Creating grief and lamenting on stage
This audio paper analyses the emotions of contemporary laments in the context of music and performing arts in Finland, and presents the course of events behind the current practices with audio examples.
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This audio paper analyses the emotions of contemporary laments in the context of music and performing arts in Finland, and presents the course of events behind the current practices with audio examples.
The 2nd Helsinki Biennial launches on 11th of June. Aarhus University's Critical Environmental Data research group was tasked to write an Environmental Audiotour that narrates the city as energy, as sensing, as multiple histories and imagined futures. We feature the 2nd episode of the tour that features the ruins of an old weather station on the island of Vallisaari, a key curatorial site of the Biennial too.
Statement from Kaija Saariaho's family.
The mixtape has always been a format with which to swagger and seduce, meant to project both front and vulnerability. How, though, might we interpret a sampler from another star system; what might its effect on us be? A journey with Ziggy Stardust, Yuri Gagarin, afrofuturists and intellectuals from Mars.
When you close your eyes to obvious acts of violence and evil, you only allow it to grow says Ukrainian composer Alla Zagaykevych, who believes in electronic music as a radical form of freedom. Reportage from the event »Antifascism - Electronic music from worlds on fire« in Lund, Sweden.
Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?
Niels Rønsholdt's new work, »The Last Rites«, is a pessimistic satire on human nature. The opera takes place in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink, so the audience can feel the cold mechanics of desire and the growing chaos on our planet. Do we really need winter all year round?
An analysis of a sensory concert and its challenge of the gendered stage.
An audio paper addressing the exploration of ”solastalgia” through musical means.
Introduction to articles and themes in Sounding Women's Work I and Sounding Women's Work II.
An audio paper based on the story of women working and weaving hemp burial garment sambe in South Korea.
Women composers and the inadequate representation in historical canons and museum exhibitions.
Inclusion and exclusion of gendered artefacts, bodies and things in the spaces of P3´s music production.
Three snapshots from three different lives: Kateryna Zavoloka, Katarina Gryvul and Boris Filanovsky. All work with music, their countries are at war, and they condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They have not met each other and the article consists of three unique interviews with Seismograf. None of them see themselves as political artists, but they do believe that it is a human duty to speak out and fight back when the leader of one's homeland orders war against the other two's homelands.
Sounding Women's Work | Meshes is a performance groupe with drummers and dancers. They work with the relation between body and sound and investigates how the movement of the body can be translated into a score for a drum set, and how the sound of a drum set can be translated into a score for movement.
Sounding Women's Work | Mette Nielsen is occupied finding ways to create space for the small and fragile sounds in the music. She works with both completely traditional scores and more open notations and easy staging of sound.
Sounding Women's Work | Artist couple Ragnhild May and Kristoffer Raasted conceive their common practices flexibly – it is of importance to them that well-established individual practices provide the starting point for the collaborative endeavor.
Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | »We find it problematic to articulate the feminist elements in our work directly,« say Sara Willemoes Thomsen and Kim Sandra Rask from the band Måske bare musik (Maybe Just Music), who make sound drawings with kids instruments and tools.
Sounding Women's Work | »The terms feminine and masculine are used as if we all understand what they represent,« says Anja Jacobsen from the band Selvhenter and member of rehearsal place Mayhem.
Sounding Women's Work | Everything is entangled – freedom and discipline, conscious and unconscious. For Lotte Anker walking in to the tones a fascinating learning process, and it's necessary to step into the unknown.
Sounding Women's Work | »For the last thousands of years, it has been difficult to see or hear women. I hope that will change in the next many thousands of years to come, so that there is room for both men and women - and all other definitions of gender,« says Danish-American composer Lil Lacy.
Sounding Women's Work | »It's not a choice whether I want to relate to my gender and my body in my work – the outside world has decided that it is a theme,« says British-Danish Juliana Hodkinson, who does not have much of a romantic approach to composing and accepts the truth of the sketch.
Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | Nanna Lysholt Hansen reflects on her live performance »Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein)« using her voice to perform mothering towards strangers on a bus while sharing, by mantra singing, eco-feminist thought on the necessity of caring for others in times of planetary crisis.
Sounding Women's Work | DEAP – Aske Zidore & Pernille Zidore Nygaard – work in the cross field between gender, technologies and sound. The artist couple remember to challenge and push each other, so it is not only safe: »Go with the spontaneous ideas – also the children's!«
The sound of Freud’s toilet in Wienna, Andy Warhol in the supermarket, and the first pirated mp3 ever – Museum of Portable Sound collects and exhibits sound as cultural objects. And the sounds in the collections are only accessible from curator John Kannenberg’s iPhone 4S.