review26.05.2025
An Operatic Vision Lost in Translation
Bent Sørensen’s new operatic collaboration with Jon Fosse falls short of what it might have been.
Perspective
what we immerse ourselves in
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review24.05.2025
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. -
reportage20.05.2025
The Darkness Speaks in Tones
In Reykjavík, snow falls sideways, and sorrowful reindeer sing. Dark Music Days unfolds the winter darkness in experimental tones where silence and noise meet – and even a harp made of yarn tells stories. -
comment16.05.2025
The Anti-Heroes Take the Stage – And It Suits Spot
The 30th edition of Spot Festival became a sonic laboratory and cultural mirror, where experimentation, genre-defying music, and raw emotional intensity were given free rein.
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reportage08.05.2025
Tallinn Calling: When Jazz Strikes a Nerve
At the Jazzkaar Festival in Tallinn, improvisation and reflection meet in a landscape shaped by historical fault lines, westward gazes, and hopes for the future. -
mindeord06.05.2025
The Real in the Illusion – In Memory of Peter Ablinger
Peter Ablinger has died. Yet his work continues to open our senses to the impossible: to hear hearing itself. -
review02.04.2025
Punk is Dead and Opera is Not Feeling Well Either
Damon Albarn’s Mozart spin-off »The Magic Flute II« is replete with synths and spectacle, but does it truly capture opera’s essence – or merely its aesthetics?
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review26.03.2025
Who said that simplicity should be simple?
Three albums with music for string quartet – and the likes – by Jürg Frey, Simon Christensen, and Anders Lauge Meldgaard each approach musical simplicity in their own way. But they aim for entirely different things with it. -
review25.03.2025
When Sound Becomes Body and Struggle
»Bodies of Sound« gathers reflections from women and non-binary individuals on sound as experience, strategy, and resistance. This book should be read by anyone interested in sound as something beyond just music. -
reportage11.03.2025
How Does Hope Sound in Minus 30 Degrees?
They have a bivouac, a couple of churches and a cultural festival – in northern Norway, Kirkenes, people are prepared if the worst happens.