Simon Steen-Andersen
About Simon Steen-Andersen
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comment12.09
Irony Is Not Dead. It Has Just Got Feelings
For a long time I scoffed at metamodernism. Now it has made the last 30 years of composition music hang together. But it is misleading when music scholars call metamodernism a school. -
essay18.08
The British School of Emotionalism and Metamodernism
From irony to sincerity – and back again. On a new metamodern sensibility in British contemporary music. -
in brief07.06
Deadly Serious Play at Louisiana
Simon Steen-Andersen’s portrait concert at Louisiana was an overwhelming encounter between grotesque humour, video art, and brutal reality. -
review06.05
From Cringe to Cosmos – and Back Again
Spor 2026 took its audience from embarrassed laughter to resonant sonic landscapes in a festival that both transgressed boundaries and overwhelmed the senses. -
interview21.04
A Dance with the Site-Specific: Simon Steen-Andersen at 50
The Danish composer turns architecture, body, and context into part of the work – challenging our notions of what music is and how we experience it.
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review18.03
We’ve Never Needed Pulsar Festival More
The major Danish composer festivals are starting to resemble each other more and more, but Pulsar Festival stands apart. Here, there is still more string quartet than performance art, making Pulsar an important alternative platform for new music – if only the festival itself would fully realize it.