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© David Stjernholm / Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde

Sound Is Something We Talk About

Language, monologues and dialogues shape the sound art exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde. Among the many verbal works, it is an insistent humming that strikes me straight in the heart.

By Louise Steiwer

Here, Music Is Allowed to Go Wrong

© Laura Cecilie Krogtoft / Festival of Endless Gratitude

Festival of Endless Gratitude is less a parade of finished works than a living laboratory where musicians are given the freedom to experiment – and to fail.

By Kristoffer Møllegaard

PulsePlaylists

I think music is just the way I perceive and process the world — Raphael Loher 14.10

© Sam Aebi

Music can be like a chocolate-coated marshmallow treat with a surprise inside — Lone Hørslev 14.10

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Music is sort of my outsourced nervous system — Krzysztof Pietraszewski 14.10

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PulseMix

The art music community has lost one of the Nordic region’s most significant producers, curators and cultural leaders 25.09

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Björk takes over Polish marketplace today for secret festival finale 04.10

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Music feels like magic to me / A superior art form in a marketplace / Trying to find an empty space — Late Runner 06.10

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PEER audio paper03.07

Invisible citizens, sonic refugees

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Post-2020 musicalities in Belarus and in exile

By Pavel Niakhayeu & Andrei Vazyanau

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PEER article03.07

Mobile sonic citizenship

Co-sounding the outdoors in Helsinki

By Oleksandra Nenko, Otso Aavanranta, Alejandro Montes de Oca & Dominik Schlienger

PulseIn brief

Mike Sheridan’s fascination with the Cristal Baschet is evident on »Touch«. Less evident is the instrument’s significance for the music that emerges from it — Nikola Nedeljkovic Gøttsche 11.09

© André Hansen

In »Tapias« Francisco Coll conjures up moments of huge harmonic strain and conscious orchestral magnificence — Andrew Mellor 21.09

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An album that is far more restrained in its dramaturgy than previous releases. No less beautiful or inspiring for it — Kristoffer Møllegaard 25.09

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Into the Unknown

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In Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s first opera, the Arctic becomes a landscape for music that moves slowly but contains immense power.

By Andrew Mellor

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© Eoin Carey

When Music Takes You Down the Rabbit Hole

Sonica Glasgow turned sound into massage, sweets into instruments and Serbian folk song into a psychedelic journey. The festival was most convincing when it dared to go all the way to the edge.

By Mathias Monrad Møller

Writer profile Louise Steiwer

Louise Steiwer er uddannet cand. mag. i Kunsthistorie fra Københavns Universitet i 2010. Hun har fungeret som kunstkritiker igennem et årti, har skrevet flere monografier, senest om Apolonia Sokol, og skriver fra grænselandet mellem lyd- og billedkunst.