em guide noise every wednesday: a lesson in sustainability from kyiv’s experimental scene
A series of events with an open concept and ceaseless adventurism has been tie-forming and genre-bending for the post-2022 explorative music scene of Ukraine’s capital. People in charge of Wednesdays, Kseniia Yanus and Vadym Oliinykov, tell the story of the most sustainable long-duration performance in Ukraine.
em guide where sound finds a home: lviv’s home of sound and its many faces
Text: Olena Pohonchenkova The Theremin Auto website is designed as a tube made of thousands of grey effects units. It feels a bit claustrophobic but also womb-like safe, in the main menu at least. I’m choosing a song called Horse in Ancient Rome, and my in-game hand gets to…
em guide the muscut and shukai sounds of lost futures
At first glance, the sonic worlds of Ukrainian labels Muscut and Shukai sound very similar. While the aesthetics of both share the sound of the nostalgic allure of blurred, overdubbed tape loops, they diverge in their creative approach. Shukai delves into the archives, unearthing lost gems often banned and suppressed by the Soviets, while Muscut crafts new music that evokes the feeling of a lost vintage soundtrack to a picture promising visions of a brighter future.
