Fun Facts about the Faculty: Music at full blast
If you think Health employees are only concerned with DNA sequencing, dissecting kits, and desktop computers, then you’d better think again. So much music flows through our veins and buildings, that you’d almost believe we were at Arts. Did you know that…
... Head of Secretariat Nete Herskind Ramlau-Hansen has sung backup vocals on Depeche Mode's legendary "Music for the Masses" and "Violator" albums?
In the late 1980s, some of the world's biggest music artists flocked to the Puk Studio just outside Randers to record albums. A young Nete lived and worked there for four years because she initially thought she would become a sound engineer. When English band Depeche Mode needed backup vocals for songs like "Personal Jesus" and "Enjoy the Silence," fate would have it that the faculty's Head of Secretariat, who sang in a church choir, is now featured in the background on Depeche Mode's famous sixth and seventh studio albums.
... singer Saint Clara recorded a music video in the Skou Building?
There were probably a few employees at the Department of Biomedicine who choked on their coffee that September day in 2022. For a bit, the Aarhus singer, a film crew, and a team of dancers took over the Skou Building and recorded the music video for Saint Clara’s song "To the Moon" on the central staircase. The music video features several other spectacular locations in Aarhus, and as a thank you for the use of the Skou Building, the department received a few tickets to a Saint Clara concert at Train, which they raffled off to employees. Watch the "To the Moon" music video, especially from 1:11, and notice that the ivy was also growing on the inside of the yellow walls that afternoon.
... Sebastian Skousgaard from Health Communication lets his hair down and plays death metal when the workday at the office ends?
And he does it so well that one of his metal bands, Thus, has won the Danish leg of an international talent competition and will now play at Northern Europe's largest metal festival – Wacken Open Air in Germany, with approximately 85,000 guests. In 2025, Sebastian, who is the bassist, and the rest of the band will tear up venues and eardrums when they go on an extensive Danish and international concert tour.