what we immerse ourselves in

review24.09.2023

This book asks you to breathe and resonate without words

Image from the book

Salomé Voegelin’s book about our uncurating sound is her most personal and also most difficult to read – however, succeeding with her project, despite almost all odds.

By Morten Søndergaard

PEER audio paper23.08.2023

Lament is like a safe lap

In this audio paper, we are focusing on a guided lamenting circle, and explore on the meanings that the participants in the circle give to the lament.

By Elina Hytönen-Ng & Emilia Kallonen
PEER audio paper23.08.2023

Secrets and pop

This audio performance paper queries if the application of sound and music has the potential to evoke and relieve the pain of intergenerational grief.

By leon clowes
PEER audio paper23.08.2023

Sonic worlds collide – sounds from Ukraine

In this audio essay we interrogate the autoethnographic in soundscapes by engaging with the narratological nature of field recordings in their ability to convey not only affect but also memory, history, and context.

By Milena Droumeva & Svitlana Matviyenko

PEER audio paper23.08.2023

Creating grief and lamenting on stage

This audio paper analyses the emotions of contemporary laments in the context of music and performing arts in Finland, and presents the course of events behind the current practices with audio examples.

By Viliina Silvonen & Emmi Kuittinen

audio essay11.06.2023

The Environmental Audiotour (ENG)

The 2nd Helsinki Biennial launches on 11th of June. Aarhus University's Critical Environmental Data research group was tasked to write an Environmental Audiotour that narrates the city as energy, as sensing, as multiple histories and imagined futures. We feature the 2nd episode of the tour that features the ruins of an old weather station on the island of Vallisaari, a key curatorial site of the Biennial too.

By Jussi Parikka, Paolo Patelli & May Ee Wong
mindeord02.06.2023

She has returned into the noise of this world

Statement from Kaija Saariaho's family.

By Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Aleksi Barrière & Aliisa Neige Barrière
essay27.10.2022

Alien Frequencies

The mixtape has always been a format with which to swagger and seduce, meant to project both front and vulnerability. How, though, might we interpret a sampler from another star system; what might its effect on us be? A journey with Ziggy Stardust, Yuri Gagarin, afrofuturists and intellectuals from Mars.

By Ben Carver

reportage11.10.2022

Face it and voice it

© Alla Zagaykevych

When you close your eyes to obvious acts of violence and evil, you only allow it to grow says Ukrainian composer Alla Zagaykevych, who believes in electronic music as a radical form of freedom. Reportage from the event »Antifascism - Electronic music from worlds on fire« in Lund, Sweden.

By Giada Dalla Bontà

interview27.08.2022

»I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«

Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?

By Sune Anderberg
interview23.08.2022

Oil, Opera and the history that haunts us

Niels Rønsholdt's new work, »The Last Rites«, is a pessimistic satire on human nature. The opera takes place in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink, so the audience can feel the cold mechanics of desire and the growing chaos on our planet. Do we really need winter all year round?

By Macon Holt
PEER article02.06.2022

Sensory concert

An analysis of a sensory concert and its challenge of the gendered stage.

By Marie Koldkjær Højlund & Anne-Sofie Udsen