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interview02.06.2020

‘I wanted to be radical’

Christian Winther Christensen. © Mette Kramer Kristensen

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.

By Andrew Mellor

interview13.02.2020

‘Things are very anarchistic right now’

Neko3 is one of the most visionary ensembles at a moment where the contemporary music 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. © Hajime Kato

As a performer, Ragnhild May has a chameleon-like way of creating characters that makes it possible to adapt her works to different situations. James Black invites her to a yoga class in this final interview with young ‘composer/performers’.

interview25.02.2019

So, this is where it all ends

In Bára Gísladóttir’s view, the apocalypse is a given. James Black goes bowling with the captivatingly introvert, yet apocalyptic, Icelandic composer/performer.

By James Black
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

James Black. © Niklas Ottander

Five years ago the British-born composition student James Black moved to Copenhagen, mainly to get out of Oxford. Unlike most of his fellow young composers, he ‘tends to write loud music’, Black tells Andrew Mellor ahead of his debut concert.

By Andrew Mellor

interview27.09.2017

Gender and social relations in New Music: Tackling the octopus

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