what we immerse ourselves in

essay10.02.2022

From the outside and inside

© Anka Bardeleben Photography

Sounding Women's Work | »It's not a choice whether I want to relate to my gender and my body in my work – the outside world has decided that it is a theme,« says British-Danish Juliana Hodkinson, who does not have much of a romantic approach to composing and accepts the truth of the sketch.

By Juliana Hodkinson

essay10.02.2022

Cyborg mother voices and expanded notions of care

Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | Nanna Lysholt Hansen reflects on her live performance »Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein)« using her voice to perform mothering towards strangers on a bus while sharing, by mantra singing, eco-feminist thought on the necessity of caring for others in times of planetary crisis.

By Nanna Lysholt Hansen
essay10.02.2022

»Go with the spontaneous ideas«

Sounding Women's Work | DEAP – Aske Zidore & Pernille Zidore Nygaard – work in the cross field between gender, technologies and sound. The artist couple remember to challenge and push each other, so it is not only safe: »Go with the spontaneous ideas – also the children's!«

By DEAP
essay18.01.2022

My body is

Sounding Women's Work | She composes and performs across all genres in art – as JOMI, Jomi Massage and in the band Speaker Bite Me. For years the experimental artist, vocalist, guitarist, pianist and writer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen has been active in debates of the time. Here is a long poem about gender and yes, no, maybe.

By Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen aka Jomi Massage

essay23.11.2020

A song of one’s own

Young Inuit throat singers in Ottawa, Canada. © Art Babych/Shutterstock.com

American composer Caroline Shaw drew criticism because her award-winning work Partita for 8 Voices, according to singer Tanya Tagaq, profited on Inuit throat singing but failed to credit an endangered music culture. Cultural appropriation is very much a socio-economic issue.

By Andrew Mellor

essay12.06.2020

The hands just carry on by themselves

Two weeks ago, the German pianist Igor Levit took on an iconic marathon piece, fundamentally changing his own conditions as well as the listener’s.

By Holger Schulze
essay26.03.2020

Nature won’t protect you anymore

Nature seems to have turned on us. That shows in Nordic contemporary music with sonic tales of decay, apocalypse, and protest.

By Andrew Mellor
essay04.09.2018

Memorials of grief: Music after 9/11

Essay by Tim Rutherford-Johnson on the musical responses to an incomprehensible historical event.

By Tim Rutherford-Johnson

essay11.07.2018

Lullabies and memory loss

© Alexander Banck-Petersen

It’s the opening concert of Klang Festival 2018. Everyone is paying close attention, preparing to discuss the music afterwards. But listening is no simple task – what’s it all about? Professor Holger Schulze, author of ‘The Sonic Persona – An Anthropology of Sound’, takes us through his listening experience.

By Holger Schulze

essay09.11.2017

A sonic time capsule

'A Sonic Time Capsule – a small instruction manual explaining how to realize such a thing' by Andrea Zarza Canova.

By Andrea Zarza Canova
essay31.05.2017

Just spoke: Composing with objects, performing with subjects

A private reflexion on the proces of grief and mourning in relation to composing.

By Juliana Hodkinson
essay22.02.2016

Lydprofetier

Else Marie Pades 1957 indføring i musique concrète og elektronisk musik og en inddirekte appel til større lydhørhed overover for denne nye musik. Oprindeligt trykt i DMT, 1957/2.

By Else Marie Pade