Henrik Marstal
About Henrik Marstal
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essay20.08.2024
Another Day, Another Rediscovery of Else Marie Pade
A good twenty years after the first rediscovery of Else Marie Pade as an electronic pioneer, she is now being branded as a visionary acoustic composer. It seems we never get tired of rewriting the story of this special artist – and writing ourselves into it. -
reportage09.11.2011
Klangrum
”Voices, noises and choices” var mottoet for dette års nu veloverståede Wundergrund-festival, og det var der da sandt nok også rigeligt af. Men hvad der nok så meget kendetegnede festivalen var musikkens gåen i clinch med såvel visuelle medier som det omgivende rum. Rasmus Steffensen anmelder.
By Henrik Marstal
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playlist20.10
My name is Henrik Marstal – would you like to see my playlist?
Who ever said that music is »just« music? To me, it is anything but that: an urge to understand and explain it all. A piece of jewelry I wear every single day -
in brief07.06
Deadly Serious Play at Louisiana
Simon Steen-Andersen’s portrait concert at Louisiana was an overwhelming encounter between grotesque humour, video art, and brutal reality. -
review04.06
In a Forest Without a Path
Niels Rønsholdt’s new music-theatre work »Osmosis« creates a compelling universe of inverted trees, yearning voices, and rock-inflected asceticism. Yet the work’s central idea remains elusive.
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review11.05
In the Silence Between Voices
Marina Abramović, Miranda July and Laurie Anderson explore sound, body and absence at Nørrebro Teater – but only one work truly transforms emptiness into experience. -
review26.04
Verdi in the War Zone
SØS Gunver Ryberg blows Verdi apart from within in a fierce and sensuous Jeanne d’Arc, where the beauty of opera collides with the noise of war and the fractures of the present. -
interview21.04
A Dance with the Site-Specific: Simon Steen-Andersen at 50
The Danish composer turns architecture, body, and context into part of the work – challenging our notions of what music is and how we experience it.
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review17.04
In the Shadow of Pärt
Estonian Music Days revealed a musical culture caught between tradition, renewal, and a restless world.
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review15.03
What Happens When the Mainstream Falls Short?
Marina Abramović lets herself be murdered, burned, and thrown to her death in »Seven Deaths« at the Cisterns – but the operatic canon voiced by Maria Callas tempers the radicality that has otherwise carried her art through an entire lifetime.
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in brief13.03
Cello Among Cows and a Love of Music
Katrine Philp’s documentary »A Classical Life« is therefore warmly recommended – not only to parents of musically inclined children, but to anyone interested in music -
interview24.12
A Case for Simplicity
The Taiwanese-Danish percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen explores the world’s smallest sounds – from red deer bones to roof tiles – in her pursuit of a music that is both ancient, courageous, and radically simple. -
in brief18.10.2025
One Tone, Eight Breaths, and the Sound of Waiting
At Betty Nansen Theatre, Louise Alenius and Elisa Kragerup turn Selma Lagerlöf’s tragic tale into a haunting meditation on sound, silence and longing. -
in brief28.09.2025
Steel Forks and Silken Script
»George Benjamin’s modern classic unfolds on the Old Stage as both a brutal love story and a musical paradox, where violent noise meets transparent silence.«