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What is this Mik Aidt doing?
People like titles. Some of those given to me are, in alphabetic order: Computer consultant, coach, executive committee member, DJ, editor-in-chief, human rights activist, journalist, lecturer, managing director, musician, photographer, radio host, teacher, tv producer, web editor, web designer... and then I have probably forgotten some. Personally I'm not fond of or interested in titles. I regard myself as a human being who likes to play and dream, and who continously works on how playing, dreaming and living out dreams can also become a way of making a living. Below is some information about how my years have passed so far... (The Danish version is more detailed)  2010 : January: As director of Danish Centre for Arts & Interculture, I organize a two-day conference for 250 participants on 28-29 January in Skuespilhuset (the National Theatre Hall). Production • Interview article with Birgitte Kofod Olsen from TrygVesta in Cultures. • Interview with MP Marianne Jelved. • Interview with head of the Danish Arts Council Mads Øvlisen. • Web page with video interviews and articles from a conference about visual arts education Travels: Italy in February, Norway (twice) in March, Italy (again) in May. Travels plans: England in June, Australia in September-October Travel dreams at the moment: Egypt. Mozambique. Arizona. Nepal. 2009 : January: start new job as director of Danish Centre for Arts & Interculture, which gathers and communicates knowledge about how the Danish cultural scene can open up and include artists with an intercultural background. The centre is launched with a one-day seminar for 140 participants on 19 January.  Two days a week I continue to work as web editor of Freemuse.org, an international organisation advocating human rights and freedom of expression for musicians, producing news articles and video interviews, etc.• Working together with Ivan Rod and Niels Righolt on getting the communication bureau and magazine Cultures up and running. We have moved the editorial office to a new address at Nytorv in the heart of Copenhagen’s old city centre. Travels this year: Stockholm, Sweden (March). Australia (March-April). 2008 : January–December: Four days a week I work as web editor of Freemuse.org. Regularly produce radio programmes for CMC and My Way Music. February: Step in as stearing group chairman for Danish Centre for Arts & Interculture. June 1992 to June 2008: Editor-in-Chief of Djembe Magazine. In November 2008, Djembe is relaunched and renamed as Cultures Production • March: Video interview with the American musician Kris Kristofferson, and with Marie Boine from Sámi land in North Norway. • June: Interview with the Turkish musician Fuat Talay • Articles about the Finnish kantele instrument, about the Sudanese musician Abazar Hamid, numerous album reviews, etc  On the home front • 9 December: Arrival of our Number Three: Eva. Travels Norway (March and August). Finland (Arctic Paradise Live, April). Sweden (November).  2007 : • January–December: Continued work for and with Freemuse, CMC, My Way Music, and Djembe Magazine. December: Publish an album with my sister Pernilla, entitled ‘Songs that dream’. On the home front: • 1 March: Nest building – we move to a little house on the island Amager • 2 April: Arrival of our Number 2. • Travels: Jordan (January). Australia and Thailand (July) 2006 : • One day a week web editor of Freemuse.org, until October, where I started working full-time for Freemuse. • Co-editor of Culturebase.net. • Editor-in-chief of the magazine Djembe which on its 14th year is published every third month. • Once or twice a month: produced a 30-minutes radio show where I interviewed artists and orchestras. For CMC: The Olsen Brothers, Big Fat Snake, Smokie, Finn Nørbygaard & Jacob Haugaard, Poul Krebs, Eurovision experts, Tomboy, Jascha Richter, Sonic & David, etc. For My Way Music: Bamse, Dræsinebanden, Keld & Hilda, Thomas Stenberg, Søren Poppe, Jakob Sveistrup, Peter Viskinde, etc. • In March: premiere on a two-day workshop and performance about life dreams at Køng Folkhighschool: ‘The Power of Dreaming’ and ‘I Have A Dream’. The project was repeated with a new group of students in June. • CD-ROM video production for DCCD about a symposium i Hanoi. • Assisted organising and coordinating the conference Radio Days 2006. • Frequently out as DJ. • May: Finished the album ‘Balad Djemil’. (Launched in December) • May–July: web editor of the festival website www.images.org • August–September: Produced 12 hours of radio at DR P2 and a tv documentary about music in the Middle East and some of the artists visiting the festival Images of the Middle East. • Assisted organising the Danish World Awards in November. • Assisted and video documented the third Freemuse World Conference in Istanbul in November. • Write a series of articles about Danish world music for www.danishmusic.info • On the home front: Am the proud father of and for The Babynator, who is very busy growing up and discovering the world. • Travels: Lebanon. Sweden. Germany. Turkey.
