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‘I can’t stop making music.’ An interview with The Stanley Maneuver - SHAPE+

‘We both came from making slightly more “strange” music’. An interview with Tilliander&Goran Kajfeš - SHAPE+

‘Noise is everything to me.’ An interview with R3YWYA - SHAPE+

‘Never stop being curious.’ An interview with Ljubljana’s SWAI - SHAPE+

‘Nothing makes you more present than a blast of noise from a powerful sound system.’ An interview with PΞB - SHAPE+

Marie Delprat: ‘I’ve been very inspired by Baroque music, especially in how it relates to pop.’ - SHAPE+

SWAI video premiere

Pizza Noise Mafia: ‘Brussels remains one of the most exciting European cities for music.’ - SHAPE+

‘Belgrade has a great scene.’ An interview with Matej Rusmir - SHAPE+

‘I’m a lo-fi person.’ An interview with Polje - SHAPE+

‘I believe more than ever in the collective power of the underground.’ An interview with Jazz Lambaux - SHAPE+

‘Playing live is the most important part of making music.’ An interview with Laikka - SHAPE+

I needed a new space to hide in. An interview with GbClifford - SHAPE+

‘I’m a collector of sounds.’ An interview with Gary Gwadera - SHAPE+

‘Music has always been the way to navigate life’s biggest decisions.’ An interview with funcionário - SHAPE+

‘I don’t fear AI replacing artists. I fear artists forgetting what makes them irreplaceable.’ An interview with Farzané - SHAPE+

'I’m always looking to give myself a shock.' An interview with Canva6 - SHAPE+ Platform

‘Music has often been therapeutic for me’. An interview with Admina  - SHAPE+

'I’m drawn to sonic fiction, uncertainty, and constant communication.' An interview with sofi - SHAPE+ Platform

SHAPE+ announces its final artist list and new online compilation - SHAPE+ Platform

'It’s hardship—not abundance or equal opportunity—that sparks artistic expression.' An interview with Sissi Rada - SHAPE+ Platform

'Music-making and live performance in my life have come from a certain urgency or necessity.' An interview with Radio Hito - SHAPE+ Platform

Crack Mix 606: Nic Krog

'Most women in my family have practiced as shamans.' An interview with PYUR - SHAPE+ Platform

'I love the energy of things possibly going wrong.' An interview with Julian Sartorius - SHAPE+ Platform

'Art is something that makes me pay attention to things more.' An interview with Paula Vītola - SHAPE+ Platform

Life experience is the soil in which the soul grows. An interview with otay:onii. - SHAPE+ Platform

SHAPE+ announces showcases in Almaty and Banja Luka - SHAPE+ Platform

'I always wanted music to seek out some form of truth about who I am.' An interview with Nic Krog - SHAPE+ Platform

'Singing became a form of resistance and care.' An interview with Santiago Latorre - SHAPE+ Platform

SHAPE+ announces showcases at Cafe OTO, Jogja Noise Bombing and JellyZone - SHAPE+ Platform

'I’m much more interested in musicians than music.' An interview with Nick Dunston - SHAPE+ Platform

Existing in non-existence. An interview with Lénok - SHAPE+ Platform

Marylou: The finest way to reach people’s minds or hearts isn’t the obvious.‘

Lenhart Tapes: 'There’s a feeling of solidarity that hasn’t been here before.' - SHAPE+ Platform

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Between between luminous landscapes and darker realms: An interview with Lamina - SHAPE+ Platform

Kinga Ötvös: 'I love being bilingual and bicultural' - SHAPE+ Platform

Khrystyna Kirik: 'I seek stillness amid the rush' - SHAPE+ Platform

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with Nic Krog - SHAPE+ Platform

'I want a physical experience while playing.' An interview with Junge Eko - SHAPE+ Platform

Vangelis goes to Silent Hill. An interview with Jan Nemeček - SHAPE+ Platform

'Sometimes I see performing complicated emergency procedures as similar to performing live.' An interview with Dania - SHAPE+ Platform

'In flamenco, there’s melancholy, but there’s also joy and humour.' An interview with Fiesta en el vacío - SHAPE+ Platform

Open call for Ukrainian interns - SHAPE+ Platform

'Music had always been my favorite way to view the world.' An interview with Irene Bianco - SHAPE+ Platform

'The music scene in Ljubljana is one of the best in the region.' An interview with Fujita Pinnacle - SHAPE+ Platform

'I wasn't really interested in following a predictable path.' An interview with Enrico Malatesta - SHAPE+ Platform

'The body has always been the starting point.' An interview with HA KYOON.  - SHAPE+ Platform

Marylou Crack Magazine Mix

Listen to our latest Resonance FM show with Khrystyna Kirik - SHAPE+ Platform

Elischa Heller: 'What often pushed me to explore my musicality was the desire to belong' - SHAPE+ Platform

