Irony Is Not Dead. It Has Just Got Feelings
For a long time I scoffed at metamodernism. Now it has made the last 30 years of composition music hang together. But it is misleading when music scholars call metamodernism a school.
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For a long time I scoffed at metamodernism. Now it has made the last 30 years of composition music hang together. But it is misleading when music scholars call metamodernism a school.
Mike Sheridan’s fascination with the Cristal Baschet is evident on »Touch«. Less evident is the instrument’s significance for the music that emerges from it
Cosmic radiation passes through our bodies without us ever noticing. In a new exhibition, Christian Skjødt Hasselstrøm attempts to make this invisible stream tangible through sound, light and space.
Music is my life. It has accompanied me all the way and given me experiences, friendships and opportunities that I could never have imagined
Copenhagen Opera Festival has broadened the reach of opera while making it more experimental under Amy Lane. But when bold projects fail to find their form, the courage to experiment can tip into gimmickry.
Music is, to us, a kind of closed club of nepotism, networking and Copenhagen cowboy energy
On three new albums by Sofie Birch, Tyondai Braxton, and Gustaf Dicksson & co., electronics come alive, melodies are allowed to lose their way, and experimental music discovers a rare lightness.
I love how music allows you to skip the small talk and connect directly with people’s innermost selves
From irony to sincerity – and back again. On a new metamodern sensibility in British contemporary music.
Music for me is my hobby, my job, my outlet, my mood
What music is to me? Where have the great feelings gone?
Marie Dahl's first independent production transforms silk, sugar and sand into refined vocal theatre, but ultimately remains a little too tightly controlled
To us, music is a primal, elemental force that allows us to shed our inhibitions
Aros' exhibition on punk takes sound seriously. Here, noise is not a backdrop but an artistic medium.
It’s a wonderful, universal thing that music triggers moods and reinforces feelings
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