Som progressive kunstnere igennem de sidste ca. 20 år er vi i stigende grad blevet konfronteret med og inspireret af et ekstremt multifacetteret verdensbillede på flere niveauer. Kultur, køn, videnskab, medier m.m.m. er i eksplosiv grad blevet blandet, og forhåbentligt vil også religionerne i højere grad konstruktivt synkretisere og udveksle inden for de næste 100 år.

Dette clash eller denne sammenblanding, men især også clashets forskelligartede modsatrettede reaktioner, har været inspirerende og nødvendigt, og uimodståeligt at spejle i kunsten, og kan tydeligt høres i meget af undertegnedes særdeles differentierede output.

Magnus Olsen Majmon (aka Elektronavn m.m.) har siden 2007 været medlem af Dansk Komponist Forening, og har i sit kompositoriske og musikalsk udøvende virke indtil nu haft sit fokus på genre-transcenderende aktiviteter. Det være sig både i bandsammenhænge, som soloperformer og cd-udgiver, samt som partitur- og organiserende komponist til ensembler og orkestre. Hybriditet og crossover har været det primære fikspunkt en hel del år, men senest har fokus også - som en tiltagende påtrængende kontrast - været rettet mod simplicitet og organisk monotoni samt kompleks sangskrivning.

Magnus Olsen Majmon har fået opført musik af Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Elektronavn, Trio Trash m.fl., og hans værker er blevet spillet uden for Danmark i bl.a. USA, Island, Tyskland samt adskillige andre lande via f.eks. festivaler, radiostationer, blogs m.m.. Han har desuden modtaget arbejdslegater fra Statens Kunstfond i 2008 og 2010.

Feltet spænder bredt over f.eks. lydcollager, performance, droner, ny dans, psych-rock, raga, improvisation, psykedelia, folk, avant-klasssisk, audio-monochromer, støj, religiøs mystik, singer/songwriter, partitur og elektro-akustik (se værkliste).

En meget væsentlig udgivelsesplatform for Magnus Olsen Majmon aka Elektronavn har især udspillet sig som lydcollager/lydkunstværker udgivet på diverse audiomedier dels via forskellige selskaber i verden dels via eget pladeselskab 'Empty Sounds Rec.'. Her har selve udgivelsesobjektet og dets visualitet været en væsentlig del af det kunstneriske produkt/output. Dette være sig via video, kassettebånd, 7” vinyl, cdr, cd og lp (se diskografi).

Udvalgte værker

Happening/performance/hybrid/mixed media/score/conceptual

Maria Kirken - Music written 2009
A site specific dance-performance. Two multimedia  art shows took place in Maria Kirken 09-10-09.

”Go to Gate” PLEX Theater of music. A special game-act. Written 2008
Coorporation with Plex, Epi, different soundartists.
Work commisioned 2008. Premiered january/february 2008.

Empty and Naked like the Sky Written 2007.
8 ghettoblasters, a conducter and audience moving through changing cityscapes on the outskirts of Swedish city Malmø.
A work commisioned for ‘The Ghettoblaster Ensemble’. Premiere Summer 2008.

Danish National Anthem in Arabic. Work in progress 2007/2008
An audio-performative comment to the danish culture debate (kultur-kanon).

Bridge music. Work in progress 2007/2008
Total-artwork-act with music, performance, chance-outdoor-view/sounds. A speciel bridge is found for the purpose.

In memoriam Ungeren. Written 2007.
A performer stands in yoga-posture ‘headstand’ (head down/legs up) in a dark room with a dolls house-like carton on his feet. Strange sounds coming from speakers. This posture is hold for app. 5 min. In the end the carton falls and smashes.
Performed at PLEX/Lobby 2007

“Audelá l’inconnu (vertical)”  UNM + NWEAMO 2007
Cd-work for sopran, hurdy-gurdy and electric guitar.
Each musician were asked to improvise in a long tunnel under some railway tracks. I recorded the improvisations and composed further the final work on my computer.
Premiered UNM Reykjavik september 2007 and NWEAMO festival, USA San Diego, Boulder, Morelia, NYC. 2007

Performance with doorbells, sparkler and... Written 2005.
A mechanical doorbell mounted on a performers head. Performer in white wearing a white mask. Moving through a dark concerthall with lightening sparklers in his hand, stopping up, staring at the audience. Strange sounds coming from speakers around.
Performed by the composer. Literaturhaus 2005.

Work for feedjars, hurdy-gurdy spirit and... Written 2005.
Performed by the composer. Literaturhaus 2005.

Work for sampler, recitation and... Written 2005.
Performed by the composer. Literaturhaus 2005.

Work for doorbell, balloons and electronics. Written 2005.
Performed by the composer and three helpers to smash balloons and blow in whistles.

Discourse upon clapping Written 2005.
Audio-track / performative act discussing whether clapping is a nice thing to do in relation to concerts.
Performed by 2 speakers after a concert. Literaturhaus 2005.

Audelà l’inconnu (horisontal). Audio-video version. Written 2005.
A co-audiovisuel project / musicvideo [35 min.] with Søren Brygman Poulsen.
Premiered Literaturhaus 2005.

