Before our performances at @roskildefestival and @norbergfestival we had the huge pleasure of rehearsing in a small repurposed dairy plant on Orø, aptly named Mejeriet.
Here’s a few glimpses of the process.
🪷 OUT 🪷
‘Teratai Åkande’ explores electronic techniques transforming sounds, melodies, and rhythms from balinese gamelan. It’s an interaction and synthesis of acoustic and electronic expressions, exploring an imagined territory between two otherwise separate cultural worlds.
On ‘Teratai Åkande’ the Copenhagen-based producer and electronic musician Anton Friisgaard travels new paths, as he explores gamelan music from his own artistic perspective in close collaboration with Balinese musicians, afliated with Ubud’s acclaimed Gamelan scene.
After experiencing a concert with the Gamelan ensemble ‘Gamelan Salukat’ at Roskilde Festival in 2018, Friisgaard became inspired to contact Dewa Alit from the ensemble. With the aim of bringing forth a unique expression through the meeting of two distinct musical traditions, Friisgaard traveled to Ubud, Bali to record, compose and improvise in close collaboration with artists from the esteemed Gamelan scene in Ubud. The result is ‘Teratai Åkande’, which features Pande Made Gangga Sentana, I Nyoman Suwida, Dewa Badukz, Suryana Putra and Pande Made Gangga of Gamelan Salukat.
released August 6, 2024
Recorded in Ubud, Bali 2018.
Composed, edited and processed in Copenhagen, Denmark from 2018 - 2024.
Here, the recordings and compositions changed shape multiple times over the years, until finally reaching their current state.
Thank you Christian Lindinger, for helping me rediscover the potential of this project.
Thank you Dewa Alit, for inviting me into your heavenly garden, and for all the inspiring art being created there.
Mixing by Anton Friisgaard
Additional Mixing by Nikolaj Jakobsen at Soundstuff Studio
Mastering by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio
Artwork by Victor Verhelst
Instruments by Gamelan Salukat
Working Space at Dewa Alit and Aya Sakuma
Recordings by Anton Friisgaard
Additional Recordings by Marcel Gnauk
Supported by Koda Kultur and The Danish Arts Foundation
We are on our way to Athens to present our forthcoming piece at @theacropolismuseum
The piece was developed during 2 months following the left hand path at The Danish Institute in Athens and @athensconservatoire .
Catch me this saturday for a quadrophonic AV liveshow at @alice_nbro
The show is centered around sound-interpretations of a collection of videos shot through various glass objects. All videos were shot in a creative frenzy on a summers day a few years ago, together with the love of my life @filtenburg
Sharing the bill with legend @rashad__becker who also mastered my last album, Teratai Åkande on @stroom.tv
Thanks for now Athens - Two months at The Danish Institute in Athens was 10/10
Grateful for the all the people we’ve met, and things that happened.
Can’t wait to present the piece we’ve made soon!
14.03.26_ Rashad Becker (DE/SY) + Anton Friisgaard (DK)
Dark sound archaeology and psychoacoustic rituals from an electronic legend 🔮
For sound nerds around the world, Rashad Becker is a legend. With more than 1,200 releases to his name as a mastering and mixing engineer—most notably through Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin—he has left an indelible mark on experimental electronic music. In his own works, Becker ventures even deeper into the interior of sound itself: complex, alien structures where psychoacoustics, precision, and imagination merge into a compelling and profoundly original universe.
When Rashad Becker performs at ALICE in March, he opens a dark and intense listening space where the boundaries between music, sound art, and ritual experience dissolve. The audience is invited into complete immersion in a meditative and uncompromising sonic landscape that demands presence and surrender. The evening is opened by Anton Friisgaard.
Ticket info in bio 🔗
@rashad__becker@anton_friisgaard
It’s ya boy
Im playing a quadrophonic concert at sparkling sound festival at @kube.frb this saturday.
Tapeloop & laptop music for mind, body and spirit.
I will perform after @xuri.irux and Axel Dörner
See u 🖤
That was three intense weeks of rehearsing, performing, travelling and hanging out on Orø, @roskildefestival , @norbergfestival and beyond. What a way to reconnect both personally and artistically after six years. Feeling extremely blessed and thankful this was possible 🫰🫰
Thank you for coming to our TERATAI ÅKANDE live debut at @roskildefestival .
We had an amazing time performing for you!
Up next we’re going to @norbergfestival and we cant wait to see you there.
Photos: @olga_novillo
