Too art to understand?  I think, half in shocked paralysis, half curious. Masked electronic musicians, composing their works via algorithms? It's all very weird. Does Oktronium even exist? Are they human? Or is it data creating music; an autonomous music system? A (high-minded) critique of the established future dystopia of steel and glas, along with a proposed new (and more correct?) vision of a digital dystopic future which is already here, but invisible – but made tangible in this mixture of art installation and concert? Something about growth ideology, paranoia and Gary Numan??

The most comprehensible thing is the program which (seemingly) applies to the opening on the 12^th:

19:00 Doors open and the installation is inaugurated.

19:30 Performance lecture and a conversation with the algorithm behind OKTRONIUM. An attempt at a dialogue about sci-fi dystopian futures in electronic music.

20:00 concert with OKTRONIUM.

I check out the music and I’m sold. It is strange, unruly, electrically conductive, and danceable:

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The elegant murder. The quiet murder. Murder with tea and umbrella. No blood, no noise, no guns, explosions or car chases. Just silent chemicals going about their deadly business.

UNF (The Danish Youth Association of Science) hosts knockout lectures, where they transform dry facts into compelling shows. This time, a chemist and a doctor take turns – one trying to kill a mother-in-law, while the other attempts to cure the victim, or at the very least deduce what happened, while they discuss what can go wrong and how you can discover and treat real-life poisonings.

Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian known for criticizing Putin, was poisoned with the radioactive isotope polonium-210 in London some years ago. It lurked in his green tea. Snow White was poisoned – wasn’t that by a mother-in-law? – with an apple. In Jonestown, it was in the Kool-Aid . Dear Leader Kim Jong-Un killed his half-brother with the nerve agent VX. His ministry had hired two women to spray him in the face with the stuff “We thought it was baby oil!”, they said at the trial. The Bulgarian defector, dramatist and novelist, Georgi Markov, who escaped communist Bulgaria, was murdered with ricin in 1978 while waiting for the bus: He felt a prick in his leg and saw a man beside him pick up an umbrella and hurry off. Two days later his heart stopped beating.

Finally, I will leave you with this piece of advice, direct from the ol’ trusty internet: “ Historically, there are five substances which serious poisoners have utilized: Thallium, lead, quicksilver, arsenic, and antimony. These substances all have their numerous disadvantages, as they are easy to trace. For this reason, you should be professional in your methods and read up on the matter, so you avoid unnecessary mistakes.” So: Be professional. Also when poisoning.

In Denmark, there are between 5 and 10 murders by poison a year. At the end of the university’s main street in room U45, you can pick up some tips and tricks. 75kr gets you a membership of UNF for half a year.

Ah, the 80’s! How I long for your pastels, your metallic makeup, your arcade cabinets and roller skates, your soft short-shorts and your megalomaniac shoulder pads –Thank God for DYNAMO, who will be blasting us back in an 80’s time-warp this Saturday, in the harbor, on Byens Ø, in the old Silo with the picture of the bird. If a place could be a person, DYNAMO would be Willy Wonka: a crazy, contrary, anarchic spirit – it’s a place that turns adults into children and turns the children on their heads – it’s my goal to leave at least as much shattered porcelain in that joyous kitchen as my boisterous euphoria did last year.

Shooting gallery, tattoo-tombola, roller-disco at 19:00

12 international New Circus artists in the city’s heretofore most ambitious cracked cabaret with live audio accompaniment from Tigermor at 21:00 and..

A concert with the synth-duo TAN, with matching drag queen dancers at 23:00.

It’s going to be a party without equal and you must, must, must not miss the cabaret!

Feel the vibes in the trailer here; it’s a trailer that makes me feel that my life in this town is in every way remarkable.

If you love that 80’s style, then G.L.O.W. is the best thing on Netflix rigt now. Hairspray and hard metal makeup, jazzercise outfits with high waists capped in thin belts, leg warmers, shoulder pads, and coke up the nose of the male chauvenist alpha-male-mother-fucking-idiot-director (with pricelessly funny lines) of the ambitious, but hopeless female wrestlers.