review30.06.2025
Dreams, Noise and Apple Crunch in Stavanger
The Only Connect festival in Stavanger transformed the city into a landscape of noise, poetry and bodily vibrations.
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review29.06.2025
Disappearing Acts: The Resurrection of Tsujimura
Katsuko Tsujimura sought to dissolve the body in postwar Japan. Now, new voices are gently piecing it back together.
review24.06.2025
»Oops, We Walked Past the Artwork« – the Hidden Presences of Sound Art in Moss
The MOMENTUM biennial in Moss, Norway lets sound art speak, guiding the audience into the borderlands of the senses – where even a toilet resonates like an echo chamber.
playlist20.06.2025
My name is Samyula – would you like to see my playlist?
For me, music is an emotional refuge. When I sit at the piano I feel safe, it's where I can release everything I carry inside.
review18.06.2025
Klang has Come of Age – and Dares to Be Solemn
This year’s edition of Copenhagen’s festival for new music embraced sonic rituals, cultural encounters, and performances with loops, bodies, and cassette tapes – and featured French musicians playing as if sound itself could change the world.
review15.06.2025
The World is Leaking – and Art Picks Up the Drops
At the Bergen International Festival, William Kentridge and Ryoji Ikeda let art capture what can no longer be said – only felt.
playlist11.06.2025
My name is Tomasz Dąbrowski – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music is the ultimate gateway to presence, a true expression of the moment.«
review07.06.2025
When the Past Begins to Make Noise Again
At Geneva’s Archipel Festival, lost instruments and occult soundscapes are brought to life in a journey through speculative rituals and experimental music.
review04.06.2025
The Hunt for Sound Installations in Nuremberg
From seductive echoes in an abandoned yeast factory to allergy-inducing angel wings in a baroque church – Musik Installationen Nürnberg put the body in motion, but left the question of what a music installation truly is unanswered.
playlist03.06.2025
My name is Anna Roemer – would you like to see my playlist?
Music is where my heart is. The place where I feel the most freedom and possibility to express myself.
in brief02.06.2025
Not the Royal Rock Star We Might Have Wished For
In the end, it sounds like a march that has forgotten who it was written for.
review01.06.2025
Spor Festival at Twenty: the Eternal Play of Sound
From giant flutes to performative rituals – the anniversary edition of the Aarhus-based festival unfolded the materiality of sound and musical collaboration in new forms.
review31.05.2025
Estonians Can Truly Compose – Especially for Voice
Estonian Music Days revealed how a young, vocally attuned community of composers in the small country between Finland and Russia combines historical depth with freedom, resonance, and intimacy.
playlist29.05.2025
My name is Alexandre Bazin – would you like to see my playlist?
Music exploration and creation is not limited to notes, timbres and traditional structures, but extends to everything that shapes the listening experience.
mindeord28.05.2025
Playful Seriousness: Per Nørgård In Memoriam
A personal tribute by cellist Jakob Kullberg to a 92-year-old composer who never stopped listening, sharing, and laughing – turning every collaboration into an invitation to explore the unknown.
in brief27.05.2025
When Orpheus Turns His Head
Everything should align perfectly when the multimedia duo O Future stages the descent into Hades – but it doesn’t.
review26.05.2025
An Operatic Vision Lost in Translation
Bent Sørensen’s new operatic collaboration with Jon Fosse falls short of what it might have been.
in brief24.05.2025
The Electronic Altar
Three artists shattered the table’s constraints and gave technology a body.
review24.05.2025
The City that made Noise into History
At the Copenhagen Museum, the city’s forgotten soundscapes are brought to life – from street cries and gongs to nervous night sirens – in an exhibition that lets the echoes of the past resonate in present-day ears.
in brief21.05.2025
Emergent Music
»A poetic and precise sonic laboratory, where music emerges in hesitation and grows like a living creature.«
reportage20.05.2025
The Darkness Speaks in Tones
In Reykjavík, snow falls sideways, and sorrowful reindeer sing. Dark Music Days unfolds the winter darkness in experimental tones where silence and noise meet – and even a harp made of yarn tells stories.
comment16.05.2025
The Anti-Heroes Take the Stage – And It Suits Spot
The 30th edition of Spot Festival became a sonic laboratory and cultural mirror, where experimentation, genre-defying music, and raw emotional intensity were given free rein.
interview15.05.2025
From Darkness to Magic: Warren Ellis and the Journey Toward the Light
After a brutal depression, Warren Ellis returns with renewed strength – and deep gratitude. The 60-year-old Australian multi-instrumentalist opens up about pain, love, animals, creativity, and Nina Simone’s sacred chewing gum.
playlist09.05.2025
My name is Sven Helbig – would you like to see my playlist?
Every moment is nothing but the uttermost end of the past. Music makes this edge wide and beautiful.
reportage08.05.2025
Tallinn Calling: When Jazz Strikes a Nerve
At the Jazzkaar Festival in Tallinn, improvisation and reflection meet in a landscape shaped by historical fault lines, westward gazes, and hopes for the future.