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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.
Music feels like magic to me / A superior art form in a marketplace / Trying to find an empty space
Music is not just sounds, but a vain attempt to capture the infinite, which has always been and always will be.
For me, music is an opportunity for transformation
I cannot sing, nor can I play an instrument, but I can listen – as a happy amateur
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?
In Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s first opera, the Arctic becomes a landscape for music that moves slowly but contains immense power.
My listening habits are entirely shaped by my mood... and by the musical tastes of my two children, which shift every eight minutes
An album that is far more restrained in its dramaturgy than previous releases. No less beautiful or inspiring for it
Music is the best way for an introvert to express intense emotions at full volume
Three days at a conference on ambient music prompted me to reconsider the genre’s old heroes, its relationship with AI, and its strange journey from niche to ubiquitous background music.
Music is the best way to discover myself and understand the world around me
In »Tapias« Francisco Coll conjures up moments of huge harmonic strain and conscious orchestral magnificence
On Samsø, Salad Days makes room for sound art, improvisation, noise and experimental music. The festival’s small scale creates a particular openness – but also leaves the project vulnerable, as it depends on the efforts of a few people.
For us, music is a passion, a livelihood, and a focal point for us and our best friends in the band
The Rued Langgaard Festival opened up the composer’s universe to Sweden, visual art and new interpretations of his music. The strongest moments came when Langgaard escaped the familiar confines. The next step must be to bring him further out into Ribe.
To me, music is humanity, community, a smile, a conversation, a moment, an eternity
For a long time I scoffed at metamodernism. Now it has made the last 30 years of composition music hang together. But it is misleading when music scholars call metamodernism a school.
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
Cosmic radiation passes through our bodies without us ever noticing. In a new exhibition, Christian Skjødt Hasselstrøm attempts to make this invisible stream tangible through sound, light and space.
Music is my life. It has accompanied me all the way and given me experiences, friendships and opportunities that I could never have imagined
Copenhagen Opera Festival has broadened the reach of opera while making it more experimental under Amy Lane. But when bold projects fail to find their form, the courage to experiment can tip into gimmickry.
Music is, to us, a kind of closed club of nepotism, networking and Copenhagen cowboy energy
On three new albums by Sofie Birch, Tyondai Braxton, and Gustaf Dicksson & co., electronics come alive, melodies are allowed to lose their way, and experimental music discovers a rare lightness.
I love how music allows you to skip the small talk and connect directly with people’s innermost selves