review29.06.2025
Disappearing Acts: The Resurrection of Tsujimura
Katsuko Tsujimura sought to dissolve the body in postwar Japan. Now, new voices are gently piecing it back together.
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review24.06.2025
»Oops, We Walked Past the Artwork« – the Hidden Presences of Sound Art in Moss
The MOMENTUM biennial in Moss, Norway lets sound art speak, guiding the audience into the borderlands of the senses – where even a toilet resonates like an echo chamber. -
review18.06.2025
Klang has Come of Age – and Dares to Be Solemn
This year’s edition of Copenhagen’s festival for new music embraced sonic rituals, cultural encounters, and performances with loops, bodies, and cassette tapes – and featured French musicians playing as if sound itself could change the world. -
review15.06.2025
The World is Leaking – and Art Picks Up the Drops
At the Bergen International Festival, William Kentridge and Ryoji Ikeda let art capture what can no longer be said – only felt.
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review04.06.2025
The Hunt for Sound Installations in Nuremberg
From seductive echoes in an abandoned yeast factory to allergy-inducing angel wings in a baroque church – Musik Installationen Nürnberg put the body in motion, but left the question of what a music installation truly is unanswered. -
review01.06.2025
Spor Festival at Twenty: the Eternal Play of Sound
From giant flutes to performative rituals – the anniversary edition of the Aarhus-based festival unfolded the materiality of sound and musical collaboration in new forms. -
review31.05.2025
Estonians Can Truly Compose – Especially for Voice
Estonian Music Days revealed how a young, vocally attuned community of composers in the small country between Finland and Russia combines historical depth with freedom, resonance, and intimacy.
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review24.05.2025
The City that made Noise into History
At the Copenhagen Museum, the city’s forgotten soundscapes are brought to life – from street cries and gongs to nervous night sirens – in an exhibition that lets the echoes of the past resonate in present-day ears. -
review02.04.2025
Punk is Dead and Opera is Not Feeling Well Either
Damon Albarn’s Mozart spin-off »The Magic Flute II« is replete with synths and spectacle, but does it truly capture opera’s essence – or merely its aesthetics? -
review01.04.2025
From Factory Floor to Operatic Frustration
Jenny Wilson’s first opera – an adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s »Women as Lovers« – delivers sharp theatricality and biting satire but struggles to find its musical voice.