31.05.2025
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EM GUIDE FEST: Solidarize!
MUSIC, RESISTANCE, AND THE POWER OF LISTENING
For some time now, our everyday reality has been coloured by a sense of uncertainty. The end of the global pandemic, which many believed would bring relief, was unexpectedly followed by the collapse of shared truths that had organised our societies, while the constant specter of present and potential future conflicts maintains a pervasive sense that no alternative to our current state is possible or even imaginable. However, projecting dystopian scenarios while sinking into despair is not constructive – quite the opposite, as it only reinforces reactionary sentiments. In times like these, we need to focus on different kinds of stories: ones that prioritize solidarity, cooperation, expression and mutual support.
At its heart, the EM GUIDE project points to this legacy. Creating a platform for diverse stories about music and sound and how they shape our world today. These echo through our bodies – shaping, challenging and transforming the spaces we inhabit.
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.
EM GUIDE includes six magazines based in five European countries: MMN Mag (HU), 3/4 magazine (SK), Easterndaze (CZ), Kaput (DE), NOIES (DE) and Struma+Iodine (A). With the support of the EU’s Creative Europe programme, we have been working together since the beginning of 2024, creating and exchanging articles, translating stories to our local languages and sharing skills and knowledge through workshops.
End of may we’re celebrating our first print edition with an event in Vienna and a packed line-up.
Join us!
PRE-SALE TICKETS
Early Bird – 12€ / Early Bird + Magazine – 15€
TIMETABLE
17:00-17:30 Introduction to EM Guide / Creative Europe by Peter Bokor (MMN Mag, HU) & Shilla Strelka (Struma+Iodine, AT)
17:30-18:00 Introduction to our EM Guide #1 – printed edition by Magdaléna Kobzová (3/4, SK) & Ján Solčáni (3/4, SK)
18:00-20:00 Panel-Discussion: Solidarize! Music-journalism in context of repressive governments
In an age of “end time fascism”, as Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor recently described our era or multiple cataclysms in the Guardian, what is the role of independent, grassroot, small-scale media? What is the relevance of music media and culture journalism, and culture at large in an era when headlines are grabbed by various authoritarian figures proselytising hate and fear. The panel brings together independent journalists and culture actors from Hungary, Austria, Georgia, Poland and Slovakia. Each of these countries has experienced or is currently experiencing a shift to the (far) right marked by suppression of various minorities and oppositional voices. We will try to discuss the ways how independent media and culture navigate and subvert these repressive ideologies.
Moderation: Lucia Udvardyova (Easterndaze, Shape)
Participants: Slavo Krekovic (NEXT Festival, SK), Gabriella Gal (MMN Mag, HU), Piotr Tkacz (Glissando, RO) / Ben Wheeler (Mutant Radio, GE)
20:30-06:00 Concerts & DJ-Line-Up feat.
POLY CHAIN live
Poly Chain [Lightronics] is the artistic project of Sasha Zakrevska, a Ukrainian composer, DJ, curator, and graphic designer born in Kyiv in 1993. Zakrevska’s musical journey began early with piano lessons, and her fascination with synthesizers developed during her teenage years, leading to a deep exploration of electronic music. In 2012, Zakrevska moved to Poland, where she began developing her solo project, Poly Chain. Her debut album, Music for Candy Shops, released in 2017, showcased a unique blend of ambient and electronic sounds. Her work is heavily influenced by her experiences in both the Polish and Ukrainian electronic music scenes, where she has participated in numerous local events and festivals, including Kraków’s Unsound Festival and Kyiv’s CXEMA, as well as composing music for museum performances and choreographic pieces.
MARTYYNA
Marina Svobodova( Martyyna) is a Prague born & based producer and DJ, also a co-founder of a legendary KSK club night in Prague. Her DJ sets are hardly predictable and known for colourfully layered selections. Although her musical approach leans toward the realms of club experimental music and related genres, she doesn’t believe in defining any specific borders. The aim is to deliver emotional experiences through her sets. Her debut EP AWAKEN, utilizing and dissecting traditional Asian instruments such as guzheng and erhu, saw the light in 2020 on the local BCAA system label and was considered among the top Czech records of that year by the Wire magazine. Martyyna is deeply rooted in the electronic scene, as evidenced by her collaborations with the Kenyan producer Slikback, tracks on Eco Futurism Corporation and UNIZONE labels, or remixes for jjjacob (ANBA) and Ethno Service (UNIZONE). Her debut album “Written In The Scars” was released in June 2024 on Mexican label Infinite Machine.
KIN TEAL presents ‘circadian’ [EXILES] live
Kin Teal is a Budapest based producer and DJ, creating tactile bass music that’s influenced by nature. Kin Teal as a project is meant to play with contradictions – between natural and human-made, slow and fast, mellow and arasive. His music weaves in abstract melodies and experimental zones into club music, while keeping both bodies and brains active. His live sets see him rearrange existing tracks into new constellations and explore unheard-before and improvised soundscapes, while as a DJ, he ranges from birdcall ambient to UK techno, always keeping natural sounds at the forefront. The main aim of his project is to express the contrast and connection between nature and humanity through juxtaposing natural textures with machine-made ones, and this sensibility is ever so evident on ‘circadian’, his latest offering.
