About the composer
It all started in the basement with two cassette recorders, a Fender Rhodes, a vocal mic and a distortion pedal.
The fascination for music and sound came early. Throughout my teens I experimented with songwriting and arrangement in the various bands I played in. After highschool I went straight to Berklee College of Music in Boston and from there on via Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen to a fast start as a professional musician.
Playing with all kinds of popular bands the touring life quickly became an integrated part of the everyday life for me. Piano and keyboards as well as producer and arranger gigs were popping up in my busy calendar and as fun as it was for a young ambitious guy like me back then, it slowly began to limit my time to experiment. Doing what I loved the most and longed for when creating music was suddenly not important. So when an opportunity revealed itself I decided to focus more on composition and production. This change in direction resulted in moving my young family to the Island og Bornholm in the middle of the Baltic Sea where we, in an old farm house together build my dream studio: Baltic Recording studio. Also partly with the helping hand from the local business fund and EU.
Since the year 2000 it has been my production base and with the luxury of having great musicians drop by to record and working on the best equipment in both stereo and 5.1 surround, it has been the perfect workspace for me to develop what I am as an artist. I love music and sound and all I live for is to express musical emotions to the listener and the audience.
In 2020 it was time to move on, both personally and technically. So the farm house was sold and I moved the studio to my new workspace: Baltic Recording Nexø - a full Dolby Atmos production studio build with the great setup help from David Ziegler and the techs at Dolby Laboratories in Germany. Working in atmos is a natural development from all the years I have worked in 5.1 and as an artist it is a total blast to produce musical emotions in an 36Oº speaker environment. There is no going back once you have experienced it!
Therefore it is also possible to get atmos mixes of most of the tracks on Mejlvang Musik, just send me an email with your request via contact and I will get back to you a.s.a.p.
I remember a watershed moment from my childhood.
My mother had bought an old piano. The piano tuner had just finished tuning it and the instrument was now standing all by itself in the living room, disassembled with all the piano strings visible. I was about six years old and I cautiously laid my hands on the keys for the very first time – and a wonderful sound suddenly flowed through my ears. I had not yet learned to play the piano at the time, so I didn’t know what I was doing, but I was utterly fascinated and absorbed by the sound emanating from the instrument. It was like a door had opened up to a brand-new universe, revealing an infinitely deep and colourful world which could encompass everything – joy, pain, grief, euphoria – at one and the same time.
Whenever I compose music, I strive to express in my works just a fraction of the feeling from that experience. I try to unlock that door – and keep it ajar.
In my world, there is no language more powerful than music and there is no better way to communicate an emotion. Music does something to us and touches us, regardless of whether we are aware of it. Nothing can warm a cold heart or make us forget our loneliness like music can. Music can be an angel or a demon, light or dark, soft and hard, or beautiful, horrifying, shrill, or warm – so a composer’s job is to select the sound that best describes the state of mind or emotion he or she wants a work to impart. My passion is music, nothing is more important – it’s that simple.
