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When Music Stopped Explaining Itself

Klang Festival was at its strongest when the works spoke directly to the body rather than to the programme notes. Not everything succeeded, but this year's festival was willing to take risks.

By Agnete Seerup

While Europe's Jazz Searches for New Languages

© Urmo Männi

At Jazzkaar, international stars are no longer the main attraction. Instead, the festival offers a glimpse of an Estonian scene in the process of shaping its own musical identity.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

PulseIn brief

On »Poetics of a New Estate«, Soli City dissolves the boundary between the acoustic and the digital — Martin Funder 19.06

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Simon Steen-Andersen’s portrait concert at Louisiana was an overwhelming encounter between grotesque humour, video art, and brutal reality — Henrik Marstal 07.06

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Yet another fascinating piece in the puzzle of Preisaitė’s singular oeuvre — Kristoffer Møllegaard 29.05

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In a Forest Without a Path

© Mathias Broe

Niels Rønsholdt’s new music-theatre work »Osmosis« creates a compelling universe of inverted trees, yearning voices, and rock-inflected asceticism. Yet the work’s central idea remains elusive.

By Henrik Marstal

From Coal Dust to Sound Art

© Sophia Hegewald

Contemporary music is still alive – but often despite its own obsession with complexity and endless duration. That became clear at the festivals in Witten and Cologne.

By Jeppe Rönnow

PulsePlaylists

Music to me is movement, trance, transformation. The rest I won't tell you — Marcela Lucatelli 14.05

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Music for me remembers — Håkon Guttormsen 09.06

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Music, for us, is a fusion of different consciousnesses into a single shared focal point — Selvhenter 18.06

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In the Silence Between Voices

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Marina Abramović, Miranda July and Laurie Anderson explore sound, body and absence at Nørrebro Teater – but only one work truly transforms emptiness into experience.

By Henrik Marstal

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PulseMix

»Music, to me, is the key to – and an extension of – my vocabulary.« — Katrine Muff 06.10

Katrine Muff. © Ditte Capion

Simon Littauer’s AI project »Slopcore« may sound familiar. That is precisely the point — Thomas Bøgevald Bjørnsten 21.05

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Søren Kjærgaard and Kresten Osgood take over a Chinese restaurant during Copenhagen Jazz Festival 22.06

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In Aarhus, Music Refused to Stay in Its Lane

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While the industry talked about AI and formats, it was the bodily, fragile, and defiant musical experiences that lingered at Spot 2026.

By Therese Wiwe Vilmar

Archipel Festival 2026. ©Kenza Wadimoff

Longing for Plural Listening

At the Archipel Festival, listening became both a sensory experience and a political question.

By Wioleta Zochowska

Writer profile Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek. © Kåre Viemose

Editor-in-Chief of Seismograf since 2021 and music critic at Kristeligt Dagblad. Has written for a wide range of Danish and international media, including The Quietus (UK), Positionen (DE), MINT Magazine and Jazz Forum (PL), Neural (IT), Raw Vision (UK), and Kunstkritikk. Co-author (with Lars Muhl) of HVA’ SAA! En guides rutsjebanetur gennem Aarhus – før, nu og i fremtiden, and contributor to Man skal høre meget – an anthology on music criticism.