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Knausgård’s Apocalypse as Opera

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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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What Does it Mean to Hear a Voice Without a Human Being?

In Niels Rønsholdt's »Country«, Jakob Kullberg meets his own manipulated double. Essay on authenticity and the voice between body and technology.

By Clara Bjerregaard Graversen

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

Sacred, Profane, and Unsettlingly Alive

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

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

PulseIn brief

At Phono, Laugesen sang – yes, sang – the prose of life across a wall of sound. His voice cut in between the rumbling bass and the grit of the snare drum — Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek 13.02

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It is a testament to grief as lived experience, and as an archival bulwark, »Karakoz« thus takes part in the struggle for a free Palestine — Martin Funder 11.02

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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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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

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

Music is life. It contains everything and carries the strongest healing powers there is — Mika Persdotter 12.02

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Music to me is like water to plants. And a space to connect us, to ourselves, others and the world — Astrid Engberg 14.02

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Music is like an extra organ through which I perceive the world — Bobo Moreno 14.02

Bobo Moreno. © Thomas Roger Henrichsen

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

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Writer profile Louise Steiwer

Louise Steiwer er uddannet cand. mag. i Kunsthistorie fra Københavns Universitet i 2010. Hun har fungeret som kunstkritiker igennem et årti, har skrevet flere monografier, senest om Apolonia Sokol, og skriver fra grænselandet mellem lyd- og billedkunst.