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…
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EM GUIDE — STRUMA+IODINE – INTERVIEW
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…
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 – 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…
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 …
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 – 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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 — 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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
EM GUIDE — Interview with Le Motel, conducted at Meakusma 2024
Le Motel „It’s very important for me at least to be always out of my comfort zone“
Le Motel, a true world traveller in the name of music, who´s discography shows great enthusiasm for…
EM GUIDE — NOIES – Text: Verena Hahn
Vica Pacheco “I’m trying to create natural synthetic landscapes”
Vica Pacheco created a sonorous biosphere of instrument-machines inside of the Deutzer Brücke. Vere…
EM GUIDE / Easterndaze / Festivalreport by Hayden Potter
Borderline Noise Festival — Experimental Art Between Philosophers and Circus Performers
Hayden Potter's festival diary about the last-ever Borderline Noise Festival and the echoes of its v…
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 – Interview Christoph Benkeser / Marija Jociūtė
“Music is my playground” – an interview with Hyeji Nam
"When I was around 18, I became very sick. For a year, I barely couldn’t walk. That was a tough ph…
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…
Record of the Year – EM GUIDE
Charli XCX “Brat”
Here comes "BRAT". In which Charli XCX appears to have made an album that is so potently post-modern…
Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music – tamiX
„Pure enjoyment“ w/ tamiX aka Nan Tang
"The audience's behavior on the dance floor after hearing electronic music is human instinct I suppo…
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…
EM – GUIDE – Blaues Rauschen Festival – Interview
Noriko Tujiko/ 辻子紀子 “We could feel beautiful and peaceful, maybe.”
"My parents were very open minded I guess – at least they never interfered me by negativity." (No…
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
Charles Carey on the art of web radio making
Interview with Charles Carey, co-founder of Radio Cult, a streaming platform designed for online com…
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…
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…
