EM GUIDE – Interview – Blaues Rauschen Festival

Jessica Ekomane “Music has this capacity to make you feel the whole possible and impossible spectrum of your emotions […] and I want to appeal to all of it, all at once”

Jessica Ekomane’s sound doesn’t merely fill a space – it redefines it. The Berlin-based compos…

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EM GUIDE – Interview with Boshra Alsaadi

Boshra Alsaadi aka SAADI: “The reality is awful“

"The age old struggle…there’s obviously a lot of hardship in the arts. It's also hard for subver…

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EM GUIDE – Interview – 34.sk – Bulat Khalilov

Daniyal Ahmed: “I would never use words like “oriental” since this is not the way we look at ourselves”

Daniyal Ahmed is a musician, ethnomusicologist, music enthusiast and founder of the honiunhoni label…

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EM GUIDE —  Interview w/ Erfana Barbad – Easterndaze – Lucia Udvardyov / Zsuzsi Boross

Erfana Barbad: “Change can only happen if everyone unites.”

"providing a safe and comfortable space for open-minded and marginalised people" – Lucia Udvardyo…

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EM GUIDE — Interview with Eiko Ishibashi

Eiko Ishibashi: “I don’t believe that music can solve anything. But I can’t ignore the world when I’m making music.”

The music of Eiko Ishibashi has been with me for years—ghosting between reality zones, ducking gen…

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Questionnaire „Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music“ w/ Nadia Struiwigh

Nadia Struiwigh: “I’ve always imagined myself as a sort of fairy creature, and for a long time, I felt like I had to hide that part.”

“I think the biggest thing I’ve learned is that I am often my biggest block. Not the world, not …

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Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Gudrun Gut

Gudrun Gut

  Gudrun Gut needs no introduction. She is a legendary musical pioneer of the 80s, a producer, …

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EM GUIDE – Interview with Wendy Eisenberg, David Grubbs and Kramer

Squanderers “Inspiration is for amateurs”

Kramer: "I see the trio as a single entity, like a multi-celled organism that behaves in the manner …

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Interview with Bryan Crow, Festival Director of Big Ears

Orchestrating the Beautiful Chaos of Big Ears

Kaput exploring the organic curation, unique collaborations, and community spirit behind Big Ears Fe…

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EM GUIDE – Interview

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD ARE BACK: “You just gotta let it happen”

"We love making music that is accessible and catchy, but we like to layer our music with different l…

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EM GUIDE — Easterndaze – Freddie Hudson

ESTROGUN: Unapologetically c*nt in the face of the complex socio-political maelstrom

In the first of a series of articles exploring the cultural and social diversity of Prague and Czech…

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EM GUIDE — মM. - Struma+Iodine

RUHAIL QAISAR: “I GREW UP AMONGST RUINS OF ANCIENT PALACES, MONASTERIES, AND CREMATION MOUNDS”

UNSAFE+SOUNDS CO-CURATOR মM. in conversation with the India based artist Ruhail Qaisar.…

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EM GUIDE –Interview with Meg Stuart, Mieko Suzuki and Omagbitse Omagbemi about “Glitch Witch”

“We live on this planet, we can do what we want” – “Glitch Witch”: Breaking Spells, Shifting Identities, and the Art of Collaborative Movement

“GLITCH WITCH” – a haunted trip through scorched memories and flickering futures. Meg Stuart, …

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EM GUIDE – Interview – Lubomyr Melnyk on love, time, dreams and the art of Continuous Music

„The true purpose of great music, I believe, is not to simply entertain people. It’s to help the soul and mind grow within the individual.“

"Well, I feel like I’m a ballet dancer, but on the piano. The keyboard is my floor, and my hands a…

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EM GUIDE — School’s Out with Shahzad Ismaily and His Daughter, Anika Loa Ismaily Quilter

Shahzad Ismaily: „I was sticking my face deep into the music“

"Let´s start the game. I wanna taste this Smoothie and guess what´s in it?" A day in Brooklyn wit…

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EM GUIDE — Easterndaze – Timon Láska interviews Martina Svobodová

Self-discovery w/ Martina Svobodová aka Martyyna

"I’ve been thinking about what a scar actually is. It’s a memory of something that happened to y…

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EM GUIDE — 3/4.sk –  Kika Echeverría – Essay

The voices that wait – the archive of Chile al día

In this essay, Kika Echeverría explores her encounter with the archive of «Chile al día», a broa…

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EM GUIDE — Easterndaze – Freddie Hudson – Gin&Platonic label feature

Gin&Platonic: “We try not to lock ourselves into just one sonic identity”

"Hand in hand with self-releasing and self-promoting becoming easier for the artists, the amount of …

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EM GUIDE – Interview

Ellen Arkbro  “I love making sound in a room and having people there to experience it” 

The Swedish composer, musician and sound artist Ellen Arkbro is known for her very precise productio…

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Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation

Dorothy Carter “Why would you want to own all of this stuff? Doesn´t it burden you?”

