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75-560: Instead of a keyboard , its manual is made of a resistor wire over a metal plate, which is pressed to create a sound. Expressive playing was possible with this wire by gliding on it, creating vibrato with small movements. Volume was controlled by the pressure of the finger on the wire and board. The first Trautoniums were marketed by Telefunken from 1933 until 1935 (200 were made). The sounds were at first produced by neon-tube relaxation oscillators (later, thyratrons , then transistors), which produced sawtooth-like waveforms . The pitch

150-570: A compilation album for Late Night Tales series titled Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel . It features artists such as Nina Simone , Henry Mancini , Ray Davies , Michelle Gurevich , Can , and Yello . Her fourth album, Myopia , was released in February 2020. Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel was born in Gentofte , Copenhagen , on 28 October 1980, the elder of two siblings. She and her younger brother, Holger, grew up in an unconventional environment, with

225-503: A Mixtur Trautonium. Musical keyboard A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument . Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale , with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave . Pressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument produce sounds—either by mechanically striking

300-591: A Munich musician and artist, had heard the sound of the Trautonium when he was a young man and was fascinated by its emotional impact and dynamic range. Pichler found he could not forget the unique sound; he searched obsessively for anyone who could help him understand the instrument and he finally tracked down Sala. In 1996 the two met in Sala's studio in Berlin, and the result was the preservation of much of Sala's knowledge. Pichler

375-406: A U.S. patent on the apparatus and methods for modifying existing pianos to provide interchangeable keyboards of different sizes. Narrower keyboards are available from Steinway & Sons USA in new grand pianos or as a retrofit to existing pianos. There have been variations in the design of the keyboard to address technical and musical issues. The earliest designs of keyboards were based heavily on

450-530: A broad audience with sophisticated works. With Agnes we share confidence in the long-term success of artistic excellence and credibility, as well as the intention to inspire many more fans around the world". In May 2018, Obel contributed to Late Night Tales with a series of tracks selected by the artist herself, released as Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel . For this compilation, Obel presented various titles by very different artists. Music by Michelle Gurevich , Nina Simone , Henry Mancini , and Alfred Schnittke

525-476: A bubble or bell jar, to make her music. Once inside (or should that be outside?), she's no longer conscious of what's going on. This is the mystery of her modus operandi, something she cannot explain. Which simply adds to the ethereal quality of her music." In October 2014 a deluxe edition of Aventine was released. This album featured 3 new songs. The deluxe edition also contains a remix of 'Fuel to Fire' by David Lynch , who commented: "I loved doing this remix. I

600-408: A father who had three children from another marriage. He loved to collect strange objects and instruments. Her mother, Katja Obel, a civil servant, used to play Bartók and Chopin on the piano at home. Obel learned to play the piano at a very young age. About her learning, she said: "I had a classical piano teacher who told me that I shouldn't play what I didn't like. So I just played what I liked. I

675-616: A hushed and tender grace that waxes wistful and serene over yearning cello, harp, and piano vignettes. She's a fey siren, with a dusky, near-whispered vocal that speaks to Ane Brun or Eva Cassidy ." French journalists have called her "A revelation to follow". Obel's first album was also a commercial success. In March 2011, she appeared for the first time in the United States. At the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, she performed all

750-411: A keyboard. The best electronic keyboards have dedicated circuits for each key, providing polyphonic aftertouch. Advanced electronic keyboards may provide hundreds of key touch levels and have 88 keys, as most pianos do. Despite their visual similarity, different keyboard instrument types require different techniques. The piano hammer mechanism produces a louder note the faster the key is pressed, while

825-486: A loud power rhythm a delicately acrobatic melody that the singer performs with a voice that was strangely moved. Yes, Obel, as split by technology, duets with her disturbing echoes with a male stamp." In addition to violins, cellos, harpsichords , a spinet , and a celesta , Obel used a Trautonium , a rare electronic musical instrument from the 1930s. In September 2016, Obel released a new single, "Golden Green". In Dansende Beren, Niels Bruwier wrote: "The sound of glass

