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Af Translated by Maria Lillegaard Hansen

“This is a black cheese with French rap in the middle,” Goodiepal says and produces a vinyl record shaped as a cheese full of holes. He then explains the vacuum that arises when three objects are to be connected in time. Two of the objects are, in this case, works of music, and Goodiepal show a stack of vinyl records shaped as cars, houses, triangles and diamonds.
Goodiepal is already deep in in his lecture “Radical Computer Music & Media Art” – a lecture that has caused him to be kicked out of several music schools and music academies around the world. With at self-chosen, old-fashioned schoolmaster manner, Goodiepal calls his lecture “music teaching” – a teaching that includes writing with chalk on the floor and walls.

From silent whistle to inner chaos
Goodiepal’s music teaching start off with silent whistling – from a real person! – while the audience gathers around the stage in the YourSpace tent at Pavilion. However, it does not take long before the teaching has evolved into a theoretical tour in the borderland containing electronic development, media and artificial intelligence.

You are the star
Back to the vacuum between the two works of music. To fill out that vacuum, Goodiepal has made a book, and this is where you – dear festival-goer – enter the picture. In the book it is your job to create a third work by connecting your understanding of the other two. The book and records are for sale after the lecture and it lasts at total of 45 minutes before everybody is done with their shopping. And at the same time most people get the chance to have those parts of the lecture repeated that they did not understand the first time.

Tonely events in time
After the lecture Orange Press’ special correspondent tries to bring Goodiepal and his theories down a notch. But when asking about a handful of works, that in his opinion are challenging enough to listen to, he dodges the question. It is way too concrete.
“I react to the way people do things, the lack of culture coverage at the Danish Broadcasting Cooperation and the folly of the Jutlandic Music Academy”, Goodiepal says and adds: “When I make music, which is basically tonely events in time, I try to find something that is missing. I search for a problem to solve and then start off”.

The nice ass-staircase
The theory of ”the nice ass-staircase” is not easily repeated either. You have to hear it from Goodiepal himself or from one of the many listeners in the YourSpace tent at Pavillion on Monday afternoon.