 Kollektiv Sølvpapirs-sceance + Ordlydsevent. Written 2004.
A huge room where the audience produces sound by softly pressing some balls of tinfoil and baking paper. Strange sound coming out. Muting into a performative game of words.
Performed by Trio Trash and audience. Plan B’s theater-room 2004.

Score music (with performative/impro acts)

Impermanence. Emptiness. – A song on Nothing. Written 2006.
Score-composition
Vocal, Flute, Oboe, Barytone Sax, Tuba, Piano, CD-track.
Not yet performed.

Le cabanon. Son emplacement. Attention. Aller. Written 2005.
Score/impro/performative work written for Copenhagen Art Ensembles ‘Purple Space – Surround’ concert.
Piano (inside/conventional/white mask), Percussion (gongs/snaredrum/ drumset/white mask), doublebass (bow/white mask), laptop (audiotrack/ surround/white mask), 2xtrumpets, sopranosax, bass-clarinet, barytonesax, tenor- and basstrombone. Musicians are placed different places in the concert-hall. 6 loud-speakers are placed beside the audience and 2 on a balcony.
Performed by Copenhagen Art Ensemble , Litteraturhaus 2005.

Relative Freedom deconstructed. Written 2005.
Very open and conceptual score/workshop for all instruments/constellations.
Not yet peformed.

Hell o Moll y Argh pst Shh. Written 2003
Score-composition for small ensemble
Bass clarinet/voice, cello/voice, piano, glocken/glockenspiel/voice/4 feng gongs/4toms/bass drum very deep/mobilephones, Violin/voice.
Performed by Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen , Komponisternes Efterårskoncert, Rundetårn 2003

Klangsøjler m.m. Written 2003
Score/impro work for mixed ensemble
Trumpet, electric guitar, drums, violin, bratch, cello, sopranosax
Performed by Trio Trash, string-trio and soprano-sax. Jazzhouse 2003

Grænsekryds som tonalt produkt. Written 2002
Score/impro work for mixed ensemble
Trumpet/voc., electric guitar/voc., drums/voc., violin/voc., bratch/voc., cello/voc., sopranosax/voc.
Performed and recorded by Trio Trash, string-trio and soprano-sax.
Premiered Jazzhouse 2003.

Four Fragments with Noise Intermezzos. Written 2002.
Score/impro work solo-percussion/drumset.
Performed and recorded by the composer. Commisioned for Fever Pitch compilation cd.

Sagte vertikal dalen igennem slørede stråler. Written 2002.
Score/improwork for jazzensemble.
2 x tenorsaxes, electric guitar, doublebass, drums
Performed and recorded by Fumier.

Udvalgte tekster og interviews

An analysis of Morton Feldmans over 6 hours long 2. string quartet. The analysis is placed at the Morton Feldman Homepage. 
Available  in both danish and English.

Guest-review at Geiger: Some musical recommendations in danish.

Elektronavn radio-interview by Tor Billgren, Sveriges P2 nov.2005 in swedish/danish

Elektronavn interview by Mats Gustafsson at Deep Water Acres january 2008 in english.

Elektronavn interview at De Velvet/ Argentinian web art zine february 2009 in english

Diskografi (et udvalg. Tryk hyperlinks for at se selskaber)

Elektronavn Sacred Songbook: Letters from Emptiness, CD/LP/DL, Empty Sounds Rec. Winther 2010

Elektronavn: Rationale Mystique // Audelà l'inconnu, 2CD, Empty Sounds Rec. , fall 2009
Elektronavn: Quantum Vacuum, CD Humbug June 2009
Elektronavn: Blind Turtle Analogy, cdr Rural Faune february 2009

Elektronavn: Cosmic Continuum, CD Ikuisuus february 2008
Pink Luminous Invocation: The Pink Sea CS Sloow Tapes 2008
Pink Luminous Invocartion: Sings the blues CS Not Not Fun 2008
Uton/Elektronavn collaborationtracks on; Uton: Radio Olio metaphysica, cdr Om ha sva ha ksha ma la va ra yam recordings 2008

Elektronavn: Black Zurnai,casette Not Not Fun October 2007
Elektronavn: Wailing Bones, compilation cdr vol 13 on Digitalis nov 2007
Elektronavn: Songs of Impermanence cdr Ikuisuus July 2007
Elektronavn: Cosmic Depth/ A sense of coherence  7" BSBTA vinyl 2007
Pink Luminous Invocation: Pink Fog, cdr Not Not Fun 2007
Pink Luminous Invocation: s/t cdr Foxglove 2006

Elektronavn: Audelà l'inconnu (vertical)/For Theo Ang.. cdr Empty Sounds Rec. 05/2007
Elektronavn: Audeà l'inconnu (horisontal) cdr Empty Sounds Rec. 2005/007
Elektronavn: A l'inexistant centre d'un espace sans forme cdr Empty Sounds Rec. 2005/2007
Elektronavn: Rationale Mystique cdr Empty Sounds Rec. 2004/2007
Elektronavn: I-IV, VII cdr Empty Sounds Rec 2004/2007
Trio Trash: A spectacle and nothing strange, cd Hybrid Music /ILK 2004