Tempo

Tempo is an internationally oriented, English-language magazine for contemporary music and current musical discourse. Published quarterly, each issue is dedicated to the questions, works, and debates that shape musical life today.

The focus is on new compositions, innovative performance formats, influential festivals, and aesthetic, social, and technological developments in 20th- and 21st-century music. Essays, interviews, analytical texts, and reviews offer diverse perspectives on contemporary music as a living practice—spanning artistic experimentation, critical reflection, and theoretical analysis.

Tempo is aimed at composers, performers, musicologists, students, and curious readers who want to delve deeper into contemporary music. International authors from the fields of practice and research combine in-depth expertise with clear, readable language.

Independently curated and internationally networked, Tempo offers a space for differentiated thinking, beyond short-term trends and marketing logic—for everyone who not only wants to hear contemporary music, but also wants to understand and engage with it.

Read a sample from issue no. 316

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Issue No. 318, *Feeling(s) Feeling(s) * (October 2026), has been published and is available here in the web shop: as an e-journal for immediate download, or in print once it has been delivered from the printer. Issue No. 317, *What We Hear When We Listen* (July 2026), is still available in print and as an e-journal.