Passive/Aggressive
Passive Aggressive Conversations #2: Alto Aria
Podcast April 17 2024
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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 ...
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MINU: Festival for Expanded Music 2023
Blog Kritik December 8 2023
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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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The Bottomless Anxiety of Holding on to Anything – The Lake’s Works for Radio 2023
Blog March 14 2023
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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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Holly Herndon – More-than-human, non-human, inhuman
Kritik May 24 2019
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Holly Herndon “PROTO” (4AD, 2019) – review by Mikkel Rørbo
When it comes to Holly Herndon’s third album, “PROTO”, all anyone wants to talk about, it seems, is artificial intelligence. It’s everywhere at the moment; in my own work as well, which is why I thought I’d find it ever so compelling. But really, to just focus on this one conceptual aspect ...
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Eartheater – Live in Copenhagen
May 20 2019
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Live report by Cameron Pagett
Most of the crowd have finished their food in the lounge outside of Alice CPH on a mild and breezy spring afternoon. I nibble at a half-eaten chocolate chip cookie just after introductions to Alexandra Drewchin (Eartheater) and her harp expert travel mate, Marilu. It’s been only a couple minutes and we are already discussing the possibility of having my assistant, who also happens to be an opera singer, join her randomly for ...
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SAD PIANO – The First Sounds of “Final Ears”
Kritik May 17 2019
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Sad Piano “Final Ears” (Anyines, 2019) – Review by Macon Holt
The debut EP from Sad Piano, “Final Ears”, is a festival of digital delights but after that one drink, line or pill too many. There are moments on this record, particularly on the title track, that sound like the most atrociously cheesy MIDI jingles. But then, seconds later, these jingles are dragged through some kind ...
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sega bodega & CPH Power – More than a show
April 29 2019
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Reportage and photographs by Cameron Pagett
The room of Pumpehuset’s main stage is empty. Empty but for two zany lighting technicians playing DJ to a pair of blinking strobes. On the main stage, there is a metal bar holding a tapestry of thin, vertical, clear plastic panels, which hold a keyboard in a tiny enclosure surrounded by LED lamps quaintly behind them. Directly to the right ...
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Xiu Xiu – the return of Experimental-Californian-post-art-noise-indie to Copenhagen
Kritik April 1 2019
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Preview by Macon Holt
I remember back in like 2007, I met a girl at a party in some rural part of northern England so far from anything else that I think the house I was in was the village in its entirety. I found her really compelling but, as this was the phase of my life best summed by the phase “a shyness ...
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The Caretaker – Everything finally slips away
Kritik Most read March 23 2019
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The Caretaker “Everywhere at the end of time—Part 6” from History Always Favours the Winners. Review by Macon Holt.
The Caretaker is no more. After being afflicted with Alzheimer’s almost three years ago by his creator, James Leyland Kirby (also known as V/Vm), he has finally succumbed to his illness with the release of “Everywhere At The End Of Time—Stage 6”. Back in ...
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