Interview
Amelia Holt: “Are you interested in being part of something special, or are you here for the money?”
I catch up with the New York-based DJ, promoter, and agency head Amelia Holt. Between the snow-duste…
Beiträge von Thomas Venker
Interview
“Heavy Waters” at CTM 2026
Zeynep Schilling: “I can’t imagine making art only for art’s sake. I’ve always been political, starting in high school.”
“Heavy Waters” is not a metaphor in search of gravity; it is gravity. It asks what it means to m…
„Rentrer à la maison“ – video premier
Coming home with good intentions with Anadol & Marie Klock
Whenever you go home You start off with great intentions And then shove ‘em up your ass Nice …
A conversation with Chloé Zhao by Daniel Kothenschulte
Chloé Zhao: “To me, love is not about happiness (…), love is about transformation”
"I don't think you can love with an open heart without the capacity of handling the pain from being …
book review in 4 situative acts
Spector Books feat. Sonic Resistance in Non-democratic Europe, Bunker Archéologie, Krieg & Wallenstein und Wolfgang Tillmans
On some page of ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’ (originally published in 198…
Interview
Sera Kalo “Vulnerability and surprise. That’s what I’m looking for. Always.“
On February 23 at HAU1, the Caribbean–US American singer and composer presents her latest album, …
Festival
a dense topology: CTM Festival 2026
CTM Festival’s 27th edition unfolds a field of artistic forces. Under the theme “dissonate < > r…
Philipp Joy Reinhardt
Kapute Szene III – “What Is Sex?”
A collective painting consisting of garments by Paula Breuer, Luke Calzonetti, Katrin Fuchsloch, Rah…
Record of the Week
Anne Imhof „Wish You Were Gay“
Looking at the images and sounds shared by Imhof, one feels more like an observer of a staged produc…
25 from 2000-2025
The biggest party evers: Kante “Die Tiere sind unruhig”
Kaput author Marcus can't dance fell in love with “Die Tiere sind unruhig” by Kante several time…
Interview
Elia Einhorn: “I thought I’d fried my brain forever—music saved me”
""The American music industry is absolutely fucked for artists right now. Streaming pays almost noth…
Kaput Revisited – Interview / Reportage
Akufen “I butcher Sound”
Marc Leclair (Akufen) has taken minimal music to a new level with radio samples in the style of Cada…
Chakeiya Camille Richmond – Interview
KeiyaA: “Black healing music coming from Black pain, that’s the tradition that I still follow” Interview with Chakeiya Camille Richmond
"Do I always have to be the fat Black feminist that's educating y'all on stuff? It's yes and no. Yes…
Interview
Daniel Avery “The older I get, the more I realize that the exciting thing about an artist’s journey is the journey”
"I feel that everyone on the record played an equal part. It has my name on the cover, but I'm just …
for Keith McIvor
On friendship and transience – between Fuji, Unsound and Making Time
It is 12 September 2025 and I am dancing. It is not just sweat running down my forehead and elsewher…
M for Montreal
Karneef: „The script is written, the set is half-built, and I get to weave everything together exactly as I hear it”
Every November, M for Montreal turns the city into a vibrant hub of discovery — a showcase where t…
Unsound Osaka 2025
„We’ve produced seven festivals this year. It’s not great for one’s mental or physical health — but at least life isn’t boring.“
"The result was less an imported festival than a temporary rewiring of the city’s circuits — a w…
25 from 2000–2025
The prologue to an idea
So why not ask 25 authors about the albums that shaped this period for them? A crazy undertaking, of…
Festival
Le Guess Who? 2025: The Full Map of the Unknown
"This year’s curators — Amirtha Kidambi, Asher Gamedze, Edna Martinez, gyrofield, Lonnie Holley,…
Unsound Festival Osaka 2025
Unsound Osaka
Unsound has always thrived on dislocation. This first September weekend, Osaka becomes the latest no…
Monheim Triennale – Interview
Tyshawn Sorey “I’ve got this!”
