what we immerse ourselves in

The drum and the community

© Struer Museum

Unboxing sonic cultural heritage

By Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Daniela Bretes Maciel Elneff, Mads Kullberg, Mikkel Ellersgaard Sørensen & Anne-Sofie Udsen

03.07

Precarious resonances

Sonic citizenship, fragility, and collective audibility in sumar by Diamela Eltit

By Anna Torres
03.07

Mobile sonic citizenship

Co-sounding the outdoors in Helsinki

By Oleksandra Nenko, Otso Aavanranta, Alejandro Montes de Oca & Dominik Schlienger
03.07

Sonic solidarity

By Tanja Diers

Dead silence

© PR

Negotiating noise with the non-living

By Håkan Jonsson

03.07

Arriving, attuning, assembling, and adapting

Becoming sonic citizens with BEEP zine

By Lauren Knight & Aline Rossi Zara
03.07

Sounding missing persons

By Bonnie Han Jones
03.07

Humming posthuman belonging

Circulating sounds as memetic citizenship practices in online music cultures

By Veronika Muchitsch

Oh, to Lose Yourself in Moers

© Dennis Hoeren

The German Moers Festival is no longer primarily a jazz festival, but a curated laboratory for free improvisation, sound art, compositional music, and political absurdism. At times it feels forced. Most of the time, it is liberating.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

review28.06

When Music Stopped Explaining Itself

Klang Festival was at its strongest when the works spoke directly to the body rather than to the programme notes. Not everything succeeded, but this year's festival was willing to take risks.

By Agnete Seerup
review23.06

While Europe's Jazz Searches for New Languages

At Jazzkaar, international stars are no longer the main attraction. Instead, the festival offers a glimpse of an Estonian scene in the process of shaping its own musical identity.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
review04.06

In a Forest Without a Path

Niels Rønsholdt’s new music-theatre work »Osmosis« creates a compelling universe of inverted trees, yearning voices, and rock-inflected asceticism. Yet the work’s central idea remains elusive.

By Henrik Marstal