em guide antibo*: belgrade’s techno-folk uprising
Text: Darko VukićPhotos: Vanja Veapi, Courtesy of Antiboemska Veselja – ANTIBOOriginally published on easterndaze.net On the streets of Belgrade, music and counterculture have long been instruments of collective expression, resilience, and social critique. From the heady days of Yugoslavia’s New Wave in the 1980s, through the tumult of…
em guide echoes of persistence: the evolution of zagreb’s experimental music scene
Zagreb, Croatia’s capital, is home to a vibrant series of experimental music events, despite the obstacles that hinder the growth and development of its local scene. In the context of Zagreb, the term “underground experimental music” encompasses a wide range of styles: from sound art experiments, ambient and noise soundscapes to free jazz, riff-based assaults and adventurous dance music. Exploring the happenings that nurture these heterogeneous aesthetics thus becomes the best way to encapsulate and portray Zagreb’s scene: they gather communities and audiences and provide opportunities, platforms and networks for artists.
reise nach kud mreža
Die Slowenin Nataša Serec engagiert sich für die freien kulturellen Szenen in Ljubljana. In den 1990er Jahren gründete sie KUD Mreža, ein Netzwerk für experimentelle Musik im Kulturzentrum Metelkova. Im Interview erzählt sie von dessen Entstehung und der Bedeutung der DIY Bewegungen für die Gegenwart.