essay19.04.2022
During War, We Become All Ears
About the sounds of war – and the resounding silence that comes with it.
Perspective
what we immerse ourselves in
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interview09.03.2022
Three Artists. One Hope
Three snapshots from three different lives: Kateryna Zavoloka, Katarina Gryvul and Boris Filanovsky. All work with music, their countries are at war, and they condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They have not met each other and the article consists of three unique interviews with Seismograf. None of them see themselves as political artists, but they do believe that it is a human duty to speak out and fight back when the leader of one's homeland orders war against the other two's homelands. -
essay20.02.2022
My Body Is
Sounding Women’s Work | She composes and performs across artistic genres – as JOMI, Jomi Massage and in the band Speaker Bite Me. The experimental artist, vocalist, guitarist, pianist and writer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen has for years taken part in the debates of her time. Here is a long poem about gender and yes, no, maybe. -
essay10.02.2022
On stage we are four bodies
Sounding Women's Work | Meshes is a performance groupe with drummers and dancers. They work with the relation between body and sound and investigates how the movement of the body can be translated into a score for a drum set, and how the sound of a drum set can be translated into a score for movement.
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essay10.02.2022
Gender, climate and class
Sounding Women's Work | Artist couple Ragnhild May and Kristoffer Raasted conceive their common practices flexibly – it is of importance to them that well-established individual practices provide the starting point for the collaborative endeavor. -
essay10.02.2022
Maybe Just Music
Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | »We find it problematic to articulate the feminist elements in our work directly,« say Sara Willemoes Thomsen and Kim Sandra Rask from the band Måske bare musik (Maybe Just Music), who make sound drawings with kids instruments and tools. -
essay10.02.2022
»What do you mean when you say feminine?«
Sounding Women's Work | »The terms feminine and masculine are used as if we all understand what they represent,« says Anja Jacobsen from the band Selvhenter and member of rehearsal place Mayhem.
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essay10.02.2022
Resonance and personality
Sounding Women's Work | »For the last thousands of years, it has been difficult to see or hear women. I hope that will change in the next many thousands of years to come, so that there is room for both men and women - and all other definitions of gender,« says Danish-American composer Lil Lacy. -
essay10.02.2022
From the outside and inside
Sounding Women's Work | »It's not a choice whether I want to relate to my gender and my body in my work – the outside world has decided that it is a theme,« says British-Danish Juliana Hodkinson, who does not have much of a romantic approach to composing and accepts the truth of the sketch. -
essay10.02.2022
Cyborg mother voices and expanded notions of care
Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | Nanna Lysholt Hansen reflects on her live performance »Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein)« using her voice to perform mothering towards strangers on a bus while sharing, by mantra singing, eco-feminist thought on the necessity of caring for others in times of planetary crisis.