what we immerse ourselves in

© David Stjernholm

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

© Mateusz Szota

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
review17.04

In the Shadow of Pärt

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

By Henrik Marstal

It Sounded Wild – But Did it Last?

© Berliner Festspiele – Camille Blake

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

What Happens When the Mainstream Falls Short?

Marina Abramović: »Seven Deaths«. © David Stjernholm

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

© Alexey Tsalko

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.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek