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article08.12.2023

Thinking decolonially towards music’s institution: A post-conference reflection

Codex Quetzalecatzin. © Courtesy of Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
How do we talk about musical colonisation? How do we talk about this work of talking about it; that is, interrogating what we mean by colonisation and its counter-logic of decolonisation or decoloniality?
By Anjeline de Dios, Phil Dodds , Sanne Krogh Groth, Xenia Benivolski, Hild Borchgrevink, Nils Bubandt, Yurii Chekan , Maria Rijo Lopes Da Cunha , Brandon Farnsworth, Rosanna Lovell , Caryl Mann, Ania Mauruschat, Ucee-Uchenna L. Nwachukwu, Ellen Marie Bråthen Steen & Yiren Zhao
  • PEER audio paper23.08.2023

    Sonic worlds collide – sounds from Ukraine
    In this audio essay we interrogate the autoethnographic in soundscapes by engaging with the narratological nature of field recordings in their ability to convey not only affect but also memory, history, and context.
    By Milena Droumeva & Svitlana Matviyenko
  • PEER audio paper23.08.2023

    Creating grief and lamenting on stage
    This audio paper analyses the emotions of contemporary laments in the context of music and performing arts in Finland, and presents the course of events behind the current practices with audio examples.
    By Viliina Silvonen & Emmi Kuittinen
  • audio essay11.06.2023

    The Environmental Audiotour (ENG)
    © PR
    The 2nd Helsinki Biennial launches on 11th of June. Aarhus University's Critical Environmental Data research group was tasked to write an Environmental Audiotour that narrates the city as energy, as sensing, as multiple histories and imagined futures. We feature the 2nd episode of the tour that features the ruins of an old weather station on the island of Vallisaari, a key curatorial site of the Biennial too.
    By Jussi Parikka, Paolo Patelli & May Ee Wong
  • essay27.10.2022

    Alien Frequencies
    Cover til The Sounds of Earth Record. © Wikimedia Commons
    The mixtape has always been a format with which to swagger and seduce, meant to project both front and vulnerability. How, though, might we interpret a sampler from another star system; what might its effect on us be? A journey with Ziggy Stardust, Yuri Gagarin, afrofuturists and intellectuals from Mars.
    By Ben Carver
  • reportage11.10.2022

    Face it and voice it
    © Alla Zagaykevych
    When you close your eyes to obvious acts of violence and evil, you only allow it to grow says Ukrainian composer Alla Zagaykevych, who believes in electronic music as a radical form of freedom. Reportage from the event »Antifascism - Electronic music from worlds on fire« in Lund, Sweden.
    By Giada Dalla Bontà
  • interview27.08.2022

    »I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«
    © Malin Annie Jansson
    Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?
    By Sune Anderberg