review10.05

Longing for Plural Listening

At the Archipel Festival, listening became both a sensory experience and a political question.

By Wioleta Zochowska

review06.05

From Cringe to Cosmos – and Back Again

Spor 2026 took its audience from embarrassed laughter to resonant sonic landscapes in a festival that both transgressed boundaries and overwhelmed the senses.

By Therese Wiwe Vilmar

• review03.05

  Music After the Breakdown

  
  Chopin was shattered, instruments reinvented, and time dissolved at Only Connect in Oslo.

  By Robert Barry
• review26.04

  Verdi in the War Zone

  
  SØS Gunver Ryberg blows Verdi apart from within in a fierce and sensuous Jeanne d’Arc, where the beauty of opera collides with the noise of war and the fractures of the present.

  By Henrik Marstal
• interview21.04

  A Dance with the Site-Specific: Simon Steen-Andersen at 50

  
  The Danish composer turns architecture, body, and context into part of the work – challenging our notions of what music is and how we experience it.

  By Henrik Marstal

• review08.04

  It Sounded Wild – But Did it Last?

  
  MaerzMusik in Berlin opened with 50 pianos – and bold experiments that didn't always land.

  By Mathias Monrad Møller & Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
• review29.03

  CTM Festival in Berlin: Is the Electronic GPS Still On?

  
  For a long time, CTM has served as a beacon for contemporary electronic music. But in an increasingly fragmented scene, the question arises: does the festival still show the way?

  By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
• review25.03

  The Comfort of Art

  
  At Borealis in Bergen, community is everywhere. But when everything is filtered through safety and intimacy, the music risks losing its necessity – and its bite.

  By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

review18.03

We’ve Never Needed Pulsar Festival More

The major Danish composer festivals are starting to resemble each other more and more, but Pulsar Festival stands apart. Here, there is still more string quartet than performance art, making Pulsar an important alternative platform for new music – if only the festival itself would fully realize it.

By Sune Anderberg

review15.03

What Happens When the Mainstream Falls Short?

Marina Abramović lets herself be murdered, burned, and thrown to her death in »Seven Deaths« at the Cisterns – but the operatic canon voiced by Maria Callas tempers the radicality that has otherwise carried her art through an entire lifetime.

By Henrik Marstal