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From Factory Floor to Operatic Frustration
Jenny Wilson’s first opera – an adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s »Women as Lovers« – delivers sharp theatricality and biting satire but struggles to find its musical voice.
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Who said that simplicity should be simple?
Three albums with music for string quartet – and the likes – by Jürg Frey, Simon Christensen, and Anders Lauge Meldgaard each approach musical simplicity in their own way. But they aim for entirely different things with it.
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When Sound Becomes Body and Struggle
»Bodies of Sound« gathers reflections from women and non-binary individuals on sound as experience, strategy, and resistance. This book should be read by anyone interested in sound as something beyond just music.
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Head to Venice and Hear Foreign Songs Everywhere
War, refugees, and destruction are inescapable at the Venice Biennale. You can feel it, see it, hear it – it's all-encompassing. Has Venice ever been this filled with sound?
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»Ist nix für Frauen«
Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.
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This book asks you to breathe and resonate without words
Salomé Voegelin’s book about our uncurating sound is her most personal and also most difficult to read – however, succeeding with her project, despite almost all odds.
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Gold fever and infernal machines
Simon Løffler’s personality shines through while Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard’s conceptual gold piece rings hollow at Gong Tomorrow.
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»An opera you need to see twice«
A generational cycle of sexual abuse paired with a clear and lucid score. Last year’s operatic talk of the town was back for one day.
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The gradual growth of ice crystals
Thinking big suits Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Andrew Mellor on her works at Njord Biennale 2018.
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Gong Tomorrow
Anmeldelse af Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart (3.11.17, Koncertkirken) & Copenhagen Piano Trio etcetera (8.11.17, Glyptoteket) under Gong Tomorrow Festival 2017
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Downfall – A journey to the underworld and back again
Andrew Mellor anmelder operaen 'Nedstigning: underverdenen tur-retur', Takkeloftet, 26.9.17 - Musik af Nicolai Worsaae, libretto af Julie Maj Jakobsen.
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Klang i Tivoli
Andrew Mellor reviews Athelas Sinfonietta, Aavaat Koret/Pierre-André Valade in Tivoli with works by György Ligeti, Niels Rønsholdt, James Black and Per Nørgård.