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comment07.07.2025

Roskilde as a Battleground of Sound

Roskilde Festival insists on ecstasy and togetherness, but the most beautiful moments arise in the dark, where the curious still dare to listen.

By Rasmus Steffensen & Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

review30.06.2025

Dreams, Noise and Apple Crunch in Stavanger

The Only Connect festival in Stavanger transformed the city into a landscape of noise, poetry and bodily vibrations.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
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.

By Louise Steiwer
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.

By Therese Wiwe Vilmar

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.

By Henrik Friis

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.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
review07.06.2025

When the Past Begins to Make Noise Again

At Geneva’s Archipel Festival, lost instruments and occult soundscapes are brought to life in a journey through speculative rituals and experimental music.

By Anna Ullman
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.

By Rasmus Weirup

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.

By Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen

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.

By Jeppe Rönnow
mindeord28.05.2025

Playful Seriousness: Per Nørgård In Memoriam

A personal tribute by cellist Jakob Kullberg to a 92-year-old composer who never stopped listening, sharing, and laughing – turning every collaboration into an invitation to explore the unknown.

By Jakob Kullberg
review26.05.2025

An Operatic Vision Lost in Translation

Bent Sørensen’s new operatic collaboration with Jon Fosse falls short of what it might have been.

By Andrew Mellor