"If someone asks me to play at a rave, I’ll do an ambient set." An interview with Drogded - SHAPE+ Platform

Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm: 'I feel like we are service providers, holding the space for people to dream.' - SHAPE+ Platform

Exiting the Vampire Castle: An interview with Donna Haringwey - SHAPE+ Platform

SHAPE+ announces 2024/2025 roster of artists - SHAPE+ Platform

Daniel Szwed: 'Drums were always my one and only instrument' - SHAPE+ Platform

'Juxtaposing my melancholic roots with the euphoria of rave'. An interview with Dino Spiluttini - SHAPE+ Platform

'Neapolitan music is an immense cultural treasure.' An interview with Ciro Vitiello - SHAPE+ Platform

Carolina Santiago: 'Rejecting elitism and prejudices and listening to each other.' - SHAPE+ Platform

Below The Radar Special Edition: SHAPE 2023–24 - The Wire

'I tend to make music that isn’t easy to dance to.' An interview with Assyouti - SHAPE+ Platform

Antonina Nowacka: "I love to perform in spaces like gardens, old churches, monasteries, museums and palaces." - SHAPE+ Platform

SHAPE+ announces newly formed radio network - SHAPE+ Platform

Rituals, tribalism, shamanism, and therapy sessions: An interview with Andriy K - SHAPE+ Platform

'I always go down online rabbit holes': An interview with alys(alys)alys - SHAPE+ Platform

'The music I make doesn't exist in a vacuum': An interview with Adela Mede - SHAPE+ Platform

'I have no wall between me and my art’. An interview with Abdullah Miniawy - SHAPE+ Platform

'I feel that the dramaturgy is built inside of the listener’s mind and body.' An interview with Zesknel - SHAPE+ Platform

ROKOLECTIV | PETRA HERMANOVA IN CONVERSATION WITH APPARATUS 22 - KAJET DIGITAL

ROKOLECTIV | MIHAI MIHALCEA IN CONVERSATION WITH bela - KAJET DIGITAL

'I remember having a whole world of imagination linked to music.' An interview with Sara Persico - SHAPE+ Platform

Creating another reality: An interview with Sabiwa - SHAPE+ Platform

SHAPE+ Ukrainian Internships 2024/2025

'It has been one of my priorities to live slower'. An interview with Tahereh Nourani - SHAPE+ Platform

Is it order? Is it chaos? An interview with Paul Gründorfer - SHAPE+ Platform

Maya Shenfeld - Maintenant Festival

From the soothingly melodic to the harsh, indefinable extremes. An interview with PÖ - SHAPE+ Platform

Robert Schwarz: 'I'm curious about sounds that are usually hidden from our perception' - SHAPE+ Platform

Disconnecting from the reality you live in: An interview with Nemerov - SHAPE+ Platform

Seeking links between church organ and contemporary electronic music. An interview with Maxime Denuc - SHAPE+ Platform

SHAPE+ Platform Open Call 2024

Nicola Ratti: 'Freedom of movement is a privilege that many people take for granted' - SHAPE+ Platform

'I like to bring my own experiences and emotions into music-making.' An interview with Nexcyia - SHAPE+ Platform

Body, Electric. An interview with Maya Shenfeld - SHAPE+ Platform

'Sound as an energy can reveal many elements of our daily life and environment.' An interview with Anthea Caddy - SHAPE+ Platform

Shape: Heinali 28th January 2024

'If I were a sound, what would I sound like?' An interview with Morita Vargas - SHAPE+ Platform

SHAPE+ at CTM ‘24

Max Eilbacher: 'An audience is a mental manifestation of the material at hand.' - SHAPE+ Platform

Pö | Campus Club x Shape Platform

'The fringes are important': An interview with L. Zylberberg - SHAPE+ Platform

'Mistakes became a source of inspiration.' An interview with Martyna Basta - SHAPE+ Platform

'Extended mind-body listening is my favourite state of being.' An interview with Manja Ristić - SHAPE+ Platform

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with Bridget Ferrill - SHAPE+ Platform

'There's a real beauty in collectives and mutual empowerment.' An interview with Juba - SHAPE+ Platform

Heinali: 'Ukrainian culture is still underrepresented in the West' - SHAPE+ Platform

'Experimental music should not be so much about self-presentation.' An interview with Félicia Atkinson - SHAPE+ Platform

Hydrofeminism and the healing properties of sound: An interview with Francesca Heart - SHAPE+ Platform

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with XEXA, Francesca Heart, PÖ and others - SHAPE+ Platform

Bass is the original instrument: An interview with Cassius Lambert - SHAPE+ Platform

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with tracks from Sara Persico, Heinali, Petra Hermanova and more - SHAPE+ Platform

