Damien Dubrovnik's Great Many Arrows Blends Viennese Actionism with Punk

Danish duo Damien Dubrovnik, consisting of Loke Rahbek and Christian Stadsgaard, released their sixth album Great Many Arrows as the 200th release on the Posh Isolation label. In an interview with Artribune, they discuss their approach to music as an 'open text' in the Internet Age, combining Viennese Actionism with punk. The album projects their visceral performance style into the studio, blending melody with a fragile, chaotic interiority characteristic of digital contemporaneity. They compose through fragments and superimpositions, creating a unique language that bypasses traditional metrics. The duo, lacking conventional musical backgrounds, work with electronic landscapes interspersed with acoustic sounds, organs, violas, cellos, and wind instruments. Loke references Marina Abramović, noting that performance differs from theater because 'the blood is real.' The album reflects a paradigm shift where the body's extension and dissemination online changes how music is made, with collage becoming a privileged compositional mode due to a new consciousness created by the Internet.