PerspectiveEssay

what we immerse ourselves in

essay11.02

What Does it Mean to Hear a Voice Without a Human Being?

© Rune Mielonen Grassov
In Niels Rønsholdt's »Country«, Jakob Kullberg meets his own manipulated double. Essay on authenticity and the voice between body and technology.
By Clara Bjerregaard Graversen
»Repeat after Me II«, installation view, Polish Pavilion Biennale Arte 2024, photo by Jacopo Salvi / Zachęta archive
essay15.01

Listening Under Fire

An outline of contemporary Ukrainian sound art.
By Antoni Michnik
  • essay27.10.2022

    Alien Frequencies

    Cover til The Sounds of Earth Record. ©  Wikimedia Commons
    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.
    By Ben Carver
  • essay19.04.2022

    During War, We Become All Ears

    © ДСНС України
    About the sounds of war – and the resounding silence that comes with it.
    By Lyubov Morozova
  • essay20.02.2022

    My Body Is

    Sounding Women’s Work | She composes and performs across artistic genres – as JOMI, Jomi Massage and in the band Speaker Bite Me. The experimental artist, vocalist, guitarist, pianist and writer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen has for years taken part in the debates of her time. Here is a long poem about gender and yes, no, maybe.
    By Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen
essay10.02.2022

On stage we are four bodies

© Eget værelse
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.
By Meshes
© Soffi Chanchira Larsen
essay10.02.2022

»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.
By Mette Nielsen