PEER article26.06.2020
Sounding new materialism
How does a sonic artist come to terms with the global effects of the tools of her trade?
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PEER article26.06.2020
The composer as curator
How John Cage deconstructed the governed gallery experience and formed a new field of research.
PEER article26.06.2020
The institutional situation of so-called sound art
A curatorial reading of Bruce Nauman’s sound installation “Für Kinder” calling for a post-medium approach to sound art.
PEER article26.06.2020
Confronting embodied knowledge
A methodology of working with embodied sound and movement as an approach to creating open score pieces.
reportage26.06.2020
Keynotes on sound art, media art, and sonic materialism
Video recordings of five RE:SOUND keynotes as well as a panel discussion on sound art curation.
audio paper18.06.2020
The silence of the fans
How can a crowd of football fans use sound to protest a profit-oriented football machinery? By staying completely silent, apparently.
essay12.06.2020
The hands just carry on by themselves
Two weeks ago, the German pianist Igor Levit took on an iconic marathon piece, fundamentally changing his own conditions as well as the listener’s.
interview02.06.2020
‘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.
review31.03.2020
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.
essay26.03.2020
Nature won’t protect you anymore
Nature seems to have turned on us. That shows in Nordic contemporary music with sonic tales of decay, apocalypse, and protest.
review25.02.2020
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.
interview13.02.2020
‘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.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
A fuchsia-coloured awning
How to structure a composition in real-time.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
Psycho-sonic cartography
Creating the imaginary city through electronic and electroacoustic music in word and sound.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
Invisible sounds in a nested ecological space
A site-specific day-long installation/performance in the Gothenburg harbour.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
H e (a) r
Of an ecological enactive perspective.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
Found in translation
The process of making a piece for voice, Vietnamese zither đàn tranh, and electronics.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
Mundania
Just above the noise floor.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
Production of sound, production of knowledge
Central Africa, Central Europe, global networks.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
Listening beyond radio, listening beyond history
A proposal for alternative radio histories.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
Sound puppet
A pen friendship between East and West.
PEER audio paper18.12.2019
Revealing the Genius Loci through sound
The walser hamlet of San Gottardo.
review04.12.2019
Chaos reigns
Madness and humour coexisted on stage as Marcela Lucatelli completed her composition studies in Copenhagen.
review27.11.2019
Future on repeat
For a festival that prides itself on its all-premieres programming, the 2019 Donaueschinger Musiktage felt more than a little stale.
review07.10.2019
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.