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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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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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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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