2005 : February 11: Wedding with Deb at Copenhagen City Hall. • March: Produced a three-hour radio programme on dreams and creativity. • Radio Days again. • Made music for a little one-minute flash-presentation produced by Lis Kelså: (Click to hear it) • April: Started a new job which I am very fond of – as web editor for the international organisation Freemuse, www.freemuse.org. • June 11: Premiere on the first prototype of what we think can become Djembe's "Traveling Road Show" - entitled 'Because the World is Bigger' • Apart from that, I am presently into producing a video documentary and several articles on dreams, as well as making music and music videos, doing coaching and consultancy work for people who want to publish their own CDs, DJing, and so on. (View calendar for update on when and where I am DJing) • June: writing a special theme issue of Djembe Magazine on creativity and tolerance - inspired by the American book, 'The Creative Class'. • September: Article in the magazine Samvirke about dreams and creativity • Preparing an album with music inspired from Sudan, entitled ‘Balad Djemil’. • Welcome our firstborn on Planet Earth on July 10. • New Year’s Blog: This year circles around the topic happiness • Travels: France (September). Australia and Thailand (December 15 – February 9). 2004 : All winter until 1 February 2004, I was absolutely burried in the challenge of organising a radio conference for 350 people, Radio Days. In May-June, I produced a 60-page jazz magazine for DR about DR Big Band. In June, Mild Records launched its second album, 'Muse', with Gudrun Holck, and a maxi-single, 'L'Aube Remixed', with Pernilla. Autumn was spent with the production of my first DVD, a CD-ROM, eight minor videos, finishing a 40-minutes documentary ‘My Images of Asia’, and giving a full-day lecture on dreams its world premiere on a folk high school (Højskole) in Køng, on November 19 – a milestone in my career as a “professional dreamer”. Established a website for this activity on Dreamer.dk – and a page about my work related activities on Mildproductions.dk • Travels: Cannes in France (Midem), once again. Australia (April). Vietnam and Australia (October). India (December-January). 2003 : Midlife crisis? The “Seven Year Itch”? Maybe. Quit my job as an editor at the radio just after New Year, taking effect on 1st of March. After seven years in the same job, it suddenly occured to me that I needed new challenges. So, I am happy to say that I have entered a new life with more time for traveling, writing, making music, and living out personal dreams of mine... And, oh yes!, less money, and more financial insecurity. A price for my new freedom which I am happy to pay. In July, I started my own production company, Mild Productions, and as such, now the managing director of my own record company... ;-) We launched our first CD, ‘Serene’, in October. In May–July, I was a guest editor at the magazine Kontakt, producing a special theme issue on Asian culture, and at the same time, I joined a project organising a major conference about radio in January 2004. At Roskilde Festival, I was hosting a full-evening radio show for EBU, broadcast live in 16 European countries. Together with Mikkel Hornnes, I built a website for DR about Asian music In August, I sat down in front of the video-editing software Final Cut Pro for the first time, and on September 27, I had my debut on national tv with a 70-minutes programme about the Images of Asia festival. • Travels: Cannes in France (Midem). Uganda. Nepal. France again. London. 