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 …
Ece Özel – Interview – EM GUIDE
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 – 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 …
Interview Eris Drew & Maya Bouldry-Morrison (Octo Octa)
Maya Bouldry-Morrison & Eris Drew: „It’s a minefield out there“
„There is simply no space for wide acceptance of trans people in the whole world“, Maya sums up …
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 …
