what we immerse ourselves in

interview13.02.2020

‘Things are very anarchistic right now’

Neko3. © Konsfoto

Fei Nie, Lorenzo Colombo, Kalle Hakosalo, and Mads Emil Dreyer – three musicians and a composer. Together they’re Neko3, one of the most visionary ensembles at a moment where the scene is changing rapidly.

By Andrew Mellor

interview16.09.2019

‘The hardest thing is to trust your material’

Daníel Bjarnason’s new piece requires no less than three conductors. A result of the omnipresent Reykjavik school?

By Andrew Mellor
interview03.06.2019

‘I really wanted to write a pop love song’

Polish composer Marta Śniady is set to finish her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. Recently, her works have embraced video and pop music.

By James Black
interview03.04.2019

‘I need to believe it myself’

Ragnhild May works in a chameleon-like way. James Black takes her to yoga class in this final interview with young ‘composer/performers’.

By James Black

interview25.02.2019

So, this is where it all ends

Bára Gísladóttir. © Gabrielle Motola

For his second interview with young ‘composer/performers’ James Black takes Bára Gísladóttir bowling. Her music and stage presence share a captivatingly introvert, yet apocalyptic, quality that seems like more than a mere artistic approach. In Gísladóttir’s view, the apocalypse is a given.

interview09.01.2019

‘It’s almost like I can feel the whole world’

James Black goes climbing with Marcela Lucatelli in this first of three interviews with young composer/performers.

By James Black
interview28.11.2018

Man among the machines

Kaj Duncan David’s music has always been intimately linked with software and machines. His next major work deals with artificial intelligence.

By Andrew Mellor
interview07.02.2018

Shouting, naked. James Black, the composer

His debut concert only a few weeks away – both a blessing and a ‘fucking nightmare’ – Copenhagen-based composer James Black talks to Andrew Mellor.

By Andrew Mellor

interview27.09.2017

Gender and social relations in New Music: Tackling the octopus

© Unknown.

Juliana Hodkinson interviews anthropologist / cultural theorist Georgina Born on gender and other social relations in contemporary music.

By Juliana Hodkinson

interview30.08.2017

Rum/Klang – et anarkistisk lydkunstgalleri

Jakob Gustav Winckler taler med Adam Veng fra Rum/Klang – lydkunstgalleriet i Jyderup.

By Jakob Gustav Winckler
interview17.05.2017

Om porcelæn, templer og nysgerrighed

Sif Hellerup Madsen har mødt den udstillingsaktuelle kunstner Ursula Nistrup til en snak om hendes værk, om lyden af porcelæn, om nysgerrighed og om kontinuerligt at udfordre sig selv i jagten på at forstå verden.

By Sif Hellerup Madsen
interview09.05.2017

Det er noget vi gør sammen

Accordeonisten Andreas Borregaard er et af hovednavnene på dette års KLANG Festival med hele tre koncertaftner. Kollega Peter Bruun interviewer Andreas om værkerne og arbejdet bag.

By Peter Bruun