Sofie Birch & Xenia Xamanek Lopez & KhalilH2OP live på ACUD MACHT NEU (14. november, 2019) – Livereportage af Nils Bloch-Sørensen I midten af november måned havde det københavnske bookingbureau Proton kurateret en aften med tre danske elektroniske acts på det lille berlinske spillested Acud Macht Neu. Her spillede komponisterne Sofie Birch og Xenia Xamanek Lopez samt trioen KhalilH2OP radikalt forskellige, men på hver ...

Introduction by Claus Haxholm In August, Sufie Elmgreen aka. D/O Ripper and a group of vocalists gathered under the moniker, Whistleblowers Ununite, performed the piece “Harness of Patience Epics ( H.O.P.E. )” in Rundetårn [The Round Tower] in Copenhagen as part of the exhibition “A Play, A Tale”. We are happy here at Passive/Aggressive to display/present the context artworks and scores, the instructions for the ...

Essay by Macon Holt Before he was the head of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and before he was an economic advisor to French president François Mitterrand, Jacques Attali wrote a strange book that was hugely influential within peculiar circles—“Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Bruits: essai sur l’economie politique de la musique)”. The book appeared in French in the late 1970s ...

By Ivna Franic The periodic excitement over locally specific music scenes appears to be alive and well, having successfully survived the beginning of the Internet age and the still rising tendency of geographically displaced scenes. It would be a stretch to say that the functioning of local scenes has not at all changed, but despite the fact that the ability to publish music releases and build up an international fanbase have become easier, reliance on the immediate ...

Interview by Macon Holt  The small Copenhagen music platform, Anyines, was founded in 2017 by long-time members of the Danish electronic (is there any other kind) music scene, Villads Klint (Minais B) and Aske Zidore (An Gella). Based out of the administrative building for a former maintenance facility for the Danish State train company DSB, the locations of their studio has the same atmosphere ...

Essay af Oliver Laumann, redigeret af Nils Bloch Oliver Laumann er trommeslager og har været medlem af den aktitivistiske musikgruppe GP&PLS. De seneste år har bandet opereret i grænselandet mellem aktivisme og musik ved at benytte musikkens finansielle, kulturelle og sociale strukturer som et middel til at støtte og involvere flygtninge i og udenfor Europa. Læs også Passive/Aggressives interview med GP&PLS fra Serbien. Nedenstående essay ...

Johan Carøe ”zenmetal” (No Technique, 2019) – review by Wieland Rambke There is something hypnotic about the sound of sound on warped tape: When the recording begins to warble, and both speed and pitch start stumbling, a sort of micro-tuning of time is taking place. The medium itself is loosening up, it is letting go. The press text for “zenmetal”, Johan Carøe’s debut EP out on Copenhagen-based ...

Kali Malone Percy x Knife Fest, October 24th at Mayhem, Copenhagen – live report by Ivna Franić, photo by Jakub Jezný A few days before Halloween Percy Records and Knife Magazine joined forces with Alice for a night potentially dark and full of terrors, with a heavy bill featuring Puce Mary, Drew McDowall, Kali Malone and Manisdron. (The second part of their mini festival was set ...

The eighth annual, international Passive/Aggressive zine is set to be released in November as part of the program for Gong Tomorrow 2019. The zine opens with a critical essay on Brian Eno’s notion of the scenius from a materialist perspective and arguing instead for Kodwo Eshun’s conception of Interpretative Communities. Unlike the scenius, which foregrounds the capacity of this social form to produce ...