Pernille Abd-El Dayem – At give værket en ny krop (interview)
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April 29 2018, af sandra
Af Ida Selvejer Faaborg
Pernille Abd-El Dayem udgav tidligere i april sin anden bog, “June”. Det er socialrealisme, af den drømmende slags, om relationer, ensomhed, kærligheden til det ødelagte og ønsket om at kunne holde sammen på sig selv. Et par uger inden udgivelsen af “June” blev noget så bemærkelsesværdigt som en titelsang til bogen offentliggjort. Sangen ”Beige Mur Med Z” er lavet af June Orchestra ...
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Zone Collective – Thoughts on how to transgress the algorithms (interview)
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April 27 2018, af passive/aggressive
By Simon Christensen – Photo: Stole it from your Facebook, sorry!
Contributing to a warm and immigration friendly climate in the musical underground, the electronic- and avantgarde-scenes of Copenhagen have been a hub for a lot of great people stopping by Denmark for longer or shorter periods of time. It’s not necessarily a public secret, but, to me at least, it’s something to bear in ...
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Rewire Festival – Crossing decades and genres with Laurie Anderson (and then going into the dark)
April 17 2018, af mikkelarre
Rewire Festival, The Hague, Netherlands, April 6-8 2018 – live report by Mette Slot Johnsen. Photo by Pieter Kers, Rewire.
In its 8th year Rewire Festival – The Hague’s festival for adventurous music – is adding a new concept to the already progressive programming. The Artist In Focus strand is the festival’s attempt to go further in-depth with two selected artists; ...
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Intonal Festival – En fejring af eksperimentel musik i alle former (interview)
April 11 2018, af Alexander Julin
Af Alexander Julin
Intonal Festival startede i 2014 med en hjælpende hånd fra bl.a. CTM Festival og Unsound. Festivalen er med årene blevet et mere selvstændigt foretagende, hvis kuratering vidner om en særegen profil, der ikke blot er sammenfaldende med de aktører, der i sin tid bidrog til at etablere Intonal. For fjerde år er Intonal med til at sætte Malmö på landkortet og derved ...
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The Empire Line – The Oslo report
April 8 2018, af passive/aggressive
Reportage from The Empire Line, Varg, Croatian Amor, Vanity Productions at Blå, Oslo, 22.03.2018. Text and images by Cameron Pagett.
There is a river which runs through the heart of Oslo. Beginning in the mountains and trickling its way down from the Artic sea on the northern tip of our continent, past fjords and craggy peaks which carve the stocking shaped country’s landscape into ...
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Physically Sick 2 – Music and medicine against legally administered poverty
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April 5 2018, af mikkelarre
By Emil Néné Rasmussen
In the always peculiar legal world of the USA, a particularly odd system is set in motion almost every time someone is held in custody or otherwise detained. The system is called bail, and it is the procedure of letting the detained person pay a deposit to the court in return for being released until their trial. While the exact cost of ...
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MaerzMusik – Deconstructed and recomposed (a live report)
April 4 2018, af sandra
From minimalistic set up to extraordinary executing on the stages. This year’s edition of the annual festival MaerzMusik in Berlin was a hydra of different kinds of political critique of modern culture through contemporary music and sound. Sandra S. Borch highlights a carefully selected set ...
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Yves Tumor – Perfectly unpredictable (live report)
April 2 2018, af passive/aggressive
Yves Tumor, Khalil, Scandinavian Star and Soho Rezanejad hosted by Lowlife Scum and Knife Magazine at Mayhem 23.3.2018. Review and all photos by Cameron Pagett.
“Don’t fuck with my shield! Don’t fuck with my shield! …”
It’s the fourth and final set on a crowded Mayhem night and the headliner Yves Tumor has broken or rather, ripped his way through his plastic cage which ...
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Shelter Press – I ambientmusikkens randområder
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March 31 2018, af emilgrarup
Introduktion til Shelter Press af Emil Grarup
Shelter Press er, som de selv kalder det, en “kuratoriel platform” for udgivelse af kunstnerbøger, lydkunst og eksperimentalmusik. Selskabet er baseret i de franske alper og blev grundlagt i 2011 af forlægger Bartolomé Sanson og billed- og lydkunstner Félicia Atkinson. Shelter Press har fået en del opmærksomhed på det seneste, især på grund af Félicia Atkinsons enigmatiske ...
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