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Intervals

The sounds of weavers, longing, missing and tenderness

Af
  • Yujin Jung 
2. Juni 2022

The audio paper Intervals invites listeners to dwell into the story of women working and weaving hemp burial garment sambe in South Korea. The myth in sambe that is orally conveyed until now-time – like the author’s grandmother believed – is regarded that if you have the burial garment sambe when you are alive, you have a long life and die in peace. 

The author asked Sunhee, one of the women producing sambe, what it means to have and wear sambe and why it is important for them. Sunhee said: 

»We come to the earth, we are born into this world. 

We will, one day, go back to where we come from which we call it death. 

When we die, we should not leave anything behind, 

our body has to completely decompose. 

Read more
© Laura Toxværd
essay

»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. 

Af
  • Laura Toxværd
25. Maj 2022
© Anders Witt
Peer-reviewed article

Sensory Concert

An analysis of a sensory concert and its challenge of the gendered stage.

Af
  • Marie Koldkjær Højlund,
  • Anne-Sofie Udsen
2. Juni 2022

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Sounding Women's Work II

»You look like 50% of the world's population, but are professionalised as a minority« – peer reviewed academic articles and audio papers on gender, technology and infrastructure in Nordic sound art and experimental music.

Kortkritik

© April Records

Exhilarating

»Very highly recommended to all those who thought the free jazz had become a rotting corpse feeding on itself.«

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.

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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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Sounding Women's Work I (ENGLISH)

»You look like 50% of the world's population, but are professionalised as a minority« – 12 essays about gender, technology and infrastructure in Nordic sound art and experimental music.

‘When faced with the attacks of September 11, music’s normal modes of commemoration and memorial fractured’

Memorials of grief: Music after 9/11
An essay by Tim Rutherford-Johnson

Collection

Trond Reinholdtsen: ‘Ø – Episode 6’. © Grzegorz Mart

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.

Essays

© 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
© Lou Mouw

Gender, climate and class

Sounding Women's Work | Artist couple Ragnhild May and Kristoffer Raasted conceive their common practices flexibly – it is of importance to them that well-established individual practices provide the starting point for the collaborative endeavor. 
Ragnhild May & Kristoffer Raasted 10. Februar 2022
© Måske bare musik

Maybe Just Music

Sounding Women's Work – AUDIO ESSAY | »We find it problematic to articulate the feminist elements in our work directly,« say Sara Willemoes Thomsen and Kim Sandra Rask from the band Måske bare musik (Maybe Just Music), who make sound drawings with kids instruments and tools.
Måske bare musik 10. Februar 2022
© Sara Laub

»What do you mean when you say feminine?«

Sounding Women's Work | »The terms feminine and masculine are used as if we all understand what they represent,« says Anja Jacobsen from the band Selvhenter and member of rehearsal place Mayhem.
Anja Jacobsen 10. Februar 2022
© Peter Gannushkin

Hopefully we take a risk

Sounding Women's Work | Everything is entangled – freedom and discipline, conscious and unconscious. For Lotte Anker walking in to the tones a fascinating learning process, and it's necessary to step into the unknown.
Lotte Anker 10. Februar 2022
© Rune Svenningsen

Resonance and personality 

Sounding Women's Work | »For the last thousands of years, it has been difficult to see or hear women. I hope that will change in the next many thousands of years to come, so that there is room for both men and women - and all other definitions of gender,« says Danish-American composer Lil Lacy.
Lil Lacy 10. Februar 2022
© Anka Bardeleben Photography

From the outside and inside 

Sounding Women's Work | »It's not a choice whether I want to relate to my gender and my body in my work – the outside world has decided that it is a theme,« says British-Danish Juliana Hodkinson, who does not have much of a romantic approach to composing and accepts the truth of the sketch.
Juliana Hodkinson 10. Februar 2022

Reviews

© Frankie Casillo

It is impressed in the body

After a long hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic, Berlin Atonal has opened the gates of Kraftwerk to the public for the first time. As limitations to collective events endure, the new project Metabolic Rift includes, in addition to the live performances, an exhibition aiming to elicit individual experience with intense stimuli. The exposition presents a convincing curatorial approach to sound, exalting its sensorial qualities and proposing an inspiring model to work with the aural and its (im-)materiality in the context of art exhibitions.
Giada Dalla Bontà 11. december 2021
Sofie Birch and My Lambertsen. © Peter Følsgaard