Music as a coping mechanism: An interview with Cucina Povera - SHAPE+ Platform

Bintang Manira Manik: 'I believe music has the power to initiate collective healing' - SHAPE+ Platform

'Everything has the possibility of beauty: An interview with Amina Hocine' - SHAPE+ Platform

Synapse Again in Prague

AWWWARA delve deep into Georgian musical traditions - SHAPE+ Platform

A light dose of sadness: An interview with bela - SHAPE+ Platform

Anna Fišere: 'I would like make a sci-fi opera in a volcanic crater.' - SHAPE+ Platform

SHAPE+ announces 2023/2024 roster of artists - SHAPE+ Platform

Modern troubadours: An interview with Alto Fuero - SHAPE+ Platform

Below The Radar Special Edition: SHAPE 2022–23 - The Wire

The voice as a universal instrument and musical as well as conceptual starting point in the work of Ulla Rauter - SHAPE+ Platform

Shape + Mutant Days [23-24.06.2023]

Focusing on the sound of the present moment - Interview with Orsolya Kaincz - SHAPE+ Platform

'Music is like dance and sound art is like sculpture.' – Interview with Esteban de la Torre - SHAPE+ Platform

How languages shape identities – and how identities shape meanings. Interview with Hui Ye - SHAPE+ Platform

Hear a new track from Maryana Klochko, Ion D and Inana - SHAPE+ Platform

Sound and politics: An interview with Pisitakun - SHAPE+ Platform

'Vanligt Folk was born out of dying.' - SHAPE+ Platform

Hear our latest Resonance FM show from Budapest - SHAPE+ Platform

The chimeric world of Vica Pacheco - SHAPE+ Platform

'Parts of our creativity belong to the same weird and crazy hidden universe': An interview with Frédéric D. Oberland and Irena Z. Tomažin - Shape

SHAPE+ platform announces open call for 2023/2024 - Shape

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with Thea Soti - Shape

Space is a place to question listening: An interview with Oï les Ox - Shape

How do you play a city? An interview with Yara Mekawei - Shape

Improvisation is music for a blink of an eye: An interview with Isabella Forciniti - Shape

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with NZIRIA - Shape

Tony Elieh on the Lebanese music scene, his photographic memory and Berlin collaborations - Shape

Magic, matter, resistance: An interview with Heta Bilaletdin - Shape

Biliana Voutchkova & Svetlana Maraš on Resonance FM

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with Stefanie Egedy - Shape

Between Berlin and the Black Sea: An interview with Biliana Voutchkova - Shape

m.a.t.a.d.a.t.a. is a kind of survival instinct - Shape

Listen to our latest Resonance FM show from Sonica Festival - Shape

Horizon of Possibility: An interview with Forces - Shape

Roxane Métayer's fictional flora - Shape

'Sub-bass makes me happy': An interview with Stefanie Egedy - Shape

Fifth World Music: An interview with Babau - Shape

Collectively living another life: An encounter with Passepartout Duo - Shape

Felisha Ledesma: 'I had to let go of fear and take the time to listen' - Shape

Aleksandra Słyż: 'We should never sacrifice our self-expression for technology' - Shape

Wojciech Rusin: ‘I like to spin clichés around’ - Shape

SHAPE+ adds four acts to its 2022 artist list - Shape

ABADIR: 'The future has been completely uncancelled in music' - Shape

Ale Hop on growing up under an authoritarian regime, church bells and Latin America's sonic practices - Shape

Thea Soti: 'I spent long weeks breeding my own extra-terrestrial world.' - Shape

SHAPE+ platform announces 2022 list of artists - Shape

Read our SHAPE publication - Shape

Embodied experience: An interview with Lisa Stenberg - Shape

JOB: SHAPE+ Financial coordinator

SHAPE+ Open Call

Yantan Ministry: 'I enjoy facing contradictions' - Shape

SHAPE Platform: The video takeover

SHAPE Platform: TTristana

SHAPE Platform: Nazar

SHAPE Platform: Julia Reidy

SHAPE Platform: Heith

SHAPE Platform: Gaspar Claus

SHAPE Platform: Grand River

TTristana: 'I talk about love, insecurity, melancholy and loneliness' - Shape

SHAPE Platform: Ábris Gryllus

SHAPE platform & Crack Magazine announce online collaboration - Shape

SHAPE Mix Series

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with schiev festival special - Shape

TERRINE: 'I remember playing in a shopping cart' - Shape

SIKSA on recording under bridges and love and art as a way of protest - Shape

Kali Malone performing with Stephen O’Malley at Modular Organ System

Below The Radar Special Edition: SHAPE 2021 - The Wire

Riccardo La Foresta: 'Curating has taught me how to share' - Shape

Hear our artist roster mix! - Shape

Entering the unknown: An interview with Pak Yan Lau - Shape

Mark IJzerman & Sébastien Robert: 'Cultural appropriation is something we both take very seriously.' - Shape

Mathilde Fernandez: 'Destabilisation allows moving forward' - Shape

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with Gischt live - Shape

Loup Uberto: Documenting sound - Shape

Koenig: 'I have always loved people with a strong, extreme sound' - Shape

Linda Leimane's sonic explorations - Shape

Mars Can Wait, curated by Rokolectiv

The outside is droning: An interview with KMRU - Shape

Shape: Siksa 16th October 2021

Julek Ploski: 'The more engaging the music, the safer I felt.' - Shape

Screaming into the abyss: An interview with Johanna Hedva - Shape

Nothing stands still: An interview with Grand River - Shape

Julia Reidy: Sounding an internal world - Shape

Synapse Knowledge x SHAPE: 𝙰𝚟𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚝, 𝚈𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚢 & 𝙰𝚟𝚜𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚊

Jiska Huizing & Rudi Valdersnes: 'We want to challenge what you dance to on the dance floor' - Shape

The mindset of an explorer - a conversation with Hüma Utku - Shape

ELVI: ‘My path is a path of much inner conflict’

SONICA X Kamfest: Black Pulse

Gaspar Claus: ‘My career is like a monster chasing me, instead of me chasing a career.’

Foldable Sounds Collective: ‘We wanted to celebrate noises through all their layers of lag’

musikprotokoll 2021 - programme

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with Riccardo La Foresta

Interview: Eiger Drums Propaganda: ‘I love being transported by a vortex of sounds and visuals’

Intonal joins SHAPE

Ensemble Podcast: KMRU

Interview: ‘Budokan Boys was born on Michael’s living room floor.’ Berlin-based duo Budokan Boys interviewed

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with Audrey Chen, Sofie Birch, Black Pulse and c/a

Black Pulse: “I learned to play drums by playing to old punk tapes”

Avtomat: ‘Our community was tired and angry’

Earthquakes, colliding galaxies and slugs sliding down a wet window: Audrey Chen interviewed

Connecting worlds: An interview with Apollo Noir & Thomas Pons

Between science and mythology: An interview with Amosphère

Hear our April Resonance FM show with Ábris Gryllus, Riccardo La Foresta and ELVI

Adaptive desires: An interview with Ábris Gryllus

Trans Europe Postal Express Bandcamp

Hear our latest Resonance FM show with Jay Glass Dubs

SHAPE x RIAM 2021

Ensemble podcast: upsammy

Online stream: TodaysArt visits Hobart

Podcast: Rojin Sharafi

Event: Womxn´s Day - Digital After Party

Listen: Hear our latest Resonance FM show with Simina Oprescu

Event: TodaysArt 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙨 — Tromsø

SHAPE platform announces 2021 list of artists

EARTHLY SOUNDTRACKS FOR THE NON-HUMAN by Rokolectiv

CTM Festival 2021 - Transformation

NTS Radio: SHAPE W/ XIN

The Wire Below The Radar Special Edition: SHAPE Platform 2020

XLR8R+26 Features Exclusive Tracks and a Sample-Pack from Jay Glass Dubs, Poly Chain, and Rian Treanor

SHAPE platform & XLR8R announce two-week collaboration

Clara de Asís: ‘I like to consider music as a manifestation of life’

Peter Kutin's ROTOR @ ORF

Earthly Soundtracks For The Non-Human

Yann Gourdon x Musique Journal

upsammy: ‘Sound became more sculpture-like’

Lawrence Lek: ‘Musicians always find a way to subvert the system’

Sacrifice Seul: ‘My production looks like old modular synth mixed à la Mad Max”

Probabilities Around The Center

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Jay Glass Dubs rend hommage à sa chienne Daria, qui est encore tout à fait vivante [podcast musique & soin, ép. 2]

Jay Glass Dubs: ‘If my head were a city, the music would come from a distant building’

The sound is the soul: An interview with Simina Oprescu

Rian Treanor: ‘Being creative is also about not being happy with how things are’

object blue: “I was really afraid of music”

Farida Amadou on working with Steve Albini, improvisation and her new collaborative platform

Piezo on the Milan and Bristol underground scenes, illegal raves and his new album

Just me and John Cage in my head: An interview with turntapelist Rrill Bell

SHAPE announces open call for 2021

FOQL: ‘In Poland, art is always at the very bottom of the pecking order’

Lyra Valenza: ‘We’re gonna have a cultural boom’

‘I can’t be creative if I don’t have time to get lost a little’: An interview with Céline Gillain

Rojin Sharafi’s musical journey

Oliver Torr on Prague’s music scene, playing 5-hour sets and sonifying trains

Svetlana Maraš x The Quietus