Passive/Aggressive

Organ Sound Art Festival – Investigating the Organ (interview)

Feature December 11 2024, af Ivna Franic

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 ...

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Ingri Høyland – musikalske perler fra den store snørepose (mix)

Mixtape October 10 2024, af Alexander Julin

Foto: Mads Krue Bugge Af Alexander Julin Mortensen Den norske komponist og lydkunstner Ingri Høylands værker adresserer tematikker såsom opløsningen af grænsen mellem det menneskelige og kunstige gennem et kunstnerisk udtryk, som sammenvæver syntetiske og akustiske lyde og sammenblander vokal, droner og minimalistisk elektronisk musik. Høyland arbejder ofte tværdisciplinært og skaber musik til bl.a. installationsværker for dans, udstillinger og soundtracks. I 2023 udgav ...

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Ambient connections – Danish soundscapes and Waking Life reflections

Feature July 26 2024

Article and pictures by Juliette Thouin In Ocean of Sound (1995), sound artist and music theorist David Toop gives an alternative history of ambient music that weaves together an immensely disparate array of sounds, genres, styles, stories, and eras. Going from Debussy to Sun Ra to Aphex to Lee Perry to Arthur Russell, it’s a story of experimental (and technological) music’s journey across the twentieth century. A particularly engaging aspect of Toop’s theory is his departure from ambient’s strict ...

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