Sound collage28.06.2019
Vogelsang
A contemplation into an abandoned Soviet military base 60 kilometres north of Berlin that once housed nuclear weapons.
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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.
reportage27.12.2018
Deep in the Norwegian forest
Norwegian composer Knut Olaf Sunde radically challenged traditional concert practices with a 13-hour immersive performance.
comment18.12.2018
Not so diverse after all
The Nordic Music Days in Helsinki failed to deliver on its promise of diversity, even if seen from a strictly stylistic point of view, writes participating composer Tine Surel Lange.
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.
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.
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.
essay04.09.2018
Memorials of grief: Music after 9/11
Essay by Tim Rutherford-Johnson on the musical responses to an incomprehensible historical event.
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.
essay11.07.2018
Lullabies and memory loss
Attending a concert – what’s it all about? In this essay Professor Holger Schulze takes us through his listening experience at Klang Festival in Copenhagen.
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’.
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.
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
PEER article15.11.2017
Diagram for invisibility
The article suggests a “diagrammatic” reading of the notion of the acousmatic, where an experiential tension unfolds based on what can and cannot be seen, in relation to what is heard.
PEER audio paper15.11.2017
Origo
This audio paper documents the climbing of a pyramid, performing and discussing issues such as sound as evidence, networked ontology and agency, facts and materiality.
PEER article15.11.2017
Turntable materialities
This article argues that as historic avant-gardes made visible the destruction of art, so modified records attempt to make audible the destruction of sound.
PEER article15.11.2017
A temple of sonic haecceities
An investigation of the sonic and durational experiences that formed the encounter with three artworks at the museum Dia:Beacon.
PEER article15.11.2017
Beyond matter: object-disoriented sound art
Questioning sound as an ‘exhibited’ artistic object from a conceptual leaning, the article address sound’s subjective inclination as an experience beyond the material object.
PEER article15.11.2017
Tears, fears and flashes
Considering the relationship between interpersonal understanding and propagandist rhetoric, the article speculates on the ethical implications of such a relationship.