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900-438: A mode of introspection. It's a record to experience alone. (...) There's a comfort to being pulled into Myopia's contemplative, isolating territory." "Myopia was recorded during sleepless late nights in her home studio in Berlin, which is audible in the record's hushed, contemplative and weightless melancholy. Obel's wistful, rain-flecked gauziness has grown more pronounced here. Songs like "Island of Doom" and "Broken Sleep" prick

975-717: A musical keyboard layout used for non-musical devices. For example, some of the earliest printing telegraph machines used a layout similar to a piano keyboard. There are some rare variations of keyboards with more or fewer than 12 keys per octave, mostly used in microtonal music , after the discoveries and theoretical developments of musician and inventor Julián Carrillo (1875–1965). Some free-reed instrument keyboards such as accordions and Indian harmoniums include microtones. Electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros played one of these. Egyptian belly-dance musicians like Hassam Ramzy use custom-tuned accordions so they can play traditional scales. The small Garmon accordion played in

1050-440: A piano technician's "voicing" of a piano by modifying the hardness of the hammers). Keyboardists speak of playing harder and softer, or with more or less force. This may accurately describe the player's experience—but in the mechanics of the keyboard, velocity controls musical dynamics. The faster the player depresses the key, the louder the note. Players must learn to coordinate two hands and use them independently. Most music

1125-408: A porcelain doll. Though the album ends almost as quietly as it began, Obel's whispery ambient fog lingers far longer." In June 2020, for the first time, Obel showed in a video her Berlin studio where she improvised some music with her band. The artist writes mostly at night and is always alone in her private studio in Berlin. Normally, Obel does not let anyone visit her there. In December 2021, it

1200-655: A public performance at the Berliner Musikhochschule Hall called "Neue Musik Berlin 1930" to introduce the Trautonium. Later, Oskar Sala toured Germany with the Trautonium; in 1931 he was the soloist in a performance of Hindemith's Concerto for Trautonium with String Quartet. He also soloed in the debut of Hindemith's student Harald Genzmer 's Concerto for Trautonium and Orchestra. Paul Hindemith wrote several short trios for three Trautoniums with three different tunings: bass, middle, and high voice. His student Harald Genzmer wrote two concertos with orchestra, one for

1275-443: A sober tone, with sweet instrumentals, and a strong vocal performance from Obel. The visual show opens up with a shot of Obel and is completely dominated with blue colors and hues, showing a unique landscape that appears out of this world. Concerning the meaning of Myopia , Obel explained: "For me Myopia is an album about trust and doubt. Can you trust yourself or not? Can you trust your own judgments? Can you trust that you will do

1350-439: A solo singer with her first album Philharmonics (2010). She wrote, played, sang, recorded, and produced all the material herself. "The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me. I always was attracted by simple melodies, almost childish.(…) I put a long time before writing texts because the music seems to tell already a story, to project images." According to Obel, her piano is much more than an instrument: "The piano and

1425-454: A string or tine ( acoustic and electric piano , clavichord ), plucking a string ( harpsichord ), causing air to flow through a pipe organ , striking a bell ( carillon ), or activating an electronic circuit ( synthesizer , digital piano , electronic keyboard ). Since the most commonly encountered keyboard instrument is the piano , the keyboard layout is often referred to as the piano keyboard or simply piano keys . The twelve notes of

1500-423: Is equivalent to a sub contrabass in the range name. Some modern pianos have even more notes (a Bösendorfer 290 "Imperial" has 97 keys, and a Stuart & Sons model has 108 keys ). While modern synthesizer keyboards commonly have either 61, 76 or 88 keys, small MIDI controllers are available with 25 keys (digital systems allow shifting octaves, pitch, and "splitting" ranges dynamically, which, in some cases, reduce

1575-466: Is extremely challenging for even an experienced musician to play. Pichler is one of the very few musicians in the world who has mastered this instrument and is also composing for it. Daniel Matz plays trautonium on the Agnes Obel albums, Citizen of Glass and Late Night Tales . The Dutch performer LudoWic [Thijs Lodewijk] also plays the Trautonium and is one of the few people that owns and plays

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1650-469: Is included on this album. Obel combined new works with the original song "Bee Dance", a haunting reading of the Danish song "Glemmer Du", and a new version (the third one) of "Stretch Your Eyes" called "Ambient Acapella". The first single, Inger Christensen 's "Poem About Death", is set to original music by Obel. On the topic of the haunting cover of Arvid Muller 's "Glemmer du", Obel explained: "In Denmark ,

