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Supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, MINU returns in 2025 for its fifth edition, presenting six days of contemporary music and musical theater at the crossover of sound, performance, and technology. This year’s festival promises a lineup of premieres and performances by composers from Denmark, the Nordic countries, and beyond.

Key themes of MINU 2025 include the relationship between technology, lifestyle, and virtual or physical environments; musical virtuosity as a form of athleticism; critical perspectives on gender in Western art history—through queer, post-gender, and post-human lenses; and the visibility of musical objects, from notation and software to instruments and bodies.

Program highlights include Ex-silens, a work using cochlear implants and AI hearing algorithms to explore non-normative sensory experience; We Are Pleased to Meet Us, a “gaming concert” blending live music, video, and esports in a game café setting; A Gazing Grace by Marcela Lucatelli and Michael Hope, an all-night music-theater work reversing the gaze and the role of women in traditional Western art; and Panic Diaries by Frej Wedlund, exploring the trauma and disorienting surreality of panic attacks through cassette players, video, and live musicians. Alongside the performances are MINU.LAB, in which an experimental podcast is workshopped as an artistic piece, and the MINU_compositions_lab, a platform for young composers to explore new perspectives on contemporary composition.

Further Information:
minufestival.info

Dates

November 26–30, 2025
Various event locations, Copenhagen