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What Is Ambient When Everyone Is Making It?

Three days at a conference on ambient music prompted me to reconsider the genre’s old heroes, its relationship with AI, and its strange journey from niche to ubiquitous background music.

By Kristoffer Møllegaard

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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

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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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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 audio paper03.07

Tinnitus attuning

An ethnographic exploration of aural diversity and how we hear together as sonic citizens

By Marie Gorm Aabo

Samsø Finds a New Sound

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On Samsø, Salad Days makes room for sound art, improvisation, noise and experimental music. The festival’s small scale creates a particular openness – but also leaves the project vulnerable, as it depends on the efforts of a few people.

By Ania Mauruschat

Langgaard Lets His Hair Down

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The Rued Langgaard Festival opened up the composer’s universe to Sweden, visual art and new interpretations of his music. The strongest moments came when Langgaard escaped the familiar confines. The next step must be to bring him further out into Ribe.

By Catja C. Gaebel

Irony Is Not Dead. It Has Just Got Feelings

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For a long time I scoffed at metamodernism. Now it has made the last 30 years of composition music hang together. But it is misleading when music scholars call metamodernism a school.

By Jakob Gustav Winckler

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PulseMix

John Cage’s extremely slow organ work »Organ2/ASLSP« has changed chord once again – this time after two and a half years of waiting 07.08

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Danish composer Sofus Forsberg has died at the age of 56. With his distinctive blend of melodic sensibility, electronic processing and rhythmic precision, he created a musical world that moved effortlessly between IDM, pop and the avant-garde 12.08

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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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Music is the best way for an introvert to express intense emotions at full volume — Echo, Bravo 25.09

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My listening habits are entirely shaped by my mood... and by the musical tastes of my two children, which shift every eight minutes — David Dyrholm 26.09

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For me, music is an opportunity for transformation — Aria Leth Schütze 27.09

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Writer profile Jacob Eriksen

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Lydkunstner, forsker og underviser. Bor i Berlin, hvor han er ph.d.-studerende ved Universität der Künste.