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.
em guide “el pueblo, el pueblo, el pueblo ¿dónde está?” estallido social and co-listening to sound (noise) archives
This text reflects on the sonic dimensions of Chile’s Estallido Social, where noise served as a tool of resistance. Drawing on Attali’s concept of noise as a disruptor, it explores how sonic practices like “cacerolazos” and chants challenged the order and redefined public space. Chattopadhyay’s idea of co-listening frames these sounds as collective and political acts that foster communal engagement, while co-listening to sound archives from this period also evokes the creative potential of noise, allowing it to resonate across memories, territories and disputes, imagining other (new) realities.
gedanken über musiksemiotik: parlour game
Was genau kommuniziert Musik - und wie? Der Künstler Harkeerat Mangat geht dieser Frage anhand eines besonderen Beispiels nach: einer Standardpräsentation von Dhrupad-Musik.
em guide taking matters into our own hands and offering an alternative
The Oramics initiative sheds light on Polish female, queer and non-binary artists and collectives. One of them is DEKONSTRUKT, the first non-binary and trans-femme collective between Warsaw and Tri-City. Mac aka DiV4 is part of the collective. In an interview with Zosia Hołubowska, DiV4 talks about how they got into DJing and what changes they would like to see in the (international) club culture scene.
noies chimären jasmina al-qaisi: psycho-somatic scores with jess aszodi
In her third and last Chimäre, author Jasmina Al-Qaisi searches for where her voice rests. Lead by artist Jess Aszodi she goes on a journey to look for it in various locations in her body: memory, pain, inheritage, language, resistance, breath and soil.
em guide cultivating tenderness through listening with warm winters ltd.
Warm Winters Ltd. is a great platform to discover experimental music (not only) from Eastern Europe. The label from Braitslava does not commit itself to genres, and yet the music is characterized by a certain tenderness. Label founder Adam Badí Donoval on his approach to curating and the challenges of running a label in Eastern Europe
em guide re-enchanted kingdoms
Folk music is strongly influenced by the region in which it originates: by its nature, its traditions, its craftsmanship. What does Slovakian folk music sound like today, and what perspectives on our globalized world does it offer? Author Michael Papcun presents four contemporary approaches ranging from experimental electronics to drone and metal. It becomes clear that Slovakian folk music is more of a concept than a sound.
gespräch mit sounds now: believed resolved, still pending
Launched in 2019, Sounds Now is a large-scale cooperation project co-funded by Creative Europe, consisting of a network of 9 European music festivals and arts centers that promote contemporary music, experimental music and sound art. The project aims to actively stimulate inclusion and diversity in the current European contemporary music landscape. Roberto Beseler Maxwell met up with Anne Appathurai, project manager of Sounds Now, to talk about the project, their goals and future.
noies chimären jasmina al-qaisi: cuchicheo* with nicole l’huillier
Jasmina met with Nicole L'Huillier in her studio in Berlin. All the utterances that they shared together are mixed in a co-writing process readable, visible and audible in the following article. The wires, silicones and conductors whistle various versions of world-sensing. While grasping, they lose frequencies and they melt the difference between emitting and receiving between devices and themselves.
reise nach cmmas
Rodrigo Sigal stellt uns das Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS) vor, das Neue Musik Netzwerk in Morelia, Mexiko. Hier wird mit Konzerten, Festivals, Kursen, Residenzen und vielem mehr die lebendige Musikszene Morelias mitgestaltet und unterstützt. Im Interview spricht Rodrigo über die Zielsetzung der Akteur:innen und die fehlende Unterstützung des mexikanischen Staats.
