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By: Søren Folke Larsen   

In the area Musicon in Roskilde, Hal 10 was Wednesday visited by people, who are literally something in the music business, when Denmark’s Rock museum had its opening of ROCK ME.  

Rock music is to be taken serious and have the same standards as ’finer’ art forms such as ballet and opera. But just because rock music with its rebellious roots gets its own museum, it does not mean that it should become blunt and boring.

”The museum is a tribute to rock music. ROCK ME is about the love and worship of the music,” says museum inspector Martin Rovang Jensen. ”The exhibition shows how music and society play together.”  

Create music with Nephew  

In time, the museum will house concerts and readings, but at the opening the attendees had to settle for playing with the high technological BeatBlocks that by combining blocks in different ways, within more than ten different kinds of genre, give you the opportunity to create your own music, and the opportunity remix songs by, among others, by Turboweekend and Nephew.  

The front runner of the latter, Simon Kvamm also attended the opening, and he is very exited to see what the museum will bring. “It’s a good inititive. I really hope that the museum will be part of making rhythmical music more accepted as an art form,” says Simon Kvamm.

The artists are the winners  

Still, the popular pop constructor embitters rock music’s joy. “They are spending DKK 60-70 millions on this project; money that might be put to better use somewhere else in the music business,” says Simon Kvamm.

But the museum inspector is positive that the artists will benefit from the museum. “When rock music is taken more serious as an art from, the artist are also the winners,” Martin Rovang Jensen concludes.  

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