contemplative sound exploration

label manager @naturetales

Sounds by Passive/Aggressive is a Danish Free Music Archive that focuses on experimental/underground music released in Denmark on microlabels/no label.

Passive/Aggressive is an open music forum and blog based in Copenhagen, periodically releasing zines.

We support any initiative that renews the way people listen to, and talk and write about music in Denmark that makes it easier to navigate and listen to even supposedly challenging music (open, free, Danish and international) – and any ideology serving the democratization of the attention and distribution of music. We do this primarily by promoting the increasingly talented and (often wrongfully) neglected underground scene of Copenhagen and Denmark – and we do this strictly on a nonprofit basis.

All submissions, recommendations, guests posts, photo series, applications, partnership enquiries and questions to be sent to info@passiveaggressive.dk

I'm an electroacoustic composer interested in mystic, spiritual and ritual sound. I approach music through the intricacies of timbre, acoustics and spatiality, and I extract compositions or "soundspaces" from elements of ancient/classical music, (dark) ambient, (dub) techno, free improvisation and architectural ideas. By shaping a semi-abstract sound, I want to transcend the drama of emotion, reach beyond it, towards the patterns and noises of consciousness (the micro cosmos), outer space (the macro cosmos) and nature.

"...a fascinating contemporary classical-techno-ambient hybrid, miles away from even a lot of the post-classical music you hear these days. This is driving, jazz-inflected experimental electronic music deeply rooted in classical instrumentation and form." - Create Digital Music(2015)

"Beautiful, elegant, mysterious..." -Murcof (2015)

"We were blown away..."
- Rewire Festival organisation about the live show (2014)

"Fascinating!"
- Hubble Space Telescope (ESA) about the Cynquery video (2015)

Other projects:
@hypnoticschool
@diskettedeluxe
@auxpulse

Zola Mennenöh is an interdisciplinary thinking artist, musician, composer, sound designer and aesthaetics enthusiast from Germany, currently based and working between Berlin, Cologne and Copenhagen.

“Creatura's music is a multilingual patchwork of feelings, experiences and fantasy tales that crosses different genres such as folk, bossa-nova, and more.”

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