in brief29.09.2025
Goosebumps In the Courtroom: When Music Turns Into a Power Play
»Den Stærkes Ret« is one of the most intense musical experiences I have had in years.
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in brief29.09.2025
In a Warm Bed of Darkness
At Alice, Gintė Preisaitė and Drew McDowall showed how electronic music can be both unsettling and enveloping.
in brief29.09.2025
Injured Swan In a Flooded World
»The dancers in 'We Continue…' move between seaweed, drones and subtle beats, exploring how humanity goes on – even when nature revolts.«
in brief29.09.2025
Songs That Would Rather Be Lieder
Imagine if the texts had been carried by actual verses, hooks, and choruses – elements that might have turned them into true earworms.
in brief29.09.2025
Treen In Free Fall – And In Common Flow
On their second release »Kaikō«, Treen show how free improvisation can balance between independence and shared direction – carried by trust, gravity, and an organic flow.
in brief28.09.2025
Steel Forks and Silken Script
»George Benjamin’s modern classic unfolds on the Old Stage as both a brutal love story and a musical paradox, where violent noise meets transparent silence.«
18.09.2025
Sounding migrations
Deep listening and the acoustic phenology of whale song
review18.09.2025
When Mysticism Loses Its Magic
This year’s Rued Langgaard Festival set out to open the gate to Danish mysticism, but at times disappeared itself into a haze of filler and gimmickry – though a few concerts stood strong.
playlist10.09.2025
My name is Mads Emil Dreyer – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music to me is – having spent a lot of time listening, composing, and thinking about it – still, essentially, a mystery.«
reportage08.09.2025
Sound Bath At the Edge Of the Headland
Lost Farm Festival transformed an abandoned farm into a global gathering point for grief, anger and creativity – where concerts, rituals and installations turned Sjællands Odde into a new center of the world.
review07.09.2025
No Dying Diva in Paris – but Glitter, Dog Life and Office Humor
Copenhagen Opera Festival 2025 turned away from opera’s classical themes of fate and instead gave space to intimate music-dramatic experiments on queer identity, domestic violence, climate crisis, and mental illness.
playlist07.09.2025
My name is Jan Janczy – would you like to see my playlist?
Music for me is a universal tool for opening myself for feelings.
playlist30.08.2025
My name is Simon Cummings – would you like to see my playlist?
Music is inseparable from listening: a close, attentive act. It’s not about beauty, truth or even intelligibility, but connection.
review27.08.2025
The Myth Of the Sound City By the Limfjord
Struer Tracks showed that even municipal branding can open new worlds when sound art gets involved – from glitching rat voices in the basement of the music school to subwoofers that shook the harbor.
review22.08.2025
Opera’s Darkness Finds a Home in Savonlinna
Savonlinna’s castle festival lets Finnish national opera resonate between stone, lake, and summer night – and shows how dark dramas can mirror the soul of a people.
in brief16.08.2025
The Symphonic Statement of the Year
The music is brutal, relentless. But could it have been more: more in colour, beyond the duel?
review15.08.2025
Walking Blind
At its best, the ambitious sound art walk »Witness Stand« at Refshaleøen pierces right into Copenhagen’s gentrification of the old industrial area. But does it realise that it is itself part of the problem?
comment13.08.2025
I Most Certainly Will Not Stay Away From Your Theatre
A few days before this year’s Copenhagen Opera Festival begins, I, as a critic, have been asked to keep away from one of the festival’s most experimental performances at the theatre Sort/Hvid. This is a complete misunderstanding of the role of criticism.
in brief11.08.2025
Voices From a Bygone Era
»Sofie Birch and Antonina Nowacka create a sensuous acoustic space where the dream of another time is allowed to emerge.«
essay04.08.2025
Shoes For People Who Don’t Like Music
An anti-anthem for those who fall asleep at concerts and wake up with Cage talking nonsense.
review29.07.2025
A Festival For Experiments – But Only When It Dares
Borealis in Bergen promises experimental music but falls short when it comes to traditional concert formats. Instead, magic emerges when the audience is invited out into the forest or into floating sound saunas.
playlist29.07.2025
My name is Seb Doubinsky – would you like to see my playlist?
Music is the infinite sound of humanity, in all of its manifestations.
playlist11.07.2025
My name is Jacob Eriksen – would you like to see my playlist?
»For me, music is a particular engine for diversity, identity, individuality, and community.«
in brief11.07.2025
Fata Morgana Between Two Continents
The idea is strong, simple, and well executed. Like the sonic version of a cartoon mirage shimmering falsely in the sharp Californian sunlight.
review10.07.2025
Between Skin and Noise in Berlin
From digital melancholy and ritual noise assaults to pure silence – MaerzMusik explored the tactile forces of sound and the boundaries of the body.