playlist06.02.2026
My name is Malu Pierini – would you like to see my playlist?
For me, music is a journey through time; one song can send you back to a childhood summer, a packed dance floor, a breakup
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in brief06.02.2026
Small Snowflakes in a Brutal Snowstorm
In a short space of time, »Miniatures« has become a favored sonic space for this reviewer when there is a need to retreat into the chambers of the mind
review04.02.2026
Knausgård’s Apocalypse as Opera
Sebastian Fagerlund’s »Morgonstjärnan« transforms the novel’s existential unease into a powerful, collective musical drama.
in brief04.02.2026
Poetic Nocturnal Rummaging
Bent Sørensen’s »12 Nocturnes« unfold the night’s intimate piano poetry, while the piano concerto breaks the spell.
playlist04.02.2026
My name is Cecilie Penney – would you like to see my playlist?
For me, music is a rush in the chest – a way of understanding and expressing emotions.
playlist01.02.2026
We are SLIM0 – would you like to see our playlist?
As Bertolt Brecht once wrote: »In dark times, will there also be singing? Yes · there will be singing, about the dark times.«
in brief30.01.2026
When the Trumpet Says Farewell – Mikkelborg’s Most Beautiful Moment
»Light« is the perfect distillation of Mikkelborg’s musical life – a cavalcade of the qualities that have always defined him as a musician: light, colour, life, mysticism, love.
review26.01.2026
Sacred, Profane, and Unsettlingly Alive
Sacrum Profanum in Kraków offered intense sonic experiences and musical battles – but also performances where the idea outweighed the music.
review24.01.2026
Matias Vestergård revisited
Revivals have moved onto the agenda among Danish composers, and this month two violent operas by Matias Vestergård benefited from the trend. What is it that makes him so good at writing precisely that kind of work?
review23.01.2026
Universal Music with Local Truths
Local traditions play a central role in the second-ever Faroese opera, in which Sunleif Rasmussen reclaims a local story made famous by Wagner.
in brief19.01.2026
Merzbow Gave Noise a Body at Radar
Some might have wished for a gentler entry into the musical year 2026 than a concert with Merzbow, but the concert underscored the ambitions Radar is currently pursuing.
essay15.01.2026
Listening Under Fire
An outline of contemporary Ukrainian sound art.
reportage15.01.2026
War Reverberations: Sound Stories From Kyiv
Air raid sirens, artillery, and everyday sounds have altered the city’s rhythm – and forced its residents to develop new ways of listening.
in brief14.01.2026
The Excess of Attention
»Crooked, meandering passages and bubbling harmonies that only just brushed against a peculiar sense of tempo.«
in brief14.01.2026
All Life Has the Right to Live
»Kirstine Fogh Vindelev’s discreet soundscape for the power performance Animal provides much-needed breathing room in Alexandra Moltke Johansen’s dense text.«
in brief14.01.2026
14 Meters of Wave Swells from History’s Anonymous Depths
Gently lapping, quiveringly simple, and almost self-effacingly discreet.
in brief14.01.2026
Echoes from a Forgotten Time
»Phantom Orchestra« is a dazzling, slightly mad experiment, driven by a will to create harmony in chaos.
in brief14.01.2026
From Pain to Paralysis: a Stabat Mater Without Wounds
»ELECTRIO aim to renew 'Stabat Mater' with guitar, electronics and baroque threads, but the result is too neat, too familiar, and far too painless.«
in brief14.01.2026
In the Ruins of Old Organs, Builder Finds His Own Sonic Universe
It’s a fascinating project, but what about the music? It’s a mixed experience.
in brief14.01.2026
70 Minutes Confined to a Creaking Construction Site
Although »From Grimsby to Milan« contains a wealth of fine detail, the journey – from Grimsby in Canada to Milan in Ohio – ultimately feels long and monotonous.
interview11.01.2026
See Venice and Throw Up
Marie Koldkjær Højlund uses art, disgust, and everyday ruptures as resistance to habits, crises, and our urge to understand everything.
playlist02.01.2026
My name is Thomas Morgan – would you like to see my playlist?
Music is all of life in sound.
reportage28.12.2025
Across America – a Grown-up Boyband’s Search for a Sound
Four Scandinavian musicians and a Canadian banjo amateur/karate instructor cross the American South to find out whether they can become a band – somewhere between Schubert, country, and doubt.
interview24.12.2025
A Case for Simplicity
The Taiwanese-Danish percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen explores the world’s smallest sounds – from red deer bones to roof tiles – in her pursuit of a music that is both ancient, courageous, and radically simple.
comment21.12.2025
Let’s Finally Drop the Rhetoric of »forgotten« Women Composers
Women opera composers of the past have returned for good. But how do we break the closed circuit of opera history?