review01.06.2025
Spor Festival at Twenty: the Eternal Play of Sound
From giant flutes to performative rituals – the anniversary edition of the Aarhus-based festival unfolded the materiality of sound and musical collaboration in new forms.
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review31.05.2025
Estonians Can Truly Compose – Especially for Voice
Estonian Music Days revealed how a young, vocally attuned community of composers in the small country between Finland and Russia combines historical depth with freedom, resonance, and intimacy.
playlist29.05.2025
My name is Alexandre Bazin – would you like to see my playlist?
Music exploration and creation is not limited to notes, timbres and traditional structures, but extends to everything that shapes the listening experience.
mindeord28.05.2025
Playful Seriousness: Per Nørgård In Memoriam
A personal tribute by cellist Jakob Kullberg to a 92-year-old composer who never stopped listening, sharing, and laughing – turning every collaboration into an invitation to explore the unknown.
in brief27.05.2025
When Orpheus Turns His Head
Everything should align perfectly when the multimedia duo O Future stages the descent into Hades – but it doesn’t.
review26.05.2025
An Operatic Vision Lost in Translation
Bent Sørensen’s new operatic collaboration with Jon Fosse falls short of what it might have been.
in brief24.05.2025
The Electronic Altar
Three artists shattered the table’s constraints and gave technology a body.
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.