review

  • review
    18.02

    A Country Built of Sound

    © Sunna Ben
    Dark Music Days in Reykjavík offered everything from Bára Gísladóttir’s orchestral darkness to noise, seaweed and quiet song in Harpa – in a music scene where community matters as much as the export adventure.
    By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
  • review
    04.02

    Knausgård’s Apocalypse as Opera

    © Ilkka Saastamoinen
    Sebastian Fagerlund’s »Morgonstjärnan« transforms the novel’s existential unease into a powerful, collective musical drama.
    By Andrew Mellor
  • review
    26.01

    Sacred, Profane, and Unsettlingly Alive

    © Alicja Rzepa
    Sacrum Profanum in Kraków offered intense sonic experiences and musical battles – but also performances where the idea outweighed the music.
    By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
  • review
    24.01

    Matias Vestergård revisited

    © PR
    Revivals have moved onto the agenda among Danish composers, and this month two violent operas by Matias Vestergård benefited from the trend. What is it that makes him so good at writing precisely that kind of work?
    By Sune Anderberg
  • review
    12.12

    When Bodies, Technologies and Whole Worlds Come Undone

    From cyborg kinships and alchemical wonder to masculine fragility and Anthropocene ecstasy – MINU showed that art still holds space for vulnerability, ferocity and strange beauty.
    By Macon Holt
  • review
    19.11

    Turn it Up!

    Charlottenborgs hyldest til Mika Vainio vil være en lydbiograf, men uden ordentlig volumen, mørke eller kontekst ender installationen som en oplevelse, man hurtigt glider ud af.
    By Louise Steiwer