interview11.01.2026
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.
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interview24.12.2025
A Case for Simplicity
The Taiwanese-Danish percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen explores the world’s smallest sounds – from red deer bones to roof tiles – in her pursuit of a music that is both ancient, courageous, and radically simple.
interview15.05.2025
From Darkness to Magic: Warren Ellis and the Journey Toward the Light
After a brutal depression, Warren Ellis returns with renewed strength – and deep gratitude. The 60-year-old Australian multi-instrumentalist opens up about pain, love, animals, creativity, and Nina Simone’s sacred chewing gum.
interview16.01.2024
The Useless Hell
In the musical theater performance »Calls to this number are being diverted« Matthew Grouse puts the absurd working life of late modernity under the microscope.
interview29.11.2023
Side entrance to the New Music Scene
Slowly the idea of universality is dissolving, experimental music exists everywhere and in every genre – Abbasi, Eizirik and Sanchéz-Chiong in conversation.
interview27.08.2022
»I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«
Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?
interview23.08.2022
Oil, Opera and the history that haunts us
Niels Rønsholdt's new work, »The Last Rites«, is a pessimistic satire on human nature. The opera takes place in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink, so the audience can feel the cold mechanics of desire and the growing chaos on our planet. Do we really need winter all year round?
interview09.03.2022
Three Artists. One Hope
Three snapshots from three different lives: Kateryna Zavoloka, Katarina Gryvul and Boris Filanovsky. All work with music, their countries are at war, and they condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They have not met each other and the article consists of three unique interviews with Seismograf. None of them see themselves as political artists, but they do believe that it is a human duty to speak out and fight back when the leader of one's homeland orders war against the other two's homelands.
interview24.01.2022
»I want to examine sound's relationship with as much of the world as possible«
The sound of Freud’s toilet in Wienna, Andy Warhol in the supermarket, and the first pirated mp3 ever – Museum of Portable Sound collects and exhibits sound as cultural objects. And the sounds in the collections are only accessible from curator John Kannenberg’s iPhone 4S.
interview06.08.2021
All Tomorrow's Music
One of Europe’s oldest contemporary music festivals comes to Aarhus. We profile Ung Nordisk Musik, which is as ageless as Madonna and contains Icelandic vulgarities from 1612.
interview08.03.2021
‘We don’t have the same aspirations at all’
Guitarist Mikkel Schou prefers the brand-new music composed today; his upcoming Debut Concert is a ‘thanks, but no thanks’ to institutional forces of habit.
interview02.06.2020
‘I wanted to be radical’
Instruments struggle to voice themselves in the music of Christian Winther Christensen. His focus on small sounds and deep concentration is a perfect match for a time of silenced soundscapes.
interview13.02.2020
‘Things are very anarchistic right now’
Neko3 is one of the most visionary ensembles at a moment where the contemporary music scene is changing rapidly.
interview16.09.2019
‘The hardest thing is to trust your material’
Daníel Bjarnason’s new piece requires no less than three conductors. A result of the omnipresent Reykjavik school?
interview03.06.2019
‘I really wanted to write a pop love song’
Polish composer Marta Śniady is set to finish her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. Recently, her works have embraced video and pop music.
interview03.04.2019
‘I need to believe it myself’
Ragnhild May works in a chameleon-like way. James Black takes her to yoga class in this final interview with young ‘composer/performers’.
interview25.02.2019
So, this is where it all ends
In Bára Gísladóttir’s view, the apocalypse is a given. James Black goes bowling with the captivatingly introvert, yet apocalyptic, Icelandic composer/performer.
interview09.01.2019
‘It’s almost like I can feel the whole world’
James Black goes climbing with Marcela Lucatelli in this first of three interviews with young composer/performers.
interview28.11.2018
Man among the machines
Kaj Duncan David’s music has always been intimately linked with software and machines. His next major work deals with artificial intelligence.
interview07.02.2018
Shouting, naked. James Black, the composer
His debut concert only a few weeks away – both a blessing and a ‘fucking nightmare’ – Copenhagen-based composer James Black talks to Andrew Mellor.
interview27.09.2017
Gender and social relations in New Music: Tackling the octopus
Juliana Hodkinson interviews anthropologist / cultural theorist Georgina Born on gender and other social relations in contemporary music.
interview30.08.2017
Rum/Klang – et anarkistisk lydkunstgalleri
Jakob Gustav Winckler taler med Adam Veng fra Rum/Klang – lydkunstgalleriet i Jyderup.
interview17.05.2017
Om porcelæn, templer og nysgerrighed
Sif Hellerup Madsen har mødt den udstillingsaktuelle kunstner Ursula Nistrup til en snak om hendes værk, om lyden af porcelæn, om nysgerrighed og om kontinuerligt at udfordre sig selv i jagten på at forstå verden.
interview09.05.2017
Det er noget vi gør sammen
Accordeonisten Andreas Borregaard er et af hovednavnene på dette års KLANG Festival med hele tre koncertaftner. Kollega Peter Bruun interviewer Andreas om værkerne og arbejdet bag.
interview26.02.2017
Komplekse lydmiljøer (og hvordan vi lytter til dem)
Interview med Morten Riis og Marie Højlund, som er kuratorer af projektet The OverHEARD, der er en del af Aarhus Kulturby 2017