January 2024
MESMER will create sound for new exhibition by renowned architects 3*N at Danish Architectural Centre. Live concert at the opening on March 21st.
An exhibition that invites you into a total installation about the influence of architecture on our senses
NOVEMBER 2023
Debutalbum out with MESMER. Out on Arbitrary. The debutalbum is a series of (deconstructed) live-recordings taken from three live concerts. The sounds on this record entails two years of sound research and creative outbursts with inspiration from field trips mainly from the areas in the outskirts of Copenhagen. Intrigued and fascinated by the auditive landscapes of places where nature and culture meet and challenge each other.
Listening to the field-recordings led Mesmer to interpret the moods, musical qualities and inherited energy of the sounds in these areas. Thus creating melodies, harmonies and rhythmical structures that together with the field recordings paved the way for this album.
MESMER consists of the three musicians and composers Emil Jensen, Victor Dybbroe and Anders Filipsen, who have been creating music together the last 15 years in various groups. MESMER is fascinated by how sound (and lack of) influences us as people and how the different natural and cultural environments creates different musical scenarios.
Hope you enjoy this album and encourage you to listen and dive into the music wherever you are, welcoming the sounds that are already present in your environment.
September 2023 New Collaboration - Filipsen // Bolt
Videoartist Ditte Bolt and myself have entered a new collaboration - Filipsen // Bolt.
Our first live-collaboration was in february 2023 with the piece ‘Orden og Kaos’ which we are now developing and we will be showing our new material in Esbjerg in the beginning of October.
More shows and info will come.
June 2023 Working on 2 different releases
Within the next year I will be a part of 2 very different releases with bands I am working with. In the fall of 2023 MESMER will release our debut album on the fantastic electronic label Arbirtrary. In May 2024 we will, with long-time bandmates The Firebirds, releaase the double album Adaptions on the Danish Classical label Dacapo.
February 2023 Premiering ‘Order and Chaos’
Together with visual artist Ditte Bolt we premiered the piece yesterday in the Danish concert-church.
A 50 min. piece for 5 synthesizers and visuals working with the theme of how we deal with and constantly change in our view on order and chaos.
January 2023 NEW PROJECTS and musical friends
Within the last year I’ve met and begun working with fantastic musicians and composers a.o. the fantastic cellist, composer and singer Jakob Kullberg, singer and composer Camilla Munck and trumpet extra-ordinaire Kasper Tranbereg. Wonderful and unique people creaating music that I feel privileged to be a part of.
JUNE 2022 ‘Terrain Vague’ - Mesmer
(formerly known as ‘lydkollektivet newclear’)
During summer 2021 and spring/summere 2022 we created three installation concerts with Mesmer working with new material focusing on the meeting betweeen nature and culture. The concerts were premiered in Oremandsgaard (summer 2021), Xenon as a part of a residency (spring 2022) and the piece ‘Development and dismantlinig’ was premiered in summer 2022 as part of SV-Festival
October 2021 ‘Lyd - improvisation and composition’
On request from Danish Composer Organisation AUTOR I arrranged a composer-camp for 12 Danish Composers and invited Ikue Mori, Angélica Négron, Nastio Mosquito, Christian Wallumrød and Mariam Wallentin (Picture) to come and share their thoughts and creating sound, inspiration, work-flow etc. A VERY inspiring week.
AUGUST 2021 FINISHING NEW PIECE FOR ‘LYS OVER LOLLAND’.
In cooperation with light-artist Adalsteinn Stefansson I have created a audio-visual piece for the 20th edition of the light festival ‘Lys over Lolland’. The piece was shown and heard on Friday the 27th of August in Nakskov Havn. A grand piece that was audible all over the harbour in connection with lights and pictures created by Adalsteinn Stefansson. A tremendous pleasure and honour!
The piece became even greater than anticipated when a huge Russian ship backed out of the harbour during the intro
Selected tracks by Anders Filipsen
“It has become increasingly important for me to create space for the sound.”
March 2021 Reviews of Waiting Music
“…mesmerising pieces of music …Overall ‘Waiting Music’ is a fascinating album that makes the listener re-think their relationship, not just with the act of waiting but the space we wait in. ‘Waiting Music’ is filled with delicious melodies that hang about the room like the smoke from blown-out candles.” (Vital Weekly)
"It has resulted in a very beautiful, warm and extremely subdued work… I really like it.” (Politiken, 4/6 stars).
"The Danish composer, bandleader and keyboardist Anders Filipsen has something quite unique to come up with in all areas… Anders Filipsen has definitely found his own voice - a voice that is both soothing and good to be in company with." (Nettavisen - 5/6 stars).
"Waiting Music" pays homage to the state where we are just a place, with an open mind ... It opens doors to something else. I will try to be in that state ... so that I can be even more receptive to Filipsen's fine sonic meditations. “ (Kristelig Dagblad - 4/6 stars).
“Danish composer Anders Filipsen delivers something serene and uncannily innocent in this record..There’s that sense of clarity…of rising through the clouds and breaking the surface to see endless clear skies.“ (Audioxide)
“«Waiting Music» succeeds to offer an-out-of-time immersive sonic experience. The 12 meditative soundscapes develop gently and patiently… the atmospheric synthesizers wash away our daily routines and enable us to contemplate on the natural course of life, not obtrusive by human actions.” (Salt Peanuts, Eyal Hareuveni).
“The music is intense and hypnotic. Filipsen's synth soundscapes are beautiful, seemingly endless horizons of immense beauty with invigorating variations. “ (Ivan Rod - 4/5 stars).
"With this his first solo release, Anders Filipsen has shown new sides of his great musical surplus." (Jazzspecial, Bjarne Søltoft).
January 2021 ‘WAITING MUSIC’ is out on Ilk
Cover by Ditte Bolt (www.dittebolt.dk)
October, 2020 Live-CONCERT at National DaniSH Tv (The Firebirds & Carl Nielsen Quintet)
AUGUST 2020 REVIEWS OF ‘STILLEBEN’
“Approached without prejudice it’s a marvellous musical experience…”(Jazzjournal by Brian Morton)
“The genre-transcending music is yet again personal and unique. Easy to disappear in. Easy to be challenged by. Easy to be seduced by. "(Ivan Rod).
“It’s exciting music that is both convoluted and simple and intrigues throughout the album.” (Salt Peanuts).
“If Lynch needed new music for Twin Peaks, The Black Nothing could easily be it…” (Passive/Aggressive).
““…a stylisticallyet eclectic remix, that Charles Ives, Claude Debussy, Gil Evans, Gimmy Giuffre, Albert Ayler, Tore Takemitsu and Frank Zappa has worked on…Filipsens music is surprising, but also vital, resilient, melankolly and varied” (Jazz).
“Anders Filipsen has with his tentet ‘The Black Nothing’ consolidated his good reputation as a highly creative and purposeful composer.” (Jazzspecial, Bjarne Søltoft).
May 2020 The Black Nothing & Anders Filipsen ‘Stilleben’ Out
April 2020 SOLO-CONCERT
At the National Art Gallery (SMK) of Denmark.
Improvisations - interpreting Danish artist Anna Ancher.
March 2020 THE LONELY WEB
Just finished 2 pieces with LYDKOLLEKTIVET NEWCLEAR for the installation-piece The Lonely Web by Danish artists Anders Morre Pedersen and Nanna Schannong. Premier in 2021.
January 2020 DEBUT RELEASE
First release by Lydkollektivet NEWCLEAR. Out on ILK-Music.
Video-release in collaboration with Danish artist Jakob Steen.
