PerspectiveEssay

what we immerse ourselves in

essay05.05.2015

... too wide a field. Sound Art in Berlin.

"Looking at SoundArt in Berlin today, we find not only an evolved art form, but a unique cultural situation, making this city still one of the worlds most lively SoundArt centres. The history of SoundArt in Berlin is here traced back to the 1970s when the Western part of the divided city became a centre of cross-disciplinary and experimental art. To understand the subsequent development, the article starts with the underlying cultural and political situation of Berlin in the last few decades."
By Kersten Glandien
  • essay05.05.2015

    Objective: The object

    Is there a line from Mahler to Simon Steen-Andersen? From a fin-de-siècle symphony to a 21st century avant-garde investigation of technological possibilities? Well maybe, the author argues, if modernism in music is seen as an interest in sounding objects.
    By Henrik Friis
  • essay30.10.2014

    Have You Seen The Music?

    Through a reading of four works, this article explores how Simon Steen-Andersen the visual as a communicating and concrete compositional material.
    By Rasmus Holmboe
  • essay30.10.2014

    Democratic Sound

    Simon Steen-Andersen presents a thoroughly intellectual approach, but he also makes room for the quiet and the fragile. He can call attention to echoes of dust and breath.
    By Ida Habbestad
essay01.05.2013

Dansk Komponistforening og musiktidsskrifterne

Grafik: Signe Lupnov - Foto: Søren Zeuth/Kollaps
Dette er historien om, hvordan Dansk Komponistforening positionerede sig i forhold til de danske musiktidsskrifter i de første 40 år af foreningens levetid. Dermed bliver det også en historie om, hvordan positionerne i dansk musikliv ændrede sig afgørende gennem dette halve århundrede. Og i høj grad bliver det en historie om komponistforeningens forhold til Dansk Musiktidsskrift, der blev grundlagt i 1925 og overlevede som et selvstændigt tidsskrift indtil fusionen med Seismograf.org til nærværende konstellation, Seismograf/DMT, i 2011.
By Michael Fjeldsøe