mindeord06.05.2025
The Real in the Illusion – In Memory of Peter Ablinger
Peter Ablinger has died. Yet his work continues to open our senses to the impossible: to hear hearing itself.
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playlist25.04.2025
My name is Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek – would you like to see my playlist?
Music is not just sounds, but a vain attempt to capture the infinite, which has always been and always will be.
playlist25.04.2025
My name is Patrick Becker – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music is hope, confusion, and memory talking with each other, leading us toward futures we haven't yet imagined.«
playlist24.04.2025
My name is Bastian Zimmermann – would you like to see my playlist?
Music like sex are means of communication, people come into contact and negotiate with each other and their instruments/tools and meet themselves in it.
playlist24.04.2025
My name is Sanne Krogh Groth – would you like to see my playlist?
Music to me is… my work. I've landed in the best job in the world, where a core task is to discover new music, to learn its internal logic and aesthetics, who created it, and why.
playlist24.04.2025
My name is Liza Sirenko – would you like to see my playlist?
Music is the fanciest way of communication.
in brief13.04.2025
»Is He Going to Play Three Pianos?«
When there are two grand pianos for a concert, one of them is usually prepared. Rosenbaum had three (!) without using a single screw, coin, or ping-pong ball.
in brief12.04.2025
Bumblebees Come With Punk
Smag På Dig Selv convincingly illustrates the age-old punk dictum that you can be angry and still have fun at the same time.
in brief12.04.2025
Feel Yourself Becoming Nature Again
»I love being part of the ritual that heals our forgotten connection to nature, which is the very foundation of our lives.«
in brief09.04.2025
Beneath the Restless Canopies
»When the gloom returned with renewed force, it was Kjærgaard who, with a roaring guitar, sprawled across the emotional abyss. It was beautiful and brutal.«
in brief04.04.2025
Explosive Jazz Builds Up and Burns Down
As a listener, there is nothing to do but surrender to Amalie Dahl and the group’s convincing display of strength.
review02.04.2025
Punk is Dead and Opera is Not Feeling Well Either
Damon Albarn’s Mozart spin-off »The Magic Flute II« is replete with synths and spectacle, but does it truly capture opera’s essence – or merely its aesthetics?
review01.04.2025
From Factory Floor to Operatic Frustration
Jenny Wilson’s first opera – an adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s »Women as Lovers« – delivers sharp theatricality and biting satire but struggles to find its musical voice.
in brief30.03.2025
Mathias Reumert Group Masters the Art of Playing with Sound
»Enchanting. One left KoncertKirken a little taller, happier, and more playful.«
in brief27.03.2025
The Cello Within the Comfort Zone
»Cohesive, yet lacking challenges for the listener – such is the impression left by Josefine Opsahl’s new work.«
review26.03.2025
Who said that simplicity should be simple?
Three albums with music for string quartet – and the likes – by Jürg Frey, Simon Christensen, and Anders Lauge Meldgaard each approach musical simplicity in their own way. But they aim for entirely different things with it.
playlist26.03.2025
We are NEKO3 – would you like to see our playlist?
»Music is like an ancient mineral, containing a history of wisdom reaching over centuries, stratifying and evolving into new forms.«
review25.03.2025
When Sound Becomes Body and Struggle
»Bodies of Sound« gathers reflections from women and non-binary individuals on sound as experience, strategy, and resistance. This book should be read by anyone interested in sound as something beyond just music.
in brief23.03.2025
New Central American Tales
The surprises keep lining up in your ears with Xenia Xamanek’s new hybrid work on repeat.
in brief21.03.2025
In Complete Silence, We Listened to the Sounds of Outer Space
Sól Ey and Ryosuke Kiyasu both confronted the boundaries of sound with uncompromising dedication, demonstrating that sound art is not just about playing – but about transformation.
in brief20.03.2025
The Power of Trance: A Journey from Indonesia to Roskilde
A world so distant from the inferno of Roskilde that one can hardly see where the ends meet. But they do, that night at Roskilde.
in brief14.03.2025
Community in Collapse
It is hard not to feel almost physically exhilarated by the album’s intense contrasts between presence and destruction.
in brief14.03.2025
Caught Between Too Much and Too Little
On half of the tracks Hammerstrøm demonstrates that he is capable of creating truly beautiful music.
reportage11.03.2025
How Does Hope Sound in Minus 30 Degrees?
They have a bivouac, a couple of churches and a cultural festival – in northern Norway, Kirkenes, people are prepared if the worst happens.
playlist08.03.2025
My name is Jennifer Gersten – would you like to see my playlist?
How comforting, after so much menial self-investigation, to finally be told exactly what it is that you need.