In Situ Festival – Taking the audience on a journey (interview)
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May 1 2024, af Ivna Franc
By Ivna Franic
In Situ Festival is back, scheduled for this coming Friday and Saturday. While the festival’s first edition, which took place in late 2022, explored the possibilities of different venues in Ørestad, this time In Situ will take place exclusively at Simian. This year’s festival features exciting international names such as Jana Rush, Moritz von Oswald presenting ‘Silencio’, the Lucy ...
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claire rousay – “You can’t really help what affects you” (interview)
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April 11 2023, af Ivna Franc
Interview by Ivna Franić
When I caught up with claire rousay via Zoom the other week before she embarked on her tour, it was early morning in LA and late afternoon here in Copenhagen. While I was tired from a long day of working, she was just getting started with her day, and that included working on her music. Hardly surprising, I ...
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Kirstine Lindemann – Movement that carries an inner state
February 14 2020, af nilsbloch
Performance recommendation by Macon Holt
Later this month, Danish composer, performer and recorder player, Kirstine Lindemann, will start a tour of Denmark to showcase a collection of both earlier and new compositions with collaborators Yiran Zhao and Irene Bianco amongst others. Known for previous work such as the piece Breath (2018) and her ongoing project with Zhao, OTHER EYE, Lindemann is an artist who’s ...
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Idealistic Festival – First edition of an artist-driven exchange programme (mixtape)
Mixtape
October 11 2019, af passive/aggressive
Szymon Gąsiorek
By Simon Christensen
The two Copenhagen-based Polish jazz/impro-players Kamil Piotrowicz and Szymon Gąsiorek present the first edition of the international Idealistic Festival, which take place in two parts in Copenhagen and Warsaw respectively next week. The festival focus is cross-cultural exchange of independent artists and labels from the new generation of freethinking musicians and could be viewed along the lines of similar initiatives like Multiversal ...
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Ata Ebtekar aka Sote – Rethinking traditional acoustics with a cross-cultural mind set (interview)
October 10 2019, af passive/aggressive
Sote. Photo by Arash Bolouri
Interview by Sandra S. Borch
“I get up early in the morning around 5:30 am, I go for a walk in nature, do some sound programming for a short while, take my son to preschool, and then I go to my office to work on my compositions,” Ata Ebtekar says. It sounds like a standard everyday but the results of ...
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Pia Raug – Ekspedition til de uudforskede pletter på musikhistoriens landkort
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October 9 2019, af nilsbloch
Introduktion af Anders Jørgen Mogensen.
Pia Raug står for mig som en af de mest fremsynede og radikale sangskrivere i landet. Hun er bedst kendt for sangen ”Jeg vil male dagen blå”. Faktisk er den sang så velkendt, at man kan diskutere om det overhovedet stadig er Ria Raugs sang og ikke bare folkets og dets kollektive bevidsthed. Denne påstand understøttes af, at sangen ...
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Jandek – Anspændthedens cowboyspøgelse
September 9 2019, af mikkelarre
Af Mads Peder Lau Pedersen
Der stod sådan et ranglet og tyndt og blegt rødhåret spøgelse med cowboyhat på scenen en ret kold novemberaften på et ikke ret fyldt Voxhall i Aarhus dengang i 2007. Der spillede han kantet på guitar, når ikke han sad ved klaveret og gentog linjer som ”I wore a scarf in Denmark / Just like I said I would” om og om igen. ...
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Kill-Town Death Fest VII – Kontemporær død og åndsbeslægtet råddenskab (preview)
September 5 2019, af passive/aggressive
Af Klaus Q Hedegaard
Kill-Town Death Fest åbner i denne weekend portene til en blodrød overflod af kontemporær death metal og åndsbeslægtet musikalsk råddenskab i PUMPEHUSET, København.
Dødsfesten er efterhånden et internationalt anerkendt tilløbsstykke, og en anseelig del af gæsterne er derfor også tilrejsende fra hele verden – hvilket også afspejles i festivalens program, som prydes af omtrentligt 40 bands i en ubønhørlig strøm af ...
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Perfect Aesthetics showcase – ambient synth romanticism at Mayhem
February 13 2019, af Macon Holt
Preview by Ivna Franić
This Thursday at Mayhem, Moral Defeat presents a showcase from the Russian label, Perfect Aesthetics, featuring performances by Burning Pyre, Måla, Marble Bust and Ato Vari, with DJ support from Yuri. An evening of ambient synth romanticism to accidentally, or perhaps not, take place on Valentine’s day.
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