permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, dating from World War II and up...

, National Gallery

Statens Museum for Kunst

Statens Museum for Kunst is the Danish national gallery located in Copenhagen....

, the Black Diamond

Black Diamond (library)

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's Queen's Hall, the Tivoli Concert Hall, VEGA and, in Germany, at the Otto Braun Saal in Berlin. He has also been performed live and been aired on the Danish National Radio, and on other radiostations around Europe. In 2009 he has established the Electro Acoustic Speaker Orchestra AIR and the concerts series EARUNIT, which invites and collaborate with various artists.

Music

Carsten Bo Eriksen (MBD73) works in the terrain between sound, space, image and form. He works freely over genres, as a true renaissance artist. His music finds inspiration in the European and American minimalism

Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

, as well as electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

, post-classical and post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

 music. He is among the very few composers in Denmark with strong roots in minimalism.

Selected performances

• Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen (2000)
• Numus Festival in Aarhus (2000 and 2001), Denmark
• Danish National Radio
• Brandts Klædefabrik, Musikhøst i Odense, (2002)
• Composers Biennale 2002, Copenhagen
• Young Nordic Music Festival (UNM) in Oslo (1998) and Reykjavik (2002)
• Magma, Nordic Music Days (2002)
• Modern Museum of Art Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark (2001)
• VEGA (2004)
• Charlottenborg (2005)
• Dock11, Berlin, Germany (2009)
• Wundergrund Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (2009)
• National Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Danmark (2010) (Opening of the Bjørn Nørgård solo Exhibition)
• National Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2010) (Opening of the Bob Dylan Exhibition)
• Modern Museum of Art Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark (2010)
• Nordic Music Days, Copenhagen, Denmark (2010)

Small ensemble

• Azulejos og the half moon (2000)
• Mandala (2001)
• Series of Escape (2002)
• Concert (2001)
• In Between (2002) (art movie by Jesper Fabricius)
• Weightless Dreams - Shaded Sky (2002)
• Dancing Shadows (2002)
• Sunday Afternoon (2002)
• Grand (2003)
• Neon (2003)
• Reincarnating Beethoven (2003)
• Birdcage (2007)
• Dial (2007/2008)
• Sea Changes (2009)
• Pablo Picasso (2009)
• Miniature (2009)
• As we fall trough the sky... (2009)
• Beyond Reason (2010)
• Songs Without Words (2010)
• Dark Eyes (turns black) (2010)
• Drifting (2010)
• Touch (2010)
• Fragile (2010)

Solo with electronics

• The Clearest Water (2007)
• Cello Suite (2008)
• Venus (2010) (solo cello and electronics)

Electroacoustic

• Deep Blue Dreams (1996, for 12 speakers underground central square of Copenhagen World Music Days)
• Transparent (2004, for 8 speakers and additional organ)