Welcome to Kitchen Music
I’m glad you’re here.
What you see is the product of months (years?) of dreaming & scheming, hemming & hawing, and rambling phone and dinner table conversations with friends and musicians across the country.
Exactly what am I trying to cook up?
As the value statement says:
“Kitchen Music is not precious. We believe in both the tradition of experimentation and the experimental nature of tradition. Kitchen Music is informal, communal, and ever-evolving.
We exist to fulfill a practical need for musicians to share their process, challenges, and ideas, while operating from a place of respect, intention, and accessibility.
Kitchen Music is for musicians who ground themselves in a larger context, but remain hungry for new approaches. Although we have a deep appreciation for traditional acoustic music and fiddle tunes, we also get excited by experimental sounds.”
Kitchen Music is a journal about homemade music. Acoustic, electronic, ambient, folk — all are fair game. I am less concerned about whether or not you plug your instrument in and more interested in what you do with it.
Like its name suggests, Kitchen Music is about gathering in a casual and community-minded space to share music, ideas, and stories. Here you’ll find interviews, essays, playlists, guides, demonstrations, and recommendations as told by musicians, artists, researchers, filmmakers, and other curious individuals.
This is just the beginning.
I am approaching this work from a place of intention, not a pre-determined image of what it will look like, so I am excited to see how it continues to evolve based the interests and needs of the community (i.e. that’s *you*). As a white person occupying stolen land, I am continuing to learn how I can do less harm to the folx who are most marginalized in this country, including Black people and people of color, indigenous/native peoples, LGBTQ and gender non-conforming people, people with disabilities/differently abled people, and immigrants. As the editor of a publication, I am committed to being accountable to this community, especially in regards to the stories and individuals that Kitchen Music spotlights and centers. I welcome any and all feedback.
Please reach out with your comments, ideas, or questions.
If you’re down with what Kitchen Music is trying to do, consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or making a donation to help fund the contributors’ work. Want to write for Kitchen Music, shoot video, or contribute in your own special, weird way? I’d love to hear from you.
Thanks for reading,
Rachel Krause, Editor and Founder
rachel@kitchenmusicmag.com
p.s. Many thanks to Taylor W. Rushing for designing the logo. It is just the right balance of modular synthesizer meets local quilting newsletter, and I couldn’t love it more.
Kitchen Music is published on unceded ancestral land of the Kiikaapo(Kikapoo), Wazhazhe Mazhá (Osage), Kaw (Kansa) and Očhéthi Šakówin (Sioux) peoples.
