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Irony Is Not Dead. It Has Just Got Feelings
For a long time I scoffed at metamodernism. Now it has made the last 30 years of composition music hang together. But it is misleading when music scholars call metamodernism a school.
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Out of Utopias and Down to Earth
From Old Testament wisdom and hippie dreams of community to erotic nightclub atmospheres and dark, rumbling techno. Roskilde Festival 2026 is a wild ride through eras, genres and mental geographies – and a good place to practise carrying dreams carefully through the extreme conditions of our time.
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Let’s Finally Drop the Rhetoric of »forgotten« Women Composers
Women opera composers of the past have returned for good. But how do we break the closed circuit of opera history?
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I Most Certainly Will Not Stay Away From Your Theatre
A few days before this year’s Copenhagen Opera Festival begins, I, as a critic, have been asked to keep away from one of the festival’s most experimental performances at the theatre Sort/Hvid. This is a complete misunderstanding of the role of criticism.
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Roskilde as a Battleground of Sound
Roskilde Festival insists on ecstasy and togetherness, but the most beautiful moments arise in the dark, where the curious still dare to listen.
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The Anti-Heroes Take the Stage – And It Suits Spot
The 30th edition of Spot Festival became a sonic laboratory and cultural mirror, where experimentation, genre-defying music, and raw emotional intensity were given free rein.