Five Things I Learned About Love in Bergen
The Bergen International Festival promised »endless love«. I listened closely – and found it everywhere from medieval madrigals to pop ballads spanning the centuries.
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The Bergen International Festival promised »endless love«. I listened closely – and found it everywhere from medieval madrigals to pop ballads spanning the centuries.
Lotte Anker and Fred Frith met in a performance where stoic calm and frenetic guitar work fused into free improvisation of both weight and beauty.
At CC Taste, Søren Kjærgaard, Kresten Osgood and Christian Lillinger turned the restaurant into a stage for free improvisation, everyday noise and anti-furniture music.
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.
Post-2020 musicalities in Belarus and in exile
(Dis)comfortable politics
Trust and dissent in Denmark’s lockdown singing
Pricing urban ear-time and sonic citizenship over 24 hours
AI-generated text-to-speech communication in public e-governance
Resonant citizenship and the curatorial tactics of Momentum 13
Towards the democratisation of standards for soundscapes
An ethnographic exploration of aural diversity and how we hear together as sonic citizens
An artistic-led attuning method to places and communities
Unboxing sonic cultural heritage
Sonic citizenship, fragility, and collective audibility in sumar by Diamela Eltit
Co-sounding the outdoors in Helsinki
Negotiating noise with the non-living
Becoming sonic citizens with BEEP zine
Circulating sounds as memetic citizenship practices in online music cultures
The German Moers Festival is no longer primarily a jazz festival, but a curated laboratory for free improvisation, sound art, compositional music, and political absurdism. At times it feels forced. Most of the time, it is liberating.
Music for me is medicine, comfort and a kick in the ass. Community, joy, a vent. Poetic political compass
Klang Festival was at its strongest when the works spoke directly to the body rather than to the programme notes. Not everything succeeded, but this year's festival was willing to take risks.