The five-track EP is tightly packed with unformalized and unpredictable bass music – as per Kin Teal’s ars poetica, heavily digital sounds are carefully intertwined with natural elements. ‘circaridan’ is a polished, if not totally pristine body of work: the playfully raw, broken beats carry artifacts of living organisms. The human voice is a central element here; whether chopped and scattered or looped and ethereal, these vocal samples are what make the material really breathe. ‘circadian’ is peak body clock music condensed into 18-minute cycles.
ECE ÖZEL
When you come from a place where everything collides in the worst and the best way, confusion comes with a price – it’s either a bigger confusion or a huge relief. Istanbul based DJ Ece Özel’s approach towards selection, pullulates from this exact notion. Growing up in the city’s vibrant punk scene and being acquainted with electronic music afterwards, surely had some effects on her style. Expect to be carried away with transitions between styles, tempo, rhythm and mood when she’s behind the decks. Whether it’s a mixtape or a dancefloor, Ece Özel’s mystifying, unpredictable and always fresh sounds blossom into distinctive, dark but somehow shiny journeys. She runs her own nights and podcast series titled “Özel Zevkler”. So far many local and global live acts and DJs took part in the series’ parties in various clubs and/or online platforms. Being one half of İstanbul based independent label Müstesna Records, she continues to shine a light on both contemporary and past Turkish electronic music scene.
DANIEL KORDIK live
Kordik’s music making spans across three domains: electronic music, free improvisations and field recordings. Over the years, he’s been involved in several projects, including the hardware noise duo Jamka and his solo and collaboration ventures, which span across free improvisation, electronic music and field recording (check out his [Sy][ria] release on LOM, for instance). His solo albums ‘Spojky čiary’ and ‘Ocela’ are continuation of a venture devoted to the dance – dance for dance’s sake, without its social function or manipulation. Last year Kordik released ‘SATIS’. This album was a musical collaboration between Weltschmerzen and the Slovak Chamber of Architects. Crafted as a dynamic soundtrack for the CE ZA AR architectural prize in Slovakia. Kordik is a frequent collaborator with Štefan Szabó, Miro Tóth, Jozef Krupa, Michal Matejka, Ken Ikeda or trombonist Edward Lucas and guitarist N.O. Moore with whom he co-runs Earshots Recordings dedicated to free improvisation. His last free improvisation album ‘End No End’ recorded together with Eddie Prévost came out last year.
PEDRO RAMIREZ live
Pedro A. Ramírez (Bogotá, CO) is a sound artist exploring the boundaries of perception through both analog circuitry and computational synthesis. His work investigates non-conventional sonic territories where digital precision meets analog unpredictability. Combining techniques from electroacoustic traditions with the raw energy of his post-hardcore roots, Pedro creates immersive sound experiences that push listeners to the extremes of auditory sensation.
GISCHT live
Ursula Winterauer, also known as Gischt, is an experimental composer, electronic music producer, and curator based in Vienna. Her eclectic sonic landscapes offer nuanced interpretations of industrial, techno, and ambient genres, shaped through the use of bass guitar, synthesizers, and swirling clouds of electro-smog. In her work she deals with raw and brutal sounds in digital overdetermination and contrasts these with the clear and human nature of her own voice used as an instrument. She is the bassist of the doom metal band Eaeres and forms one half of the noise-duo The Answer is No alongside Maja Osojnik. Winterauer works as a sound designer and composer for film and develops compositions for contemporary dance, is co-founder and label boss of Ventil Records, co-organizer and commercial director of the Unsafe+Sounds Festival and curator of New Salt – Festival for sonic exploration & digital art.
SOULGLO b2b S.VERIN
Soulglo alias Philipp Haffner has been an integral part of the Austrian electronic music scene since the 90s. Together with Constantin Zeileissen, he has been releasing music under the pseudonyms: Microthol, Buffered Multiple and Ha-ze Factory since 2003 on labels such as Trust, Pomelo, Puzzlebox, Shaddock, Yoshi, Minimalsoul, Lirum Larum, mr Intl, !K7, or Universal. In 2014 he began to explore video synthesis. Initially with simple tools such as cameras, monitors and video mixers. He then entered the world of modular video in 2015. Since 2016, he has been enriching the more or less regular event series ‘funkroom’ with audio-reactive visual installations. This was followed by collaborations such as the ‘Optokoppler’ project with Bernhard Rasinger (laser with video feedback).
S.verin has been active as a DJ and party-host in Vienna’s underground scene for over a decade. He started spinning vinyl, and refined his skills as a member of the Funkroom crew, a renowned Viennese DJ and party collective that hosted legacy acts like DJ Stingray or Helena Hauff. Digging deep into the rich history of electro, S.verin is blending retrofuturist classics with contemporary left-field styles and ghetto vibes. His selection is characterized by syncopated grooves and deep basslines, minimalist vocals and brainravey synth-textures.