em guide ellen arkbro: “i love making sound in a room and having people there to experience it”
The Swedish composer, musician and sound artist Ellen Arkbro is known for her very precise productions, for which she works with both Just intonation and Meantone tempering. So far she has released four albums, “For Organ And Brass” (Subtext, 2017), “Chords” (Subtext, 2019), “I Get Along Without You Very Well” (together with Johan Graden, Thrill Jockey, 2022), “Sounds While Waiting” (W.25th, 2023), in the spring 2025 her collaboration with Microtub (Robin Hayward, Martin Taxt, and Peder Simonsen) will be released: “Clouds for Three Tubas”. In the run-up to the performance by Arkbro and Microtub at this year’s CTM Festival, Ellen Arkbro and Thomas Venker chatted via Zoom.

em guide aunty rayzor: »alles begann in der kirche«
»My pen is my razor and the razor is me« – so eine der pointierten Textzeilen, die Bisola Olugbenga (besser bekannt unter ihrem Battle-Rap-Psyeudonym Naija Thugress sowie ihrem Artist Name Aunty Rayzor) auf der Bühne von sich gibt. Die in Lagos lebende Musikerin rappt, beeinflusst von Afro-House, Reggae, US-Hip Hop und Afrobeat zweisprachig (auf englisch und in ihrer Muttersprache Yoruba) gleichermaßen über ihre sehr persönlichen Lebensumstände sowie die größeren soziopolitischen Gegebenheiten ihres Heimatlandes.