1725-542: Is never far away. The song is about the way we always find other better lives than ours(…)she brings out her dreamy voice, it's actually just the perfect classic pop song without embellishment. Enchanting, elysisch and paradise-like." In October 2016, a new song from Citizen of Glass was released: "Stretch Your Eyes". This song is a new version of an older one ("Spinet Song") which was played during her tour in 2014. In October 2016, Citizen of Glass came out. The French newspaper La Croix wrote: "With several great songs,

1800-455: Is written for two hands; typically the right hand plays the melody in the treble range, while the left plays an accompaniment of bass notes and chords in the bass range. Examples of music written for the left hand alone include several of Leopold Godowsky 's 53 Studies on Chopin's Etudes , Maurice Ravel 's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Sergei Prokofiev 's Piano Concerto No. 4 for

1875-622: The Danish Music Awards in November 2011, Obel won five prizes, including Best Album and Best Debut Artist. Her second album Aventine (2013) received positive reviews and charted in the top 40 of the charts in nine countries. Obel's third album Citizen of Glass (2016) received acclaim from music critics and the IMPALA Album of the Year Award 2016. In 2018, she curated and performed

1950-454: The Jankó keyboard and the chromatic keyboard systems on the chromatic button accordion and bandoneón . Simpler electronic keyboards have switches under each key. Depressing a key connects a circuit, which triggers tone generation. Most keyboards use a keyboard matrix circuit , in which 8 rows and 8 columns of wires cross — thus, 16 wires can provide 8 × 8 = 64 crossings, which

2025-658: The Music of Azerbaijan sometimes has keys that can play microtones when a "shift" key is pressed. Agnes Obel Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel (born 28 October 1980) is a Danish singer, songwriter, and musician based in Berlin . Her debut album, Philharmonics (2010), was released by PIAS Recordings , and was certified gold in June 2011 by the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA) after selling 10,000 units. At

2100-408: The black notes or black keys . Black keys form a pentatonic scale . The entire pattern repeats at the interval of an octave . The arrangement of longer keys for C major with intervening, shorter keys for the intermediate semitones date to the 15th century. Many keyboard instruments dating from before the nineteenth century, such as harpsichords and pipe organs, have a keyboard with the colours of

2175-536: The harmonium , the split occurring at E4 /F4. The reverse-colored keys on Hammond organs such as the B3, C3 and A100 are latch-style radio buttons for selecting pre-set sounds. The chromatic range (also called compass ) of keyboard instruments has tended to increase. Harpsichords often extended over five octaves (>60 keys) in the 18th century, while most pianos manufactured since about 1870 have 88 keys. The lowest pitch (frequency: 27.5 Hz) of an 88-key piano

2250-404: The "seven and five" system was adopted, in the form of the short octave : the eight aforementioned notes were arranged at the leftmost side of the keyboard, compressed in the keys between E and C (at the time, accidentals that low were very uncommon and thus not needed). During the sixteenth century, when instruments were often tuned in meantone temperament , some harpsichords were constructed with

2325-500: The BBC saying that "the compositions... are slow, sombre, sepulchral even, but not without a sense of occasionally singular beauty". In the French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles , Johanna Seban spoke about a "disarming purity" and stated, "There is, in these deeply melancholic ballads, the clearness and reassuring nobility of bedside discs." In Musicomh, Ben Edgell wrote that Obel "sings with

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2400-407: The G ♯ and E ♭ keys split into two. One portion of the G ♯ key operated a string tuned to G ♯ and the other operated a string tuned to A ♭ , similarly one portion of the E ♭ key operated a string tuned to E ♭ , the other portion operating a string tuned to D ♯ . This type of keyboard layout, known as the enharmonic keyboard , extended

2475-513: The Roundhouse in London on 17 September 2013. Frank Eidel from quebecspot.com, commented: "It's a fascinating collection of remarkable pieces, with rich and intense arrangements supported by Obel's dazzling voice." On 24 September 2014, Aventine became available on iTunes . Tom Burgel wrote: "The few reactions collected have been very positive and, already, full with love: The elegance of Agnes and

