Report by Mikkel Schou, photo by Ross Adams Finding out what the yearly Organ Sound Art festival is about is actually hard. Beyond social media marketing and the year’s program, there’s not much information online. A casual glance at the program reveals that the scope of the festival is ambitious. Premiers of newly commissioned works every day are presented together with a host of ...

Current Resonance, “Á la Carte”. Photo: Bea Vanhala Minu Festival, November 15 – 19, 2023 – Review by Macon Holt Over five days in mid-November, the third iteration of “MINU: Festival for Expanded Music” was held in Copenhagen. The programme features a huge range of performances including more conventional contemporary classical concerts, music theatre, installation works, experiments with cake, workshops and conference ...

Reportage og fotos af Jon Albjerg Ravnholt. Den alternative københavnske musikscene ligner sig selv, den har bare fået smilerynker og givet slip på sig selv for at danse løs. Første weekend i november samlede Festival of Endless Gratitude for 15. gang den udvidede venneflok til et eklektisk mix af lydkunst, støjrock, oldgammel folkemusik og acid house fra hele verden.

By Mikkel Schou, photos by Mateusz Szot On paper, Struer Tracks is a bit of a radical experiment. A sound art biennale with a host of experimental and international artists in a small and remote port town in West Jutland seems unlikely to be a smash hit. Traveling to Struer, I wondered how big of a crowd previous iterations of Struer Tracks ...

Reportage af Simon Lund Pedersen, billeder af Niclas Bjerre Hawkesworth Mine forventninger til Frigjort Festival var på sit højeste, inden jeg satte mine ben på Christiania på festivalens første dag. Et sprudlende musikprogram og en aggressiv tilstedeværelse på de sociale medier har i dagene op til gjort det umuligt for mig ikke at have festivalen på hjernen. At bevæge sig langsomt gennem ...

Mathias Schønberg tager dig i denne første del af en reportage med gennem refleksioner over Roskilde Festival. Fungerer festivalen som udviklingsrum for utopier, som den siger, den vil, eller som fuck-det-hele-fest? (Roskilde Festival pressefoto: Vegard S.Kristiansen) Min ven spurgte mig for nogle måneder siden, “skal vi ikke tage på Roskilde?” Jeg var overrasket over spørgsmålet. Vi er begge voksne og har ligesom været igennem ...

Intonal Festival, 26th–30th of April, Malmö. Review by Ivna Franic, Photos by Camilla Rehnstrand Malmö’s Intonal Festival has made it a part of its image to present lineups that don’t necessarily fit the usual European festival mold. At first glance, the festival’s 2023 program gave the impression that the curators were either extremely daring or knew their audience very well. Or, who ...

Works for Radio, 7th of March at Cinemateket – Review by Macon Holt Radio art is at once very open and very particular. On one level, it is simply sound art on the radio. But putting sound art on the radio has historically given it another level as it implies a tangible relationship to the institutions of mass media and the media consumption habits of millions ...

After a quiet winter period that offered very few exciting gigs, March has seen the new concert season kick off in full swing. FELT – the Copenhagen-based record label/promoter entity run by Perko – provided a real treat last Thursday in the form of a double bill featuring Laila Sakini and Thomas Bush.