EM Guide – Author: Gábor Erlich
Underground Culture Under Threat I. — Georgia’s illiberal turn and resistance movement
The illiberal frenzy has hit Georgia hard. Thus, I thought it would be interesting to sketch out som…
EM Guide – Author: Gábor Erlich
EM Guide – Andrei Yemelianov in conversation with Bulat Khalilov for 3/4.sk
Maqame Daxe: Sounds of pop, jazz and rock from the Soviet Caucasus
"Andrei Yemelianov opened up to Bulat Khalilov about why in the North Caucasus personal connections …
EM Guide – 3/4.sk – Author: Matej Žofčín
The Digicore scene in Slovakia — How to make music and build community
"The Slovak digicore scene has rarely been unified; even today, it still needs to be more cohesive. …
Tina Funk – Interview by Stefan Juster / Photos by Clara Wildberger– EM GUIDE
The Final Transcript: Tina Frank
"Since the 1990ies Tina Frank has been collaborating with musicians like Chicks on Speed, Peter Rehb…
Interview by Valentina Várhelyi / EM GUIDE
Music without Agency – The struggles of acting in the alternative scene
"These stories about grassroots organisation, democratic values, and the fight against commercialisa…
EM GUIDE – Interview by Peter Bokor w/ Alex Radzishevsky
AudioTag: Challanging Shazam’s fingerprinting
It’s a multimillion-track database already. There are an estimated 90 to 100 million songs worldwi…
EM GUIDE – Interview with DiV4 by Zosia Hołubowska
Interview w/ DiV4 from the Polish trans-femme and non-binary collective DEKONSTRUKT
Influenced by the ephemerality of performance art and queer identity, oscillating between chaos and …
EM GUIDE – Interview by Zosia Hołubowska
Karolinda: “I think the Polish electronic music scene has a lot to offer”
With this feature Easterndaze is continuing their collaboration with the Oramics collective, focusin…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Karin Pott
Karin Pott: “The art world is a market, it’s dominated by dealers and it’s unfair if you’re not hip”
Karin Pott and her work are important elements of Berlins art history. She is part of the group that…
Interview with Keeley Forsyth / Rewire Festival 2024 / EM GUIDE
Keeley Forsyth “I’m not even interested in my own life and my own thoughts“
"I’m having this physical "conversation – I'm treating my physical body as another form of langu…
EM GUIDE – Interview by Stefan Juster
MANOS SAKLAS “LISTENING MOVED ME AND INFORMED MY WHOLE PERSPECTIVE ON ART AND AESTHETICS”
THE FINAL TRANSCRIPT IS AN INTERVIEW SERIES DELVING INTO THE NON-MUSICAL WORK OF INDIVIDUALS AND INS…
EM GUIDE – Interview
Patricia Pietrafesa: Printed registers of subterranean culture in Argentina’s post-dictatorship
Pat Pietrafesa is a pioneer of the punk movement in Argentina. She edited the fanzine Resistencia. S…
Danielle DePicciotto & Friends w/ Katherine Blake
Katherine Blake “I am a hopeless goth and romantic”
"My lyrics for Miranda Sex Garden have always strived to create a sensual and other-worldly tone. Th…
INTERVIEW BY TRISTAN BATH w/ SSOLVE / EM GUIDE
“CONCEPTS OF CARE, CONVIVIALITY, AND EMBODIMENT”
ssolve is the result of a journey of artistic liberation. For the Vienna-based artist, the release o…
Interview by Peter Dolník w/ Colin Stetson & Stian Westerhus – EM GUIDE
“It feels almost profound to play live for people”
Two giants of avant-garde jazz and experimental music, saxophonist Colin Stetson and Norwegian guita…
AN EM GUIDE feature by Michael Papcun
Re-Enchanted Kingdoms – or the idiosyncratic topography of contemporary Slovak folk-music
"This reconstruction of occultures and their ethos, or experimental revival of original folklore mot…
Interview – EM GUIDE
HEAVY CALMNESS – AN INTERVIEW WITH KMRU
SOUND ARTIST KMRU AKA JOSEPH KAMARU TOOK THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH INSTALLATIONS,…
Feature – EM GUIDE
As loud as possible
In noise music, extreme volume is an effective means of involving listeners with their entire bodies…
AN EM GUIDE feature by Michael Papcun
Don’t call me G, but rather next one
Slovakia is a small country with large regional disparities. This results in the experienced binary …
Interview with Dan Koplowitz from Friendly Fire Licensing
“It is to demonstrate who my lotalty is – I work with the artists”
Friendly Fire Licensing is a sync licensing company based in Los Angeles. They represent a wide cata…
Interview
Roisin Murphy: “You have to go out every night of the week”
Since the end of Moloko, Róisín Murphy has released solo albums with various producers (incl…
Interview
Wen Hui: „I always say: my daily life is my technique“
"My life is following the route of the whole country of China. When the political system changed, wh…
James Ellis Ford – Interview – Depeche Mode
James Ellis Ford: “If I am really lucky I get a bit in the zone where time disappears”
I catch up with James Ellis Ford in his cosy home attic studio in London. And even though he is in t…
Interview
Malcolm Mooney „I’m a working man, not a celebrity.“
"There's no guarantee in music making a living. It's not like the guy that's driving the train. It's…
40 Years of Touch – Interview with Jon Wozencroft & Mike Harding
TOUCH: „We survived because there’s a lot of things that we chose not to do, which has worked out really well“
"As much as Jon and Mike value memories and shared history they are driven by their ongoing curiosit…
Astrid & Alexander – Interview
Astrid & Alexander – a mad and cinematic labour-of-love
"Their debut lp "[ romantic music plays loudly ]" is inspired by the unintended poetry that intrudes…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation: Sarah Legault
Sarah Legault: “To be clear, I really didn’t know what I was doing…”
"My headphones always sooth any anxiety I feel when leaving my house solo. Music helps me think, it …
Dekmantel Festival 2023
The deep love for the diversity of electronic music
So what remains of those ecstatic moments for which so many people came together and so many others …
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends
Yvonne Ducksworth: “I’m a survivor, and there are a lot of walls”
"As a woman, as a Black woman, I saw that I had to be better in order to get anywhere, whether that …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Charlotte Goldermann
Charlotte Goltermann: “Without music there would be no tears in the cinema!”
