Juliana Hodkinson … It is hard to find a composer or musician today who does not subscribe to the notion that performance is an integral part of the process by which music is formed. Breaking with purely notation-based instrumental concert music in …
Trond Reinholdtsen … The simplest answer to why I, as a composer, have often ended up on stage, as some kind of performer or speaker, in my own pieces – and a reason I suspect several of my colleagues would share – is that it is practical, it is effective …
Else Marie Pade … Så længe mennesket har eksisteret, er der opstået profeter blandt dem, – små som store – indenfor religion, politik, videnskab, kunst, kort sagt repræsenterende hele verdensbilledets brogede mangfoldighed. Desværre eksisterer også …
Kersten Glandien … After the defeat of fascism in 1945, the victors - Russia and its three Western allies, America, France & Britain – split Germany into East and West, separately dividing the former Reich’s capital, Berlin, turning the Western part of …
Henrik Friis … "What happened to the strong position of German modernism in the 90s?” – the editors of Seismograf so straightforwardly asked. Well, besides it being a really comprehensive question – the term ‘German modernism’ covers a vast body of …
Henrik Friis … "What happened to the strong position of German modernism in the 90s?” – the editors of Seismograf so straightforwardly asked to kick of this issue of Seismograf. Well, besides it being a really comprehensive question – the term ‘German …
Søren Møller Sørensen … ’Institutioner komponerer’ er titlen på et af den unge tyske komponist Johannes Kreidlers bidrag til diskussionen af den ny musiks situation i Tyskland. Det er en god titel, der minder os om, at det produktions- og …
Johannes Kreidler … Jeg vil nødig fremme nationalismen. Principielt er jeg modvillig over for projekter af typen ”Ny Musik fra Polen/Canada/Norge/xxx”. Men det er nu engang en kendsgerning, at der findes sproggrænser og nationale kulturpolitikker, og da …
Kersten Glandien … Looking at SoundArt in Berlin today, we find not only an evolved art form, but a unique cultural situation, making this city still one of the worlds most lively SoundArt centres. The history of SoundArt in Berlin is here traced back to …
Ida Habbestad … These words take shape in a Swedish cabin. The summer is unusually warm and with the added heat of the computer screen, my usual discomfort at the beginning of a creative work seems doubled. I give in to this sense of resistance and in the …