in brief24.05.2025
The Electronic Altar
Three artists shattered the table’s constraints and gave technology a body.
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review24.05.2025
The City that made Noise into History
At the Copenhagen Museum, the city’s forgotten soundscapes are brought to life – from street cries and gongs to nervous night sirens – in an exhibition that lets the echoes of the past resonate in present-day ears.
in brief21.05.2025
Emergent Music
»A poetic and precise sonic laboratory, where music emerges in hesitation and grows like a living creature.«
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.
comment16.05.2025
The Anti-Heroes Take the Stage – And It Suits Spot
The 30th edition of Spot Festival became a sonic laboratory and cultural mirror, where experimentation, genre-defying music, and raw emotional intensity were given free rein.
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.
playlist09.05.2025
My name is Sven Helbig – would you like to see my playlist?
Every moment is nothing but the uttermost end of the past. Music makes this edge wide and beautiful.
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.
mindeord06.05.2025
The Real in the Illusion – In Memory of Peter Ablinger
Peter Ablinger has died. Yet his work continues to open our senses to the impossible: to hear hearing itself.
playlist25.04.2025
My name is Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek – would you like to see my playlist?
Music is not just sounds, but a vain attempt to capture the infinite, which has always been and always will be.
playlist25.04.2025
My name is Patrick Becker – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music is hope, confusion, and memory talking with each other, leading us toward futures we haven't yet imagined.«
playlist24.04.2025
My name is Bastian Zimmermann – would you like to see my playlist?
Music like sex are means of communication, people come into contact and negotiate with each other and their instruments/tools and meet themselves in it.
playlist24.04.2025
My name is Sanne Krogh Groth – would you like to see my playlist?
Music to me is… my work. I've landed in the best job in the world, where a core task is to discover new music, to learn its internal logic and aesthetics, who created it, and why.
playlist24.04.2025
My name is Liza Sirenko – would you like to see my playlist?
Music is the fanciest way of communication.
in brief13.04.2025
»Is He Going to Play Three Pianos?«
When there are two grand pianos for a concert, one of them is usually prepared. Rosenbaum had three (!) without using a single screw, coin, or ping-pong ball.
in brief12.04.2025
Bumblebees Come With Punk
Smag På Dig Selv convincingly illustrates the age-old punk dictum that you can be angry and still have fun at the same time.
in brief12.04.2025
Feel Yourself Becoming Nature Again
»I love being part of the ritual that heals our forgotten connection to nature, which is the very foundation of our lives.«
in brief09.04.2025
Beneath the Restless Canopies
»When the gloom returned with renewed force, it was Kjærgaard who, with a roaring guitar, sprawled across the emotional abyss. It was beautiful and brutal.«
in brief04.04.2025
Explosive Jazz Builds Up and Burns Down
As a listener, there is nothing to do but surrender to Amalie Dahl and the group’s convincing display of strength.
review02.04.2025
Punk is Dead and Opera is Not Feeling Well Either
Damon Albarn’s Mozart spin-off »The Magic Flute II« is replete with synths and spectacle, but does it truly capture opera’s essence – or merely its aesthetics?
review01.04.2025
From Factory Floor to Operatic Frustration
Jenny Wilson’s first opera – an adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s »Women as Lovers« – delivers sharp theatricality and biting satire but struggles to find its musical voice.
in brief30.03.2025
Mathias Reumert Group Masters the Art of Playing with Sound
»Enchanting. One left KoncertKirken a little taller, happier, and more playful.«
in brief27.03.2025
The Cello Within the Comfort Zone
»Cohesive, yet lacking challenges for the listener – such is the impression left by Josefine Opsahl’s new work.«
review26.03.2025
Who said that simplicity should be simple?
Three albums with music for string quartet – and the likes – by Jürg Frey, Simon Christensen, and Anders Lauge Meldgaard each approach musical simplicity in their own way. But they aim for entirely different things with it.
playlist26.03.2025
We are NEKO3 – would you like to see our playlist?
»Music is like an ancient mineral, containing a history of wisdom reaching over centuries, stratifying and evolving into new forms.«