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Bjarke Rasmussen (b. 1985) is a Danish composer and musician based in Åbyskov, South Funen. His work explores repetition, minimal instrumentation, field recordings, and the act of listening. He works with slowly developing musical forms, using tape, loops, electronic and acoustic sounds, often starting with recordings and observations from the places around him.
His practice is rooted in a curiosity about how sound changes when it is repeated, cut apart, moved, or returned to. Field recordings of landscapes, everyday surroundings, and natural processes are combined with analog tape, synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and other sounds. He is interested in the space between what is heard and what is imagined, and in how small changes and repetitions can make familiar sounds feel unfamiliar.
Bjarke ran the record label Infinite Waves from 2013 to 2020, releasing ambient music primarily by Danish artists. He has been a member of the Danish Composers' Society since 2019 and previously worked as a booker and curator at Mayhem (2017–2020) in Copenhagen, a pivotal venue for extreme and experimental music.
Over the years, Bjarke has collaborated with a number of artists, often in a duo format, including Mads Westrup, Mikkel Rørbo (Alleypisser, Knækkede Stemmer), Heva Vaupel, and Christian Møller Blæhr (Mette Mareridt, Shiggajon, among others). He has toured with Goodiepal and was part of the early stages of what later became Goodiepal & Pals.
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Mentorship, Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
March 2023
Residency, Danish Composers’ Society apartment in Tuscania
June 2022 (funded by DKF)
Residency, EMS/Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm
May 2022 (funded by DKF)
“Aldrig mere vinter“, Audiovisual project made in collaboration with Copenhagen based visual artist Selini Halvadaki
Fall 2020 (funded by Koda)
Mentorship, Claus Haxholm (MFA Københavns Kunstakademi, musician)
Fall 2020 (funded by DKF)
Mentorship, Carsten Bo Eriksen/My Beautiful Decay 1973 (composer — The Royal Danish Academy)
Spring 2020 (funded by DKF)
Booker, curator and janitor at Mayhem August 2017 — May 2020
Residency, EMS/Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm
May 2017
Founder of record label, Infinite Waves
May 2013 — 2020



