16. May 2019

Around the world with Seismograf

Seismograf may be located in Denmark, but brilliant music is performed all over the world. Which means we often cover events in places far, far away, as illustrated by this selection of articles.

»For many years I have thought about what the Nordics really are«

Was it just for fun that the world's oldest festival for Nordic contemporary music traveled to Scotland? No, it was an educational journey.

Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek 15. November 2024

Ersan Mondtagn's opera work »Monument eines unbekannten Menschen«. © Thomas Aurin

Head to Venice and Hear Foreign Songs Everywhere

War, refugees, and destruction are inescapable at the Venice Biennale. You can feel it, see it, hear it – it's all-encompassing. Has Venice ever been this filled with sound?

Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek 18. October 2024

»Ist nix für Frauen«

Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.

Giada Dalla Bontà 6. August 2024

Side entrance to the New Music Scene

Slowly the idea of universality is dissolving, experimental music exists everywhere and in every genre – Abbasi, Eizirik and Sanchéz-Chiong in conversation.

Jan Topolski 29. November 2023

Beyond the downward droops – Bent Sørensen in Trondheim

Bent Sørensen was the resident composer at Trondheim Chamber Music Festival 2016. Andrew Mellor writes from Norway.

Andrew Mellor 11. October 2016

Knut Olaf Sunde: ‘Himdalen’. © Henrik Beck Kæmpe

Deep in the Norwegian forest

Norwegian composer Knut Olaf Sunde radically challenged traditional concert practices with a 13-hour immersive performance.

Rose Dodd 27. December 2018

Alex Mørch: ‘Beta-Hex’. © Tine Surel Lange

Maybe we fight, maybe we defend

Are commercial demands starting to influence contemporary music in the Nordic countries? James Black writes from the UNM Festival in Bergen, Norway.

James Black 14. September 2018

Dancing is Political

Review by Maya Shenfeld of MaerzMusik 2017.

Maya Shenfeld 24. April 2017

Hoffnung 3000 – Experimenting with an Anonymous Community

Shanti Suki Osman visited the festival Hoffnung 3000, which took place in Berlin on 24th-26th August.

Shanti Suki Osman 20. September 2017

Borealis 2017: A Joyful Noise

Robert Barry reports on this year’s Borealis festival in Bergen, Norway.

Robert Barry 6. April 2017

Heroines of Sound

Maya Shenfeld reports from debates and concerts at this years Heroines of Sound, 7th-9th July, Radialsystem V, Berlin.

Maya Shenfeld 17. August 2017

Inside the notes: Only Connect 2016

Andrew Mellor reviews the Norwegian equivalent to Copenhagen’s Gong Tomorrow, the Only Connect festival in Oslo.

Andrew Mellor 30. May 2016

Photo: Freddie F. - Lisa Stenberg, concert, KSYME-CMRC, EMS and Fylkingen: Electronic Music from Greece and Sweden, Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

All the in-between spaces

Maya Shenfeld reports from this year's documenta 14.

Maya Shenfeld 3. September 2017