what we immerse ourselves in

essay26.03.2020

Nature won’t protect you anymore

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Composers used to celebrate nature for its idyll and comfort; but with climate change and the current outbreak of coronavirus, it seems as if nature has turned on us. That shows in Nordic contemporary music with sonic tales of decay, apocalypse, and protest.

By Andrew Mellor

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
interview13.02.2020

‘Things are very anarchistic right now’

Neko3 is one of the most visionary ensembles at a moment where the contemporary music scene is changing rapidly.

By Andrew Mellor
PEER audio paper18.12.2019

A fuchsia-coloured awning

How to structure a composition in real-time.

By Magda Mayas

PEER audio paper18.12.2019

Psycho-sonic cartography

Creating the imaginary city through electronic and electroacoustic music in word and sound.

By Katt Hernandez

PEER audio paper18.12.2019

Invisible sounds in a nested ecological space

A site-specific day-long installation/performance in the Gothenburg harbour.

By Anders Hultqvist & Stefan Östersjö
PEER audio paper18.12.2019

H e (a) r

Of an ecological enactive perspective.

By Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
PEER audio paper18.12.2019

Found in translation

The process of making a piece for voice, Vietnamese zither đàn tranh, and electronics.

By Henrik Frisk & Nguyen Thanh Thuy

PEER audio paper18.12.2019

Mundania

Just above the noise floor.

By Robert Willim

PEER audio paper18.12.2019

Production of sound, production of knowledge

Central Africa, Central Europe, global networks.

By Piotr Cichocki
PEER audio paper18.12.2019

Listening beyond radio, listening beyond history

A proposal for alternative radio histories.

By Kate Donovan
PEER audio paper18.12.2019

Sound puppet

A pen friendship between East and West.

By Heidi Stalla & Diana Chester