Maya Shenfeld … This past winter, I visited home – Israel – after having lived in Berlin for the last seven years, with the intention of exploring the local contemporary music scene. I was immediately confronted by the constant presence of the everyday …
Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek … Protest, katarsis, kollektiv sorg og undergangsstemning – musikken har altid budt sig til, når tingene brænder på. Nu er den så itu igen, verden. ‘Turmoil’ hed den 19. udgave af Berlins CTM Festival – tummel , opbrud. I …
Lasse D. Hansen … »Hvad vil det sige at komponere? Snak lige et øjeblik med jeres sidemand om det«. Spørgsmålet stilles af Nancy Evans, der er Director of Learning & Participation hos ensemblet Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG). En 8-årig pige …
Jan Stricker … »Jeg er meget optaget af det diskursive niveau i musikken. Det at knytte musikken til verden. Eller samfundet. At have den tro på, at musikken som kunstform er vigtig også i vores tid. Den kan sige os noget, som vanskeligt kan siges på …
Shanti Suki Osman … The various Berlin arts and cultural scenes are experiencing an exciting moment – we are bleeding into each other. Operas are taking place in art galleries (Swan Song at nGbK), panel discussions are taking place on dance floors …
Maya Shenfeld … The differences between the two cities could hardly be greater: the first is an eros-filled bustling megalopolis, cradle of civilisation, currently immersed in one of the most severe financial and social crises the continent has known. …
Maya Shenfeld … A wide spectrum of genres was presented throughout the weekend inviting the audience to travel back in time, from 90s experimental music to industrial techno. The festival's curators Bettina Wackernagel, Mo Loschelder and Sabine Sanio …
Jakob Gustav Winckler … Ambitionen for Struer Tracks er at skabe en tilbagevendende festival i et internationalt format men i en solid lokal forankring. Det er altså både en invitation for lydinteresserede til at komme langvejsfra for at opleve de nyeste …
Andrew Mellor … »I am not paranoid or anything«, said Zeno van den Broek as he introduced his installation Panauditum at Kunsthal Aarhus on the afternoon of Store Bededag, »but it would be nice, in this surveillance society, if we had some awareness of …
Maya Shenfeld … “How can a festival live up to the fact that it is a public, communal, and hence a political space?” this was the question posed by Berno Odo Polzer , artistic director of MaerzMusik, in this year’s editorial note. In times of mass …