When you think of techno and electronic dance music you first think of clubs and festivals
ecstatic dancers and enraptured DJs. But in which spaces is this music actually created?
Artists' studios and writing rooms of authors and composers have long been the focus of public
attention and research. The studios of DJs and electronic music producers however have so far
remained largely hidden. They can be found in darkened basements abandoned factories garages
and backyards in magnificently converted lofts formerly squatted houses shared flats or
teenage bedrooms. Some exude the aura of monastic hermitages in others production and party
seem to merge into one another still others look like rubbish dumps for electronic waste.
Inside the Studio presents an inventory of this rich creative landscape in Berlin and Cairo. By
interweaving photo documentation and interviews the volume allows intimate insights into the
hidden worlds of music production and becomes a surprising and touching portrait of one of the
most exciting creative sectors of our time. The project is based on a research project of the
Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) and was created in collaboration
with Ricardo Villalobos Cinthie Frank Wiedemann Modeselektor Marcel Dettmann Gudrun Gut
Westbam Dr. Motte Sarah Farina Perera Elsewhere Robert Henke Roman Flügel 3Phaz
Postdrone Alva Noto Carsten Nicolai and many others. Gero Cacciatore (* 1974 in Torino)
studied photography in Milan and worked as an assistant for Giovanni Gastel. He is a freelance
photographer particularly in the fields of corporate photography for fashion brands still
life travel reportage and photography of urban spaces. He lives in Moneglia (Genoa). Matthias
Pasdzierny (* 1976 in Göttingen) is a musicologist from Berlin (University of the Arts
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities). His main research topics are: music and
migration critical edition of (tape) music after 1945 history of techno and electronic dance
music.
