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review07.10.2019

The impossible festival

The 2019 festival poster. © UNM Sweden

The Young Nordic Music festival may be one of the most impossible festivals in the world, with management changing every year. But this year’s edition proved that it’s also one of the most enlightening ones.

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
PEER article28.06.2019

The audio paper

The current practice of the new format of the audio paper as well as its brief history.

By Sanne Krogh Groth & Kristine Samson
Field recording28.06.2019

The all-inclusive soundscape

On the sound in three resorts in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.

By Anna Lerchbaumer, Pia Prantl & Andreas Zißler

Sound collage28.06.2019

Voicing up

How women artists of colour working in electronic music in Berlin practice empowerment, survival and resistance.

By Shanti Suki Osman

Field recording28.06.2019

Tuesday, 7 Feb. 2017, 11:12 p.m., Admiralty, Hong Kong Island

Field recordings from explorations of Hong Kong.

By Andrin Uetz
audio paper28.06.2019

Only dogs walk as if they knew where they’re going

Retracing an audio walk to the empty city centre of Braunschweig, Germany.

By Ludwig Berger & Florian Fischer
Sound collage28.06.2019

Vogelsang

A contemplation into an abandoned Soviet military base 60 kilometres north of Berlin that once housed nuclear weapons.

By Peter Cusack

interview03.06.2019

‘I really wanted to write a pop love song’

Marta Śniady. © Marta Śniady

Polish composer Marta Śniady is about to finish her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. Recently, her aesthetics have changed considerably, embracing video and pop music.

interview03.04.2019

‘I need to believe it myself’

Ragnhild May works in a chameleon-like way. James Black takes her to yoga class in this final interview with young ‘composer/performers’.

By James Black
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