in brief
08.11.2021

Rystet i Warszawa

Warszawa Efterår: Opera for the Deaf: BNNT and poets of the sign language
BNNT and poets of the sign language. © Nanna Kreutzmann
BNNT and poets of the sign language. © Nanna Kreutzmann

Kvalmen blev uudholdelig inde i det tidligere klasseværelse. Nerve- og muskelsystemet satte langsomt ud. De tre døve performere i shorts og sorte hætter, der lænede sig op ad et bjerg af højttalere og forstærkere toppet med et trommesæt, lignede sårede soldater. Indhyllet i røg, svøbt i minimal-punket dystopia. Når en af dem satte hånden på strengene af en bas og dæmpede instrumentets kraft, rungede kun støj og snavs fra systemet skruet op til maksimum. Trioen blev ‘dirigeret’ af to performere via aftalte taktile signaler (berøringer). Bølgen af støj changerede (muterede?) minimalt, som når en serie af guitarister i en evighed gentager tonen E i Rhys Chatmans ikoniske værk Guitar Trio (1977). 

Den fire timer lange performative installation på Opera for the Deaf-minifestivalen – del af den chikke festival for klassisk musik, Warszawa Efterår – var lige så meget en syret, virtuost tågetalende skulptur. Også omgivelserne blev et instrument: Wc-kummerne i den anden ende af bygningen vibrerede. Døve mennesker, sagde programmet, er de eneste, der har deres eget sprog, helt anderledes end hørelsens sprog, baseret på forskellige kulturelle koder. I den tidligere polske folkeskole lærte jeg noget om den øredøvende skønhed ved at gå kold i en tsunami af bulder og hvid røg – med bævende ører først. 

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»Music is, to us, a kind of closed club of nepotism, networking and Copenhagen cowboy energy. But in reality, it’s got nothing to do with expensive guitars or technical skill. For us, music is something you can feel in your chest, or something that gives you goosebumps. The best concerts are when someone screams so earnestly that the rest of us don’t have to. The best music expresses emotions in a way that would get you picked up by an ambulance if you did it out on the street. For us, music should fuck with the people who have it too comfortable, and give those who have it fucked a feeling that they’re not alone. Boom. And what the fuck is a chord and a key anyway? Kisses from Nightmaries.«

Nightmaries blend saws, guitars and voices into a dark-country, no-wave, cowboy-doom nightmare. They create the kind of soundtrack that feels like a fever dream you somehow don’t want to wake up from. As the world gets stranger and darker, Nightmaries lean into the madness, serving up slow-burning songs that creep under your skin like a poison that takes its sweet time. Put on your favourite steel-toe boots, dip your smoky eyes in an ashtray, and prepare yourself for sloppy doom with punk energy.

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»To me, music is love. I love how music allows you to skip the small talk and connect directly with people’s innermost selves. It is an extraordinary and moving way to meet one another.«

Fenja wrote her first song at the age of twelve – about a polar bear dying due to climate change – and themes of existentialism, nature, and her own sensitive nature came to define the lyrics and sound she has since developed. She released her debut album, Flugtdyr, in 2021, and in February 2026, she released the album Menneskedyr.

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Danish composer Sofus Forsberg has died at the age of 56. With his distinctive blend of melodic sensibility, electronic processing and rhythmic precision, he created a musical world that moved effortlessly between IDM, pop and the avant-garde.

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»Music for me is my hobby, my job, my outlet, my mood, an endless source of discovering new music and new, old music, some of the best and can be some of the worst. And I love it!« 

Track72 aka Tue Track aka Anders Lundby Brixen. Producer, DJ, rapper and more. Known for his role in the trio Malk De Koijn, which since the mid-1990s has created a personal universe in Danish hip-hop. Has performed in Ponyblod, Xtra Naan, Track Abdullah Rock, Booty Cologne and others.

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On Wednesday, 5 August 2026, it happened again: a chord in John Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) changed after two and a half years. Classic FM reports.

The work was written by the American avant-garde composer John Cage in the mid-1980s. The score consists of eight pages of music, and, as the title suggests, the instruction is to play it »as slow as possible.«