Essay by Holger Schulze, professor of musicology at the University of Copenhagen. Can you hear the coronavirus? What does it sound like? Recently, some compositions which used data gathered from the coronavirus, stirred up some conversations among listeners, composers, musicians, scientists, engineers, and artists: the “Proteine Counterpoint Sonification”.

In memory of DJ Rashad’s untimely death 6 years back on this day, we publish a feature that celebrates nasty snares and extralingual phonetics and also portrays some of the main artists of the footwork genre, including Teklife and also Rashad himself. Læs resten

An essay about pop music and the climate crisis with Grimes as a case study. “Miss Anthropocene” is out now on 4AD. Written by Macon Holt. Grimes, Claire Boucher, C, or indeed the eponymous “Miss Anthropocene”, has gone to a lot of trouble to invent alter egos for herself as a part of her creative practice. But reading the swathe of not-mad-but-disappointed reviews of ...

By Macon Holt “If no one fits in,” said Martin Messell to me in his studio in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, “then maybe we don’t have to worry about fitting in.” We were talking about the concept behind his first album under his surname as an artist’s moniker, “Ligesom Rigtige Mennesker”. In translation, the title has a certain ambiguity as it can mean either “just like ...

Passive/Aggressives seneste printudgivelse, “Steve Goodman: Sonisk krigsførelse”, er en oversættelse af kapitlet “13.7 milliard f.kr.: Vibrationskraftens ontologi” fra Goodmans epokegørende bog Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (MIT Press). Udgivelsen rummer foruden oversættelsen af Goodman et essay af Macon Holt, hvori han introducerer Goodmans vibrerende univers. Vi bringer her et uddrag af dette essay.

Af Emil GrarupProducer og musiker Anton Lenander udgav d. 14. februar sit andet udspil under aliasset Ingrate på det københavnske pladeselskab Anyines. EP’en, som hedder ”With A System in Mind”, er et bastungt konglomerat af techno, IDM og jungle og har – ligesom sin forløber, singlen ”Crypto Poser/The Enigma” på Oli XL’s selskab W-I – en eksperimenterende og legesyg indstilling til de førnævnte ...

Feature/Interview by Macon Holt “Danish politics are the mother of this record”, Peter Voss-Knude told me in a small cafe around the corner from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, where his new exhibition, “The Anti-Terror Album”, manifest both as an exhibition and a record, has just opened. He is of course referring both to recent policies that have seen threats of refugees having whatever ...

Randi Pontoppidan & Christian Rønn “Head¨Space” (Chant Records, 2020) – review by Giuseppe Pisano This record came as an unexpected surprise to me. Two very prolific Danish artists, Randi Pontoppidan and Christian Rønn, bring us a collaborative album that feels like a natural musical experience, maieutically emerging from some sort of metaphysical connection and then shared to the audience, rather than a planned out, structured album ...

Af Viktor Retoft, redaktør på Balthazar – tidsskrift for filmkritik. Da jeg oprindeligt så Mati Diops “Atlantics” var noget af det første, der slog mig, filmens soundtrack. Filmen begynder realistisk, næsten dokumentarisk, med en afbildning af senegalesiske konstruktionsarbejdere, der klager over manglende lønudbetaling. Da soundtracket første gang optræder, skabes der et auditivt kontrapunkt til denne – ved første øjekast – realistiske, visuelle fremstilling af ...