Essay by Macon Holt

Capitalist Realism is a book about how to understand a context. This context is an inflection point between history, political economy, society, culture, bodies and aesthetics. The fact that Mark was British and lived in Britain his whole life probably played a role in this too. There is something special about the kind of despair that emerges in a place haunted by the fading memories, the atrophying institutions and the regressive values of a fading empire. This is the kind of place where, following the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the triumph of liberal market capitalism over, what some have called, communism, the declaration of history’s end was also the start of, what Mark called, “the slow cancellation of the future”. Læs resten

Jeppe Zeeberg and the Absolute Pinnacle of Human Achievement (som foruden kapelmesteren selv tæller f.v. Henrik Olsson, Søren Høi og Casper Nyvang Rask) står for omkring halvdelen af numrene på The Full Experience. Foto: Malthe Folke Ivarsson. Jeppe Zeeberg “The Full Experience” (selvudgivet, 2021) – anmeldelse af Jeppe Zeeberg Der er noget næsten demonstrativt selvrefererende over Jeppe Zeebergs nye album. Musikken handler om musik, den refererer andres musik, ...

A few years ago, the Danish Composers’ Society (Dansk Komponistforening) conducted a survey, which confirmed that opera houses, orchestras, ensembles, etc. are, in our eyes, playing far too little new music, and that female composers are grossly underrepresented. After the review was made public, I was asked in an interview whether I could hear a difference in music made by women and men—because, if there wasn’t actually a difference, then it didn’t make sense, in the eyes and ears of the interviewer, to single out or advocate for music made by women. That was, of course, a provocation, but can you point to any differences in music made by women and men?

“The Unknown Inside Us” is a conversation between composers Marcela Lucatelli and Bent Sørensen about the current state of diversity in Danish institutions. Læs resten

Gabestok “Én gang rådden, altid rådden” (Strange Aeons Records, 2021) – anmeldelse af Daniel Niebuhr Det er – selv på Gabestoks andet fuldlængdeudspil – stadig svært at begribe, at Fleep og Dø er de eneste aktører i københavnerduoen. “Én gang rådden, altid rådden” føles nemlig akkurat som forgængerne “På herrens brakmark” og “Tre” større end en tomandsbedrift, hvilket munder ud i en voluminøs, gennemsmadrende opfølgning på alle ...

Antipyrine og Passive/Aggressive udgiver Mark Fisher “Kapitalistisk realisme” for første gang på dansk. Oversættelse af Mathias Ruthner med efterord af Macon Holt. Mark Fisher (1968-2017), også kendt som “k-punk”, var en engelsk kulturteoretiker, kritiker, forfatter og underviser. Hans bidrag til tidsskrifter kunne regelmæssigt læses i bl.a. Sight & Sound, frieze, New Statesman og The Wire, hvor han bl.a. var redaktør. Han underviste på Goldsmiths, University ...

Various Artists: “bag/belly/box” (Rhizome, 2021) – review by Ivna Franic “One relationship among elements in the novel may well be that of conflict, but the reduction of narrative to conflict is absurd. (I have read a how-to-write manual that said, “A story should be seen as a battle,” and went on about strategies, attacks, victory, etc). Conflict, competition, stress, struggle, etc., within the narrative conceived as carrier ...

Af Éliane Radigue

Tiden er uden betydning. Alt, der tæller, er den nødvendige varighed for en udvikling uden brud. Min musik udvikler sig organisk. Den er som en plante. Man ser aldrig en plante bevæge sig, og dog vokser den konstant. Ligesom planten, immobil, men altid voksende, er min musik aldrig stabil. Den er konstant i forandring. Men forandringerne er så små, at den næsten er umærkelig og kun bliver tydelig efterfølgende. Denne musik, som jeg oplever den, kan ikke indebære noget brud. Strukturen er meget simpel, artikuleret ved hjælp af toninger – (fade in, fade out og crossfade). Alligevel, når jeg plejede at udøve disse toninger ved brug af båndoptagere, virkede resultatet langt mere nuanceret end de digitale toninger, der bliver brugt i dag, hvilke for mig virker for mekaniske. Læs resten

Macon Holt “On Popular Music” is the latest addition to the Passive/Aggressive small prints series on contemporary music theory and sonic fiction. In this series:Macon Holt “On Popular Music” (2021)Pauline Oliveros “Bryd stilheden” (2021)Steve Goodman “Sonisk krigsførelse” (2020)Éliane Radigue “Tiden er uden betydning” (2019)“K-Punk: Or how Mark Fisher intensifies the political possibilities of music” (2019) In On Popular Music (a title appropriated from an ...

Tekst af Claus Haxholm

Dette batch består af Bysund: “Darklands” C20, Bysund: “the new Bysund tape” C20, Yearling: “Irresponsible Music” C20 og udkom ved årsskiftet 2020/2021. De to Bysund-bånd er selvudgivet af Karl Zinn Hansen, Yearling-båndet er skabt af Mathias August og udgivet i samarbejde med Aarhus-labelet Partners.  Læs resten