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  • essay
    19.12

    2025 Between Straw and Signal

    A dialogue on listening, loss and resonance across Poland, Germany, UK and Denmark.
    By Ed Cooper, Małgorzata Heinrich, Bastian Zimmermann & Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
  • essay
    04.08

    Shoes For People Who Don’t Like Music

    An anti-anthem for those who fall asleep at concerts and wake up with Cage talking nonsense.
    By Douglas Kahn
  • essay
    29.11.2024

    2024: An Earful of Chaos 

    Barents Spektakel. © Nima Taheri
    Chaotic times call for chaotic music. But also soft techno, flutists and yoga balls. Jennifer Gersten and Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek wrap up the musical year in a conversation between New York and Aarhus.
    By Jennifer Gersten & Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
  • essay
    20.08.2024

    Another day, another rediscovery of Else Marie Pade

    © Lisbeth Damgaard
    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.
    By Sune Anderberg
  • essay
    27.10.2022

    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
  • essay
    10.02.2022

    On stage we are four bodies

    © Eget værelse
    Sounding Women's Work | Meshes is a performance groupe with drummers and dancers. They work with the relation between body and sound and investigates how the movement of the body can be translated into a score for a drum set, and how the sound of a drum set can be translated into a score for movement.
    By Meshes