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 …
Beiträge mit dem Stichwort "Interview"
A conversation with Chloé Zhao by Daniel Kothenschulte
Interview – Jason Williamson on “The Demise of Planet X”
Sleaford Mods: “It’s very rare that I’m on a positive streak”
Jason Williamson reflects once again on political exhaustion, masculinity, consumerism, and ageing w…
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…
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,…
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…
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 – 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 – caroline – Interview
Jasper Llewellyn (caroline) “It’s like less pensive and contemplative. In a way, it feels more hectic”
In an interview with Kaput author Lennart Brauwers, leading band member/multitalent Jasper Llewellyn…
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 – 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…
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 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 — 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 — Interview with Ozan Tekin about "Mornings for Sale / Satılık Sabahlar: No.2"
“In Istanbul, the seamless cycle of night and day unfolds almost unnoticed”
"For me, the effect of the blue hour has always been more profound than that of a sunset. It’s a m…
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…
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…
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 — 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…
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…
Interview
Wolfgang Pérez : “I try to make my music so mercilessly honest that you can find out something about it and heal yourself”
"On the one hand, this change of language simply came about because I was involved a lot with Spanis…
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…
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 – 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…
Interview with Lukasz Polowczyk / EM GUIDE
“It’s just wild that all of this exists, that we are here to experience it”
Lukasz Polowczyk is a Berlin-based sound artist, poet, and educator. His brand new video art piece "…
Interview
CocoRosie: „Guided by an inner force“
"We don't listen to much new music or music at all." CocoRosie in conversation with kaput. …
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
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…
Interview
Merv Espina: “Access. Transformation. Emancipation.”
"I don’t really have a material or studio practice. I also don’t have storage space. These thing…
TIMES OF HANDS – GAMIFICATION VS PLAY– 11./12.06., 2-5pm – Interview with Sam Hopkins and Hans Bernhard (UBERMORGEN)
“We have to get away from the male supremacy of Silicon Valley – it`s toxic and dangerous for everybody and anybody”
"For me it's not so much that researching gamification has affected how i play games, it has affecte…
"TIMES OF HANDS – COVID GLOSSARY" – 04./05.06, 2-5pm (cet) – Interview with Prasad Shetty
“The pandemic made the digital, a home and the physical, a prison”
"While the glossary preserves the integrity of each pixel, it allows for multiple readings and narra…
SUPERGAU Festival – Stefano D'Alessio – Interview
Stefano D’Alessio „Time is more important than commodities“
"The theme is the contrast between being physically present somewhere and being virtually present in…
FUNKT sound art radio – Interview mit Georg Dietzler
“HOW CAN WE MAKE THE COLOGNE ELECTRONIC AND SOUND ART SCENES HEARD WITHOUT LIVE CONCERTS?“
"Cologne's artists lack a "Berlin" self-image – look at what this city has to offer. In Cologne a …
An Interview with Brian Jackson – By Julian Brimmers
Brian Jackson – Survival Kits on Wax
"Part of life is the journey and sometimes not even knowing where you’re going. But knowing that y…
DeForrest Brown, Jr. – Interview
DeForrest Brown, Jr.: “To put it directly, Black people are hostages of the United States government who have not been able to properly participate in the nation or its rights, protections, economies and industries as full citizens.”
"The conceit of "Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry" was to subvert and broadcast the protest movement…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation: Angeliska Polacheck
Angeliska Polacheck “I believe in free will, and that the most accurate way to predict the future is to create it!”
"A major reckoning is at hand, and it helps to have, again, a “celestial weather report”, to be …
Interview – Adam Byczkowski
Better Person: “I miss being around people – I do not miss soundchecks and hangovers”
Berlin based sad eyed crooner Adam Byczkowski is bringing under his Better Person persona multicolor…
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…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation: Gemma Ray
Gemma Ray: “I am mainly writing words without music and music without words”
"I am trying to be in the here and now – to have no fixed plans. I am processing." – Gemma Ray i…
Sona Jobarteh – Interview
Sona Jobarteh: “I wanted to get recognition for playing the Kora not for being a woman”
"We are doing what we are doing to keep the tradition alive and innovate it and make sure it still g…
Roísín Murphy – Interview
Roísín, the infinitely capable machine
"Microclubbing! C’mon! It’s the future. We have to go back to basics and build it again." Roís…
Lucrecia Dalt – Interview
Lucrecia Dalt: “The fear of not making this a sustainable career has returned due to corona”
"For me standing on stage means engaging in the most active and energetically intense way I can, it …
Nika Breithaupt – Interview
Nika Son: “I often feel more connected to animals than to humans”
Nika Breithaupt aka Nika Son aka Nikae is one of the most active and sensitive artists in Hamburg. H…
OOIOO – Interview
OOIOO: “The music oozes into the nature of the listener”
"This is my imaginary insect. I want to ride on this insect and surf in the new era. This insect m…
