Collection: Asger Baden

Danish composer, pianist and producer Asger Baden has made a name for himself as a film and TV-series composer with his atmospheric music featured in world-acclaimed productions such as “Breaking Bad” and “The Wolfpack”.

Having studied piano and keyboards at Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Conservatory, his compositions have always embraced the natural qualities of traditional instruments as well as pushing at their physical boundaries.

In his more experimental works, Baden is painting a wide and vast musical room where the listener is invited to explore its every nook and cranny, from soft percussive footsteps in the background, to the whispering rumbles of synthesizers just in front or the frail conversation of strings happening to the side.

Often, there’s an overwhelming sense of openness and atmosphere to every sound, with a churchy echo delineating the space that surrounds them. “I want to put myself in a position where my ‘ears are wide open’ to the quirks, random incidents and happy accidents rather than being totally focused on the composition in a conventional sense,” says Baden, “to me, this opens a door to a much larger canvas, so to speak.”