To whom it may speak

This audio paper narrates through the experiences and ambiences of Russian aggression to which Ukrainians relate a long history of Russia’s imperial statehood.

Af Olya Zikrata

PEER article11.12.2023

Democratic noise

Democratic conversation and collectively improvised music have such pronounced similarities that improvisations can be discussed in terms of their democratic potentiality.

Af Noa Grønhøj, Jakob Kjær Bødker

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

The limitations of sonic offer

The sound of the slogans at the demonstrations touches the body, it is impossible to hide from. The vulnerability revealed through this touch creates immediate affective responses pointing at the limitations of sonic support and solidarization.

Af Vita Zelenska

PEER article11.12.2023

The human body as a space defining element of sound art

This article researches the role of the Human body in the production of sound art in the exhibition space. It focuses on the spatial path between body and sound in the exhibition space of sound art.

Af Andromachi Vrakatseli

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

Cochlear implantation surgery

Operating rooms are typically noise filled environments, where polyrhythms and polyphonics of human and non-human sounds collide. In this paper the operating room soundscape is used for relational ethnographic exploration, framed in critical affect theory, and brings together insights from medical sociology and sound studies.

Af Andile Lindokuhle Sibiya, Kevin Gordon, Matthias Kispert

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

Fear of weakness

In the audio-paper »Fear of Weakness: Songs to Agitate the Man«, artist Morten Poulsen builds on his project »Boys Will Be…« (2022), in which he met with young cis-men to have conversations about vulnerability, intimacy and masculine norms

Af Morten Poulsen

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

The second sound of integrity

Following Ruiz and Vourloumis, this audio paper performance sounds a formless formation, exploring integrity and wholeness among Black and Indigenous collectives that organize via radical forms of togetherness outside state-sponsored institution

Af Emery Petchauer , Ruth Nicole Brown

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

More than background

This audio paper explores the »acoustic territory« (Labelle, 2010) of Peckham Rye Lane through my sonic journey as a Peckham resident, practitioner, and researcher.

Af Francisco Mazza

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

Karaoke collage

I went on an artist residency in Tokyo in 2018/19 for three months and ended up spending most of my time in karaoke boxes. I don’t remember what my actual project was but in the birthplace of karaoke, amateur singing of pop songs was all I could think of.

Af Ragnhild May, Kristoffer Raasted

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

The heartbeat of the drum

For over 4000 years, the Inuit in Kalaallit Nunaat, as Greenland is called in Greenlandic, have been living in an intimate relationship with nature in the Arctic. Their knowledge of how to survive under such harsh conditions has been preserved and passed on via sound through the millennia.

Af Ania Mauruschat

PEER article11.12.2023

The lyric ear

The article analyses the genre of listening scores – texts written in a natural language that provide the readers with instructions to listen in a certain way or to a certain kind of sounds.

Af Vadim Keylin

11.12.2023

Voice as infrastructure

This audio paper explores the phenomenon of voice-based technology in the smart-home. Through ethnographic interviews we study how older people use voice-based technologies and with what effects for their experiences of the affective environment in their homes.

Af Marie Ertner, Stina Hasse Jørgensen, Signe L. Yndigegn

playliste09.12.2023

Mit navn er Emil Palme – vil du se min playliste?

»Jeg oplever musik som noget magisk, som en kraft der kan kommunikere via energier, der ikke nødvendigvis kan forstås eller måles på. At skabe musik er for mig at have kontakt med den kraft.«

Af Emil Palme

kritik28.11.2023

Skal det nu være morsomt? Åh ja!

Teknologi og sort humor swingede på MINU Festival, som på blot tre år er blevet én af de mest aktuelle begivenheder for eksperimenterende musik i Danmark.

Af Jakob Gustav Winckler

playliste25.11.2023

My name is Iku Sakan – would you like to see my playlist?

»Music is the healing force.«

Af Iku Sakan

kritik23.11.2023

Hvem bestilte en afrocubansk uddrivelse?

Louis Franz Aguirre er en af de særeste komponister herhjemme. Men også en af de mest særlige. Mathias Reumert Group har indspillet tre af hans værker, der gør det guddommelige menneskeligt.

Af Sune Anderberg

kritik20.11.2023

Kommer vi nogensinde til at forstå Rued Langgaard?

Han er kendt som Danmarks mærkeligste komponist. 71 år efter sin død lyder hans musik stadig aparte. Fascinerende bog afdækker nye facetter af mennesket Rued Langgaard.

Af Jeppe Rönnow

playliste18.11.2023

My name is Mike Sheridan – would you like to see my playlist?

»To me, music is about everything else.«

Af Mike Sheridan

kortkritik09.11.2023

Voldsomt charmerende Volvo

»Osgood og De Udeboende kommer virkelig vidt omkring både genrer og stemninger med en sprudlende livs- og spilleglæde.«

Af Kristoffer Møllegaard

playliste06.11.2023

My name is Lucky Lo – would you like to see my playlist?

»I play music to connect people and I sing melodies to encourage community. I believe in the transformative power of music and love.«

Af Lucky Lo

playliste30.10.2023

My name is Johannes Sigurdsen – would you like to see my playlist?

»Food is like music, we can't avoid it, we strive for it because we need it.«

Af Johannes Sigurdsen

kritik30.10.2023

Den nye musik ånder i den gamle kulmineby

På en af Europas største biennaler for ny musik har man for længst sagt farvel til den gamle verden. Faktisk emmede Ostrava Days i Tjekkiet næsten af New York – i hvert fald i ti dage.

Af Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek