John Cage

Amerikansk komponist, filosof, digter, musikteoretiker og svampeekspert. Pionér inden for tilfældighedsmusik, elektronisk musik og alternativ brug af musikinstrumenter. Cage var en af de ledende skikkelser i efterkrigs-avantgarden. Anmeldere har udråbt ham som en af de mest indflydelsesrige amerikanske komponister i det 20. århundrede. (fra wikipedia.org)

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Gender, Canon, and Eastern European Women Pioneers of 20th-century Electronic Music

Valentina Goncharova. © Shukai / Quietus
24. november 2024 – Feminist readings of 20th-century electronic music history cannot avoid questioning the notion of canon and canon-oriented historiographical practices. Shedding light on women composers from non-Western contexts can further come in handy in searching for ways to engage with the history of gender in music beyond mainstreaming and the rhetoric of exceptionalism.
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  • Marta Beszterda van Vliet
kritik

How we learned to love repetition

Giorgio Moroder. © PR
13. Februar 2024 – There are very few forces as powerful as insistent repetition. The German media critic Tilman Baumgärtel has written a poetic, knowledgeable and surprising book about the loop.
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  • Sune Anderberg
kritik

Hvordan vi lærte at elske gentagelsen

13. Februar 2024 – Der findes ganske få kræfter, der er så stærke som den insisterende gentagelse. Den tyske mediekritiker Tilman Baumgärtel har skrevet en poetisk, vidende og overraskende bog om loopet.
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  • Sune Anderberg
reportage

Do you feel the vibration?

© Katarzyna Kukiełka
8. Februar 2024 – Heaven, hell, love and country – life’s biggest mysteries were studied at the Polish festival Sacrum Profanum. And it ended well for two Danes.
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  • Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

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