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review25.03.2025

When Sound Becomes Body and Struggle

»Bodies of Sound« gathers reflections from women and non-binary individuals on sound as experience, strategy, and resistance. This book should be read by anyone interested in sound as something beyond just music.

By Henrik Marstal

review18.10.2024

Head to Venice and Hear Foreign Songs Everywhere

War, refugees, and destruction are inescapable at the Venice Biennale. You can feel it, see it, hear it – it's all-encompassing. Has Venice ever been this filled with sound?

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
review18.10.2024

Head to Venice and Hear Foreign Songs Everywhere

War, refugees, and destruction are inescapable at the Venice Biennale. You can feel it, see it, hear it – it's all-encompassing. Has Venice ever been this filled with sound?

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
review06.08.2024

»Ist nix für Frauen«

Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.

By Giada Dalla Bontà

review24.09.2023

This book asks you to breathe and resonate without words

Image from the book

Salomé Voegelin’s book about our uncurating sound is her most personal and also most difficult to read – however, succeeding with her project, despite almost all odds.

By Morten Søndergaard

review11.12.2021

It is impressed in the body

After a long hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic, Berlin Atonal has opened the gates of Kraftwerk to the public for the first time. As limitations to collective events endure, the new project Metabolic Rift includes, in addition to the live performances, an exhibition aiming to elicit individual experience with intense stimuli. The exposition presents a convincing curatorial approach to sound, exalting its sensorial qualities and proposing an inspiring model to work with the aural and its (im-)materiality in the context of art exhibitions.

By Giada Dalla Bontà
review08.12.2020

Beyond the ASMR phenomenon

At the Academy for Open Listening, Sofie Birch and My Lambertsen set out a new direction for the ASMR genre.

By Alifiyah Imani
review26.10.2020

One man, one mission

Mathias Monrad Møller showed us an exciting creative vision at his official debut concert as singer and composer – a vision overshadowing dull questions of mere skill.

By Andrew Mellor

review31.03.2020

The system needs to change

Neko3 in front of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra at Pulsar Festival 2020. © Britt Lindemann

Pulsar Festival 2020 took place under the shadow of Marcela Lucatelli’s ‘RGBW’. Tellingly, the most interesting pieces that were actually performed failed to fit into the system – and the larger institutions should take note of this before they find they are being left behind.

review25.02.2020

A difficult beast to tame

With ‘Víddir’, a 60-minute composition of light and darkness, the Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir demonstrated the breadth of her imagination.

By Andrew Mellor
review04.12.2019

Chaos reigns

Madness and humour coexisted on stage as Marcela Lucatelli completed her composition studies in Copenhagen.

By Andrew Mellor
review27.11.2019

Future on repeat

For a festival that prides itself on its all-premieres programming, the 2019 Donaueschinger Musiktage felt more than a little stale.

By James Black