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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.

By Jakob Gustav Winckler

Live From the Universe

Christian Skjødt Hasselstrøm – Media Art Biennale, WRO Art Center 2025. © Wojciech Chrubasik

Cosmic radiation passes through our bodies without us ever noticing. In a new exhibition, Christian Skjødt Hasselstrøm attempts to make this invisible stream tangible through sound, light and space.

By Louise Steiwer

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When Opera Leaves the House

Copenhagen Opera Festival has broadened the reach of opera while making it more experimental under Amy Lane. But when bold projects fail to find their form, the courage to experiment can tip into gimmickry.

By Andrew Mellor

review26.08

The Art of Letting Go

On three new albums by Sofie Birch, Tyondai Braxton, and Gustaf Dicksson & co., electronics come alive, melodies are allowed to lose their way, and experimental music discovers a rare lightness.

By Nikola Nedeljkovic Gøttsche
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.

By Marat Ingeldeev
review13.07

Five Things I Learned About Love in Bergen

The Bergen International Festival promised »endless love«. I listened closely – and found it everywhere from medieval madrigals to pop ballads spanning the centuries.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

Out of Utopias and Down to Earth

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From Old Testament wisdom and hippie dreams of community to erotic nightclub atmospheres and dark, rumbling techno. Roskilde Festival 2026 is a wild ride through eras, genres and mental geographies – and a good place to practise carrying dreams carefully through the extreme conditions of our time.

By Rasmus Steffensen

03.07

Invisible citizens, sonic refugees

Post-2020 musicalities in Belarus and in exile

By Pavel Niakhayeu & Andrei Vazyanau
PEER article03.07

Hygge acoustics

(Dis)comfortable politics

By Morten Poulsen
03.07

Singing citizenship?

Trust and dissent in Denmark’s lockdown singing

By Lea Wierød Borčak, Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa , Thomas Husted Kirkegaard, Anne Agersnap & Katrine Baunvig

PEER article03.07

An economics of audibility

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Pricing urban ear-time and sonic citizenship over 24 hours

By Joseph Callaly

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PEER article03.07

The voice of the state

AI-generated text-to-speech communication in public e-governance