Ditlev Behrens

Ditlev Behrens is a Danish composer/producer based in Copenhagen, who under the artist name This Person Does Not Exist, explores the meaning behind the composer as messenger. In his previous works, this is seen in the form of storytelling, Cars, Pity and Raw Emotion (2022), nonverbal narrative, The Basilisk (2023) and personification, Breathing Maze (2023). An essential question for Ditlev is: That no matter how much the composer tries to get rid of themselves by hiding behind aliases, concepts or roles, the composer's intention to be anonymous can never happen, no matter how much effort they put into it.    
 
The EP “Transformations” is the first step in a long-term project about messages and where/what we choose to hear. It explores how different signals and associations to sound can be challenged. By looking uncritically and almost lovingly at the clichés, we see the possibilities of what sound can become. The EP consists of 6 tracks that each work with this process. Glass shards, tornado sirens, kazoos and newly invented animals can be seen as different experiments, ranging from classic pieces of music to Foley without film. Foley in particular has been a major driving force behind the project and many of the tracks on the EP are inspired by Foley as it questions whether what we hear and what we associate with that sound match up. 

All tracks are mixed by Ditlev Behrens and mastered in collaboration with Vera Sofie Gerup Schou (Vera3).               
 
The project is supported by Koda Kultur and the Danish Arts Foundation and intends to explore further into the matter of what it means to send a message.