playlist26.08.2024
My name is Greta Eacott – would you like to see my playlist?
Music for me is bumping, rubbing, colliding, sliding and sculpting... in space-time. AKA the gift that keeps giving.«
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in brief26.08.2024
Hooray! The Big Questions Are Still Alive in Opera
»It was as much the enchantment of Rumi’s poetry as the myth of the poet himself that drove the work.«
essay20.08.2024
Another Day, Another Rediscovery of Else Marie Pade
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.
playlist16.08.2024
My name is Carolyn Goodwin – would you like to see my playlist?
Music has always provided me with a clear pathway on which to navigate a meaningful life.
playlist12.08.2024
My name is Jay Campbell – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music is limitless, and its potential for meaning is infinite.«
review06.08.2024
»Ist nix für Frauen«
Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.
in brief05.07.2024
A World of Contrasts – and a Touch of Smurf Vocals
Sensitive jazz guys? Nope – suddenly Marsalis hurled himself into the seated audience with a somersault – and a scream.
in brief04.07.2024
Shouldn’t Selvhenter be playing the Orange Stage next year?”
For about an hour we breathed together. And it is profoundly good to do something together at a festival.
playlist12.06.2024
My name is Jussi Parikka – would you like to see my playlist?
Music involves a mix of noise, of existing or fabricated instruments, of alternative worlds that the sounds and voices assemble.
in brief23.04.2024
What a Dial Tone Tells Us About Life
What a strange release, nostalgically so in its way. And how creative.
in brief09.04.2024
Ballet’s New Power Duo
It is saturated, direct, and seemingly made for a grippingly intense choreography. A powerful partnership on the grand stage.
playlist02.04.2024
My name is Alexander Tillegreen – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music is a full bodied, raw and physical exchange. It’s an absorption that is overwhelming, that sometimes grants you relief.«
in brief12.03.2024
Music for Lovers, but Not for Me
With »Music for Lovers«, the Swiss drummer and electronic musician Samuel Rohrer gets many things right. But the songwriting, unfortunately, falls short.
in brief19.02.2024
Cortini – the Electronic John Williams
There was no affected distance or feigned coolness – only pure, unadulterated musical beauty.
playlist11.02.2024
My name is Paul Hillier – would you like to see my playlist?
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.
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.
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
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.