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What Do the Mad Want With an Opera House?
OperaHole nevertheless looks like a strong contender to carry on our tradition of playful underground opera.
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JASSS Tears the Cellophane Off Electronic Music
»Eager Buyers« is captivating – even for listeners who don’t usually venture into the electronic sphere.
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One Tone, Eight Breaths, and the Sound of Waiting
At Betty Nansen Theatre, Louise Alenius and Elisa Kragerup turn Selma Lagerlöf’s tragic tale into a haunting meditation on sound, silence and longing.
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A Microphone In the Nervous System
On »BODY« IKI turns the voice inside out and lets technology listen beneath the skin – to the point where body, circuit, and circulation become one.
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Soap Horse Kept a Tight Rein – Maybe Too Tight
»Soap Horse displayed remarkable control and a firm grasp of both their sonic universe and their audience. Perhaps all that’s left is to prove they dare to loosen their grip.«
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A One-Way Ticket To Illiyeen, Please!
Mesayer’s black-clad universe and Thicket’s bursts of improvised energy merged seamlessly into a community one longed to be part of.
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Gąsiorek Never Looks Back
Polish-born Szymon Gąsiorek has done it again – created a cornucopia of an album that both overwhelms and delights.
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Composition for Stone Walls
Bjarke Mogensen makes the Cisterns breathe and thunder in a meditative underground sound space.
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Kristine Tjøgersen Crafts Unreasonably Beautiful Eco-Poetry
Natural sounds, imitations of nature, harmonies, and entire sequences are simply building blocks in her personal experimental lab.
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When the Experiment Becomes Tragically Beautiful
Tungemål dares to experiment without drowning itself out.
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The Ever-Changing Waters Of the Mind
It certainly doesn’t break any ambient conventions – but it’s a pleasure to be swept away nonetheless.
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Postcard From the Borderlands of Sound
»A rare and unique symbiosis arises between voice and double bass – a connection so special that one rarely hears anything quite like it.«