Organ Sound Art Festival – adventurous organs in contemporary music
Blog January 10 2024
Report by Mikkel Schou, photo by Ross Adams
Finding out what the yearly Organ Sound Art festival is about is actually hard. Beyond social media marketing and the year’s program, there’s not much information online. A casual glance at the program reveals that the scope of the festival is ambitious. Premiers of newly commissioned works every day are presented together with a host of ...
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MINU: Festival for Expanded Music 2023
Blog Kritik December 8 2023
Current Resonance, “Á la Carte”. Photo: Bea Vanhala
Minu Festival, November 15 – 19, 2023 – Review by Macon Holt
Over five days in mid-November, the third iteration of “MINU: Festival for Expanded Music” was held in Copenhagen. The programme features a huge range of performances including more conventional contemporary classical concerts, music theatre, installation works, experiments with cake, workshops and conference ...
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Festival of Endless Gratitude – en fejring af det anderledes, som vi kender det
Feature November 9 2023
Reportage og fotos af Jon Albjerg Ravnholt.
Den alternative københavnske musikscene ligner sig selv, den har bare fået smilerynker og givet slip på sig selv for at danse løs. Første weekend i november samlede Festival of Endless Gratitude for 15. gang den udvidede venneflok til et eklektisk mix af lydkunst, støjrock, oldgammel folkemusik og acid house fra hele verden.
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Struer Tracks – Environmental crises and spiritual experiences through the perspective of sound art
Blog October 2 2023
By Mikkel Schou, photos by Mateusz Szot
On paper, Struer Tracks is a bit of a radical experiment. A sound art biennale with a host of experimental and international artists in a small and remote port town in West Jutland seems unlikely to be a smash hit. Traveling to Struer, I wondered how big of a crowd previous iterations of Struer Tracks ...
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Frigjort Festival – Mangfoldighed, løse hunde og et hamrende skarpt undergrunds-lineup
Blog August 30 2023
Reportage af Simon Lund Pedersen, billeder af Niclas Bjerre Hawkesworth
Mine forventninger til Frigjort Festival var på sit højeste, inden jeg satte mine ben på Christiania på festivalens første dag. Et sprudlende musikprogram og en aggressiv tilstedeværelse på de sociale medier har i dagene op til gjort det umuligt for mig ikke at have festivalen på hjernen. At bevæge sig langsomt gennem ...
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Utopi eller apokalypse? – refleksioner efter fire dage på Roskilde Festival (del 1)
Blog July 10 2023
Mathias Schønberg tager dig i denne første del af en reportage med gennem refleksioner over Roskilde Festival. Fungerer festivalen som udviklingsrum for utopier, som den siger, den vil, eller som fuck-det-hele-fest?
(Roskilde Festival pressefoto: Vegard S.Kristiansen)
Min ven spurgte mig for nogle måneder siden, “skal vi ikke tage på Roskilde?” Jeg var overrasket over spørgsmålet. Vi er begge voksne og har ligesom været igennem ...
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Intonal Festival 2023 – Bold Choices
Blog May 17 2023
Intonal Festival, 26th–30th of April, Malmö. Review by Ivna Franic, Photos by Camilla Rehnstrand
Malmö’s Intonal Festival has made it a part of its image to present lineups that don’t necessarily fit the usual European festival mold. At first glance, the festival’s 2023 program gave the impression that the curators were either extremely daring or knew their audience very well. Or, who ...
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The Bottomless Anxiety of Holding on to Anything – The Lake’s Works for Radio 2023
Blog March 14 2023
Works for Radio, 7th of March at Cinemateket – Review by Macon Holt
Radio art is at once very open and very particular. On one level, it is simply sound art on the radio. But putting sound art on the radio has historically given it another level as it implies a tangible relationship to the institutions of mass media and the media consumption habits of millions ...
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Laila Sakini and Thomas Bush – Tangible Intimacy
Blog March 13 2023
After a quiet winter period that offered very few exciting gigs, March has seen the new concert season kick off in full swing. FELT – the Copenhagen-based record label/promoter entity run by Perko – provided a real treat last Thursday in the form of a double bill featuring Laila Sakini and Thomas Bush.
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