2550-663: The Western musical scale are laid out with the lowest note on the left. The longer keys (for the seven "natural" notes of the C major scale : C, D, E, F, G, A, B) jut forward. Because these keys were traditionally covered in ivory they are often called the white notes or white keys . The keys for the remaining five notes—which are not part of the C major scale—(i.e., C ♯ /D ♭ , D ♯ /E ♭ , F ♯ /G ♭ , G ♯ /A ♭ , A ♯ /B ♭ ) (see Sharp and Flat ) are raised and shorter. Because these keys receive less wear, they are often made of black colored wood and called

2625-560: The Year Award 2016, which rewards on a yearly basis the best album released on an independent European label. In February 2018, Obel was signed to Deutsche Grammophon . The contract involved Deutsche Grammophon joining forces with Blue Note for North American releases. Mr. Trautmann, president of Deutsche Grammophon, said: "We are fascinated by Agnes's compositional autonomy and the precision with which she creates and produces her vocal and instrumental soundscapes. With every song and instrumental piece, she opens up small universes, thus reaching

2700-477: The Year. Obel began working on her second album in 2011. About her new album, she said, "I started to write new pieces, but all were instrumental ones, with the piano alone… In this moment, I feel more inclined to compose instrumental pieces. I already started to write some texts, but for me, it's more difficult to compose melodies." In January 2013, Obel started mixing her new album. On 20 June 2013, she revealed that

2775-482: The album). In Live à Paris , released on 11 April 2011 on iTunes , she sings a cover of Elliott Smith 's "Between The Bars". Furthermore, Obel did a duet with Editors singer Tom Smith , performing "The Christmas Song" by Mel Tormé – to be found on the Smith & Burrows album Funny Looking Angels (released in November 2011). Philharmonics has garnered generally positive reviews with, for example, James Skinner from

2850-438: The flexibility of the harpsichord, enabling composers to write keyboard music calling for harmonies containing the so-called wolf fifth (G-sharp to E-flat), but without producing aural discomfort in the listeners (see Split sharp ). The "broken octave", a variation of the aforementioned short octave, similarly used split keys to add accidentals left out of the short octave. Other examples of variations in keyboard design include

2925-665: The front of the keyboard. In the larger gaps between the black keys, the width of the natural notes C, D and E differ slightly from the width of keys F, G, A and B. This allows close to uniform spacing of 12 keys per octave while maintaining uniformity of seven "natural" keys per octave. Over the last three hundred years, the octave span distance found on historical keyboard instruments (organs, virginals , clavichords , harpsichords , and pianos ) has ranged from as little as 125 mm (4.9 in) to as much as 170 mm (6.7 in). Modern piano keyboards ordinarily have an octave span of 164–165 mm (6.46–6.50 in), resulting in

3000-582: The fundamental tone, but fractions of it. For either of the (now two) manuals, four of these waves can be mixed and the player can switch through these predefined settings. Thus, it was called the Mixtur-Trautonium. Oskar Sala composed music for industrial films , but the most famous was the bird noises for Alfred Hitchcock 's The Birds . The Trautonium was also used in the Dresden première of Richard Strauss 's Japanese Festival Music in 1942 for emulating

3075-607: The gongs- and bells-parts and in the 1950s in Bayreuth for the Monsalvat bells in Wagner's Parsifal . The German manufacturer Doepfer sells some devices for the commercial market to allow for Trautonium-like synthesizer control. The German manufacturer Trautoniks sells custom made Trautoniums. Oskar Sala developed the Trautonium further and worked with at least one pupil, music therapy pioneer Maria Schüppel . However, Peter Pichler ,

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3150-427: The hairs on the back of your neck with their unnerving dissections of the fragile human heart" On 29 October 2019, Obel announced the title of her upcoming album, Myopia , on social media, and released the new single "Island of Doom". The album was released on 21 February 2020. Journalist Tim Peacock wrote: "Obel has been under self-imposed creative isolation with the removal of all outside influences and distraction in

