what we immerse ourselves in

review06.08.2024

»Ist nix für Frauen«

© Udo Siegfriedt

Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.

By Giada Dalla Bontà

review24.09.2023

This book asks you to breathe and resonate without words

Salomé Voegelin’s book about our uncurating sound is her most personal and also most difficult to read – however, succeeding with her project, despite almost all odds.

By Morten Søndergaard
review11.12.2021

It is impressed in the body

After a long hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic, Berlin Atonal has opened the gates of Kraftwerk to the public for the first time. As limitations to collective events endure, the new project Metabolic Rift includes, in addition to the live performances, an exhibition aiming to elicit individual experience with intense stimuli. The exposition presents a convincing curatorial approach to sound, exalting its sensorial qualities and proposing an inspiring model to work with the aural and its (im-)materiality in the context of art exhibitions.

By Giada Dalla Bontà
review08.12.2020

Beyond the ASMR phenomenon

At the Academy for Open Listening, Sofie Birch and My Lambertsen set out a new direction for the ASMR genre.

By Alifiyah Imani

review26.10.2020

One man, one mission

Mathias Monrad Møller. © Gerald Geerink

Mathias Monrad Møller showed us an exciting creative vision at his official debut concert as singer and composer – a vision overshadowing dull questions of mere skill.

By Andrew Mellor

review31.03.2020

The system needs to change

Pulsar Festival 2020 took place under the shadow of Marcela Lucatelli’s ‘RGBW’. It’s time for a critical look at the systems of power.

By James Black
review25.02.2020

A difficult beast to tame

With ‘Víddir’, a 60-minute composition of light and darkness, the Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir demonstrated the breadth of her imagination.

By Andrew Mellor
review04.12.2019

Chaos reigns

Madness and humour coexisted on stage as Marcela Lucatelli completed her composition studies in Copenhagen.

By Andrew Mellor

review27.11.2019

Future on repeat

2019 festival poster graphics. © Angela Bulloch/SWR

For a festival that prides itself on its all-premieres programming, the curatorial approach of the 2019 Donaueschinger Musiktage felt more than a little stale. This left a mark on even its greatest works.

review07.10.2019

The impossible festival

The Young Nordic Music festival, one of the most impossible festivals in the world, is also one of the most enlightening ones.

By James Black
review20.11.2018

Gold fever and infernal machines

Simon Løffler’s personality shines through while Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard’s conceptual gold piece rings hollow at Gong Tomorrow.

By James Black
review03.08.2018

»An opera you need to see twice«

A generational cycle of sexual abuse paired with a clear and lucid score. Last year’s operatic talk of the town was back for one day.

By Andrew Mellor