Collage by N.E.Girl The following is an excerpt from our newly released Festskrift IV. A collection of reflections around the phenomenon of RHYTHM – written, illustrated and recorded by musicians, graphic designers, DJ’s and multidisciplinary artists. N.E.Girl is a UK bass DJ blending styles from different underground scenes. She is also one third of the Copenhagen based label Solumn Records and a resident ...

August Rosenbaum og Cæcilie Trier, foto: Ea Verdoner Redigeret af Mikkel Arre August Rosenbaum og Cæcilie Trier er velkendte skikkelser på den uafhængige københavnske musikscene som komponister og sangskrivere, instrumentalister og producere. Både i eget navn og som akkompagnatører har de fundet eget land et sted mellem det elektroniske og det nyklassiske, det improviserede og det komponerede. Nu er de sammen aktuelle med en ny ...

Reportage af Alexander Julin Mortensen, foto af Brian Kure Kontorbygningen Neroport slår mig som et pragteksemplar på nymoderne og fremmedgørende arkitektur. Ligesom Fields på den anden side af gaden ligner bygningen mest af alt et hjem for ting eller transaktioner snarere end et sted, hvor mennesker hører til. Derfor overrasker det mig også, at det netop er her, jeg ender, da jeg d. 21. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...