"We don't sign musicians because we think they're bad and want to improve them, but because we think…
Conrad Schnitzler – preprint
When Finished Products Become Set Pieces: An Approach to Conrad Schnitzler’s Intermedia Work
"I didn’t want to play normal scales, and couldn’t have even if I’d wanted to. That was my fr…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Petra Wende
Petra Wende: “Places of dreaming, of beauty and tenderness, but also of dissonance and fractions”
"Petra has an inner delicacy and sensitivity paired with tremendous power, which is wonderfully refl…
Interview, „Eternally Frozen“ (Maple Death Records)
Andrea Belfi: “I appreciate being temporary”
"I was part of the punk/hardcore scene in Italy in the mid 90s (...) This was a bunch of years that…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Rosie Westbrook
Rosie Westbrook: “I tend to like music that is a bit dark, or abstract”
"Especially with the new album "Always the Sea", I wanted to re-create the landscape/seascape I was …
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends: Delphine Ciampi
Delphine Ciampi: “Music becomes richer when it is composed together by different people”
Am I trying to express something? I am not totally sure, but you know when you feel good, and you …
He formed a band
“I am not drinking a lot of brandy and going crazy anymore” – Eddie Argos from Art Brut
Eddie Argos and his band Art Brut delivered the most exciting slogans of the noughties. An act that …
"Nekromantik 2" – Soundtrack – Interview
Mark Reeder: “People in the East were camera shy”
"The fall of the Wall also opened up new opportunities to film. Unknown locations were literally eve…
Shelly Quest: “Support the dreams”
"If you come from Chorweiler and this is all you see, and then you grow up, of course it is really h…
Stefanie Kay Sparks & Dorothea Tachler – Interview – Video Premier My Favourite Things „Thunderstorm“
No fear & a Blueberry Thunderstorm
"In My Favourite Things, I usually do a deep dive into my own psyche and explore a situation or emot…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends: Jonnine Standish
Jonnine Standish: “A long rewarding description of what was originally maybe 5 seconds of life”
"My mother ran away from home as a young teenager and would never talk about her family again even u…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Ellen Southern
Ellen Southern: “I can express myself best through the words of others”
"Everything has been felt before and I love remembering that, tapping into a timeless human connecti…
Weekend Residency, Artist Talk: Claire Rousay by Hanna Bächer
Claire Rousay: “I’m really interested in universal human experiences”
"It’s different playing with or writing for an instrument versus writing for or collaborating with…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Liz Lamere – Interview
Liz Lamere: “Treat me like I’m training for a pro-fight”
"My music reflects my energy and I gravitate toward higher intensity beats and sound. The common th…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends
Susanne Deeken: “Creation protects me from internal and external harm”
"All my life, even as a little kid, I have been attracted by a certain melancholy or darkness and a …
Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander – LABOUR – Interview
Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander “Our hope is to bring awareness to listening through sound and the associated tactile elements”
Curation or organisation is just an extension of our artistic practice – we certainly do not consi…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends w/ Valerie Renay
Valerie Renay: “You need to face your own demons”
"Every type of separation, border, or frontier is arbitrary. Our brain is trained from a young age t…
Anushka Chkheidze – Feature
Anushka Chkheidze: “When I play, I am really free”
Georgian musician Anushka Chkheidze is constantly searching for new influences and ways of expressio…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends w/ Bettina Rust
Bettina Rust: “Memorize the answer and use it for the next question, fully engage with the other as the interviewer.”
"I consider it high art when people deal with language in a playful, humorous, and easy way. No flou…
Interview
“Maybe one day I’ll buy a suit and go to office like Nick Cave” – The Grace Cummings story
Grace Cummings is a folk musician from Australia. Her second record is titled "Storm Queen" and with…
Homestory
“Like a sausage they’ve cut open” – A visit to the Whiskey Robber
The Hungarian folk hero Attila Ambrus committed twenty-nine robberies of post offices, travel agenci…
Jordan Chanetsa – Interview – Participatory Residency Program ADKDW
„I am someone that loves to be seen – so it´s only right for me to want for other people to be seen too.“
"I just fear mediocrity, I don´t wanna be mediocre, I don´t wanna be simple – I am addicted to …
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