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 …
Beiträge mit dem Stichwort "Interview"
Ece Özel – Interview – EM GUIDE
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…
Die Glenzer Kuration (III)
Conspiracy in Ficition – Gender & its effects on (pop)culture
It shouldn't make any difference at all, whether you are a woman or a man - is this binarity really …
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation
Dorit Chrysler: “The community is everything to me and always creates new movement”
"The better you know yourself, the more fearless you can translate it into sound." – Dorit Chrysl…
Pedro Vian – Interview
Pedro Vian: “All humans have this attraction to the unknown – we try to find the unknown in the obscure”
"I need to find inspiration on what I’m seeing or feeling at the moment in order for me to start a…
Miruna Boruzescu – Interview
Borusiade: “I am very concerned about what we are experiencing as humans of today and how we handle our planet, ourselves, our environment”
"This relief, please breathe in, now we start, you breathe out, in your mind so deep in there’s a…
Steve Blame – Interview
Steve Blame: „I don’t have the money – I have the passion!“
"Money and career are unimportant in the grand scheme of things. When you look after someone who is …
Arya Zappa – Interview
Arya Zappa: „What is real? This question drives me and is at the center of my work.“
The world of Arya Zappa brings up many references. Of course one has to think of Grace Jones, but al…
Waclaw Zimpel – Interview
Waclaw Zimpel: “I lose a lot of energy in making decisions”
On the 31st of January 2020, Polish musician Waclaw Zimpel will release his new album “Massive Osc…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation – Michaela Melián
Michaela Melián: “Art, music, literature, theater, film – these are basic foods for me.”
"I do not really make anything up, the topics I'm interested in are lying around anyway, offering th…
Becca Stevens – Interview
Becca Stevens: “I hope to find solace, inspiration, originality, authenticity, humanness, fearlessness, grounded-ness, spirituality, and raw emotion”
There are certain struggles that women face in the music industry that men see much less of, and thi…
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…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Sabin Aell
Sabin Aell: “For me it is more interesting what I am becoming than where I was born”
"I guess I am a surfer, riding “the wave”, always on the look out for the next magnificent one."…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Andrea Wünsche (Magnet Musik)
Andrea Wünsche: “Nowadays it’s often about quick money (…) the market has become more commercial”
"As a booker, you have to create a strategy, a plan for your artist, have to travel a lot, get to kn…
Akiko Yano - Interview
“When you are communicating through music there is no fear or intimidation”
"Young people want to know about our music and I am grateful for that. I think some of it somehow ca…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation - MAYa Hardinge
MAYa Hardinge & Fear of failing!
"I’ve been obsessed with music since I was very little and obsessed with visuals and style since t…
Kate NV – Videofeature
Kate NV “A Journey Into Sounds”
Kate Shilonosova in conversation with Thomas Venker for Kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop. …
Terence Fixmer – Interview
Terence Fixmer: „I saw the start of Techno!“
"Personally I don’t understand djs who are playing ten times or more per month. I don’t see the …
Jessica Pratt – Interview
Jessica Pratt: “It came out of me with a bang”
"Quiet Signs" is, of course, not a loud, flashy album – rather a gentle revolution, a timeless, cr…
