what we immerse ourselves in

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When Music Stopped Explaining Itself

Klang Festival was at its strongest when the works spoke directly to the body rather than to the programme notes. Not everything succeeded, but this year's festival was willing to take risks.

By Agnete Seerup

While Europe's Jazz Searches for New Languages

© Urmo Männi

At Jazzkaar, international stars are no longer the main attraction. Instead, the festival offers a glimpse of an Estonian scene in the process of shaping its own musical identity.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

© Mathias Broe

In a Forest Without a Path

Niels Rønsholdt’s new music-theatre work »Osmosis« creates a compelling universe of inverted trees, yearning voices, and rock-inflected asceticism. Yet the work’s central idea remains elusive.

By Henrik Marstal

review25.05

From Coal Dust to Sound Art

Contemporary music is still alive – but often despite its own obsession with complexity and endless duration. That became clear at the festivals in Witten and Cologne.

By Jeppe Rönnow
review18.05

In Aarhus, Music Refused to Stay in Its Lane

While the industry talked about AI and formats, it was the bodily, fragile, and defiant musical experiences that lingered at Spot 2026.

By Therese Wiwe Vilmar & Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
review11.05

In the Silence Between Voices

Marina Abramović, Miranda July and Laurie Anderson explore sound, body and absence at Nørrebro Teater – but only one work truly transforms emptiness into experience.

By Henrik Marstal

Longing for Plural Listening

Archipel Festival 2026. ©Kenza Wadimoff

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

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

© Peter Tinning

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

© Rene Jakobson

In the Shadow of Pärt

Estonian Music Days revealed a musical culture caught between tradition, renewal, and a restless world.

By Henrik Marstal