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  • essay
    10.02.2022

    From the outside and inside 

    © Anka Bardeleben Photography
    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.
    By Juliana Hodkinson
  • essay
    10.02.2022

    Cyborg mother voices and expanded notions of care

    © Nanna Lysholt Hansen
    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.
    By Nanna Lysholt Hansen
  • essay
    10.02.2022

    »Go with the spontaneous ideas«

    © Luca Berti
    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!«
    By DEAP
  • essay
    18.01.2022

    My body is

    © Jomi
    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.

    By Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen aka Jomi Massage  
  • essay
    23.11.2020

    A song of one’s own

    Young Inuit throat singers in Ottawa, Canada. © Art Babych/Shutterstock.com
    American composer Caroline Shaw drew criticism because she profited on Inuit throat singing, according to singer Tanya Tagaq.
    By Andrew Mellor
  • essay
    12.06.2020

    The hands just carry on by themselves

    Igor Levit. © Felix Broede/Sony Classical
    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.
    By Holger Schulze