2002 : Still deeply involved with DR Rytmisk, DCCD, Djembe, music production, writing articles, DJing, etc. Arranged my first Planet3 party. Radio - among other programmes these six: • Radium at DR P2 on 8th of October (realaudio - 1 hour: Bombay Dreams, Flipside, Moussa Diallo) • Radium at DR P2 on 23rd of October (realaudio: Midival Punditz, Jason Armstrong, Peter Gabriel) • Radium at DR P2 on 7th of November (realaudio: Asian Massive, Karsh Kale, Talvin Singh, Feliz Laband) • Radium at DR P2 on 17th of November (realaudio: dreamy film music which you have never heard before.) • Radium at DR P2 on 6th of December (realaudio: Youssou N'Dour, Radar, Sorten Muld) • Radium at DR P2 on 21st of December (realaudio: Panjabi MC, hitlists around the globe, Viviane N'Dour) • Travels: Cannes (Midem), London, Senegal, Nice, Thailand (Koh Pha Ngan), Ibiza, North-Norway (Andenes in Nordland). 2001 : Debut as lounge-DJ at the Roskilde Festival. July: Layout of newspaper for Crossing Borders (Palestina/Israel/Jordan journalist project). December: • 'Music Of Another World' – theme in 'Nordic Sounds', a magazine published by the Nordic Council of Ministers. • Travels: Cannes (Midem), Norway, Nice. 2000 : Among many other things, deeply involved in the Images of the World festival which took place in August-September. • Travels: London, New York, Egypt (Sinai). 1999 : April: Coordinating editor ("Jourhavende") at DR P3. • Travels: Cannes (Midem), Berlin, London, Nice, Cologne, London, Nice, Lausanne. 1998 : May: Appointed by the Danish Foreign Ministry to be member of the executive committee of the Danish Center for Culture & Development for a three year period (in 2001 prolonged with another three years). August: P3 music editor November: Assisting in the organising of the conference "Communicating Cultural Africa". December 22: Nightradio host debut at P3. • Travels: Cannes and Stockholm (Womex).  1996:Teaching Internet and HTML at Borups Højskole. In February, employed as a leader of the music scheduling project at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and taking part in making the World Music programme at P3. Once in a while touring with a slide show about African music, or as a DJ at parties Initiator and webmaster of the home pages such as • Djembe Magazine as well as • Images of Africa Festival and • Cross Culture Network. Constructor and designer of home pages for the • World Music programme at P3, • the first home page of DR P4, • the jazz band Loreleï Quintet, • Pernilla Caroubi Quintet, • the book Among Danish Jews, • the firm Netservice, • the Homolulu Hotel, • a low-carbohydrate diet archive (which has had millions of visitors) • Levende Musik i Skolen, • Wamdè, • Freelance Europe, • Michael Mogensen Fotografisk Galleri, • Multi Fotoarkiv, • Nielsens Bryg & Drik, • Numen Music Center, • Tchando.com, • What's Wrong • Spejlteltet and many more...
Aidt (pronounced like "I'd" in "I'd like to...") is not some relief agency and as a matter of fact, it wasn't that much of a queer surname before the eruption of AIDS in the early 1980ies. Regardless of the unusual letter combination, Aidt remains being a small Danish village, which for centuries has been situated between Århus and Viborg in Jutland (Western part of Denmark). Aidt is the village from which my grandfather's family origins. In the Middle Ages, the word "Agatwe" meant "an opening in the forest", during centuries it was abbreviated to "Ajt", and later, around 1875, it was changed to "Aidt". My great-grandfather was a teacher in this village, and he and his two sons had the common Danish surname "Pedersen". My grandfather, Viggo Pedersen, bought the surname "Aidt" of the state in 1920 after this very small village in the countryside, because too many Danes carried the name Pedersen. Only the descendants after him and his older brother Axel Aidt carry this surname in Denmark. There will be between 30-40 members today. My father knows all the descendants from them. The name, however, actually exists in Germany and USA too, but with a different origin, probably from Germany. • Family tree on geni.com
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I was born in Risskov, north of the second largest city in Denmark, Århus. This was in 1962, at 5 pm.