Beyond the ASMR phenomenon

At the Academy for Open Listening, Sofie Birch and My Lambertsen set out a new direction for the ASMR genre.
Alifiyah Imani 8. december 2020
Mathias Monrad Møller. © Gerald Geerink

One man, one mission

Mathias Monrad Møller showed us an exciting creative vision at his official debut concert as singer and composer – a vision overshadowing dull questions of mere skill.
Andrew Mellor 26. Oktober 2020
Neko3 in front of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra at Pulsar Festival 2020. © Britt Lindemann

The system needs to change

Pulsar Festival 2020 took place under the shadow of Marcela Lucatelli’s ‘RGBW’. It’s time for a critical look at the systems of power.
James Black 31. Marts 2020
© Agsandrew/Shutterstock.com

A difficult beast to tame

With ‘Víddir’, a 60-minute composition of light and darkness, the Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir demonstrated the breadth of her imagination.
Andrew Mellor 25. Februar 2020
Marcela Lucatelli. © Caroline Bittencourt

Chaos reigns

Madness and humour coexisted on stage as Marcela Lucatelli completed her composition studies in Copenhagen.
Andrew Mellor 4. december 2019
2019 festival poster graphics. © Angela Bulloch/SWR

Future on repeat

For a festival that prides itself on its all-premieres programming, the 2019 Donaueschinger Musiktage felt more than a little stale.
James Black 27. november 2019
The 2019 festival poster. © UNM Sweden

The impossible festival

The Young Nordic Music festival, one of the most impossible festivals in the world, is also one of the most enlightening ones.
James Black 7. Oktober 2019
© Malthe Folke Ivarsson

Gold fever and infernal machines

Simon Løffler’s personality shines through while Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard’s conceptual gold piece rings hollow at Gong Tomorrow.
James Black 20. november 2018

Interviews

Katarina Gryvul. © Nika Gargol

Three Artists. One Hope

Three snapshots from three different lives: Kateryna Zavoloka, Katarina Gryvul and Boris Filanovsky. All work with music, their countries are at war, and they condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They have not met each other and the article consists of three unique interviews with Seismograf. None of them see themselves as political artists, but they do believe that it is a human duty to speak out and fight back when the leader of one's homeland orders war against the other two's homelands. 
Julie Hugsted 9. Marts 2022
© Museum of Portable Sound

»I want to examine sound's relationship with as much of the world as possible«

The sound of Freud’s toilet in Wienna, Andy Warhol in the supermarket, and the first pirated mp3 ever – Museum of Portable Sound collects and exhibits sound as cultural objects. And the sounds in the collections are only accessible from curator John Kannenberg’s iPhone 4S.
Julie Hugsted 24. Januar 2022
© Willa Wathne

All Tomorrow's Music

One of Europe’s oldest contemporary music festivals comes to Aarhus. We profile Ung Nordisk Musik, which is as ageless as Madonna and contains Icelandic vulgarities from 1612.
James Black 6. august 2021
Mikkel Schou. © Zuhal Kocan

‘We don’t have the same aspirations at all’

Guitarist Mikkel Schou prefers the brand-new music composed today; his upcoming Debut Concert is a ‘thanks, but no thanks’ to institutional forces of habit.
Andrew Mellor 8. Marts 2021
Christian Winther Christensen. © Mette Kramer Kristensen

‘I wanted to be radical’

Instruments struggle to voice themselves in the music of Christian Winther Christensen. His focus on small sounds and deep concentration is a perfect match for a time of silenced soundscapes.
Andrew Mellor 2. Juni 2020
Neko3. © Konsfoto

‘Things are very anarchistic right now’

Neko3 is one of the most visionary ensembles at a moment where the contemporary music scene is changing rapidly.
Andrew Mellor 13. Februar 2020
Daníel Bjarnason. © Saga Sig

‘The hardest thing is to trust your material’

Daníel Bjarnason’s new piece requires no less than three conductors. A result of the omnipresent Reykjavik school?
Andrew Mellor 16. september 2019
Marta Śniady. © Marta Śniady

‘I really wanted to write a pop love song’

Polish composer Marta Śniady is set to finish her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. Recently, her works have embraced video and pop music.
James Black 3. Juni 2019
Ragnhild May. © Hajime Kato

‘I need to believe it myself’

Ragnhild May works in a chameleon-like way. James Black takes her to yoga class in this final interview with young ‘composer/performers’.
James Black 3. april 2019

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