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Dreams, Noise and Apple Crunch in Stavanger 

The Only Connect festival in Stavanger transformed the city into a landscape of noise, poetry and bodily vibrations.

Af
  • Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
30. Juni 2025
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Tsujimura Kazuko at Catastrophe Art, 1972. © Photographer unknown
kritik

Disappearing Acts: The Resurrection of Tsujimura

Katsuko Tsujimura sought to dissolve the body in postwar Japan. Now, new voices are gently piecing it back together.

Af
  • Louise Steiwer
29. Juni 2025
© Eivind Lauritzen / Galleri F 15
kritik

»Oops, We Walked Past the Artwork« – the Hidden Presences of Sound Art in Moss

The MOMENTUM biennial in Moss, Norway lets sound art speak, guiding the audience into the borderlands of the senses – where even a toilet resonates like an echo chamber.

Af
  • Therese Wiwe Vilmar
24. Juni 2025

Kortkritik

© Rui Camilo

Kristine Tjøgersen Crafts Unreasonably Beautiful Eco-Poetry

»Natural sounds, imitations of nature, harmonies, and entire sequences are simply building blocks in her personal experimental lab. And what a lab it is!«

Kortkritik

© Malthe Ivarsson

When the Experiment Becomes Tragically Beautiful

»Tungemål dares to experiment without drowning itself out.«

Kortkritik

© PR

The Ever-Changing Waters Of the Mind

»It certainly doesn’t break any ambient conventions – but it’s a pleasure to be swept away nonetheless.«

Peer

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Sounds of Science

6 April 2021 – Our new peer-reviewed special edition on composition, recording and listening as laboratory practice. Ten audio papers, two in-depth articles and an introduction by editors Henrik Frisk and Sanne Krogh Groth.

‘Every time we listen to music or make music, we are at the same time creating social relations or socialities’

Gender and social relations in New Music: Tackling the octopus
A conversation with Georgina Born

Collection

Marcela Lucatelli. © Marcela Lucatelli

Meet the composers

Some of them are just getting started. Others are well-established names on the international scene. But what are their thoughts on the music they create and the world they live in? Read a selection of our most interesting pieces on composers and composing.

Guide

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My name is Sven Helbig – would you like to see my playlist?

»Every moment is nothing but the uttermost end of the past. Music makes this edge wide and beautiful.«

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Female Composers in 20th-century Electronic Music

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On the Typical, the Indistinct and the Impersonal in the Sonic Arts, Media and Auditory Culture

About

Seismograf

Welcome to Seismograf

Seismograf is an independent Danish web magazine focusing on the newest developments within the arts of sound. On this page you will find our most recent English-language content as well as collections on selected topics. Want to know more about Seismograf? Then go on and scroll down to the bottom of this page.

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Around the world with Seismograf

Seismograf may be located in Denmark, but brilliant music is performed all over the world. Which means we often cover events in places far, far away, as illustrated by this selection of articles.

Kortkritik

Yanling. © Christian Neuenschwander

The Perfect Storm

»Over time, the album grows into a brilliant piece of contemporary art, only suffering from slightly too perfect production and somewhat grandiose gestures.«

Essays

Barents Spektakel. © Nima Taheri

2024: An Earful of Chaos 

Chaotic times call for chaotic music. But also soft techno, flutists and yoga balls. Jennifer Gersten and Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek wrap up the musical year in a conversation between New York and Aarhus.
Jennifer Gersten 29. december 2024
Valentina Goncharova. © Shukai / Quietus

Gender, Canon, and Eastern European Women Pioneers of 20th-century Electronic Music

Feminist readings of 20th-century electronic music history cannot avoid questioning the notion of canon and canon-oriented historiographical practices. Shedding light on women composers from non-Western contexts can further come in handy in searching for ways to engage with the history of gender in music beyond mainstreaming and the rhetoric of exceptionalism.
Marta Beszterda van Vliet 24. november 2024
© Lisbeth Damgaard

Another day, another rediscovery of Else Marie Pade

A good twenty years after the first rediscovery of Else Marie Pade as an electronic pioneer, she is now being branded as a visionary acoustic composer. It seems we never get tired of rewriting the story of this special artist – and writing ourselves into it.
Sune Anderberg 20. august 2024
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Death and Masochism

Efterskrift enjoy the discomfort of pleasure postponed or expressed through the pain of the feeling of something missing. At the new festival MINU, the Aarhus-based ensemble will perform a concert with a simple message: everything good is allowed to die.
Macon Holt 4. november 2022
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Actual Friends, Making New Maps from the Future

How do you make sense in a world filled with tragedy, grief and institutional control? In their work for MINU festival composer Conor McLean and performer Nikolaus von Bemberg turn to Charlie Kaufman’s film, »Synechdoche, New York« for answers.
Macon Holt 4. november 2022
Cover til The Sounds of Earth Record. ©  Wikimedia Commons

Alien Frequencies

The mixtape has always been a format with which to swagger and seduce, meant to project both front and vulnerability. How, though, might we interpret a sampler from another star system; what might its effect on us be? A journey with Ziggy Stardust, Yuri Gagarin, afrofuturists and intellectuals from Mars.
Ben Carver 27. Oktober 2022
© Laura Toxværd

»My pregnant body changed things – composing with the process«

Sounding Women's Work | In a situation where the gender balance is skewed in favor of men, it takes action to change the balance so no one has a special advantage, says composer, saxophonist and author Laura Toxværd. 
Laura Toxværd 25. Maj 2022
© Eget værelse

