PRESOTEASA, MNAC - BUCHAREST
23-25 MARCH 2007
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The second edition of Rokolectiv festival takes place at the end of March 2007 and introduces the Romanian public to 15 live acts, presentations and screenings. In addition to the already classic relation between sound and image in the live performance, Rokolectiv questions the relation between electronic music genres and socio-cultural codes.
In the Romanian context, electronic music is still perceived as a division of different genres, each with their own urban and social codes and a very segregated public. This particular situation is quite specific to the local scene and is usually not to be found internationally. The new program of Rokolectiv reflects the current tendencies of reducing the differences between codes or genres, the oppositions between experimental/pop, dance/non-dance, analogue/digital, mainstream/alternative.
Rokolectiv 2007 presents various genres, approaches and techniques of creating electronic music, as well as the visual arts which are born in relation to it, in the same spirit.
The festival includes a special program, Bouches bé e , with three performances of the freshest artists coming from the new French scene. Amongst them, the sensation of 2006, Nôze , in a never-ending freak-house show, as well as the cute and sexy French-American duo Feadz & Uffie! Sunday, in The Museum Of Contemporary Art, it's Pierre Bastien 's turn to present “Meccano”, a mechanic orchestra of crafted robots that the French artist has been working on for years.
The screening program includes 4 documentary films. Bassline Baseline, House, Pioneers of Electronic Music: Richie Hawtin and Sound Freaks give descriptions of the specific Romanian and international contexts, investigate the iconography of music, cross-reference individual artists and analyze their strategies and social repercussions.
www.rokolectiv.ro
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