essay18.08
The British School of Emotionalism and Metamodernism
From irony to sincerity – and back again. On a new metamodern sensibility in British contemporary music.
PerspectiveEssay
what we immerse ourselves in
essay10.03
Conversations with the Ghosts of the Past
Dungeon synth is less a longing for a lost golden age than a conversation with memory itself, carried by noise, decay, and the echoes of forgotten worlds.
essay11.02
What Does it Mean to Hear a Voice Without a Human Being?
In Niels Rønsholdt's »Country«, Jakob Kullberg meets his own manipulated double. Essay on authenticity and the voice between body and technology.
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essay15.01
Listening Under Fire
An outline of contemporary Ukrainian sound art. -
essay19.12
2025 Between Straw and Signal
A dialogue on listening, loss and resonance across Poland, Germany, UK and Denmark. -
essay04.08.2025
Shoes For People Who Don’t Like Music
An anti-anthem for those who fall asleep at concerts and wake up with Cage talking nonsense.
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essay20.08.2024
Another Day, Another Rediscovery of Else Marie Pade
A good twenty years after the first rediscovery of Else Marie Pade as an electronic pioneer, she is now being branded as a visionary acoustic composer. It seems we never get tired of rewriting the story of this special artist – and writing ourselves into it. -
essay27.10.2022
Alien Frequencies
The mixtape has always been a format with which to swagger and seduce, meant to project both front and vulnerability. How, though, might we interpret a sampler from another star system; what might its effect on us be? A journey with Ziggy Stardust, Yuri Gagarin, afrofuturists and intellectuals from Mars. -
essay19.04.2022
During War, We Become All Ears
About the sounds of war – and the resounding silence that comes with it.
essay20.02.2022
My Body Is
Sounding Women’s Work | She composes and performs across artistic genres – as JOMI, Jomi Massage and in the band Speaker Bite Me. The experimental artist, vocalist, guitarist, pianist and writer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen has for years taken part in the debates of her time. Here is a long poem about gender and yes, no, maybe.
essay10.02.2022
On stage we are four bodies
Sounding Women's Work | Meshes is a performance groupe with drummers and dancers. They work with the relation between body and sound and investigates how the movement of the body can be translated into a score for a drum set, and how the sound of a drum set can be translated into a score for movement.