A city we can get up and go to work in
This audio paper is a provocation in response to the political provocation of generic aural gentrification.
Use " " to search for an exact phrase. Use AND, OR, and NOT (in caps) to refine your search.
This audio paper is a provocation in response to the political provocation of generic aural gentrification.
This audio paper investigates the private and public ways in which we encounter or engage with sounds, questioning the particularity of sound events as they enter our acoustic boundaries.
An audio paper on the historical scold’s bridle: a Late Middle Ages' torture instrument used by European men to silence European women and enslaved Africans.
This audio paper explores choric settings of generic voices as a vehicle for contemplating and deconstructing concepts of Being and subjectivity.
Reflections on an isolated generic sound and how it operates on an affective spectrum from the banal to the horrifyingly significant.
War, refugees, and destruction are inescapable at the Venice Biennale. You can feel it, see it, hear it – it's all-encompassing. Has Venice ever been this filled with sound?
War, refugees, and destruction are inescapable at the Venice Biennale. You can feel it, see it, hear it – it's all-encompassing. Has Venice ever been this filled with sound?
I can’t say what music is but I can say what music does: it is an experience, it travels through all my bodily senses, it brings energy.
»'Myriads' is better – more enriching – than any club in Aarhus’ Latin Quarter.«
The audiovisual festival Sonica shakes up the senses with sick robots, bagpipes and electronica for the future.
For me, music is all that vibrates.
I was left with a somewhat flat feeling. The piece also ended so quietly that several people were unsure whether it had actually finished and whether we could applaud.
»And that is how it sounded. Cold. Like the saddest Instagram filter imaginable – with sound.«
Music for me is bumping, rubbing, colliding, sliding and sculpting... in space-time. AKA the gift that keeps giving.«
»It was as much the enchantment of Rumi’s poetry as the myth of the poet himself that drove the work.«
A good twenty years after the first rediscovery of Else Marie Pade as an electronic pioneer, she is now being branded as a visionary acoustic composer. It seems we never get tired of rewriting the story of this special artist – and writing ourselves into it.
Music has always provided me with a clear pathway on which to navigate a meaningful life.
»Music is limitless, and its potential for meaning is infinite.«
Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.
Sensitive jazz guys? Nope – suddenly Marsalis hurled himself into the seated audience with a somersault – and a scream.
Music involves a mix of noise, of existing or fabricated instruments, of alternative worlds that the sounds and voices assemble.
It is saturated, direct, and seemingly made for a grippingly intense choreography. A powerful partnership on the grand stage.
»Music is a full bodied, raw and physical exchange. It’s an absorption that is overwhelming, that sometimes grants you relief.«
With »Music for Lovers«, the Swiss drummer and electronic musician Samuel Rohrer gets many things right. But the songwriting, unfortunately, falls short.
For me music is an irregular yet life-long event that requires constant attention in the form of private preparation, rehearsals with others, and performances to audiences.