report: music

“What else should we do during the cold polar nights except make music?”

Russian artist Anna Ceeh and the Austrian sound artist Franz Pomassl about the “rest of the world” beyond the Urals, music making in the turbo-capitalist regions and why laptop music is not the last word on the subject.

“It was a good time!
We were young and lazy”

The arrest of the rock group “Plastic People of the Universe” at a concert in February 1976 led directly to the formation of Charter 77. The Viennese author Sebastian Fasthuber and the former confidant of the band Abbé Libánský spoke and drank for Report with the two band members Jiří Kabeš and Vrata Brabenec in Prague.

"A Very Nordic Thing"

The musician and artist Andres Löo is one of the most important representatives of the young Estonian scene. In this interview he speaks about Western misunderstandings regarding Estonia, the spirit of optimism in his native country at the start of the nineties, and his search for the ur-sound.

The Range of Diversity and the Depth of the Feeling

Lithuania’s Current Music Scenes are Well Prepared for the Europe of the Future

In the National Paradise

Estonian Delights, Their Limits Set by the Search for Identity and Their Export beyond Boundaries. About the Music Scene in Estonia

Dissecting tones under the microscope

The experimental music scene in Ukraine

"Does the Electronic Scene in Riga differ from other Scenes in Europe?"

Austrian music and culture journalist Ursula Maria Probst spoke in Vienna to producer Rostislav Rekuta, electronic musician Evgeniy Droomoff and singer Tonya Pilugina about the cultural scene in Riga.

"Our Key Area is Music"

For a number of years now Česká spořitelna has placed the emphasis in its private sponsoring activities on the area of music. Vienna-based culture journalist Nina Schedlmayer talked to Jarmila Plachá, the new Head of Corporate Marketing und Sponsoring at Česká spořitelna, discussing the Stones after the revolution, student film festivals that run all night and jazz clubs in Prague.

Non-conformist Murmansk

Tales of unfulfilled dreams in the far north of Russia.
A portrait of the artproduction and artists in Murmansk.
By Seva Dymodel, Kirill Junolainen and Sergey Mombus.

"UFO over Vladivostok"

On the music scene in far-off Asian Russia, an email impression between artist Anna Ceeh, who lives in Vienna, and musician Evgeny Beresnev in which the latter tells about his life as an artist on the fringe of Russia, Vladivostok.

Digging into the musical underground!

Theatre Moon Over the Danube

For a period of four months ending in September 2006, an undeveloped part of the Donaucity stood under the theatre moon of theatercombinat and its guests.

"It's easier to breathe in Ukraine"

A female pop icon's Euro-vision of Ruslana Lyzhichko, after the Orange Revolution. In this interview with Eduard Steiner given exclusively for "Report" she tells about the times before the change, the present atmosphere in the country and the Europe-euphoria of Ukrainian youth.

Promoting Means Taking Risk

Lothar Knessl, curator of the Erste Bank Composing Commission, in conversation with Irene Suchy

Snot out of the nose or, who is Boris Ondreička?

Portrait of the slovakian artist, curator mediator and director of tranzit.sk.

Spin the globe! – discover the world with DJ-ing

There are some who speak about the eastern expansion of the European Union and there are others who are actively engaged in it. The people at Project East! go a step further: getting people to dance together, as a form of applied cultural mediation.

"Is there anyone here who, like, knows about music, say someone from the independent scene?"

For five years now the Prague and New York-based culture organisation, Tamizdat has been making a name for itself as a kind of central switchboard for labels, bands and distributors from the so-called Eastern European reform countries. What started off in 1999 as a non-profit making project has turned out to be so eminently suitable for development that one or two investors could potentially make a small fortune out of it.

Interview with the Director of the Prague Spring Festival Roman Belor

The Prague Spring Festival

In its 59th year the Prague Spring Festival celebrates masterpieces of Leoš Janáček and Antonín Dvořák with national and international luminaries. Prague remembers its place as one of the true Central European capitals and honours the beginning of a new epoch.

The Prague Spring Festival

In its 59th year the Prague Spring Festival celebrates masterpieces of Leoš Janáček and Antonín Dvořák with national and international luminaries. Prague remembers its place as one of the true Central European capitals and honours the beginning of a new epoch.

Love-songs - as imperishable as love itself

A Portrait. With her warm voice, the American singer Dianne Reeves lends old jazz standards a briskness that makes them as poignant as ever. Her current CD A Little Moonlight attests to these powers.

House Party Russian Style

The RUS CLUB has been rocking once a month since the end of last year with bands, DJs, art, and fashion from the former Eastern bloc. The motto of this easygoing exchange between East and West taking place at alternating venues: “Kak pa masslu”: Things are going swimmingly!