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

interview11.01

See Venice and Throw Up

Marie Koldkjær Højlund uses art, disgust, and everyday ruptures as resistance to habits, crises, and our urge to understand everything.

By Therese Wiwe Vilmar

• interview24.12

  A Case for Simplicity

  
  The Taiwanese-Danish percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen explores the world’s smallest sounds – from red deer bones to roof tiles – in her pursuit of a music that is both ancient, courageous, and radically simple.

  By Henrik Marstal
• interview15.05.2025

  From Darkness to Magic: Warren Ellis and the Journey Toward the Light

  
  After a brutal depression, Warren Ellis returns with renewed strength – and deep gratitude. The 60-year-old Australian multi-instrumentalist opens up about pain, love, animals, creativity, and Nina Simone’s sacred chewing gum.

  By Peter Albrechtsen
• interview16.01.2024

  The Useless Hell

  
  In the musical theater performance »Calls to this number are being diverted« Matthew Grouse puts the absurd working life of late modernity under the microscope.

  By Henrik Marstal

• interview29.11.2023

  Side entrance to the New Music Scene

  
  Slowly the idea of universality is dissolving, experimental music exists everywhere and in every genre – Abbasi, Eizirik and Sanchéz-Chiong in conversation.

  By Jan Topolski
• interview27.08.2022

  »I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«

  
  Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?

  By Sune Anderberg
• interview23.08.2022

  Oil, Opera and the history that haunts us

  
  Niels Rønsholdt's new work, »The Last Rites«, is a pessimistic satire on human nature. The opera takes place in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink, so the audience can feel the cold mechanics of desire and the growing chaos on our planet. Do we really need winter all year round?

  By Macon Holt

interview09.03.2022

Three Artists. One Hope

Three snapshots from three different lives: Kateryna Zavoloka, Katarina Gryvul and Boris Filanovsky. All work with music, their countries are at war, and they condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They have not met each other and the article consists of three unique interviews with Seismograf. None of them see themselves as political artists, but they do believe that it is a human duty to speak out and fight back when the leader of one's homeland orders war against the other two's homelands. 

By Julie Hugsted

interview24.01.2022

»I want to examine sound's relationship with as much of the world as possible«

The sound of Freud’s toilet in Wienna, Andy Warhol in the supermarket, and the first pirated mp3 ever – Museum of Portable Sound collects and exhibits sound as cultural objects. And the sounds in the collections are only accessible from curator John Kannenberg’s iPhone 4S.

By Julie Hugsted