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Here, Music Is Allowed to Go Wrong

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

When Music Takes You Down the Rabbit Hole

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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

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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Mobile sonic citizenship

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Co-sounding the outdoors in Helsinki

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

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PEER audio paper03.07

Invisible citizens, sonic refugees

Post-2020 musicalities in Belarus and in exile

By Pavel Niakhayeu & Andrei Vazyanau

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Everything Makes Noise. Then Comes Silence

The Oslo-based contemporary music festival Ultima taught me that in a world where everything makes noise, silence can be the most radical expression of all. Perhaps we should send Ed Sheeran to Norway for a study trip?

By Louise Steiwer

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

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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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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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I cannot sing, nor can I play an instrument, but I can listen – as a happy amateur — Mikkel Krause Frantzen 02.10

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For me, music is an opportunity for transformation — Aria Leth Schütze 02.10

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I think music is just the way I perceive and process the world — Raphael Loher 06.10

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Writer profile Jacob Eriksen

Jacob Eriksen. © Jacob Eriksen

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