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essay04.08

Shoes For People Who Don’t Like Music

An anti-anthem for those who fall asleep at concerts and wake up with Cage talking nonsense.
By Douglas Kahn
Barents Spektakel. © Nima Taheri
essay29.11.2024

2024: An Earful of Chaos 

Chaotic times call for chaotic music. But also soft techno, flutists and yoga balls. Jennifer Gersten and Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek wrap up the musical year in a conversation between New York and Aarhus.
By Jennifer Gersten & Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
  • essay20.08.2024

    Another day, another rediscovery of Else Marie Pade

    © Lisbeth Damgaard
    A good twenty years after the first rediscovery of Else Marie Pade as an electronic pioneer, she is now being branded as a visionary acoustic composer. It seems we never get tired of rewriting the story of this special artist – and writing ourselves into it.
    By Sune Anderberg
  • 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
  • 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
  • essay10.02.2022

    Gender, climate and class

    © Lou Mouw
    Sounding Women's Work | Artist couple Ragnhild May and Kristoffer Raasted conceive their common practices flexibly – it is of importance to them that well-established individual practices provide the starting point for the collaborative endeavor. 
    By Ragnhild May & Kristoffer Raasted
  • essay10.02.2022

    Maybe Just Music

    © Måske bare musik
    Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | »We find it problematic to articulate the feminist elements in our work directly,« say Sara Willemoes Thomsen and Kim Sandra Rask from the band Måske bare musik (Maybe Just Music), who make sound drawings with kids instruments and tools.
    By Måske bare musik
  • essay10.02.2022

    »What do you mean when you say feminine?«

    © Sara Laub
    Sounding Women's Work | »The terms feminine and masculine are used as if we all understand what they represent,« says Anja Jacobsen from the band Selvhenter and member of rehearsal place Mayhem.
    By Anja Jacobsen
essay10.02.2022

Hopefully we take a risk

© Peter Gannushkin
Sounding Women's Work | Everything is entangled – freedom and discipline, conscious and unconscious. For Lotte Anker walking in to the tones a fascinating learning process, and it's necessary to step into the unknown.
By Lotte Anker
© Rune Svenningsen
essay10.02.2022

Resonance and personality 

Sounding Women's Work | »For the last thousands of years, it has been difficult to see or hear women. I hope that will change in the next many thousands of years to come, so that there is room for both men and women - and all other definitions of gender,« says Danish-American composer Lil Lacy.
By Lil Lacy