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  • interview
    27.08.2022

    »I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«

    © Malin Annie Jansson
    Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?
    By Sune Anderberg
  • interview
    23.08.2022

    Oil, Opera and the history that haunts us

    © Tom Ingvardsen
    Niels Rønsholdt's new work, »The Last Rites«, is a pessimistic satire on human nature. The opera takes place in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink, so the audience can feel the cold mechanics of desire and the growing chaos on our planet. Do we really need winter all year round?
    By Macon Holt
  • 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
  • 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

    »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