what we immerse ourselves in

Marina Abramović: »Seven Deaths«. © David Stjernholm

What Happens When the Mainstream Falls Short?

Marina Abramović lets herself be murdered, burned, and thrown to her death in »Seven Deaths« at the Cisterns – but the operatic canon voiced by Maria Callas tempers the radicality that has otherwise carried her art through an entire lifetime.

By Henrik Marstal

When the World Trembles, Kirkenes Listens

© Alexey Tsalko

At the Barents Spektakel art festival, war, borders and vibrations are transformed into sound, conversation and art at Europe’s northernmost edge.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

© Sunna Ben

A Country Built of Sound

Dark Music Days in Reykjavík offered everything from Bára Gísladóttir’s orchestral darkness to noise, seaweed and quiet song in Harpa – in a music scene where community matters as much as the export adventure.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

review04.02

Knausgård’s Apocalypse as Opera

Sebastian Fagerlund’s »Morgonstjärnan« transforms the novel’s existential unease into a powerful, collective musical drama.

By Andrew Mellor
review26.01

Sacred, Profane, and Unsettlingly Alive

Sacrum Profanum in Kraków offered intense sonic experiences and musical battles – but also performances where the idea outweighed the music.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
review24.01

Matias Vestergård revisited

Revivals have moved onto the agenda among Danish composers, and this month two violent operas by Matias Vestergård benefited from the trend. What is it that makes him so good at writing precisely that kind of work?

By Sune Anderberg

Universal Music with Local Truths

© Høgni Heinesen

Local traditions play a central role in the second-ever Faroese opera, in which Sunleif Rasmussen reclaims a local story made famous by Wagner.

By Andrew Mellor

review12.12

When Bodies, Technologies and Whole Worlds Come Undone

From cyborg kinships and alchemical wonder to masculine fragility and Anthropocene ecstasy – MINU showed that art still holds space for vulnerability, ferocity and strange beauty.

By Macon Holt
review19.11

Turn it Up!

Charlottenborgs hyldest til Mika Vainio vil være en lydbiograf, men uden ordentlig volumen, mørke eller kontekst ender installationen som en oplevelse, man hurtigt glider ud af.

By Louise Steiwer
review15.11

In the Hamster Wheel with Headbands

Current Resonance turned the idea of work inside out in an absurd, sweat-drenched performance that pulled the audience into a hard-pumped ritual of labour.

By Marta Bo

That’s Why I Keep Returning To Unsound

Unsound in Kraków is still more than a festival – it’s an echo of our own search for connection in the age of noise.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

Anything Can Become Music – Even a Bunch Of Fake Frogs

At the Musica festival in Strasbourg, everything from children’s concerts to organ storms and performative string quartets turned into a playful exploration of sound, body, and community.

By Therese Wiwe Vilmar