in brief14.01.2026
Echoes from a Forgotten Time
»Phantom Orchestra« is a dazzling, slightly mad experiment, driven by a will to create harmony in chaos.
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in brief14.01.2026
From Pain to Paralysis: a Stabat Mater Without Wounds
»ELECTRIO aim to renew 'Stabat Mater' with guitar, electronics and baroque threads, but the result is too neat, too familiar, and far too painless.«
in brief14.01.2026
In the Ruins of Old Organs, Builder Finds His Own Sonic Universe
It’s a fascinating project, but what about the music? It’s a mixed experience.
in brief14.01.2026
70 Minutes Confined to a Creaking Construction Site
Although »From Grimsby to Milan« contains a wealth of fine detail, the journey – from Grimsby in Canada to Milan in Ohio – ultimately feels long and monotonous.
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.
playlist02.01.2026
My name is Thomas Morgan – would you like to see my playlist?
Music is all of life in sound.
reportage28.12.2025
Across America – a Grown-up Boyband’s Search for a Sound
Four Scandinavian musicians and a Canadian banjo amateur/karate instructor cross the American South to find out whether they can become a band – somewhere between Schubert, country, and doubt.
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.
comment21.12.2025
Let’s Finally Drop the Rhetoric of »forgotten« Women Composers
Women opera composers of the past have returned for good. But how do we break the closed circuit of opera history?
playlist20.12.2025
My name is Lars Hannibal – would you like to see my playlist?
Music occupies most of my waking hours. It is a condition that began to grow when I was a teenager.
essay19.12.2025
2025 Between Straw and Signal
A dialogue on listening, loss and resonance across Poland, Germany, UK and Denmark.
reportage17.12.2025
The Anatomy of the Organ
It has become a cherished December tradition that Koncertkirken opens its doors to curious explorations of the nature of the organ when the Organ Sound Art Festival moves in. This year the festival could celebrate its 10th anniversary, and the fascination with the organ’s many paradoxes remains intact.
in brief15.12.2025
Uncompromising Vignettes of Silence and Sighs
»'Where to From' is a powerfully mood-saturated work that moves effortlessly between chamber music and neoclassicism.«
review12.12.2025
When Bodies, Technologies and Whole Worlds Come Undone
From cyborg kinships and alchemical wonder to masculine fragility and Anthropocene ecstasy – MINU showed that art still holds space for vulnerability, ferocity and strange beauty.
in brief09.12.2025
Minimalism for Patient Ears
»Varve« is an album for those who prefer listening experiences at an unhurried pace; for those who find Hans Zimmer too grandiose.
playlist05.12.2025
My name is Gintė Preisaitė – would you like to see my playlist?
Music for me is the purest transformation of any energy hiding inside.
in brief05.12.2025
Anna von Hausswolff: The Path to the Organ’s Modern Resurrection
Swedish artist Anna von Hausswolff transformed the organ’s sacred resonances into modern, pulsating stage music.
playlist04.12.2025
My name is Jørgen Teller – would you like to see my playlist?
Music, to me, is … the silence that gropes – like yourself – across a black canvas.
playlist25.11.2025
My name is Kristoffer Raasted – would you like to see my playlist?
»For me, music is a non-figurative process that cannot be definitively categorised.«
playlist24.11.2025
My name is Iain Forbes – would you like to see my playlist?
When I search for new music, I search for sound that evokes images in my mind. It is fuel, a gateway to emotion, and my most important writing companion. When inspiration lapses, music is the tool that always jumpstarts it.
playlist20.11.2025
My name is Nikolaj Nørlund – would you like to see my playlist?
Music, to me, is a companion through life, a premise, an excuse, a mystery, an explanation, a point of departure.
review19.11.2025
Turn it Up!
Charlottenborgs hyldest til Mika Vainio vil være en lydbiograf, men uden ordentlig volumen, mørke eller kontekst ender installationen som en oplevelse, man hurtigt glider ud af.
review15.11.2025
In the Hamster Wheel with Headbands
Current Resonance turned the idea of work inside out in an absurd, sweat-drenched performance that pulled the audience into a hard-pumped ritual of labour.
playlist03.11.2025
My name is Sophia Sagaradze – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music amplifies every emotion, love, happiness, anger, sadness a thousand times over, making me feel everything more deeply and sensitively.«
playlist02.11.2025
We are Girls in Airports – would you like to see our playlist?
Like all art, music is a language for emotions, dreams, and the search for meaning—but for us it is just as crucial that music is a path to community.