Gianluca Elia & Lorenzo Colocci – LSWR. Photo: Tobias Nicolai. By Macon Holt MINU is an annual festival for what it terms “expanded music”. That is music that simultaneously rejects the necessity of the conventions of the “Western musical tradition” and the commitment to vanguardist or inscent progressivism of a label like Avant Grade while pursuing new ways of music making. However, in ...

Photo: Jan Høgh Stricker Interview with Jan Høgh Stricker, curator of Organ Sound Art Festival, by Ivna Franić Having settled comfortably into its mid-December slot, the Organ Sound Art Festival has come to present Copenhagen’s experimental music heads’ favorite way to close out the concert and festival year. First started in 2016, the festival takes place at Nørrebro’s KoncertKirken, taking advantage of the ...

Photo: Bureau for Listening By Bureau for Listening Today, Passive/Aggressive shares a guest post by the Danish artist and research group Bureau for Listening, in which they consider which resources can be derived from failure when listening to others, ourselves and the world we inhabit. At Bureau for Listening, we would like to propose, practice and continue to reformulate failure as an essential strategy ...

Photos: Niclas Hawkesworth & FOEG Festival of Endless Gratitude, 3.-5.10.2024., Kildevæld Kulturcenter The Festival of Endless Gratitude (FOEG) doesn’t give a fuck. It opens with a lecture on an organ tone archive, followed by performances of WWII partisan resistance songs. It books a spoken-word performance of a fable in Italian. It takes a collective dinner break in the middle of the ...

Foto: Helene Bozzi By Alexander Julin MortensenOver the last 10 years, the Saudi-Arabic, Paris-based artist Abdullah Miniawy has become a unique and internationally well-known figure in experimental and electronic music. While he was already an acknowledged actor and writer before then, it was his musical endeavour as a singer and composer which made many, myself included, aware of his artistic practice. Miniawy’s singing, ...

Foto: Flemming Bo Jensen Live review by Ivna Franic Much like the 2023 program, this year’s Strøm Festival balanced between two extremes: the party – as expected of an electronic music festival, and the meditation. On the one hand, the festival featured its now-traditional metro party Trans-Metro Express as well as several other club music events, while on the other it presented events ...

Valentina Magaletti. Photo: Manuel Berger By Macon Holt As a committed non-camper, I arrived at Roskilde 2024, my first time at the festival, on Thursday afternoon. It had been a long time since I had been such a festival. When I camped at Glastonbury in 2011, I sort of felt I had reached the peak of excitement and discomfort such festivals had to offer, so ...

By Maite Cintron. Photos by Marie-Christin Henkelmann. Earlier this year, the two independent venues Ny Lille Klub and Motopol closed down after apromixtaly a year. This led to many critical reflections about the conditions for smaller and non-commercial venues in Copenhagen and in which ways it might be possible to coorporate more fruitfully with the municipality about securing such spaces in the ...

Maite Cintron, with Ivna Franic and Macon Holt Passive Aggressive Conversations is our new podcast series hosted by two Passive/Aggressive journalists, Macon Holt and Ivna Franic, where we dive deep into some of the emerging sounds within the Danish music scene and their unique forms of expression. In each episode, we sit down with an exciting new independent artist, and they share their creative ...