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The British School of Emotionalism and Metamodernism

From irony to sincerity – and back again. On a new metamodern sensibility in British contemporary music.

By Marat Ingeldeev

Five Things I Learned About Love in Bergen

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The Bergen International Festival promised »endless love«. I listened closely – and found it everywhere from medieval madrigals to pop ballads spanning the centuries.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

PulseMix

Marie Dahl's first independent production transforms silk, sugar and sand into refined vocal theatre, but ultimately remains a little too tightly controlled — Louise Steiwer 02.08

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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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PEER article03.07

Arriving, attuning, assembling, and adapting

© Aline Rossi Zara and Lauren Knight (BEEP zine)

Becoming sonic citizens with BEEP zine

By Lauren Knight & Aline Rossi Zara

The old prison Hegningarhúsið. © Áine Mangaoang

PEER audio paper03.07

You are a shining diamond inside

Sonic citizenship at sites of exclusion

By Lucy Cathcart Frödén & Áine Mangaoang

Out of Utopias and Down to Earth

© Peter Troest

From Old Testament wisdom and hippie dreams of community to erotic nightclub atmospheres and dark, rumbling techno. Roskilde Festival 2026 is a wild ride through eras, genres and mental geographies – and a good place to practise carrying dreams carefully through the extreme conditions of our time.

By Rasmus Steffensen

PulsePlaylists

What music is to me? Where have the great feelings gone? — Gellért Szabó 06.08

© Robin Lambrecht

Music for me is my hobby, my job, my outlet, my mood — Tue Track 11.08

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I love how music allows you to skip the small talk and connect directly with people’s innermost selves — Fenja 21.08

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PulseIn brief

Dreijer’s music believes in ecstasy as a gentle experience. It is music meant for dancing, yet somehow shy at the very thought of celebration — Nikola Nedeljkovic Gøttsche 25.05

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At CC Taste, Søren Kjærgaard, Kresten Osgood and Christian Lillinger turned the restaurant into a stage for free improvisation, everyday noise and anti-furniture music — Kristoffer Møllegaard 08.07

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Lotte Anker and Fred Frith met in a performance where stoic calm and frenetic guitar work fused into free improvisation of both weight and beauty — Kristoffer Møllegaard 09.07

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Oh, to Lose Yourself in Moers

© Dennis Hoeren

The German Moers Festival is no longer primarily a jazz festival, but a curated laboratory for free improvisation, sound art, compositional music, and political absurdism. At times it feels forced. Most of the time, it is liberating.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

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Writer profile Sébastien Doubinsky

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Sébastien Doubinsky er lektor i Fransk sprog, litteratur og kultur på Aarhus Universitet.

Han er også anerkendt tosproget forfatter og digter. Hans dystopiske roman Missing Signal (Meerkat Press) vandt Bronze Foreword Reviews Award i kategorien Best Science-Fiction Novel i 2018.