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.
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what we immerse ourselves in
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.
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.
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review10.03
When the World Trembles, Kirkenes Listens
At the Barents Spektakel art festival, war, borders and vibrations are transformed into sound, conversation and art at Europe’s northernmost edge. -
review18.02
A Country Built of Sound
Dark Music Days in Reykjavík offered everything from Bára Gísladóttir’s orchestral darkness to noise, seaweed and quiet song in Harpa – in a music scene where community matters as much as the export adventure. -
review04.02
Knausgård’s Apocalypse as Opera
Sebastian Fagerlund’s »Morgonstjärnan« transforms the novel’s existential unease into a powerful, collective musical drama.
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review24.01
Matias Vestergård revisited
Revivals have moved onto the agenda among Danish composers, and this month two violent operas by Matias Vestergård benefited from the trend. What is it that makes him so good at writing precisely that kind of work? -
review23.01
Universal Music with Local Truths
Local traditions play a central role in the second-ever Faroese opera, in which Sunleif Rasmussen reclaims a local story made famous by Wagner. -
review12.12
When Bodies, Technologies and Whole Worlds Come Undone
From cyborg kinships and alchemical wonder to masculine fragility and Anthropocene ecstasy – MINU showed that art still holds space for vulnerability, ferocity and strange beauty.
review19.11
Turn it Up!
Charlottenborgs hyldest til Mika Vainio vil være en lydbiograf, men uden ordentlig volumen, mørke eller kontekst ender installationen som en oplevelse, man hurtigt glider ud af.
review15.11
In the Hamster Wheel with Headbands
Current Resonance turned the idea of work inside out in an absurd, sweat-drenched performance that pulled the audience into a hard-pumped ritual of labour.