In the context of contemporary experimental music, you can often jump into conversations about extended playing techniques and how uneasy it is to push their boundaries. This is particularly true when it comes to wind instruments.
Published July, 2025
Most people have heard of Sándor Kispál aka “Saskó,” through his electronic music programming at Gólya, the PÉNZ collective, or his DJ alter ego, csinovnyik. Last year marked the 5th anniversary of Orczy Street’s Gólya, and PÉNZ turns 10 this year, Saskó has gathered quite a lot of experience about, let’s say, the music industry – so that’s what we asked him about.
Published July, 2025
We’ve sat on this article for too long because it’s hard to be objective and unbiased about something we’ve spent many years of our lives trying to be an active part of, and improve. It’s even harder to admit we’re not certain what the actual state of our scene is anymore, because we feel disconnected and irrelevant. What we think we observe does not seem homogeneous enough, or it is not headed towards a state that we can understand, explain, or predict.
Published July, 2025
In March 2025 Gajek released his latest and critically acclaimed album, Cutting Together Apart (stroom.tv).
Published July, 2025
Sándor Vály moved to Finland in 1990 and has gradually turned to audiovisual art over the last three decades. We talked about his beginnings, his musical development, personal and collective art.
Published July, 2025
As the sun rises on 21 May, marking the Day of Remembrance for the Circassian Genocide, we invite you to listen beyond the silence that often surrounds the wounds of colonialism. In the following article, Bulat Khalilov, co-founder of Ored Recordings – a label dedicated to traditional and post-traditional music from the North Caucasus – reflects on a paradox within Circassian music today.
Published June, 2025
EM GUIDE is a network of independent music magazines that focus on stories often found on the margins: in DIY venues, local experimental music scenes, community radio stations, listening rooms, art university studios and grassroots communities whose voices are all too frequently drowned out by the mainstream narratives.
Published May, 2025
When Adela Mede, Marta Forsberg and Nindya Nareswari met up for this interview in late January, there was relief, happiness and exhaustion in the air: it was the day after their first collaboration, a site-specific music and light piece for CTM festival at the Kuppelhalle. Their performance was built on songs by Slovak vocalist and composer Adela Mede, who combines in her lyrics the three languages she grew up with – Slovak, Hungarian (her parents’ mother tongue) and English.
Published April, 2025
Adam the World is a rapper and alternative R'n'B artist from Kremnica in Slovakia, currently living in Prague. His explosively diverse, syncretic work is characterized by elements of neosoul and alternative R'n'B.
Published April, 2025
This essay explores my encounter with the archive of Chile al día, a broadcast transmitted from Radio Berlin International in the GDR between 1973 and 1990, during the same period as Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. I visited the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv in Babelsberg, where this archive resides, six times between 28 August and 18 October 2024. Those visits involved me with it on different levels, whereas my listening practice was affected as I opened myself up to an aesthetic of resonance.
Published February, 2025