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A cluttered electronic music studio with a wall of modular synthesizers, large speakers, and a turntable in the foreground.
A photograph of the book titled Inside the Studio: Spaces of Electronic Music Production. The light gray cover shows a complex music studio filled with modular synthesizers, a web of colorful cables, large speakers, a mixing console, and a turntable in the foreground.
An overhead shot of an open book on a white surface. The left page shows a color photograph of a cluttered artist's studio and kitchen. The right page features the text of an interview with Giulia Valenti.
An open book showing a two-page spread. The left page features text from an interview with Sarah Farina. The right page is a full-color photograph of Farina, a woman with dark curly hair, sitting in a modern black chair at a white desk in a sunlit room. A guitar hangs on the wall behind her, and music equipment is on the desk.
A light gray, hardcover book is shown against a white background. On the cover, in the top left corner, is a quote in black text. The quote reads, And that's where you just build a studio around you, so that you can put the ideas into frequencies practically immediately. That's why the studio for me is like an extension of my music perception. Below the quote is the name Ricardo Villalobos.
A hardcover book titled Inside the Studio shown at an angle on a white background. The front cover features a photograph of a dense electronic music studio, filled with a modular synthesizer, a tangle of colorful wires, a mixing console, and a turntable. The title is printed in a simple sans-serif font on the off-white cover.
An open book on a white background displays a two-page spread with photographs of contrasting workspaces. On the left is a brightly lit, cluttered modern office or electronics lab. On the right is a dark, industrial-looking basement workshop with a workbench, speakers, and exposed pipes on the ceiling.
A minimalist two-page spread from a publication. The left page has the name Sasha Perera at the top left and the text BEDROOM. CLOSET. KITCHEN. CAVE. COOK UP YOUR OWN IMPRINT at the top right. The right page contains a column of free-verse text, a poem about music, sound, and the creative process, with phrases like senses alive, a subwoofer that goes boooooooom, and the presence between the music and the machine(s).
A minimalist two-page spread from a book by Matthias Pasdzierny. The title on the left page reads Inside the Studio: Spaces of Electronic Music Production—An Introduction. The right page has a section titled Mixing in Zone, with text discussing the history of electronic music. The layout features black text on a white background with ample white space.
A two-page magazine spread with text on the left reading NOVO LINE / NAT FOWLER. The right page features a photograph of a man in a yellow polo shirt and red shorts sitting in a very cluttered music studio, surrounded by walls of vintage synthesizers, stacked CRT monitors, and tangled cables.
A two-page magazine spread featuring an interview with Giulia Valenti. The left page is a full-bleed photo of her cluttered, eclectic home studio, which doubles as a kitchen and dining area. A table with a pink floral tablecloth is in the foreground, with a kitchen counter, stove, and a green cabinet in the background. The walls are covered with posters, photos, and hanging pots. The right page contains the text of the interview.
A two-page book spread. The left page is blank except for the name HAINBACH. The right page is a photograph of Hainbach's music studio, a cluttered room packed wall-to-wall with vintage synthesizers, keyboards, audio racks, and a complex web of colorful cables. A single stool sits in the center.
A wide, symmetrical photograph of a long, dilapidated hallway in an abandoned building. The ceiling paint is peeling, walls are a patchwork of bare, white, and wood-paneled sections, and the tiled floor stretches into the distance. A sign on the right reads MMM 1989.
A minimalist table of contents page from a book, with black sans-serif text on a white background. The contents list an introduction titled Inside the Studio: Spaces of Electronic Music Production, followed by a long list of artists and their corresponding page numbers.
A two-page spread from a book or magazine. The left page is blank white with the name RICARDO VILLALOBOS at the top. The right page is a full-color photograph of a music studio, densely packed with electronic equipment. In the foreground is a turntable and a mixing console. The background is filled with walls of modular synthesizers, interconnected by a complex and chaotic tangle of colorful patch cables, with two large white horn speakers visible.
A two-page magazine spread showing an interview with the music group Modeselektor. The top-left corner features a color photograph of a music studio, showing an L-shaped setup of racks filled with keyboards and synthesizers. An electric guitar leans against a speaker nearby. The rest of the spread contains the text of the interview.
A diptych contrasting two spaces. On the left, a long, stark basement corridor is lined with metal storage units. On the right, a cluttered and personal hallway is filled with a stack of car tires, shelves of bottles, framed posters, and a doorway revealing a room packed with vinyl records.
A side-by-side comparison of two workspaces. On the left is a bright, modern office with desks cluttered with computers, synthesizers, and electronic equipment. On the right is a dark, unfinished basement with a wooden workbench and shelves packed with speakers, wires, and boxes of parts.
Inside the Studio
Spaces of Electronic Music Production. Berlin/Cairo
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By (photographer): Gero Cacciatore
Designed by: Karsten Heller
Foreword by: Sasha Perera
Edited by: Matthias Pasdzierny, Gero Cacciatore
May 2025, 188 Pages, 120 Photos
Ebook - PDF (242,0 MB)
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5961-8

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Where music is created
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.
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