Clarissa Connelly – Fine fortællinger (mixtape + interview)
Mixtape
June 8 2018, af sandra
Mix af Clarissa Cornelly, interview af Sandra S. Borch
“Clarissa Connelly bevæger sig i en tvetydig stemning og formår i den grad at berolige lytteren med et moderne elektronisk take på klassisk singer/songwriter-kultur”. Sådan skrev Theo Nymark i forbindelse med Connellys debutudgivelse fra 2015. Dette er stadig meget sigende for Clarissa Connellys stil og lyd på det nyligt udgivne bånd “Tech Duinn”, som svinger fra fine ...
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Louise Alenius – “Ordet nu er det allerstørste ord for mig” (interview)
Feature
June 6 2018, af mikkelarre
Af Peter Jørgensen
Louise Alenius (f. 1978) har de seneste 15 år arbejdet som komponist i et spændingsfelt mellem klassisk musik, scenekunst og performance. Hendes miniatureserie “Porøset” – som består af intime værker opført for én tilhører ad gangen – samt sidste års roste og hædrede kammeropera “Silent Zone” – tematisk centreret omkring en incestramt familie – har været med til at skabe hende et ry ...
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Click Festival – No breaks allowed (a live report)
May 30 2018, af passive/aggressive
Click Festival 2018, 19.5 @ Kulturværftet, Helsingør. Reportage by Ivna Franic. Photos by Cameron Pagett.
Upon arrival to Helsingør, little gives away that there is a cutting edge music and art festival going on in the city that weekend. On a warm Saturday afternoon the city feels more like a mecca for pensioners, tourist groups on their day trips and Swedes coming over to buy somewhat cheaper alcohol. Once you reach Kulturhavn Kronborg, things start to look a bit different albeit still quite tame. The crowd is slowly gathering for Click − a contemporary art, science and technology festival. Læs resten
Click Festival 2018 – a photo reportage
May 21 2018, af passive/aggressive
Chino Amobi, Amnesia Scanner, Rabit feat. Cecilia and Søs Gunver Ryberg at Click Festival 2018 at Kulturværftet Helsingør.
All photos by Cameron Pagett. (Review coming up…)
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U.S. Girls – Sororal Feelings (in Copenhagen)
May 18 2018, af passive/aggressive
U.S. Girls @ Hotel Cecil, May 6th 2018 – live review by Ivna Franic.
So apparently 2018 is the year I finally get to see some of my old underground heroes such as Félicia Atkinson, Circuit des Yeux and U.S. Girls live for the first time. About a decade since they’ve started out as experimental solo outings, some of them have gradually evolved into ...
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Moor Mother – Haunting the present with a DIY Time Machine
Feature
May 17 2018, af sandra
By Sandra S. Borch
The revolutionary thinking of Camae Ayewa also known as Moor Mother explores time travel while distorting history as she haunts the presents with her performances spanning from the incisive spoken word, punk attitude and free improvisation. Passive/Aggressive gives an introduction to her work, ahead of her appearance at the forthcoming edition of Click Festival in Elsinor and her return to ...
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Et Andet Sted – Making space for freedom of expression in nightlife (interview)
May 14 2018, af passive/aggressive
Interview by Cameron Pagett
An exciting and exclusive sit-down with the men (Thobias Molter, Sebastian Henriksen, Máni Sigurdarson, Mathias Stoffersen, and Søren Kinch) who have started one of Copenhagen’s favourite and most interesting club for DIY Electronic music. In a little under two years past Et Andet Sted started with the goal to bring a Berlin feel to the Copenhagen club scene, and create a safe ...
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Not Your World Music: Noise in South East Asia – Artist talk with Cedrik Fermont
May 5 2018, af passive/aggressive
Transcription by Simon Christensen and Javier Orozco.
Not Your World Music: Noise in South East Asia is a book by Cedrik Fermont and Dimitri della Faille about art, politics, identity, gender and global capitalism. From academic electronic music to do-it-yourself noise in Southeast Asia. Contemporary and past noise, electroacoustic, industrial, experimental music ...
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Passive/Aggressive – New nonprofit zine on activism in contemporary music
April 30 2018, af passive/aggressive
The seventh edition of the ZINE by Passive/Aggressive, which deals with the complex relation between music and politics, is released in April 2018 and distributed at production price.
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