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  • 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
    19.04.2022

    During War, We Become All Ears

    © ДСНС України
    About the sounds of war – and the resounding silence that comes with it.
    By Lyubov Morozova
  • 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
  • essay
    10.02.2022

    »Had I run around with the others, would I have become a composer at all?«

    © Soffi Chanchira Larsen
    Sounding Women's Work | Mette Nielsen is occupied finding ways to create space for the small and fragile sounds in the music. She works with both completely traditional scores and more open notations and easy staging of sound.
    By Mette Nielsen
  • essay
    10.02.2022

    Gender, climate and class

    © Lou Mouw
    Sounding Women's Work | Artist couple Ragnhild May and Kristoffer Raasted conceive their common practices flexibly – it is of importance to them that well-established individual practices provide the starting point for the collaborative endeavor. 
    By Ragnhild May & Kristoffer Raasted