Unsound Festival Osaka 2025
Unsound Osaka
Unsound has always thrived on dislocation. This first September weekend, Osaka becomes the latest no…
Unsound Festival Osaka 2025
Unsound has always thrived on dislocation. This first September weekend, Osaka becomes the latest no…
Monheim Triennale – Interview
Tyshawn Sorey is one of those rare artists who collapses the usual partitions between worlds: contem…
Interview
“Complexity, polyphony, brokenness,” is Heiner Goebbels' answer to the question of what music mu…
EM GUIDE – Monheim Triennale – Interview
"I do remember always being told that “music is just a hobby” and “you need to find something …
EM GUIDE — School’s Out with Shahzad Ismaily and His Daughter, Anika Loa Ismaily Quilter
"Let´s start the game. I wanna taste this Smoothie and guess what´s in it?" A day in Brooklyn wit…
2024 – Das Jahr in Insolvenz & Pop
"Two celebrations of Peter Brötzmann’s incredible influence and lasting aura. Both very different…
Interview
Belgian-Nigerien bassist Farida Amadou has been finding and reinventing the electric bass again and …
Hot for the warm-up: Monheim Triennale 2024 - ‘The Prequel’
It’s a dizzying array of musical encounters and the ultimate goal is that the experience of the Pr…
Interview by Peter Dolník w/ Colin Stetson & Stian Westerhus – EM GUIDE
Two giants of avant-garde jazz and experimental music, saxophonist Colin Stetson and Norwegian guita…
In the summer 2022 New York based tenorsaxophone player Zoh Amba travelled to Europe for the very fi…
Farida Amadou – Interview – Meakusma Festival / Monheim Triennale
"I grew up in a kind of poor family, I'm second generation, my mum was a political refugee – ther…
Monheim Triennale – a celebration of avant-garde musical experimentation
"But the joy of this thing is the way it takes you back to the fundamentals: of playing, of listenin…
Colin Stetson – Interview
"The idea behind everything that I do is to try to create a new a kind of unavoidable…
Monheim Triennale – Hibo Elmi – Interview
"I was scared about being a colored person, but when I came to Monheim it didn’t hit me that I was…
Jennifer Walshe – Monheim Triennale
"If people turn up – unless being obnoxious, or throwing things at you – your duty is to try to…