The Funny Sad of Your Life®TM — Mathias Monrad Møller

Composer Singer

YearJahr 2023/24

CategoryKategorie Ensemble

InstrumentationBesetzung Ten, cl, trb, e.git, perc, pno, vla, vlc, elect.Ten, cl, trb, e.git, perc, pno, vla, vlc, elect.

TextText Mathias Monrad Møller

DurationDauer 1. You Let Me Go Places 5’33’’
2. Where Was The Beef? 3’03’’
3. Hospitality 4’53’’
4. Coke 6’48’’
5. Every Kiss Began With K 3’14’’
6. I’d Got Milk 8’00’’
7. America Did Run On Dunkin 1’15’’
8. Final Orders 4’00’’
hidden track: I’d Got Milk (alternate version) 3’55’’
Total: 40’41’’ 1. You Let Me Go Places 5’33’’
2. Where Was The Beef? 3’03’’
3. Hospitality 4’53’’
4. Coke 6’48’’
5. Every Kiss Began With K 3’14’’
6. I’d Got Milk 8’00’’
7. America Did Run On Dunkin 1’15’’
8. Final Orders 4’00’’
hidden track: I’d Got Milk (alternate version) 3’55’’
Gesamt: 40’41’’

PremiereUraufführung Mathias Monrad Møller, Ensemble Garage
Cologne, October 2024Mathias Monrad Møller, Ensemble Garage
Köln, Oktober 2024

CommissionAuftrag Ensemble Garage

ScorePartitur edition-s.dk

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Program noteProgrammnotiz

With The Funny Sad of Your Life!™®, the German/Danish composer and singer Mathias Monrad Møller, together with Ensemble Garage, takes the dilemma of late-capitalist affluent societies as the starting point for a series of ironic love songs. His ‘Lovesongs’ are based on poems that Møller has compiled from advertising slogans: cheap poetry that become ironic hymns to capitalism. Møller’s dystopian ‘songs’ resonate back to us from a future in which capitalism no longer exists, but in which you long for it; because you were worth it.

1. You Let Me Go Places
2. Where Was The Beef?
3. Hospitality
4. Coke
5. Every Kiss Began With K
6. I’d Got Milk
7. America Did Run On Dunkin
8. Final Orders

Hidden track: I’d Got Milk (alternate version)

FINAL ORDERS

All the news that were fit to print
were built to last
never went out of style

You cared enough to send the very best
went further, obeyed the thirst

I reached out, tried to touch someone
Challenged everything
And we were done.

Good things would come to those who’d wait.

You tried harder
A diamond was forever

Mit The Funny Sad of Your Life!™® nimmt der deutsch-dänische Komponist und Sänger Mathias Monrad Møller gemeinsam mit dem Ensemble Garage das Dilemma spätkapitalistischer Wohlstandsgesellschaften zum Ausgangspunkt für eine Reihe ironischer Liebeslieder. Seine „Lovesongs" basieren auf Gedichten, die Møller aus Werbeslogans zusammengestellt hat: billige Poesie, die zu ironischen Hymnen auf den Kapitalismus wird. Møllers dystopische „Songs" klingen zu uns zurück aus einer Zukunft, in der es den Kapitalismus nicht mehr gibt, nach dem man sich aber sehnt – denn man war es sich wert.