Festival
a dense topology: CTM Festival 2026
CTM Festival’s 27th edition unfolds a field of artistic forces. Under the theme “dissonate < > r…
Beiträge mit dem Stichwort "Berlin"
Festival
25 from 2000-2025
A true icon: Peaches’ “The Teaches of Peaches”…
… has had a lasting impact on pop and subculture – Katja Ruge on “The Teaches of Peaches” by…
„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…
Questionnaire „Electric Lights – Women in Electronic Music“
Anja Schneider: „Music is simply everything to me“
„I’ve evolved over the past 20 years, but that special Anja Schneider hypnotic minimal groove is…
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…
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, …
Record of the Week
Konrad Sprenger „Set“ (Black Truffle)
Konrad Sprenger „Set“ (Black Truffle) Konrad Sprenger’s „Set“ opens with a paradox. The ti…
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…
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 …
Interview – Durchlüften 2024 by Humboldt Forum
Vincent Moon: “A weird research on space and time – and how to bend them”
"No contracts, I entirely believe in the free flow, the confidence in terms of, well, I'm not going …
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
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…
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…
Berlin Atonal 2023 – Festival – Pre-Report
Berlin Atonal 2023: Do not miss these 10 performances
Kaput tried the untryable and selected ten performances of Berlin Atonal 2023 you should not miss …
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 …
"My favorite song" by Ramesh Srivastava
“This is How We Walk on the Moon” by Arthur Russell
"... The song was “This is How We Walk on the Moon,” and hearing it prompted me to further resea…
Terre Thaemlitz – Photogallery – Exhibition, Lüneburg, Halle für Kunst
Terre Thaemlitz “Reframed Positions”
Reframed Positions is the first multi-venue retrospective by artist, producer, writer, educator, aud…
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…
"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…
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…
Videopremiere – Nacht84 – "All Lights Down"
Nacht84
Until now, Felix Nisblé has been known primarily as the protagonist behind the techno imprint Blint…
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 …
Adam Hocker – Interview
“Everyone I knew had a friend or family member or acquaintance with a drug problem”
"The sensation of having escaped the United States – with its religious extremism, school shooting…
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…
"Tresor: True Stories"
Regina Baer: “After the miracle of German reunification, everyone dreamed of making the impossible possible”
"We all wanted to create something special. The club was a base for artists who came from a world as…
"Potosí Principle Archive" - Interview with Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann - Akademie der Künste der Welt .
“We pursue a lot of things out of a need to rewrite history – and to keep bringing it back to a contemporary social practice.”
"What's exhausting about the Bitcoin currency is its value discovery. It consists of how much comput…
Sid Le Rock „Invisible Nation“ album & „Sid rides shotgun mix“
Sid Le Rock talking about the „Invisible Nation“
It may look like Sheldon Thompson is chilling on his backyard, but truth is, the man behind the Sid …
The Caustic Window / March 2022
The Caustic Window – We are all Spotifucked…
We are all Spotifucked... There are mornings when you hear the driving mid-winter Berlin rain hit…
Carsten Klemann - remebered by Scott Monteith
“The sun has gone up and down twice and our dear Puck is scheduled to make an appearance with the Big Man and Doctor Jones”
"and there he is: Our young God Pan, dressed to the nines like some genetic super-position of a youn…
METHODE RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER Eine Retrospektive
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “I ask you to take note….”
Whether one can really read the "method" out of this, we will now come to that. For all the other na…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends w/ Vanessa Vivante
Vanessa Vivante: “As a teen, I liked finding interesting and weird music …”
"It was the first time I’ve done a remote collaboration like that. The process reminded me of how …
Records of the Week
Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas und Billy Bultheel „SEX“ & Pan Daijing „Tissues“
"Tissues", analogous to "SEX", made me think a lot about the untimeliness of such let's call it bore…
Videoeditorial
Hanno Leichtmann performing Villa Aurora
On 6th of November 2021 Berlin composer Hanno Leichtmann performed a new work at Villa Aurora, Los A…
M_Dokumente – Pre-Print – Malaria! ( 1981—1984 )
Bettina Köster: “Everything came easily. We never put an effort into getting any deals”
We found a kitten behind empty boxes in our rehearsal room on Paul-Lincke-Ufer. We called her Malari…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in Conversation w/ Diáne Zillmer
Diáne Zillmer: “In old age you notice how little you actually know”
"We still live the norms of an industrial and production-oriented society, although these have alrea…
Squarepusher– 25 years of “Feed Me Weird Things”
Squarepusher, a night without fear at Berghain
"The album lately existed only on this terrible second-hand record market, where prices have skyrock…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation – Yuko Matsuyama
Yuko Matsuyama: “I seek a truth in a non-verbalized dimension”
"There is a saying in Japan, “Onko-Chishin”, it means, learning new things from the past. But in…
JakoJako (Photo: Katja Ruge) – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
JakoJako: “I have musical dreams, where I hear the most beautiful melodies my brain can imagine”
This interview with JakoJako is part of the ongoing photo-project “Electric Lights – Women in El…
MELANIE JAME WOLF / SAVAGE AMUSEMENT: “TONIGHT”
“Tonight” is a place of future. And apparently there isn’t one”
"I started my performance career, because I really, really didn't want to do a normal job. Performin…
Interview with Folly Ghost aka Max from Berlin based DJ collective No Shade
Folly Ghost: “We have enough hashtags, we need more policies”
No Shade is a Berlin collective that has been offering mentoring programs for queer, female, trans a…
Marco Donnarumma: „Corpus Nil: Eingeweide“
“It’s about understanding that we humans are not any more important than any other creature on the planet”
A lot has been written lately about the end of the artist as we know her/him. The legend is on the s…
Ilse Ruppert – interviewed by Laurence Wasser
ILSE RUPPERT: “People have become very conscious of their image”
"I prepared very little for my shootings, it is in the pressure of the moment that I found the angl…
Luke Slater – Interview
Luke Slater: „Trust me, I am a DJ“
"The word career was a swearword when I was growing up. Anybody at school who wanted to have a caree…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends – Käthe Kruse
Käthe Kruse: “Half-hearted work is worth nothing”
"Difficult to answer. I am open and honest in a straightforward and direct way. That means I do not …
Claire Morgan – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
Claire Morgan: “I can’t think of many things more special than listening to someone you love play music that touches your heart”
"I personally find focus, peace and acceptance in both writing and performing music, and it allows m…
Henrietta Smith-Rolla / Afrodeutsche – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
Afrodeutsche: “Techno. It’s that language that I can speak”
This interview with Henrietta Smith-Rolla is part of the ongoing photo-project „Electric Lights - …
Easterndaze x Berlin 2019 – Interview with Lucia Udvardyova & Natalie Gravenor
Berlin has a bizarre relationship to its “Eastern” neighbors
Even though it's exactly 30 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and most Eastern European coun…
HTRK at Atonal Festival – Interview
HTRK: It’s not as sad anymore because we’re not as sad
"We’ve gone through a whole process of healing and accepting and that just comes out in what you c…
Daso Franke – "Daso" Releaseparty
#dasoforever – “Every second full of burning passion”
On April 2nd of last year our friend Daso Franke died much too soon. During the months prior to his …
Jayda G – Interview
JAYDA G: “MORE THAN JUST AN IMAGE”
"We both smile because we are quite thankful that we don’t have to talk about the remaining being-…
Record of the Week
Colin Self „Siblings“ (RVNG Intl.)
"If this voice leaves you cold, you have long ago sold your humanity to the shadow beings." – Tho…
