This book contains the complete EMP Series, a collection of digital albums released by Dacapo Records featuring Else Marie Pade's electronic works with accompanying texts by Jonas Olesen, a leading expert on Pade. The series provides a fresh digital perspective on her extraordinary music as it features both newly digitized versions of known works and works that have previously been unavailable or overlooked. The collection is virtually complete, though some additional electronic material may yet emerge.

Through 13 chapters, Jonas Olesen unfolds Pade's electronic works, from purely musical works to music composed for movies, theatre, commercials as well as illustrative sound tracks for radio plays. Explore both the earliest experiments from the 1950s created in the Danish Radio’s sound laboratory and the latest works from the 2000s, where Pade was collaborating with the younger generation of electronic composers.

Else Marie Pade
Else Marie Pade started composing electronic music in the 1950s as one of the first in Denmark. Her works were disseminated primarily through the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, but also as music for film and theatre, as well as in concert performances. In the 1970s, however, she withdrew for personal reasons, partly as a result of experiences from the resistance movement during the German occupation. For many years, interest in her music was virtually absent – until she was ‘rediscovered’ by music researchers in 2001.

Since then, the world has come to know Else Marie Pade’s fascinating body of work through archival materials, tape reels, sketches, and notes. The effort to fully understand Pade is still a work in progress, but with the book Complete Electronic Works 1955–2012, we now have the most comprehensive overview to date of her electronic music.

Listen while you read
While reading you will have easy access to experience the music yourself: Through the book you will find QR codes, leading you directly to the mentioned works which can be played on streaming platforms. In the back of the book you'll find a CD with five selected works from the collection. The book includes illustrations and excerpts from Pade's handwritten scores. All texts are in both English and Danish.

CD Tracklist:
1. Glasperlespil
2. Svævninger (lang)
3. Vikingerne
4. Eha (Den fortabte søn)
5. Klangfarver fra EMS