  Thomas Venker, the publisher of Kaput Magazin, invited me to do a series of interviews with i…

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Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation

Einmalig und unendlich wertvoll: Betty Stürmer

"Es gab allerdings eine Künstlerin, die das akademische Potential dieser Zeit und die Vermischung v…

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EM GUIDE — 3/4 – Feature by Bulat Khalilov

Stefan Schneider, TAL: “Young people keep having new ideas about what they want to listen to and how they create new sounds”

"I like limitations (with respect to myself and also my equipment) and I never wanted to be able to …

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EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Feature by SAMUEL OBERNOSTERER,

ICEBOY VIOLET: “IT’S DEMARCATING WHAT FITS INTO A SPECIFIC IDEA OF RAP”

"My music is just rap music. I don’t feel like my music is that weird, honestly, but then, I do li…

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EM GUIDE — Easterndaze — Feature by Dragoș Rusu

Reflections on the Past and the Present of Manele Music in Romania

In today’s Romanian society, few topics have the power to polarize as much as Manele (the more com…

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Ece Özel – Interview – EM GUIDE

Ece Özel „I don’t like to be in the center of attention“

Even before I first arrived in Istanbul, I had already heard a lot about Ece Özel from friends and …

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Interview – Anatolian pop and folk music… for a world on the threshold of a new era

Melike Şahin: “In my concerts it is not important how you think or who you vote for”

While “Merhem” was an album about healing, on the follow-up album “AKKOR”, Melike Şahin ref…

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EM GUIDE – MMN Mag – Bori

“Local lineup has been the alpha and omega of most of the events recently”

Jonáš Verešpej and Nicolas Atcheson (of Prague night-life-insitutions Ankali & Planeta Za) in co…

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EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – BIANCA LUDEWIG

JULIA JUST. JETZT. KLANGQUANTEN FÜR DIE POST-DEMOKRATIE

"Musik spielte in meiner frühen Sozialisation keine wirkliche Rolle. Aber seit ich Teenager bin hö…

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EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Interview: Daphne Xanthopoulou, Photography: Ronja Kappl

Zosia Hołubowska: “Healing is communal; it occurs in collectivity”

"I am a migrant, and I’m very proud of it, especially in the context of Austria and after the rece…

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Interview – EM GUIDE

Anadol & Marie Klock “Like a ray of sunshine”

"There is no magic, just hard work. I remember every single note I played and if Gözen tries to ste…

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EM GUIDE – Interview by Thomas Venker

No Land & Luke Stewart „„For me this moment in time is about cultivating a deeper listening to one another”

In September, I had the opportunity to meet No Land and Luke Stewart in Luke’s temporary residency…

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Lamin Fofana – Interview, New York, Central Park, September 2024 – EM GUIDE

Lamin Fofana „Black music, black noise is not something that can be captured and put in categories“

Jonathan Forsythe and I meet Lamin Fofana on a beautiful September day on the corner of Central Park…

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New York Special – Interview – EM GUIDE

Justin Strauss “Dance music is a different animal than it was when I started out”

"„Anyone who's been in this business for as many years as I have, there's going to be ups and down…

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Interview

Isaac Zavale: „I want people to know about where I’m from, what shapes me, what got me to make this kind of work. So the world can understand what it is about.“

"When I reflect about myself, sometimes I wonder how I would be if I had to grow up in Mozambique …

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EM GUIDE – Easterndaze / Text: Alessandro Pilo

Shaking Up the Boy’s Club: A Rising Wave of Female Artists Carving Their Space in Budapest’s Underground Music Scene

The underground music scene in Budapest is buzzing with a fresh wave of female artists. Club program…

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Interview

Farida Amadou “The music shows the turmoil inside me”

Belgian-Nigerien bassist Farida Amadou has been finding and reinventing the electric bass again and …

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Interview

Marina Otero “Fuck me, love me and kill me is the idea of romantic love”

"I dream of continuing to do what I do and that with each work I can discover something new. That th…

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Essay by Dyan Valdés

“Good Luck, Babe!” – On Chappell Roan and the Bittersweetness of Progress

"Good Luck, Babe!" is the #1 song on Spotify right now. For the few of you who haven’t heard the s…

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EM GUIDE / 3/4 / Text and Translation by Dominika Moravčíková

Listening to Other Realities: Elia Moretti on sound art, the Carpathians and dissidence

Elia Moretti is a composer, performer, and music researcher based in Prague who also has strong conn…

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WITH MAPPA ON THE FLUID BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FICTIONAL AND REAL SOUND WORLDS EM GUIDE / 3/4 / INTERVIEW: JÁN SOLČÁNI, PHOTOS: ZOLTÁN CZAKÓ

WITH MAPPA ON THE FLUID BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FICTIONAL AND REAL SOUND WORLDS

JÁN SOLČÁNI MET THE SLOVAKIAN MAPPA LABEL RUNNER JAKUB JUHÁS AND TALKED WITH HIM ABOUT PERIPHERI…

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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…

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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 …

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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. …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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