3225-489: The harpsichord's plectrum mechanism does not perceptibly vary the volume of the note with different touch on the keyboard. The pipe organ 's volume and timbre are controlled by the flow of air from the bellows and the stops preselected by the player. Players of these instruments therefore use different techniques to color the sound. An arranger keyboard may be preset to produce any of a range of voices as well as percussion and other accompaniments that respond to chords played by

3300-590: The instrument), one of which was bought by the German Museum later for its permanent collection. Pichler is still cooperating closely with the German Museum in Munich that is administering Sala's estate. Since then, Pichler has been making regular appearances with the Mixturtrautonium in various musical genres. The classical music composed for this instrument by Paul Hindemith, Harald Genzmer and Oskar Sala for instance

3375-424: The keyboard controller scans to determine which key was pressed. The problem with this system is that it provides only a crude binary on/off signal for each key. Better electronic keyboards employ two sets of slightly offset switches for each key. By determining the timing between the activation of the first and second switches, the velocity of a key press can be determined, greatly improving the performance dynamic of

3450-533: The keys reversed: the white notes are made of ebony and the black notes are covered with softer white bone. A few electric and electronic instruments from the 1960s and subsequent decades have also done this; Vox's electronic organs of the 1960s, Farfisa's FAST portable organs, Hohner's Clavinet L, one version of the Korg Poly-800 synthesizer and Roland's digital harpsichords. Some 1960s electronic organs used reverse colors or gray sharps or naturals to indicate

3525-421: The left hand . In music that uses counterpoint technique, both hands play different melodies at the same time. A number of percussion instruments—such as the xylophone , marimba , vibraphone , or glockenspiel — have pitched elements arranged in the keyboard layout. Rather than pressing a key, the performer typically strikes each element (e.g., a metal or wood bar) with a mallet . There are some examples of

3600-889: The left hand. Even though the keyboard layout is simple and all notes are easily accessible, playing requires skill. A proficient player has undertaken much training to play accurately and in tempo . Beginners seldom produce a passable rendition of even a simple piece due to lack of technique . The sequences of movements of the player's hands can be very complicated. Problems include wide-spanned chords , which can be difficult for people with small hands, chords requiring unusual hand positions that can initially be uncomfortable, and fast scales , trills and arpeggios . Playing instruments with velocity sensitive (or dynamic ) keyboards (i.e., that respond to varying playing velocity) may require finger independence, so that some fingers play "harder" while others play more softly. Pianists call this control of touch velocity voicing (not to be confused with

3675-403: The listener." On Aventine , Obel commented: "I recorded everything quite closely, miking everything closely in a small room, with voices here, the piano here – everything is close to you. So it's sparse, but by varying the dynamic range of the songs I could create almost soundscapes. I was able to make something feel big with just these few instruments." She played at the iTunes UK Festival at

3750-506: The lower part (or parts) of a single keyboard divided into two parts, each controlling a different registration or sound. Such keyboards accommodate melody and contrasting accompaniment without the expense of a second manual , and were a regular feature in Spanish and some English organs of the renaissance and baroque eras. The break was between middle C and C-sharp , or outside of Iberia between B and C. Broken keyboards reappeared in 1842 with

3825-471: The main character in the movie. Credited as Agnes Obel, she appears in two scenes. She plays a pupil who shares her table with the new student Andreas (Holger Thaarup). She attended high school at Det frie Gymnasium , a free school where she was able to play a good deal of music. However, she quickly dropped out of school. "At seventeen,(...) I met a man who was running a studio. I gave up quickly my musical studies to learn sound techniques." Obel debuted as

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3900-431: The monophonic Trautonium and, later, one for Oskar Sala's Mixtur-Trautonium . One of the first additions of Sala was to add a switch for changing the static tuning. Later he added a noise generator and an envelope generator (so called 'Schlagwerk'), formant filter (several bandpass filters ) and the subharmonic oscillators . These oscillators generate a main pitch and several subharmonics, which are not multiples of

3975-510: The need for dedicated keys. However, smaller keyboards will typically limit which musical scores can be played). Organs normally have 61 keys per manual, though some spinet models have 44 or 49. An organ pedalboard is a keyboard with long pedals played by the organist's feet. Pedalboards vary in size from 12 to 32 notes or 42 on a touring organ used by Cameron Carpenter. In a typical keyboard layout, black note keys have uniform width, and white note keys have uniform width and uniform spacing at

