review30.06
Dreams, Noise and Apple Crunch in Stavanger
The Only Connect festival in Stavanger transformed the city into a landscape of noise, poetry and bodily vibrations.
Perspective
what we immerse ourselves in
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review29.06
Disappearing Acts: The Resurrection of Tsujimura
Katsuko Tsujimura sought to dissolve the body in postwar Japan. Now, new voices are gently piecing it back together. -
review24.06
»Oops, We Walked Past the Artwork« – the Hidden Presences of Sound Art in Moss
The MOMENTUM biennial in Moss, Norway lets sound art speak, guiding the audience into the borderlands of the senses – where even a toilet resonates like an echo chamber. -
review18.06
Klang has Come of Age – and Dares to Be Solemn
This year’s edition of Copenhagen’s festival for new music embraced sonic rituals, cultural encounters, and performances with loops, bodies, and cassette tapes – and featured French musicians playing as if sound itself could change the world.
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review07.06
When the Past Begins to Make Noise Again
At Geneva’s Archipel Festival, lost instruments and occult soundscapes are brought to life in a journey through speculative rituals and experimental music. -
review04.06
The Hunt for Sound Installations in Nuremberg
From seductive echoes in an abandoned yeast factory to allergy-inducing angel wings in a baroque church – Musik Installationen Nürnberg put the body in motion, but left the question of what a music installation truly is unanswered. -
review01.06
Spor Festival at Twenty: the Eternal Play of Sound
From giant flutes to performative rituals – the anniversary edition of the Aarhus-based festival unfolded the materiality of sound and musical collaboration in new forms.
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mindeord28.05
Playful Seriousness: Per Nørgård In Memoriam
A personal tribute by cellist Jakob Kullberg to a 92-year-old composer who never stopped listening, sharing, and laughing – turning every collaboration into an invitation to explore the unknown. -
review26.05
An Operatic Vision Lost in Translation
Bent Sørensen’s new operatic collaboration with Jon Fosse falls short of what it might have been. -
review24.05
The City that made Noise into History
At the Copenhagen Museum, the city’s forgotten soundscapes are brought to life – from street cries and gongs to nervous night sirens – in an exhibition that lets the echoes of the past resonate in present-day ears.