reportage08.02.2024
Do You Feel the Vibration?
Heaven, hell, love and country – life’s biggest mysteries were studied at the Polish festival Sacrum Profanum. And it ended well for two Danes.
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in brief08.02.2024
Behind the Words
Emotionally potent, and filled with pleasing, warm synth tones that recall 1970s German Kosmische Musik.
playlist07.02.2024
My name is Phil Battiekh – would you like to see my playlist?
Music to me is a hyperdimensional portal.
PEER audio paper31.01.2024
Dynamics of power dynamics
It is through knowledge of the art-form and skilful weaving of networks of symbols, that creatives can dictate the terms of storytelling and thus exert their power over the audience.
interview16.01.2024
The Useless Hell
In the musical theater performance »Calls to this number are being diverted« Matthew Grouse puts the absurd working life of late modernity under the microscope.
PEER article06.01.2024
Sound as shield
The essay probes poetics and the politics of a life-affirming operation in which Ukrainians have been self-engaged to resist subjugation and assimilation under Russian colonialism.
playlist01.01.2024
My name is Bill Frisell – would you like to see my playlist?
I like when it's impossible to tell at first if something is black or white, or country or blues, or whatever ¶ Bill Frisell
PEER audio paper11.12.2023
To whom it may speak
This audio paper narrates through the experiences and ambiences of Russian aggression to which Ukrainians relate a long history of Russia’s imperial statehood.
PEER article11.12.2023
Democratic noise
Democratic conversation and collectively improvised music have such pronounced similarities that improvisations can be discussed in terms of their democratic potentiality.
PEER audio paper11.12.2023
The limitations of sonic offer
The sound of the slogans at the demonstrations touches the body, it is impossible to hide from. The vulnerability revealed through this touch creates immediate affective responses pointing at the limitations of sonic support and solidarization.
PEER article11.12.2023
The human body as a space defining element of sound art
This article researches the role of the Human body in the production of sound art in the exhibition space. It focuses on the spatial path between body and sound in the exhibition space of sound art.
PEER audio paper11.12.2023
Cochlear implantation surgery
Operating rooms are typically noise filled environments, where polyrhythms and polyphonics of human and non-human sounds collide. In this paper the operating room soundscape is used for relational ethnographic exploration, framed in critical affect theory, and brings together insights from medical sociology and sound studies.
PEER audio paper11.12.2023
Fear of weakness
In the audio-paper »Fear of Weakness: Songs to Agitate the Man«, artist Morten Poulsen builds on his project »Boys Will Be…« (2022), in which he met with young cis-men to have conversations about vulnerability, intimacy and masculine norms
PEER audio paper11.12.2023
The second sound of integrity
Following Ruiz and Vourloumis, this audio paper performance sounds a formless formation, exploring integrity and wholeness among Black and Indigenous collectives that organize via radical forms of togetherness outside state-sponsored institution
PEER audio paper11.12.2023
More than background
This audio paper explores the »acoustic territory« (Labelle, 2010) of Peckham Rye Lane through my sonic journey as a Peckham resident, practitioner, and researcher.
PEER audio paper11.12.2023
Karaoke collage
I went on an artist residency in Tokyo in 2018/19 for three months and ended up spending most of my time in karaoke boxes. I don’t remember what my actual project was but in the birthplace of karaoke, amateur singing of pop songs was all I could think of.
PEER audio paper11.12.2023
The heartbeat of the drum
For over 4000 years, the Inuit in Kalaallit Nunaat, as Greenland is called in Greenlandic, have been living in an intimate relationship with nature in the Arctic. Their knowledge of how to survive under such harsh conditions has been preserved and passed on via sound through the millennia.
PEER article11.12.2023
The lyric ear
The article analyses the genre of listening scores – texts written in a natural language that provide the readers with instructions to listen in a certain way or to a certain kind of sounds.
11.12.2023
Voice as infrastructure
This audio paper explores the phenomenon of voice-based technology in the smart-home. Through ethnographic interviews we study how older people use voice-based technologies and with what effects for their experiences of the affective environment in their homes.
article08.12.2023
Thinking decolonially towards music’s institution: A post-conference reflection
How do we talk about musical colonisation? How do we talk about this work of talking about it; that is, interrogating what we mean by colonisation and its counter-logic of decolonisation or decoloniality?
interview29.11.2023
Side entrance to the New Music Scene
Slowly the idea of universality is dissolving, experimental music exists everywhere and in every genre – Abbasi, Eizirik and Sanchéz-Chiong in conversation.
review24.09.2023
This book asks you to breathe and resonate without words
Salomé Voegelin’s book about our uncurating sound is her most personal and also most difficult to read – however, succeeding with her project, despite almost all odds.
PEER audio paper23.08.2023
Lament is like a safe lap
In this audio paper, we are focusing on a guided lamenting circle, and explore on the meanings that the participants in the circle give to the lament.
PEER audio paper23.08.2023
Secrets and pop
This audio performance paper queries if the application of sound and music has the potential to evoke and relieve the pain of intergenerational grief.
PEER audio paper23.08.2023
Sonic worlds collide – sounds from Ukraine
In this audio essay we interrogate the autoethnographic in soundscapes by engaging with the narratological nature of field recordings in their ability to convey not only affect but also memory, history, and context.