PEER article11.12.2023
The lyric ear
The article analyses the genre of listening scores – texts written in a natural language that provide the readers with instructions to listen in a certain way or to a certain kind of sounds.
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11.12.2023
Voice as infrastructure
This audio paper explores the phenomenon of voice-based technology in the smart-home. Through ethnographic interviews we study how older people use voice-based technologies and with what effects for their experiences of the affective environment in their homes.
article08.12.2023
Thinking decolonially towards music’s institution: A post-conference reflection
How do we talk about musical colonisation? How do we talk about this work of talking about it; that is, interrogating what we mean by colonisation and its counter-logic of decolonisation or decoloniality?
interview29.11.2023
Side entrance to the New Music Scene
Slowly the idea of universality is dissolving, experimental music exists everywhere and in every genre – Abbasi, Eizirik and Sanchéz-Chiong in conversation.
review24.09.2023
This book asks you to breathe and resonate without words
Salomé Voegelin’s book about our uncurating sound is her most personal and also most difficult to read – however, succeeding with her project, despite almost all odds.
playlist11.09.2023
My name is John Grant – would you like to see my playlist?
Music has been a healing balm for me.
PEER audio paper23.08.2023
Lament is like a safe lap
In this audio paper, we are focusing on a guided lamenting circle, and explore on the meanings that the participants in the circle give to the lament.
PEER audio paper23.08.2023
Secrets and pop
This audio performance paper queries if the application of sound and music has the potential to evoke and relieve the pain of intergenerational grief.
PEER audio paper23.08.2023
Sonic worlds collide – sounds from Ukraine
In this audio essay we interrogate the autoethnographic in soundscapes by engaging with the narratological nature of field recordings in their ability to convey not only affect but also memory, history, and context.
PEER audio paper23.08.2023
Creating grief and lamenting on stage
This audio paper analyses the emotions of contemporary laments in the context of music and performing arts in Finland, and presents the course of events behind the current practices with audio examples.
playlist13.06.2023
My name is Allan Gravgaard Madsen – would you like to see my playlist?
In his music, composer Allan Gravgaard Madsen tries to create a better version of himself
audio essay11.06.2023
The Environmental Audiotour (ENG)
The 2nd Helsinki Biennial launches on 11th of June. Aarhus University's Critical Environmental Data research group was tasked to write an Environmental Audiotour that narrates the city as energy, as sensing, as multiple histories and imagined futures. We feature the 2nd episode of the tour that features the ruins of an old weather station on the island of Vallisaari, a key curatorial site of the Biennial too.
mindeord02.06.2023
She has returned into the noise of this world
Statement from Kaija Saariaho's family.
essay27.10.2022
Alien Frequencies
The mixtape has always been a format with which to swagger and seduce, meant to project both front and vulnerability. How, though, might we interpret a sampler from another star system; what might its effect on us be? A journey with Ziggy Stardust, Yuri Gagarin, afrofuturists and intellectuals from Mars.
reportage11.10.2022
Face it and voice it
When you close your eyes to obvious acts of violence and evil, you only allow it to grow says Ukrainian composer Alla Zagaykevych, who believes in electronic music as a radical form of freedom. Reportage from the event »Antifascism - Electronic music from worlds on fire« in Lund, Sweden.
interview27.08.2022
»I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«
Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?
interview23.08.2022
Oil, Opera and the history that haunts us
Niels Rønsholdt's new work, »The Last Rites«, is a pessimistic satire on human nature. The opera takes place in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink, so the audience can feel the cold mechanics of desire and the growing chaos on our planet. Do we really need winter all year round?
PEER article02.06.2022
Sensory concert
An analysis of a sensory concert and its challenge of the gendered stage.
PEER audio paper02.06.2022
Solastalgia
An audio paper addressing the exploration of ”solastalgia” through musical means.
02.06.2022
Perspectives on sounding women’s work
Introduction to articles and themes in Sounding Women's Work I and Sounding Women's Work II.
PEER audio paper02.06.2022
Intervals
An audio paper based on the story of women working and weaving hemp burial garment sambe in South Korea.
PEER article02.06.2022
Exhibiting the unheard(-of)
Women composers and the inadequate representation in historical canons and museum exhibitions.
PEER article02.06.2022
Gender matters
Inclusion and exclusion of gendered artefacts, bodies and things in the spaces of P3´s music production.
essay19.04.2022
During War, We Become All Ears
About the sounds of war – and the resounding silence that comes with it.
interview09.03.2022
Three Artists. One Hope
Three snapshots from three different lives: Kateryna Zavoloka, Katarina Gryvul and Boris Filanovsky. All work with music, their countries are at war, and they condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They have not met each other and the article consists of three unique interviews with Seismograf. None of them see themselves as political artists, but they do believe that it is a human duty to speak out and fight back when the leader of one's homeland orders war against the other two's homelands.