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.
PerspectiveInterview
what we immerse ourselves in
interview24.12
A Case for Simplicity
The Taiwanese-Danish percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen explores the world’s smallest sounds – from red deer bones to roof tiles – in her pursuit of a music that is both ancient, courageous, and radically simple.
interview15.05
From Darkness to Magic: Warren Ellis and the Journey Toward the Light
After a brutal depression, Warren Ellis returns with renewed strength – and deep gratitude. The 60-year-old Australian multi-instrumentalist opens up about pain, love, animals, creativity, and Nina Simone’s sacred chewing gum.
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interview16.01.2024
The Useless Hell
In the musical theater performance »Calls to this number are being diverted« Matthew Grouse puts the absurd working life of late modernity under the microscope. -
interview29.11.2023
Side entrance to the New Music Scene
Slowly the idea of universality is dissolving, experimental music exists everywhere and in every genre – Abbasi, Eizirik and Sanchéz-Chiong in conversation. -
interview27.08.2022
»I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«
Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?
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interview09.03.2022
Three Artists. One Hope
Three snapshots from three different lives: Kateryna Zavoloka, Katarina Gryvul and Boris Filanovsky. All work with music, their countries are at war, and they condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They have not met each other and the article consists of three unique interviews with Seismograf. None of them see themselves as political artists, but they do believe that it is a human duty to speak out and fight back when the leader of one's homeland orders war against the other two's homelands. -
interview24.01.2022
»I want to examine sound's relationship with as much of the world as possible«
The sound of Freud’s toilet in Wienna, Andy Warhol in the supermarket, and the first pirated mp3 ever – Museum of Portable Sound collects and exhibits sound as cultural objects. And the sounds in the collections are only accessible from curator John Kannenberg’s iPhone 4S. -
interview06.08.2021
All Tomorrow's Music
One of Europe’s oldest contemporary music festivals comes to Aarhus. We profile Ung Nordisk Musik, which is as ageless as Madonna and contains Icelandic vulgarities from 1612.
interview08.03.2021
‘We don’t have the same aspirations at all’
The safe choice would be to study the old masters and the canonised works, but guitarist Mikkel Schou finds more meaning in the brand-new music composed today. His upcoming Debut Concert from the Royal Danish Academy of Music is a ‘thanks, but no thanks’ to institutional forces of habit.
interview02.06.2020
‘I wanted to be radical’
Instruments struggle to voice themselves in the music of Christian Winther Christensen. In many ways, his focus on small sounds and deep concentration is a perfect match for a time of silenced soundscapes.