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Knausgård’s Apocalypse as Opera

© Ilkka Saastamoinen

Sebastian Fagerlund’s »Morgonstjärnan« transforms the novel’s existential unease into a powerful, collective musical drama.

By Andrew Mellor

War Reverberations: Sound Stories From Kyiv

Air raid sirens, artillery, and everyday sounds have altered the city’s rhythm – and forced its residents to develop new ways of listening.

By Joanna Kwapień

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Sacred, Profane, and Unsettlingly Alive

Sacrum Profanum in Kraków offered intense sonic experiences and musical battles – but also performances where the idea outweighed the music.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

Matias Vestergård revisited

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Revivals have moved onto the agenda among Danish composers, and this month two violent operas by Matias Vestergård benefited from the trend. What is it that makes him so good at writing precisely that kind of work?

By Sune Anderberg

The Anatomy of the Organ

It has become a cherished December tradition that Koncertkirken opens its doors to curious explorations of the nature of the organ when the Organ Sound Art Festival moves in. This year the festival could celebrate its 10th anniversary, and the fascination with the organ’s many paradoxes remains intact.

By Rasmus Steffensen

PulsePlaylists

As Bertolt Brecht once wrote: »In dark times, will there also be singing? Yes · there will be singing, about the dark times.« — SLIM0 01.02

© Mishael Oladipo Fapohunda

For me, music is a secret safe place. It is a refuge from society, from who you're expected to be, and from the idea of belonging — Masaya Ozaki 07.02

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Music is like an extra organ through which I perceive the world — Bobo Moreno 09.02

Bobo Moreno. © Thomas Roger Henrichsen

PulseIn brief

In a short space of time, »Miniatures« has become a favored sonic space for this reviewer when there is a need to retreat into the chambers of the mind — Simon Heggum 06.02

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Bent Sørensen’s »12 Nocturnes« unfold the night’s intimate piano poetry, while the piano concerto breaks the spell — Therese Wiwe Vilmar 04.02

Bent Sørensen. © Peter Christian Christensen

»Light« is the perfect distillation of Mikkelborg’s musical life – a cavalcade of the qualities that have always defined him as a musician: light, colour, life, mysticism, love — Kristoffer Møllegaard 30.01

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Nephew på Roskilde Festival. © Morten Rygaard

See Venice and Throw Up

Marie Koldkjær Højlund uses art, disgust, and everyday ruptures as resistance to habits, crises, and our urge to understand everything.

By Therese Wiwe Vilmar

Across America – a Grown-up Boyband’s Search for a Sound

Four Scandinavian musicians and a Canadian banjo amateur/karate instructor cross the American South to find out whether they can become a band – somewhere between Schubert, country, and doubt.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

Latest

From Darkness to Magic: Warren Ellis and the Journey Toward the Light

After a brutal depression, Warren Ellis returns with renewed strength – and deep gratitude. The 60-year-old Australian multi-instrumentalist opens up about pain, love, animals, creativity, and Nina Simone’s sacred chewing gum.

By Peter Albrechtsen

Writer profile Anna Ullman

review
07.06

When the Past Begins to Make Noise Again

Anna Ullman

Anna Ullman. © Gads Forlag

Anna Ullman is a researcher, writer, and critic focusing on cultural analysis and the relationship between art, politics, and popular culture. She conducts research at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen on pre-capitalist art practices within the 1970s “folk revival.” She has written for, among others, Weekendavisen and Information, worked as a festival curator, and is the author of a book on the cultural history of the Roskilde Festival.