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  • essay
    20.02.2022

    My Body Is

    Sounding Women’s Work | She composes and performs across artistic genres – as JOMI, Jomi Massage and in the band Speaker Bite Me. The experimental artist, vocalist, guitarist, pianist and writer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen has for years taken part in the debates of her time. Here is a long poem about gender and yes, no, maybe.
    By Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen
  • 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
    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
  • essay
    26.03.2020

    Nature won’t protect you anymore

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    Nature seems to have turned on us. That shows in Nordic contemporary music with sonic tales of decay, apocalypse, and protest.
    By Andrew Mellor
  • essay
    04.09.2018

    Memorials of grief: Music after 9/11

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    Essay by Tim Rutherford-Johnson on the musical responses to an incomprehensible historical event.
    By Tim Rutherford-Johnson