Tyshawn Sorey is one of those rare artists who collapses the usual partitions between worlds: contem…
Interview – Enjoy Jazz Festival
Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead
"It’s a hard line between white and black people. It's strange to me because it’s just classism,…
„UNCANNY VALLEYS"
Talking Kaput #17 w/ ECE ÖZEL & MARIA WILDEIS
In conversation with Kaput editors-in-chief Thomas Venker and Linus Volkmann, Cologne-based artist M…
EM GUIDE — STRUMA+IODINE – INTERVIEW
Lorenzo Senni: ”I´m not scared of what I desire”
"Everything we do matters. I speak about my work — so about myself — every second of my life. On…
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Interview
HANNAH TODT AKA AUTOR: “FLUTES CAN BE VERY PUNK”
HANNAH TODT IS A VIENNA-BORN, BRUSSELS-BASED ARTIST AND MUSICIAN WHOSE INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE SP…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze
Jugoslavija Wave: New compilations revisiting the ex-Yu post-punk and new wave legacy
If I had a single ticket for the time machine that could take me to any historical or prehistoric pe…
Interview GAJEK – Struma+Iodine – TEXT: MARA NEVER, PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIPPE GERLACH
Gajek “There are many tricks for white male artists to be kind of absent from our work, absent as people”
"World history playing out in the daily lives of people, geopolitical conflicts and siblings not tal…
Interview – DURCHLÜFTEN – 2025 – EM GUIDE
Etran de L’Aïr “To us, the desert is freedom. It is our home”
"We have no worries there. We're at ease, we're at home, we do what we want, work on our music. We'r…
Transcript of a conversation between Keith McIvor of Optimo and Andrew Thomson in early 2024. Optimo forever!
Keith McIvor: “it’s always been very political and you just chose to ignore that side of it”
"... go nightclubbing is it's an escape from the whatever terrible things are going on in the world.…
Interview w/ Patricia Carolin Mai, MAI:COMPANY-Gründerin und Choreografin
Patricia Carolin Mai: “Every Body an Archive”
"I experienced the classical system myself, but I never functioned in it, and after some reflection,…
Record of the Week meets Hospital Trauma
Pulp in the hospital
In the 47th year of the band's existence, Pulp landed their first number one hit in the United Kingd…
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Interview
RROSE: “THE PULSE IS THE ANCHOR. EVERYTHING ELSE IS FLUID”
ACROSS A DISCOGRAPHY THAT RESISTS EASY CATEGORIZATION, RROSE HAS LONG PURSUED A SINGULAR AESTHETIC. …
Interview
Heiner Goebbels: Signature / No Signature Papers
“Complexity, polyphony, brokenness,” is Heiner Goebbels' answer to the question of what music mu…
EM GUIDE – 34.sk – Verena Hahn
Forsberg, Mede & Nareswari: The Pain of not sharing a Language
WHEN ADELA MEDE, MARTA FORSBERG AND NINDYA NARESWARI MET UP FOR THIS INTERVIEW IN LATE JANUARY 2025,…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Jakub Knera
15 Central and Eastern European festivals you need to attend
From abandoned sanatoriums to fields and disused mills, these festivals and their places become acou…
Kaput Video
Deep Talk Holding Pattern & Moving Bodies”
The exhibition Holding Pattern is the result of an invitation from Anne Hilde Neset (Oslo) to the aw…
EM GUIDE – Monheim Triennale – Interview
Oren Ambarchi: “I’m definitely interested in exploring things slowly and taking my time with the exploration“
"I do remember always being told that “music is just a hobby” and “you need to find something …
Room40 – Top 25
Room40, like a room you return to in dreams, it just is.
Room40 doesn’t shout. It hums, crackles, expands slowly in the chest like breath held just a littl…
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…
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – ROBERT SCHWARZ
ROBERT SCHWARZ: “INSECTS ARE FASCINATING AND UNDERAPPRECIATED”
"Often field recordings are associated with exotic and spectacular places. For this project, I mostl…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Text: Dragos Rusu
Bucharest’s Post-Pandemic Experimental Music Scene
In summary, while Bucharest’s experimental music scene faces significant post-pandemic challenges,…
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – STURMHERTA
STURMHERTA: “AUTECHRE IS STILL ONE OF MY FAVOURITES”
The music is meant to be experienced as a live set on a powerful sound system—you have to “feel…
The Cologne Affair: Nicky Siano
Nicky Siano: “Unfortunately, DJing has become a dying art form
"e. You look at someone, you get a smile—that’s what you should get. It should be inviting and f…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Text: Lucia Udvardyova
Music Biennale Zagreb: A Diary
Lucia Udvardyova attended Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ). Photos: Music Biennale Zagreb…
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…
Papiripar Festival / Interview with Luke Fowler & Ryoko Akama
Ryoko Akama: “Capitalism destroys coordination and I am not sure how we can re-coordinate ourselves into a system that works”
At this year’s Papiripar Festival in Hamburg, Fowler and Akama will join forces for a special coll…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
EM GUIDE — Blaues Rauschen Festival / 17.5.- 7.6.2025
Portrait XO: „My favorite way of working is taking speculations of new technologies and turning them into tangible things like art and music, then having interesting conversations about them with people.“
"I personally don't want to see a future where artists are out of jobs because no one decides to hir…