On stage we are four bodies

Sounding Women's Work | Meshes is a performance groupe with drummers and dancers. They work with the relation between body and sound and investigates how the movement of the body can be translated into a score for a drum set, and how the sound of a drum set can be translated into a score for movement.
Meshes 10. Februar 2022
© Soffi Chanchira Larsen

»Had I run around with the others, would I have become a composer at all?«

Sounding Women's Work | Mette Nielsen is occupied finding ways to create space for the small and fragile sounds in the music. She works with both completely traditional scores and more open notations and easy staging of sound.
Mette Nielsen 10. Februar 2022

Reviews

 © Carlos H. Juica

Dreams, Noise and Apple Crunch in Stavanger 

The Only Connect festival in Stavanger transformed the city into a landscape of noise, poetry and bodily vibrations.
Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek 30. Juni 2025
Tsujimura Kazuko at Catastrophe Art, 1972. © Photographer unknown

Disappearing Acts: The Resurrection of Tsujimura

Katsuko Tsujimura sought to dissolve the body in postwar Japan. Now, new voices are gently piecing it back together.
Louise Steiwer 29. Juni 2025
© Eivind Lauritzen / Galleri F 15

»Oops, We Walked Past the Artwork« – the Hidden Presences of Sound Art in Moss

The MOMENTUM biennial in Moss, Norway lets sound art speak, guiding the audience into the borderlands of the senses – where even a toilet resonates like an echo chamber.
Therese Wiwe Vilmar 24. Juni 2025
© Alexander Banck-Petersen

Klang has Come of Age – and Dares to Be Solemn

This year’s edition of Copenhagen’s festival for new music embraced sonic rituals, cultural encounters, and performances with loops, bodies, and cassette tapes – and featured French musicians playing as if sound itself could change the world.
Henrik Friis 18. Juni 2025
© Stella Olivier

The World is Leaking – and Art Picks Up the Drops

At the Bergen International Festival, William Kentridge and Ryoji Ikeda let art capture what can no longer be said – only felt.
Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek 15. Juni 2025
© Nelly Rodriguez

When the Past Begins to Make Noise Again

At Geneva’s Archipel Festival, lost instruments and occult soundscapes are brought to life in a journey through speculative rituals and experimental music.
Anna Ullman 5. Juni 2025
Anke Eckardt: »Moreth Anhuman«, Heizhaus. © David Häuser

The Hunt for Sound Installations in Nuremberg

From seductive echoes in an abandoned yeast factory to allergy-inducing angel wings in a baroque church – Musik Installationen Nürnberg put the body in motion, but left the question of what a music installation truly is unanswered.
Rasmus Weirup 3. Juni 2025
© Spor Festival

Spor Festival at Twenty: the Eternal Play of Sound

From giant flutes to performative rituals – the anniversary edition of the Aarhus-based festival unfolded the materiality of sound and musical collaboration in new forms.
Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen 2. Juni 2025
© Rene Jakobson

Estonians can truly compose – especially for voice

Estonian Music Days revealed how a young, vocally attuned community of composers in the small country between Finland and Russia combines historical depth with freedom, resonance, and intimacy.
Jeppe Rönnow 31. Maj 2025

Interviews

© CPH:DOX / Katrine Thude

From Darkness to Magic: Warren Ellis and the Journey Toward the Light

After a brutal depression, Warren Ellis returns with renewed strength – and deep gratitude. The 60-year-old Australian multi-instrumentalist opens up about pain, love, animals, creativity, and Nina Simone’s sacred chewing gum.
Peter Albrechtsen 15. Maj 2025
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The Useless Hell

In the musical theater performance »Calls to this number are being diverted« Matthew Grouse puts the absurd working life of late modernity under the microscope.
Henrik Marstal 16. Januar 2024
© Kristof Lemp

Side entrance to the New Music Scene

Slowly the idea of universality is dissolving, experimental music exists everywhere and in every genre – Abbasi, Eizirik and Sanchéz-Chiong in conversation.
Jan Topolski 29. november 2023
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UKRAiNATV – the future starts here

They mix art, activism and technology to create a dialogue across Europe. Meet the internet TV project UKRAiNATV, featured at Unsound 2023.
Giada Dalla Bontà 5. Oktober 2023
© Denys Tsybulko

»We love to talk about solidarity«

The problem is not a lack of interest in Eastern Europe, but in a scarcity of access to its narratives and perspectives, says Ukrainian writer and curator Mariana Berezovska ahead of Unsound Festival 2023.
Giada Dalla Bontà 2. Oktober 2023
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»I love freedom and I know why«

For months Ukrainian born composer and sound artist Katarina Gryvul didn't force herself to write, as she didn't want to associate war with music. It all changed: »An artist cannot be out of politics now«.
Marta Konieczna 1. december 2022
Hania Rani. © Martyna Galla

»I can’t kill anybody with my profession« 

It took Hania Rani many years to acknowledge that she feels much more comfortable in a music other than classical music. However, it lives – like a heavy rucksack – in the Polish artist's piano music, which is allowed to be called poppy. Now she is visiting Copenhagen and the new borderless music festival Resonator in Odense.
Mathias Monrad Møller 3. november 2022
© Malin Annie Jansson

»I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«

Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?
Sune Anderberg 27. august 2022
© Tom Ingvardsen

Oil, Opera and the history that haunts us

Niels Rønsholdt's new work, »The Last Rites«, is a pessimistic satire on human nature. The opera takes place in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink, so the audience can feel the cold mechanics of desire and the growing chaos on our planet. Do we really need winter all year round?
Macon Holt 23. august 2022

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Seismograf is supported by
The Danish Arts Foundation, The Danish Composers’ Society/Koda Culture and The Independent Research Fund Denmark.