Prison ReligionPhoto by Stine Sophie Winckel Click Festival 2019, 18-19th of May @ Kulturværftet, Helsingør – reportage by Ivna Franic. Taking place one weekend in May, Helsingør’s Click Festival presents a tight selection of music and art performances, talks, installations and screenings spread over two days. Now in its ninth year, the latest edition of Click saw the music program cutting down on headliners more than ever ...

Af Alexander Julin Mortensen Natal Zaks er en umådeligt produktiv elektronisk musiker, der efterhånden ikke længere kræver den store introduktion. Som involveret i pladeselskaberne Help, Regelbau, No Hands, SAINO m.fl., og aktiv i gruppen Maizena og soloprojekterne Alle, Central, El Trick, Timeman og Palta har Zaks i senere år været én af de drivende kræfter bag aarhusiansk housemusik, der med rette har fået ros ...

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 ...

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 ...

Foto: Josefine Seifert Ydegirl “words woozy in the breeze” (Escho, 2019) – Interview af Nils Bloch-Sørensen For nogle uger siden udgav Ydegirl nummeret “words woozy in the breeze” med tilhørende video. Nummeret, der er forløber for et album, som udkommer til september, er en afsøgning af både sprogets og blikkets intime møder. I forbindelse med udgivelsen stillede vi Novél et par spørgsmål, der blev besvaret i ...

Intonal Festival, Malmö, April 24-28 – live report by Astrid Hald & Laura Juncker Malmö’s annual Intonal Festival for experimental and electronic music celebrated its 5th edition by presenting a packed programme of acclaimed experimental artists and immersive sound experiences. For five days Inkonst – the city’s independent venue for experimental music and performance – was transformed into a lively red-and-black hub, where the friendly crowd ...

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 ...

Foto: Nanna Kolborg Jensen Musik Til Mor “ζωή” (Aftenrutine, 2019) – Interview af Nils Bloch-Sørensen I dag udkommer Musik Til Mors niende album, “ζωή” [zåæh]. Et langt stream of consciousness fatamorgana, der langsomt borer sig ind i hjertet af det spirituelle. Albummet er overstrøet med litterære og bibelske referencer og uddrag, der blander sig med de sagte toner, der visse steder giver mindelser om Under ...

Exhibition “Bjerget Synger. Lydmaler Knud Viktor og hans verden”  at The Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde (January 18-April 28 2019) and LP “Les Éphémères” and EP “Le petit Duc” by Knud Viktor (The Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology, 2019) – Review by Laura Juncker In the wake of his passing in 2013, the life’s work of the sound artist, Knud Viktor, has resurfaced in ...