4050-466: The new album, Aventine , would be released on 30 September 2013. "On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that's a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don't want to impose my subjectivity to

4125-468: The notes used in Gregorian chant (the seven diatonic notes plus B-flat) and as such would often include B ♭ and B ♮ both as diatonic "white notes", with the B ♮ at the leftmost side of the keyboard and the B ♭ at the rightmost. Thus, an octave would have eight "white keys" and only four "black keys". The emphasis on these eight notes would continue for a few centuries after

4200-449: The rare grace of her writings will cause, without any doubts, some strong palpitations in the hearts of the amateurs." The web site Mushroompromotions said: "'Aventine' is a beautiful record, intriguingly unhurried. If the first record was a wander through the forest, this one takes the time to see the beauty and feel the texture in a single leaf. It is at once microcosmic and universal. (...) Agnes creates her own world, or as she calls it,

4275-456: The research phase and starting to write things." She also said: "I have some clear ideas but I'm not sure it is a good idea to go into specifics on such an early stage. I mainly plan to work with old keyboards like spinet and harpsichord and then see where they take me." In June 2015, Obel began recording the new album. She recorded strings with new musicians Frédérique Labbow, Kristina Koropecki, and John Corban. In June 2016, she released

4350-427: The right thing? Can you trust your instincts and what you are feeling? Or are your feelings skewed?" On 7 January 2020, Obel released the single "Broken Sleep." Journalist Drew Feinerman said: "The video (created by Obel's longterm collaborator and partner Alex Brüel Flagstad) pairs perfectly with the style of the composition; Obel sings with such beauty and ease, as the vocals complement the effortless, flowing pace of

4425-409: The singing are two equal things to me – maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices." She has said that, "The music is the most obvious means to express what I am, where I am." All of the songs on Philharmonics are original work except "Close Watch" ("I Keep A Close Watch" by John Cale ) & " Katie Cruel " (a folk traditional; as the iTunes bonus track of

4500-411: The single 'Familiar', from the upcoming album. The song was recorded, produced, and mixed by Obel and features the violin by John Corban as well as cellos by Kristina Koropecki and Charlotte Danhier. The music video was directed by Obel's husband Alex Brüel Flagstad. Hugo Cassavetti from Telerama , wrote: "Agnes Obel, while remaining true to her fine style, expands her new musical fields. Percussions with

4575-500: The song is best known in the version from 1932, sung by the actor and singer Liva Weel . It's one of my favourite melodies. The song is about the impermanence of time and love, with memories being the only thing you get at the end. (...)I recorded it using analog tape and then running the tapes again, so it sounded old and re-recorded, playing with this feeling of remembrance and of lost time." "The entire album inhabits that desolate place of twilight solitude, and forces its listener into

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4650-570: The songs on the album. PIAS Recordings released a Deluxe Version of Philharmonics on 7 February 2011. The Deluxe Version contains five more tracks. Two instrumentals ("Riverside" and "Just So") and three live songs: "Over the Hill", "Just So", and the new track "Smoke & Mirrors". On the Riverside EP , Obel sings "Sons & Daughters". This track is only available on the EP. In June 2011, Philharmonics

4725-473: The surrealist Stretch your eyes or the luminous Golden Green , Agnes Obel has created a sumptuous, odd and modern album. Citizen of Glass confirms, with greatness, Agnes Obel as an important pop artist." Citizen of Glass received an average score of 82 on Metacritic, meaning universal acclaim, based on 11 reviews. Citizen of Glass received the IMPALA (The Independent Music Companies Association) Album of

4800-462: The top new talents in European pop music who "have all succeeded in reaching out to audiences beyond their home country through their talent and energy." In November 2011, she won five prizes at the Danish Music Awards for her first album Philharmonics . She won Best Album of the Year, Best Pop Release of the Year, Best Debut Artist of the Year, Best Female Artist of the Year, and Best Songwriter of

