Den altid produktive polskfødte kontrabassist og komponist Tomo Jacobson har sammen med pianist Rasmus Kjær Larsen, gong-spiller Ylenia Fiorini og percussionist Szymon Pimpon Gąsiorek dannet kvartetten Sounding Society. En sådan karakteristik af de fire medlemmers instrumentale roller føles reduktiv, for de spiller hver især på så mange forskellige instrumenter, at det sommetider kan være svært at følge med i, hvem det egentlig er, der spiller hvad.
På nærværende album med den mundrette titel Homecoming Medley or Society Into Sound møder det digitale det analoge i et orgie af dionysiske proportioner. Synths i flertal, mellotron, slagtøj og meget, meget mere snor sig tvetydigt omkring Jacobsons kontrabas, der desperat forsøger at fastholde en eller anden form for forankringsmulighed for lytteren.
De fire musikere skaber en lyd, der ofte overvælder sig selv. Instrumenterne kæmper med hinanden for at blive hørt, men kakofonien begejstrer i lige så høj grad, som den forvirrer. Særligt Gąsioreks heroiske indsats i »Part 2« imponerer med et dynamisk trommespil, der vidner om en beslutning om ikke at ramme det samme objekt mere end et par splitsekunder ad gangen.
Hvad dette album mangler af respekt for normerne, gør det op for med en hensynsløs, farverig energi, der simpelthen charmerer ad helvedes til. Jeg kan kun forestille mig, at Sounding Society har haft det overmåde sjovt, da de skabte dette forunderlige, selvmodsigende værk. Det har jeg i hvert fald, når jeg lytter til det.
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.
»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.
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.«
»What music is to me? Where have the great feelings gone?«.
Gellért Szabó is a composer, conductor and performer based in Leipzig, Germany. His work combines contemporary composition with influences from free improvisation, noise and the expressive richness of the late nineteenth century. He is the founder and artistic director of the 23-piece Ideal Orchestra, an ensemble dedicated to large-scale experimental music of sweeping emotional intensity. Alongside this work, Szabó performs internationally with his solo project Radical Radio Show, exploring symphonic textures and immersive sound worlds through a single electric guitar and live electronics. His music is driven by a search for intensity, vulnerability and uncompromising emotional expression.
From the Culture Yard in Helsingør, ships glide past Kronborg Castle through the narrow waters of the Øresund – a reminder of the trade routes that, for centuries, have carried goods, people and power between the Nordic region and the wider world. It is an apt point of departure for the Passage Festival, and for Marie Dahl's vocal work Silk. Sugar. Sand, which explores the intertwined histories of three materials.
Silk. Sugar. Sand is a vocal performance in three acts tracing the historical journeys of these materials through colonialism, the global economy and geopolitics. Five singers from Ars Nova Copenhagen perform within a minimalist scenography consisting almost entirely of coloured light and three sets of costumes that transform throughout the performance: first silk dresses, then crinoline-like structures evoking sugar loaves, and finally grey stone-like forms suggesting accumulations of sand.
The work's central device is to translate the physical properties of these materials into vocal expression. At one moment, the elasticity of silk becomes soft, flowing polyphony; at the next, a cocoon-like electronic crackle. Sugar's crystalline structure is rendered as sharp vocal attacks – brief, whip-like cracks – as well as sweet, intimate whispers, while sand creaks and rustles, resonating with a libretto about economy and domination, violence and desire.
The performance has no conventional narrative, and the five singers portray no distinct characters, moving somewhat stiffly across the stage, as performers often do when their primary focus is on the voice. Comparisons with Hotel Pro Forma's Flammenwerfer are difficult to avoid. There, the production's rigorous aesthetic was counterbalanced by C.F. Hill's wildly expressive visual universe and Blixa Bargeld's deeply vulnerable stage presence. Those qualities are missing from Marie Dahl's carefully controlled staging, which could have benefited from more of the sensitivity and chaos that also form part of Kirsten Dehlholm's artistic legacy.
