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essay20.02.2022
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. -
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!« -
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. -
essay26.03.2020
Nature won’t protect you anymore
Nature seems to have turned on us. That shows in Nordic contemporary music with sonic tales of decay, apocalypse, and protest. -
essay04.09.2018
Memorials of grief: Music after 9/11
Essay by Tim Rutherford-Johnson on the musical responses to an incomprehensible historical event.