what we immerse ourselves in

essay23.11.2020

A song of one’s own

Young Inuit throat singers in Ottawa, Canada. © Art Babych/Shutterstock.com

American composer Caroline Shaw drew criticism because her award-winning work Partita for 8 Voices, according to singer Tanya Tagaq, profited on Inuit throat singing but failed to credit an endangered music culture. Cultural appropriation is very much a socio-economic issue.

By Andrew Mellor

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
PEER article26.06.2020

Beyond the media reveal

If we sought to go beyond the media reveal, what new practices of knowledge should emerge?

By Jamie Allen
PEER article26.06.2020

Sounding new materialism

How does a sonic artist come to terms with the global effects of the tools of her trade?

By Joe Cantrell

PEER article26.06.2020

The composer as curator

– following John Cage’s three compositions for museum

By Liora Belford

PEER article26.06.2020

The institutional situation of so-called sound art

A curatorial reading of Bruce Nauman’s sound installation “Für Kinder” calling for a post-medium approach to sound art.

By Rasmus Holmboe
PEER article26.06.2020

Confronting embodied knowledge

A methodology of working with embodied sound and movement as an approach to creating open score pieces.

By Solomiya Moroz
reportage26.06.2020

Keynotes on sound art, media art, and sonic materialism

Video recordings of five RE:SOUND keynotes as well as a panel discussion on sound art curation.

By Jamie Allen, Samson Young, Salomé Voegelin, Marie Koldkjær Højlund & Christoph Cox

audio paper18.06.2020

The silence of the fans

© Nneirda/Shutterstock.com

How can a crowd of football fans use sound to protest a profit-oriented football machinery? By staying completely silent, apparently. In German football, silent protesting has proved an effective way of speaking up.

By Friedemann Dupelius

essay12.06.2020

The hands just carry on by themselves

Two weeks ago, the German pianist Igor Levit took on an iconic marathon piece, fundamentally changing his own conditions as well as the listener’s.

By Holger Schulze
interview02.06.2020

‘I wanted to be radical’

Instruments struggle to voice themselves in the music of Christian Winther Christensen. His focus on small sounds and deep concentration is a perfect match for a time of silenced soundscapes.

By Andrew Mellor
review31.03.2020

The system needs to change

Pulsar Festival 2020 took place under the shadow of Marcela Lucatelli’s ‘RGBW’. It’s time for a critical look at the systems of power.

By James Black