4875-557: The two alternative DS6.0 and DS5.5 sizes through an agreement with the DS Standard Foundation. Since 2013, a global network of pianists, teachers and performing arts health professionals has been increasingly advocating for change to the 'one size fits all' approach to piano keyboard manufacturing by major companies. This network is known as PASK ( Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards ). U.S. pianist Hannah Reimann has promoted piano keyboards with narrower octave spans and has

4950-494: The visuals." About Myopia , journalist Tina Benitez-Eves stated: "Myopia is an abstract anatomization of the human psyche, transcending through ambient instrumentals, and an intoxicating blend of vocals, hovering on Jarboe-bred voice manipulation on atmospheric "Broken Sleep" and "Island of Doom." Ashley Bardhan, in Pitchfork , said also: "These songs are obscured like frosted glass, as meticulously pretty and faintly unnerving as

5025-416: The width of black keys averaging 13.7 mm (0.54 in) and white keys about 23.5 mm (0.93 in) at the base, disregarding space between keys. In recent years, there has been evidence of a correlation between pianists with smaller hand spans and hand or arm injuries. Several reduced-size standards have been proposed for these pianists. A 7/8 size (140 mm (5.5 in) octave span) keyboard

5100-468: The writing, recording and mixing process for 'Myopia'." About "Island of Doom", the artist said: "The song is made up of pitched-down piano and cello pizzicato and vocals, all choirs are pitched down and up… In my experience when someone close to you dies it is simply impossible to comprehend that you can't ever talk to them or reach them somehow ever again." "Island of Doom" features Obel on piano, vocals, and keys, and Kristina Koropecki on cello, creating

5175-520: Was announced that Obel would perform at the 2022 Rock Altitude Festival, a music festival held in Le Locle , Switzerland. She performed on August 13, the last day of the four-day festival. Obel is working on depression treatment pieces for a clinic in Denmark. She said in an interview: "There's also the element that we don't really understand our minds, but we also don't understand music and why music has such

5250-568: Was certified gold by the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA) after selling 10,000 units. In February 2011, her first album was nominated for the 'Impala European Independent Album of the Year' and the song Riverside (from the Submarino 's soundtrack) won the Robert Award for the Best Song of the year 2011. In October 2011, Obel won 2012 European Border Breakers Award . The prize celebrates

5325-471: Was determined by the position at which the performer pressed the resistive wire into contact with the plate beneath it which effectively changed its length, with suitable technique allowing vibrato, quarter tones , and portamento . The oscillator output was fed into two parallel resonant filter circuits. A footpedal controlled the volume ratio of the output of the two filters, which was sent to an amplifier. On 20 June 1930 Oskar Sala and Paul Hindemith gave

5400-507: Was developed by Canadian Christopher Donison in the 1970s. This size, along with the 15/16 size (152 mm (6.0 in) octave span) and a smaller size (130 mm (5.1 in) octave span) have since been developed and marketed by Steinbuhler & Company in Pennsylvania. These three sizes are registered as DS6.0, DS5.5 and DS5.1. The company was converted to the non-profit DS Standard Foundation in 2018. Hailun USA manufactures pianos in

5475-572: Was never forced to play anything else." During her childhood, she found inspiration in Jan Johansson 's work. Johansson's songs, European folk tunes done in a jazzy style, have been a strong influence on her musically. In 1990, she joined a small band as a singer and bass guitar player. The group appeared at a festival and recorded some tunes. In 1994, she had a small part in the short film The Boy Who Walked Backwards / Drengen der gik baglæns by Thomas Vinterberg . Her brother, Holger Thaarup, played

5550-497: Was transformed by the experience but he had to wait fifteen years before he could afford to commission his own Mixturtrautonium from the company Trautoniks. He wrote a musical theater piece about the fathers of the Trautonium, "Wiedersehen in Trautonien", which was performed at the German Museum in Munich, for the 100th birthday of Oskar Sala in 2010. For this theater piece Pichler commissioned three "Volkstrautonien" (a smaller version of

5625-504: Was turned onto Agnes' music through my record label... I think she has a most beautiful voice and can do things with her voice that are unique and extraordinary." In October 2014, Obel played for the first time in L'Olympia in Paris. During her 2014 tour, Obel began work on her third album: "I'm planning to work less with piano, and more with other kinds of old keyboards (...) I'm trying to find new instruments to work with, so it's sort of on

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