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Kenneth Knudsen
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"Since the launch of the MINIMOOG synthesizer in the early seventies, I have spent most of my time exploring the sonic potential of electronic instruments - exclusively, or in orchestrations including traditional instruments."
Kenneth Knudsen (born September 28, 1946 ) is a Danish jazz keyboardist and composer.
The self-taught musician studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts until 1974. He recorded more than a hundred albums with soloists such as Arild Andersen , Svend Asmussen , Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Jan Akkerman , Karsten Vogel , Palle Mikkelborg , Miles Davis ( Aura ) and the Indian violinist L. Subramaniam and groups such as Secret Oyster , Coronaria Dans , ANIMA , Entrance , Bombay Hotel and Heart To Heart Trioon. He also recorded several of his own CDs, including Silence and Music for Eyes .
Clockstopper
Label: Longlife Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Hadeans Arrival; Couchophobia; Tucked In; Sheeps & Raptors; In Our Night; Glimpse; Beautiful Behaviour;
Time To Go.
Kenneth Knudsen: Sounds And Silence
by Glenn Astarita
Corresponding to this months review of Kenneth Knudsen’s “Music For Eyes” (See April 99’ AAJ), we pulled one of Knudsen’s 1994 releases from the archives which shows the Danish synthesist in a slightly different light. On “Sounds and Silence”, Knudsen employs soloist’s throughout most of these pieces which also includes Scandinavia’s well known and esteemed jazz ...
Kenneth Knudsen & Christian Skeel: Music for Eyes
by Glenn Astarita
Recorded in Copenhagen Denmark 1997, “Music for Eyes” represents the dual efforts of synthesists-composers Kenneth Knudsen and Christian Skeel. Having heard (via word of mouth) of Knudsen’s work, this writer’s curiosity was appeased upon receipt of this CD. Here, Knudsen (synths and keyboards) and Keel (samplers, computers) team up and engage in minimalist ambient-electronic pieces that ...
