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Years active
  
Early 2000s–present

Website
  
mbd73.com


Name
  
Carsten Eriksen

Role
  
Composer · mbd73.com


Born
  
2 October 1973 (age 50) Copenhagen, Denmark (
1973-10-02
)

Genres
  
Alt-classical, experimental, electronica, ambient

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, composer, record producer

Instruments
  
Piano, Computer, Guitar,

Labels
  
DaCapo Records, Naxos, Sony Music / Tame Records

Education
  
Royal Danish Academy of Music

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Carsten Bo Eriksen alias MBD73 which is short for My Beautiful Decay 1973 (born 2 October 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish 21st-century composer and artist.

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Biography

Carsten Bo Eriksen (a.k.a. MBD73) is a prize-winning and award-nominated composer and artist. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music as a composer (1997-2003), pupil of Professor Ib Nørholm, Ivar Frounberg and Hans Abrahamsen. As a painter he is self-taught. He had his debut from the extended studies program in composition in 2003. Furthermore, he has studied at Berklee College of Music, Massachusetts, US. And has studied the Balinese gamelan music in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, with the musician Pak Tama. In 2004 he was granted by the Danish Arts Foundation with a three-year working grant.

Music

Carsten Bo Eriksen (a.k.a. MBD73) finds his inspiration in the European and American minimalism, as well as electronica, alt.classical or indie-classical/post-classical and post-rock music. He is among the very few composers in Denmark with strong roots in minimalism.

Rock albums

  • Skin, Melonheads Sony music / Tame music (2002)
  • Classical albums

  • Nordlys, DaCapo Records / Naxos (2002)
  • References

    Carsten Bo Eriksen Wikipedia