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…
Beiträge von Thomas Venker
Interview
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…
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…
Rewire – Festival
Rewire 2025 – 10 Performances not to be missed
Rewire Festival 2025 arrives with its signature blend of boundary-erasing sound and cerebral stimula…
Photogallery
Big Ears Festival 2025
Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, will remain an exceptional event in the international mus…
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…
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.…
Videopremiere: „Quand le grenier aura pris feu“
Anadol & Marie Klock – an unfortunate encounter between pigeons and various people
We are more than happy to present the brand-new video for the single "Quand le grenier aura pris feu…
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, …
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…
EM GUIDE — Kolumne Gefühle und Gedanken zu einer Welt, deren Umriss mir nicht mehr gefällt
IT HAS PLAYED OUT – OR: THE TRUMPIZATION OF EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING
Spring 2025 doesn't make it easy to believe that things will be better this year and in the coming y…
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…
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…
