reportage15.11.2024
»For many years I have thought about what the Nordics really are«
Was it just for fun that the world's oldest festival for Nordic contemporary music traveled to Scotland? No, it was an educational journey.
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PEER audio paper09.11.2024
When generic sounds become data
A questioning of the very idea of ‘generic sound’ in the face of the ever growing datafication of the mundane.
PEER audio paper09.11.2024
Locked grooves
Informed by DJ practice and practice-led research, this audio paper shares historical examples of locked grooves alongside loop-based compositions and a new installation work.
PEER audio paper09.11.2024
Noisy interference in the becoming-generic of sonic alerts
This audio paper considers how human activity as a possible vehicle of interference serves as a resistance agent against the speculated becoming-generic of alert sounds in public and private spaces.
PEER audio paper09.11.2024
A city we can get up and go to work in
This audio paper is a provocation in response to the political provocation of generic aural gentrification.
PEER audio paper09.11.2024
Azan, a call to prayer
This audio paper investigates the private and public ways in which we encounter or engage with sounds, questioning the particularity of sound events as they enter our acoustic boundaries.
PEER audio paper09.11.2024
Resonant gender performativity
An audio paper on the historical scold’s bridle: a Late Middle Ages' torture instrument used by European men to silence European women and enslaved Africans.
PEER audio paper09.11.2024
A slight case of self
This audio paper explores choric settings of generic voices as a vehicle for contemplating and deconstructing concepts of Being and subjectivity.
PEER article09.11.2024
Notes on ping
Reflections on an isolated generic sound and how it operates on an affective spectrum from the banal to the horrifyingly significant.
review18.10.2024
Head to Venice and Hear Foreign Songs Everywhere
War, refugees, and destruction are inescapable at the Venice Biennale. You can feel it, see it, hear it – it's all-encompassing. Has Venice ever been this filled with sound?
review18.10.2024
Head to Venice and Hear Foreign Songs Everywhere
War, refugees, and destruction are inescapable at the Venice Biennale. You can feel it, see it, hear it – it's all-encompassing. Has Venice ever been this filled with sound?
playlist16.10.2024
My name is Rei Nakamura – would you like to see my playlist?
I can’t say what music is but I can say what music does: it is an experience, it travels through all my bodily senses, it brings energy.
in brief12.10.2024
You Just Want to Disappear into These Cosmic Hordes of Sound
»'Myriads' is better – more enriching – than any club in Aarhus’ Latin Quarter.«
reportage07.10.2024
In the Shelter of the Noise of Glasgow’s Night
The audiovisual festival Sonica shakes up the senses with sick robots, bagpipes and electronica for the future.
playlist30.09.2024
My name is Bára Gísladóttir – would you like to see my playlist?
For me, music is all that vibrates.
in brief09.09.2024
Every Ending Is Also a New Beginning
I was left with a somewhat flat feeling. The piece also ended so quietly that several people were unsure whether it had actually finished and whether we could applaud.
in brief31.08.2024
Fear and Heavy Curtains in Aarhus
»And that is how it sounded. Cold. Like the saddest Instagram filter imaginable – with sound.«
playlist26.08.2024
My name is Greta Eacott – would you like to see my playlist?
Music for me is bumping, rubbing, colliding, sliding and sculpting... in space-time. AKA the gift that keeps giving.«
in brief26.08.2024
Hooray! The Big Questions Are Still Alive in Opera
»It was as much the enchantment of Rumi’s poetry as the myth of the poet himself that drove the work.«
essay20.08.2024
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.
playlist16.08.2024
My name is Carolyn Goodwin – would you like to see my playlist?
Music has always provided me with a clear pathway on which to navigate a meaningful life.
playlist12.08.2024
My name is Jay Campbell – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music is limitless, and its potential for meaning is infinite.«
review06.08.2024
»Ist nix für Frauen«
Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.
in brief05.07.2024
A World of Contrasts – and a Touch of Smurf Vocals
Sensitive jazz guys? Nope – suddenly Marsalis hurled himself into the seated audience with a somersault – and a scream.
in brief04.07.2024
Shouldn’t Selvhenter be playing the Orange Stage next year?”
For about an hour we breathed together. And it is profoundly good to do something together at a festival.