reportage15.01.2026
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.
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reportage28.12.2025
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.
reportage17.12.2025
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.
reportage29.10.2025
Nothing Will Be Livestreamed – Be Present in the Green
On the Danish island of Samsø, humans, sheep, and birds listen together to the music of nature – a journey into the ecology of sound.
reportage08.09.2025
Sound Bath At the Edge Of the Headland
Lost Farm Festival transformed an abandoned farm into a global gathering point for grief, anger and creativity – where concerts, rituals and installations turned Sjællands Odde into a new center of the world.
reportage20.05.2025
The Darkness Speaks in Tones
In Reykjavík, snow falls sideways, and sorrowful reindeer sing. Dark Music Days unfolds the winter darkness in experimental tones where silence and noise meet – and even a harp made of yarn tells stories.
reportage08.05.2025
Tallinn Calling: When Jazz Strikes a Nerve
At the Jazzkaar Festival in Tallinn, improvisation and reflection meet in a landscape shaped by historical fault lines, westward gazes, and hopes for the future.
reportage11.03.2025
How Does Hope Sound in Minus 30 Degrees?
They have a bivouac, a couple of churches and a cultural festival – in northern Norway's Kirkenes, people are prepared if the worst happens.
reportage06.01.2025
A Modern Festival with a Memory
At Warsaw Autumn, they are not only focused on sounds. The Polish festival aims to influence reality with new names and ideas.
reportage15.11.2024
»For Many Years I Have Thought About What the Nordics Really Are«
Was it just for fun that the world's oldest festival for Nordic contemporary music traveled to Scotland? No, it was an educational journey.
reportage15.11.2024
»For many years I have thought about what the Nordics really are«
Was it just for fun that the world's oldest festival for Nordic contemporary music traveled to Scotland? No, it was an educational journey.
reportage07.10.2024
In the Shelter of the Noise of Glasgow’s Night
The audiovisual festival Sonica shakes up the senses with sick robots, bagpipes and electronica for the future.
reportage08.02.2024
Do You Feel the Vibration?
Heaven, hell, love and country – life’s biggest mysteries were studied at the Polish festival Sacrum Profanum. And it ended well for two Danes.
reportage11.10.2022
Face it and voice it
When you close your eyes to obvious acts of violence and evil, you only allow it to grow says Ukrainian composer Alla Zagaykevych, who believes in electronic music as a radical form of freedom. Reportage from the event »Antifascism - Electronic music from worlds on fire« in Lund, Sweden.
reportage26.06.2020
Keynotes on sound art, media art, and sonic materialism
Video recordings of five RE:SOUND keynotes as well as a panel discussion on sound art curation.
reportage27.12.2018
Deep in the Norwegian forest
Norwegian composer Knut Olaf Sunde radically challenged traditional concert practices with a 13-hour immersive performance.
reportage16.10.2018
Try competing with history, then
Warsaw Autumn is on its way to becoming a victim of its own success, James Black writes in his essay from the Polish capital.
reportage14.09.2018
Maybe we fight, maybe we defend
Are commercial demands starting to influence contemporary music in the Nordic countries? James Black writes from the UNM Festival in Bergen, Norway.
reportage29.06.2018
Noise in the tropical underground
The Indonesian noise and experimental music scene exists. Sanne Krogh Groth spent two weeks in Central Java, whose local culture influences the music.
reportage09.04.2018
Heterotopias
Maya Shenfeld returns to Israel to investigate the local music scene amid what has been labelled a ‘culture war’.
reportage20.09.2017
Hoffnung 3000 – Experimenting with an Anonymous Community
Shanti Suki Osman visited the festival Hoffnung 3000, which took place in Berlin on 24th-26th August.
reportage03.09.2017
All the in-between spaces
Maya Shenfeld reports from this year's documenta 14.
reportage17.08.2017
Heroines of Sound
Maya Shenfeld reports from debates and concerts at this years Heroines of Sound, 7th-9th July, Radialsystem V, Berlin.
reportage14.06.2017
Den dag lydkunsten kom til Struer
Jakob Gustav Winckler har i åbningsweekenden besøgt festivalen og udstillingen Struer Tracks.
reportage24.05.2017
Eavesdropping on ourselves
Andrew Mellor anmelder årets SPOR Festival i Aarhus, hvor årets tema var epiphany.