review26.01
Sacred, Profane, and Unsettlingly Alive
Sacrum Profanum in Kraków offered intense sonic experiences and musical battles – but also performances where the idea outweighed the music.
Perspective
what we immerse ourselves in
review24.01
Matias Vestergård revisited
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?
review23.01
Universal Music with Local Truths
Local traditions play a central role in the second-ever Faroese opera, in which Sunleif Rasmussen reclaims a local story made famous by Wagner.
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reportage15.01
War Reverberations: Sound Stories From Kyiv
Air raid sirens, artillery, and everyday sounds have altered the city’s rhythm – and forced its residents to develop new ways of listening. -
interview11.01
See Venice and Throw Up
Marie Koldkjær Højlund uses art, disgust, and everyday ruptures as resistance to habits, crises, and our urge to understand everything. -
reportage28.12
Across America – a Grown-up Boyband’s Search for a Sound
Four Scandinavian musicians and a Canadian banjo amateur/karate instructor cross the American South to find out whether they can become a band – somewhere between Schubert, country, and doubt.
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comment21.12
Let’s Finally Drop the Rhetoric of »forgotten« Women Composers
Women opera composers of the past have returned for good. But how do we break the closed circuit of opera history? -
essay19.12
2025 Between Straw and Signal
A dialogue on listening, loss and resonance across Poland, Germany, UK and Denmark. -
reportage17.12
The Anatomy of the Organ
It has become a cherished December tradition that Koncertkirken opens its doors to curious explorations of the nature of the organ when the Organ Sound Art Festival moves in. This year the festival could celebrate its 10th anniversary, and the fascination with the organ’s many paradoxes remains intact.
review12.12
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.
review19.11
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.