what we immerse ourselves in

© Peter Tinning

A Dance with the Site-Specific: Simon Steen-Andersen at 50

The Danish composer turns architecture, body, and context into part of the work – challenging our notions of what music is and how we experience it.

By Henrik Marstal

See Venice and Throw Up

Nephew på Roskilde Festival. © Morten Rygaard

Marie Koldkjær Højlund uses art, disgust, and everyday ruptures as resistance to habits, crises, and our urge to understand everything.

By Therese Wiwe Vilmar

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.

By Henrik Marstal

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.

By Peter Albrechtsen
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.

By Henrik Marstal
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.

By Jan Topolski

interview27.08.2022

»I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«

© Malin Annie Jansson

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?

By Sune Anderberg

interview23.08.2022

Oil, Opera and the history that haunts us

Niels Rønsholdt's new work, »The Last Rites«, is a pessimistic satire on human nature. The opera takes place in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink, so the audience can feel the cold mechanics of desire and the growing chaos on our planet. Do we really need winter all year round?

By Macon Holt
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.

By Julie Hugsted
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.

By Julie Hugsted

interview06.08.2021

All Tomorrow's Music

© Willa Wathne

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.

Mikkel Schou. © Zuhal Kocan

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.

By Andrew Mellor