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Phil Hebblethwaite invites you into Brahms’s German Requiem, one of the worst-named pieces of classical music in the canon. It has nothing to do with nationalism, or the church, and should have been called what Brahms later suggested: A Human Requiem. It couldn’t be more relevant in 2017
Ahead of his appearance at Unsound Adelaide, German dance music producer Erik Wiegand talks about pulling song titles from articles on dating sites, sculpting hyperbolic sounds and his first new solo album in 13 years, Superlative Fatigue
Wayne McGregor has created a dance work based on his own DNA, with music by JLin. In this interview, shortly after the premiere of Autobiography, McGregor talks to Suze Olbrich about codes, stories, spaces, and the nature of live-ness.
For the latest edition of our electronic music round-up, Christian Eede assesses the oversaturated market of large venues competing to book certain acts, while also reviewing new releases from Pauline Anna Strom (pictured), LOFT, Joe, Toresch and more