Bio

Aron Dahl is a songwriter, composer, filmmaker, sound synthesist and singer based somewhere in between Los Angeles, Oslo and Copenhagen. His work is a genre defying mix of auto fiction and documentary, ambient, chamber music, field recordings, techno and nativistic pop, encompassing themes of identity, alienation, BDSM and transcendence. His debut solo album Loosening Orion’s Belt was awarded by the Danish Arts Council as one of the 10 best releases of 2018. He has toured in Europe, Japan and North-America and his music has been featured in The Wire, Politiken, Passive/Aggressive, I Care If you Listen and LA Weekly. 

As a composer he has collaborated with ensembles like Athleas, Pinquins and Aksiom and his music has been performed at festivals like Nordic Music Days (ISL), New Now Festival (US), Borealis (NO) and Nordic Saxophone Festival (DK). His first saxophone concerto, Alt flyter (2021) was performed by Oriol Pares, Pierre André Valade and Athleas Sinfonietta during Klang Festival in May 2021.  As a performer he has toured in Europe, Japan and North-America and played at festivals like Suoni Per Il Popolo (CAN), Click (DK), Musikprotokoll (AUT) and Insomnia.

As a saxophonist and improviser Aron has performed with, among others, Daniel Lercher, Henrik Nørstebø, Agnes Hvizdalek, Jim Denley, mattin, Bernd Klug, Paul Lovens, Susanna Gartmayer, Jerome Cooper and Niklas Adam as well as released 3 full length albums and a handful of cassettes and odd formats with obscure space-folk (Lumpy Space Princess), noise jazz (Tigers Mind) and minimal drone music (bravura in the face of grief and Dahl/Lercher). Between 2016-2018 he and Mija Milovic performed all over Denmark as the ritualistic livetechno-performance art duo Dirty Nun Techno Crew. Since 2013 he has been running the Copenhagen-based label Abstract Tits together with Anders Vestergaard as well as organizing experimental music shows at Mayhem in Copenhagen and Ila Fysikalske in Oslo.

Aron is a Fullbright Fellow, and holds a double MFA in Music Composition and Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts.

Anyone who can make the word "COAGULATING" a rhyme in a love song, gets my full attention and respect...

Genesis P-Orridge