The major Danish composer festivals are starting to resemble each other more and more, but Pulsar Festival stands apart. Here, there is still more string quartet than performance art, making Pulsar an important alternative platform for new music – if only the festival itself would fully realize it.

Damon Albarn’s Mozart spin-off »The Magic Flute II« is replete with synths and spectacle, but does it truly capture opera’s essence – or merely its aesthetics?

Slowly the idea of universality is dissolving, experimental music exists everywhere and in every genre – Abbasi, Eizirik and Sanchéz-Chiong in conversation.