essay19.12.2025
2025 Between Straw and Signal
A dialogue on listening, loss and resonance across Poland, Germany, UK and Denmark.
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essay04.08.2025
Shoes For People Who Don’t Like Music
An anti-anthem for those who fall asleep at concerts and wake up with Cage talking nonsense.
essay29.11.2024
2024: An Earful of Chaos
Chaotic times call for chaotic music. But also soft techno, flutists and yoga balls. Jennifer Gersten and Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek wrap up the musical year in a conversation between New York and Aarhus.
essay20.08.2024
Another day, another rediscovery of Else Marie Pade
A good twenty years after the first rediscovery of Else Marie Pade as an electronic pioneer, she is now being branded as a visionary acoustic composer. It seems we never get tired of rewriting the story of this special artist – and writing ourselves into it.
essay27.10.2022
Alien Frequencies
The mixtape has always been a format with which to swagger and seduce, meant to project both front and vulnerability. How, though, might we interpret a sampler from another star system; what might its effect on us be? A journey with Ziggy Stardust, Yuri Gagarin, afrofuturists and intellectuals from Mars.
essay10.02.2022
On stage we are four bodies
Sounding Women's Work | Meshes is a performance groupe with drummers and dancers. They work with the relation between body and sound and investigates how the movement of the body can be translated into a score for a drum set, and how the sound of a drum set can be translated into a score for movement.
essay10.02.2022
»Had I run around with the others, would I have become a composer at all?«
Sounding Women's Work | Mette Nielsen is occupied finding ways to create space for the small and fragile sounds in the music. She works with both completely traditional scores and more open notations and easy staging of sound.
essay10.02.2022
Gender, climate and class
Sounding Women's Work | Artist couple Ragnhild May and Kristoffer Raasted conceive their common practices flexibly – it is of importance to them that well-established individual practices provide the starting point for the collaborative endeavor.
essay10.02.2022
Maybe Just Music
Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | »We find it problematic to articulate the feminist elements in our work directly,« say Sara Willemoes Thomsen and Kim Sandra Rask from the band Måske bare musik (Maybe Just Music), who make sound drawings with kids instruments and tools.
essay10.02.2022
»What do you mean when you say feminine?«
Sounding Women's Work | »The terms feminine and masculine are used as if we all understand what they represent,« says Anja Jacobsen from the band Selvhenter and member of rehearsal place Mayhem.
essay10.02.2022
Hopefully we take a risk
Sounding Women's Work | Everything is entangled – freedom and discipline, conscious and unconscious. For Lotte Anker walking in to the tones a fascinating learning process, and it's necessary to step into the unknown.
essay10.02.2022
Resonance and personality
Sounding Women's Work | »For the last thousands of years, it has been difficult to see or hear women. I hope that will change in the next many thousands of years to come, so that there is room for both men and women - and all other definitions of gender,« says Danish-American composer Lil Lacy.
essay10.02.2022
From the outside and inside
Sounding Women's Work | »It's not a choice whether I want to relate to my gender and my body in my work – the outside world has decided that it is a theme,« says British-Danish Juliana Hodkinson, who does not have much of a romantic approach to composing and accepts the truth of the sketch.
essay10.02.2022
Cyborg mother voices and expanded notions of care
Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | Nanna Lysholt Hansen reflects on her live performance »Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein)« using her voice to perform mothering towards strangers on a bus while sharing, by mantra singing, eco-feminist thought on the necessity of caring for others in times of planetary crisis.
essay10.02.2022
»Go with the spontaneous ideas«
Sounding Women's Work | DEAP – Aske Zidore & Pernille Zidore Nygaard – work in the cross field between gender, technologies and sound. The artist couple remember to challenge and push each other, so it is not only safe: »Go with the spontaneous ideas – also the children's!«
essay18.01.2022
My body is
Sounding Women's Work | She composes and performs across all genres in art – as JOMI, Jomi Massage and in the band Speaker Bite Me. For years the experimental artist, vocalist, guitarist, pianist and writer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen has been active in debates of the time. Here is a long poem about gender and yes, no, maybe.
essay23.11.2020
A song of one’s own
American composer Caroline Shaw drew criticism because she profited on Inuit throat singing, according to singer Tanya Tagaq.
essay12.06.2020
The hands just carry on by themselves
Two weeks ago, the German pianist Igor Levit took on an iconic marathon piece, fundamentally changing his own conditions as well as the listener’s.
essay26.03.2020
Nature won’t protect you anymore
Nature seems to have turned on us. That shows in Nordic contemporary music with sonic tales of decay, apocalypse, and protest.
essay04.09.2018
Memorials of grief: Music after 9/11
Essay by Tim Rutherford-Johnson on the musical responses to an incomprehensible historical event.
essay11.07.2018
Lullabies and memory loss
Attending a concert – what’s it all about? In this essay Professor Holger Schulze takes us through his listening experience at Klang Festival in Copenhagen.
essay09.11.2017
A sonic time capsule
'A Sonic Time Capsule – a small instruction manual explaining how to realize such a thing' by Andrea Zarza Canova.
essay31.05.2017
Just spoke: Composing with objects, performing with subjects
A private reflexion on the proces of grief and mourning in relation to composing.
essay22.02.2016
Lydprofetier
Else Marie Pades 1957 indføring i musique concrète og elektronisk musik og en inddirekte appel til større lydhørhed overover for denne nye musik. Oprindeligt trykt i DMT, 1957/2.
essay05.05.2015
... too wide a field. Sound Art in Berlin.
"Looking at SoundArt in Berlin today, we find not only an evolved art form, but a unique cultural situation, making this city still one of the worlds most lively SoundArt centres. The history of SoundArt in Berlin is here traced back to the 1970s when the Western part of the divided city became a centre of cross-disciplinary and experimental art. To understand the subsequent development, the article starts with the underlying cultural and political situation of Berlin in the last few decades."