review18.10.2024
Head to Venice and Hear Foreign Songs Everywhere
War, refugees, and destruction are inescapable at the Venice Biennale. You can feel it, see it, hear it – it's all-encompassing. Has Venice ever been this filled with sound?
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review06.08.2024
»Ist nix für Frauen«
Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.
review24.09.2023
This book asks you to breathe and resonate without words
Salomé Voegelin’s book about our uncurating sound is her most personal and also most difficult to read – however, succeeding with her project, despite almost all odds.
review11.12.2021
It is impressed in the body
After a long hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic, Berlin Atonal has opened the gates of Kraftwerk to the public for the first time. As limitations to collective events endure, the new project Metabolic Rift includes, in addition to the live performances, an exhibition aiming to elicit individual experience with intense stimuli. The exposition presents a convincing curatorial approach to sound, exalting its sensorial qualities and proposing an inspiring model to work with the aural and its (im-)materiality in the context of art exhibitions.
review08.12.2020
Beyond the ASMR phenomenon
At the Academy for Open Listening, Sofie Birch and My Lambertsen set out a new direction for the ASMR genre.
review26.10.2020
One man, one mission
Mathias Monrad Møller showed us an exciting creative vision at his official debut concert as singer and composer – a vision overshadowing dull questions of mere skill.
review31.03.2020
The system needs to change
Pulsar Festival 2020 took place under the shadow of Marcela Lucatelli’s ‘RGBW’. It’s time for a critical look at the systems of power.
review25.02.2020
A difficult beast to tame
With ‘Víddir’, a 60-minute composition of light and darkness, the Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir demonstrated the breadth of her imagination.
review04.12.2019
Chaos reigns
Madness and humour coexisted on stage as Marcela Lucatelli completed her composition studies in Copenhagen.
review27.11.2019
Future on repeat
For a festival that prides itself on its all-premieres programming, the 2019 Donaueschinger Musiktage felt more than a little stale.
review07.10.2019
The impossible festival
The Young Nordic Music festival, one of the most impossible festivals in the world, is also one of the most enlightening ones.
review20.11.2018
Gold fever and infernal machines
Simon Løffler’s personality shines through while Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard’s conceptual gold piece rings hollow at Gong Tomorrow.
review03.08.2018
»An opera you need to see twice«
A generational cycle of sexual abuse paired with a clear and lucid score. Last year’s operatic talk of the town was back for one day.
review31.01.2018
The gradual growth of ice crystals
Thinking big suits Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Andrew Mellor on her works at Njord Biennale 2018.
review17.11.2017
Gong Tomorrow
Anmeldelse af Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart (3.11.17, Koncertkirken) & Copenhagen Piano Trio etcetera (8.11.17, Glyptoteket) under Gong Tomorrow Festival 2017
review06.10.2017
Downfall – A journey to the underworld and back again
Andrew Mellor anmelder operaen 'Nedstigning: underverdenen tur-retur', Takkeloftet, 26.9.17 - Musik af Nicolai Worsaae, libretto af Julie Maj Jakobsen.
review01.09.2017
Som brødre vi dele
Lea Maria Lucas Wierød Borcak anmelder og reflekterer over adaptionen af Susanne Biers berømte film 'Brødre' til operaformatet. 'Brødre' spillede i Musikhuset Aarhus fra 16.-22. august.
review14.08.2017
Reparatøren fortæller maskinmusikkens historie
Tobias Linnemann Ewé anmelder bogen 'Machine Music – A Media Archaeological Excavation' fra Aarhus University Press, skrevet af Post. Doc. Morten Riis.
review11.08.2017
Den sømand han må lide
Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek og Rikke Hansen anmelder Cristian Vogels iscenesættelse af det klassiske folkesagn Agnete og Havmanden på Åben Scene, Godsbanen, Aarhus.
review07.08.2017
Fremtiden retur
Tobias Linnemann Ewé anmelder Robert Barrys bog 'The Music of the Future'.
review12.06.2017
Camille Norment – Drawing and Sculpture
Andreas Engström anmelder den norske lydkunstner Camille Norments udstilling 'Drawing and Sculpture' på Oslo Kunstforening 04.05-25.06.2017
review08.06.2017
Klang Festival 2017
Søren Møller Sørensen anmelder to aftner på årets Klang Festival, henholdsvis fra åbningsaftenen på Folketeatret og i Koncertkirken med det britiske Plus-Minus Ensemble.
review06.06.2017
Klang i Tivoli
Andrew Mellor reviews Athelas Sinfonietta, Aavaat Koret/Pierre-André Valade in Tivoli with works by György Ligeti, Niels Rønsholdt, James Black and Per Nørgård.
review18.04.2017
100% Kommunistisk Tekno
Tobias Linnemann Ewé anmelder Goodiepal & Pals album 'Pro Monarkistisk Extratone', som er ude på Spotify, diverse YouTube videoer, og for en tid kunne findes som download-links i kommentarfelterne på Facebook.
review03.04.2017
Alt & Intet
Ansa Lønstrup har besøgt Jacob Kirkegaards udstilling Alt & Intet, Aros, Aarhus. 11. februar - 28. maj 2017.