• review07.10

  Anything Can Become Music – Even a Bunch Of Fake Frogs

  
  At the Musica festival in Strasbourg, everything from children’s concerts to organ storms and performative string quartets turned into a playful exploration of sound, body, and community.

  By Therese Wiwe Vilmar
• review03.10

  Microtones In the Coal Mines

  
  Ostrava Days transformed the old mining town into a laboratory of sound, where contemporary music pressed its way out between dust, drones, and Dadaist madness.<br />

  By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
• 18.09

  Sounding migrations

  
  Deep listening and the acoustic phenology of whale song

  By Alex South

• reportage08.09

  Sound Bath At the Edge Of the Headland

  
  Lost Farm Festival transformed an abandoned farm into a global gathering point for grief, anger and creativity – where concerts, rituals and installations turned Sjællands Odde into a new center of the world.

  By Sanne Krogh Groth
• review07.09

  No Dying Diva in Paris – but Glitter, Dog Life and Office Humor

  
  Copenhagen Opera Festival 2025 turned away from opera’s classical themes of fate and instead gave space to intimate music-dramatic experiments on queer identity, domestic violence, climate crisis, and mental illness.

  By Jeppe Rönnow
• review27.08

  The Myth Of the Sound City By the Limfjord

  
  Struer Tracks showed that even municipal branding can open new worlds when sound art gets involved – from glitching rat voices in the basement of the music school to subwoofers that shook the harbor.

  By Jakob Gustav Winckler

• review15.08

  Walking Blind

  
  At its best, the ambitious sound art walk »Witness Stand« at Refshaleøen pierces right into Copenhagen’s gentrification of the old industrial area. But does it realise that it is itself part of the problem?

  By Sune Anderberg
• comment13.08

  I Most Certainly Will Not Stay Away From Your Theatre

  
  A few days before this year’s Copenhagen Opera Festival begins, I, as a critic, have been asked to keep away from one of the festival’s most experimental performances at the theatre Sort/Hvid. This is a complete misunderstanding of the role of criticism.

  By Sune Anderberg
• essay04.08

  Shoes For People Who Don’t Like Music

  
  An anti-anthem for those who fall asleep at concerts and wake up with Cage talking nonsense.

  By Douglas Kahn