Kim Bülow Bonfils
I suddenly noticed that Konzerthaus Berlin hosted a work I never heard by a composer I admire: Steve Reich’s “video opera” Three Tales – the video part created by his wife Beryl Korot. The work interprets the development and failures of human ingenuity in three movements: One about the Hindenburg disaster, one about the atomic bomb experiments in the Bikini...
Interview by Jacob Pertou. State of Mind is currently Kim Bonfils’ musical alter ego. As the first participant in a series of interviews with Danish musicians about their relationships with Tangerine Dream, I ask State of Mind aka Bonfils to tell us a little about how he relates to the band.
Finally managed to get in to the very popular Gerhard Richter exhibit at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Strangely, I did not come away as impressed as I expected I would. I do admire Richters technique – and especially his insistence on working in different styles throughout his career – the blurry photorealism he is so well known for, along with abstract...
Zen teacher and writer Brad Warner tells a story about the origins of this book. When Warner was visiting Montreal to deliver a talk on Zen, a rather eccentric member of the audience asked him: “Are Buddhists allowed to jack off?” He swiftly gave the short answer: “They’re encouraged to.” The book “Sex, Sin and Zen” could be seen as...
I know, I know: I keep raving about LCD Soundsystem. But I just happen to think that they’re one of the greatest live acts around these days. And tonight’s sold out gig atDR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen just proved my point. Seriously, if you could bottle their formula, you’d know what makes a great rock’n’roll band. Yes, I know that they’re...
I went to see Olafur Eliasson’s Innen Stadt Außen exhibit in Martin-Gropius-Bau. Thankfully, the long line of visitors was for the much hyped exhibit of the utterly overrated Frida Kahlo. Well, speaking of overrated, I’m still not sure what to think of the whole Eliasson phenomenon. His work is certainly inventive, powerful and well, it just plain works. Mirrors placed...
When I was a teenager (in the late seventies), I got hold of an unexpected sum of money and promptly converted it into keyboard instruments: A used Fender Rhodes piano (which I got rid of a few years later) and a Korg MS-20 synthesizer – which I’ve kept to this day. At the time, most high-end synths like the Minimoog...
A few days ago I discovered that the opening night of the CPH PIX film festival also featured a sneak preview of the long-awaited French Serge Gainsbourg biopic Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque). So I went – attended the opening reception and a small awards ceremony before the film began. Being a fan of Gainsbourg, it’s quite enjoyable to watch his life story...
For me, TV On The Radio was one of the highlights of Roskilde Festival in 2004, playing as if their lives depended on it. And after listening to their brilliant new album “Dear Science” for a couple of weeks, I went to see them again at Vega. Maybe not quite as relentlessly adrenalin-fueled, but they’re still an impressive live act....
