Heroines of Sound Edition #4 – A Tribute to Else Marie Pade

Also respectfully called the “techno grandmother” by her fans and celebrated as a Danish pioneer of musique concrète, Pade plays a pioneering role in the field of electronic music. Her personal career is just as remarkable. At the age of sixteen, Pade joins Denmark’s only resistance group led exclusively by women. In 1944 – she was just 19 years old – the Gestapo picked her up from her parents’ house and she was transferred to the prison camp in Frøslev. She did forced labor here until the end of the German occupation in May 1945. Pade scratches her composition sketches into the cell walls, composing becomes her survival strategy, and she remains a versatile, creative and alert artist throughout her life. Her 100th birthday is an impulse for an artistic examination of her life and work, for a further dissemination of her work, especially her chamber music.