kritik Dreams, Noise and Apple Crunch in Stavanger The Only Connect festival in Stavanger transformed the city into a landscape of noise, poetry and bodily vibrations. Af Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek 30. June 2025 Læs videre
kritik Dreams, Noise and Apple Crunch in Stavanger The Only Connect festival in Stavanger transformed the city into a landscape of noise, poetry and bodily vibrations. Af Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek 30. June 2025 Læs videre
kritik Disappearing Acts: The Resurrection of Tsujimura Kazuko Tsujimura sought to dissolve the body in postwar Japan. Now, new voices are gently piecing it back together. Af Louise Steiwer 29. June 2025
kritik »Oops, We Walked Past the Artwork« – the Hidden Presences of Sound Art in Moss The MOMENTUM biennial in Moss, Norway lets sound art speak, guiding the audience into the borderlands of the senses – where even a toilet resonates like an echo chamber. Af Therese Wiwe Vilmar 24. June 2025
2024: An Earful of Chaos Chaotic times call for chaotic music. But also soft techno, flutists and yoga balls. Jennifer Gersten and Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek wrap up the musical year in a conversation between New York and Aarhus. Jennifer Gersten 29. December 2024
Gender, Canon, and Eastern European Women Pioneers of 20th-century Electronic Music Feminist readings of 20th-century electronic music history cannot avoid questioning the notion of canon and canon-oriented historiographical practices. Shedding light on women composers from non-Western contexts can further come in handy in searching for ways to engage with the history of gender in music beyond mainstreaming and the rhetoric of exceptionalism. Marta Beszterda van Vliet 24. November 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. Sune Anderberg 20. August 2024
Death and Masochism Efterskrift enjoy the discomfort of pleasure postponed or expressed through the pain of the feeling of something missing. At the new festival MINU, the Aarhus-based ensemble will perform a concert with a simple message: everything good is allowed to die. Macon Holt 4. November 2022
Actual Friends, Making New Maps from the Future How do you make sense in a world filled with tragedy, grief and institutional control? In their work for MINU festival composer Conor McLean and performer Nikolaus von Bemberg turn to Charlie Kaufman’s film, »Synechdoche, New York« for answers. Macon Holt 4. November 2022
Alien Frequencies 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. Ben Carver 27. October 2022
»My pregnant body changed things – composing with the process« Sounding Women's Work | In a situation where the gender balance is skewed in favor of men, it takes action to change the balance so no one has a special advantage, says composer, saxophonist and author Laura Toxværd. Laura Toxværd 25. May 2022
On stage we are four bodies 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. Meshes 10. February 2022
»Had I run around with the others, would I have become a composer at all?« 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. Mette Nielsen 10. February 2022
Dreams, Noise and Apple Crunch in Stavanger The Only Connect festival in Stavanger transformed the city into a landscape of noise, poetry and bodily vibrations. Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek 30. June 2025
Disappearing Acts: The Resurrection of Tsujimura Katsuko Tsujimura sought to dissolve the body in postwar Japan. Now, new voices are gently piecing it back together. Louise Steiwer 29. June 2025
»Oops, We Walked Past the Artwork« – the Hidden Presences of Sound Art in Moss The MOMENTUM biennial in Moss, Norway lets sound art speak, guiding the audience into the borderlands of the senses – where even a toilet resonates like an echo chamber. Therese Wiwe Vilmar 24. June 2025
Klang has Come of Age – and Dares to Be Solemn This year’s edition of Copenhagen’s festival for new music embraced sonic rituals, cultural encounters, and performances with loops, bodies, and cassette tapes – and featured French musicians playing as if sound itself could change the world. Henrik Friis 18. June 2025
The World is Leaking – and Art Picks Up the Drops At the Bergen International Festival, William Kentridge and Ryoji Ikeda let art capture what can no longer be said – only felt. Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek 15. June 2025
When the Past Begins to Make Noise Again At Geneva’s Archipel Festival, lost instruments and occult soundscapes are brought to life in a journey through speculative rituals and experimental music. Anna Ullman 5. June 2025
The Hunt for Sound Installations in Nuremberg From seductive echoes in an abandoned yeast factory to allergy-inducing angel wings in a baroque church – Musik Installationen Nürnberg put the body in motion, but left the question of what a music installation truly is unanswered. Rasmus Weirup 3. June 2025
Spor Festival at Twenty: the Eternal Play of Sound From giant flutes to performative rituals – the anniversary edition of the Aarhus-based festival unfolded the materiality of sound and musical collaboration in new forms. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen 2. June 2025
Estonians can truly compose – especially for voice Estonian Music Days revealed how a young, vocally attuned community of composers in the small country between Finland and Russia combines historical depth with freedom, resonance, and intimacy. Jeppe Rönnow 31. May 2025
From Darkness to Magic: Warren Ellis and the Journey Toward the Light After a brutal depression, Warren Ellis returns with renewed strength – and deep gratitude. The 60-year-old Australian multi-instrumentalist opens up about pain, love, animals, creativity, and Nina Simone’s sacred chewing gum. Peter Albrechtsen 15. May 2025
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. Henrik Marstal 16. January 2024
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. Jan Topolski 29. November 2023
UKRAiNATV – the future starts here They mix art, activism and technology to create a dialogue across Europe. Meet the internet TV project UKRAiNATV, featured at Unsound 2023. Giada Dalla Bontà 5. October 2023
»We love to talk about solidarity« The problem is not a lack of interest in Eastern Europe, but in a scarcity of access to its narratives and perspectives, says Ukrainian writer and curator Mariana Berezovska ahead of Unsound Festival 2023. Giada Dalla Bontà 2. October 2023
»I love freedom and I know why« For months Ukrainian born composer and sound artist Katarina Gryvul didn't force herself to write, as she didn't want to associate war with music. It all changed: »An artist cannot be out of politics now«. Marta Konieczna 1. December 2022
»I can’t kill anybody with my profession« It took Hania Rani many years to acknowledge that she feels much more comfortable in a music other than classical music. However, it lives – like a heavy rucksack – in the Polish artist's piano music, which is allowed to be called poppy. Now she is visiting Copenhagen and the new borderless music festival Resonator in Odense. Mathias Monrad Møller 3. November 2022
»I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance« 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? Sune Anderberg 27. August 2022
Oil, Opera and the history that haunts us 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? Macon Holt 23. August 2022
