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essay10.02.2022
From the outside and inside
Sounding Women's Work | »It's not a choice whether I want to relate to my gender and my body in my work – the outside world has decided that it is a theme,« says British-Danish Juliana Hodkinson, who does not have much of a romantic approach to composing and accepts the truth of the sketch.
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essay10.02.2022
Cyborg mother voices and expanded notions of care
Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | Nanna Lysholt Hansen reflects on her live performance »Dear Daughter/Sen_sing_inannainanna (Russ, Shiva, Klein)« using her voice to perform mothering towards strangers on a bus while sharing, by mantra singing, eco-feminist thought on the necessity of caring for others in times of planetary crisis.
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essay10.02.2022
»Go with the spontaneous ideas«
Sounding Women's Work | DEAP – Aske Zidore & Pernille Zidore Nygaard – work in the cross field between gender, technologies and sound. The artist couple remember to challenge and push each other, so it is not only safe: »Go with the spontaneous ideas – also the children's!« -
essay18.01.2022
My body is
Sounding Women's Work | She composes and performs across all genres in art – as JOMI, Jomi Massage and in the band Speaker Bite Me. For years the experimental artist, vocalist, guitarist, pianist and writer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen has been active in debates of the time. Here is a long poem about gender and yes, no, maybe.
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essay23.11.2020
A song of one’s own
American composer Caroline Shaw drew criticism because she profited on Inuit throat singing, according to singer Tanya Tagaq. -
essay12.06.2020
The hands just carry on by themselves
Two weeks ago, the German pianist Igor Levit took on an iconic marathon piece, fundamentally changing his own conditions as well as the listener’s.