Sonar by Night presents shows by The Chemical Brothers, Roxy Music, Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Dizzee Rascal, Fuck Buttons and Matthew Herbert’s One Club, the Lucky Me showcase and dj sessions by DJ Hell, Caspa,...
Sónar by night presents the live shows by LCD Soundsystem, Air, Plastikman, Hot Chip and The Sugarhill Gang, The Mary Anne Hobbs showcase (with Flying Lotus, Roska and Joy Orbison) and sets by 2manydjs,...
Sonar, the advanced music and multimedia art festival, takes place in Barcelona every year during three days in June. Sonar’s diverse artistic offer splits between the Sonar by Day activities (in the CCCB...
CRONOSFERA presents Visions of the Future 2010.: MONDIRIDESCENTI:. international festival dedicated to video and Live Media, immersive projections on three screens.
Sonom, experimental group based in Barcelona, ha published a 35 minuts Dvd called Liquid Geometry, in limited prints:100 copies: video&audio in high quality format specially mastered at Audiovisions. Released...
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). One of the most important figures in twentieth-century...
Highlighting some of the leading developments in the use by artists of digital technologies, Romaeuropafestival 2008:Notte Digitale brings together breathtaking works that combine video, visual art, music,...
Sound Threshold presents As Below So Above, a collaboration with Swedish artists Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren, and their project The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV). Envisioning the...
The Bridge Festival is a 2 days festival with music and sound-art which takes place in Ruse (Bulgaria) and Giurgiu (Romania), on the 18th and 19th of July.
The programme for the 15th edition of Sónar is based on two main themes - the “female factor” in today’s music and “hybridism” as the result of the intersection of...
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ICA/INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART - LONDON
14 - 22 NOVEMBER 2009
The ICA is pleased to announce Calling Out Of Context, a festival of experimental music and sound which fills the building for nine days in November. One of the ICA's Galleries is being used as a performance space, while the other features a recording studio, and the Theatre is hosting gigs, workshops and discussions.
The programme across these spaces includes an incredible range of musicians and artists, revealing the vitality and relevance of the sonic avant-garde.
Calling Out Of Context features over forty performers and groups, including both emerging figures and well-known names. Many of the participants cross the boundaries between different musical traditions, and the festival (which takes its title from a song by the American underground musician Arthur Russell) draws on the explosively experimental ethos of the 60s and 70s.
The programme includes performances by The Red Krayola, Gravetemple, Aaron Dilloway, Teppich (Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin), Seb Rochford, Rhys Chatham, 9!, Mira Calix, James Beckett, AGF and Lucky Dragons, as well as new sound works by Jan St Werner and Robin Watkins, and recording sessions from About, Mica Levi (aka Michachu), Alexander Tucker and Woebot. It concludes with a weekend of events dedicated to the British avant-garde musician and activist Cornelius Cardew, featuring contributions from John Tilbury and Ultra-red, amongst others.
Contemporary music provides many different models for production and performance, and for interaction with the world around us. It can be both a site for improvisation, experimentation and technological development, and also a means to frame ideas through popular and accessible forms. It can highlight the aural landscape we live in, and can suggest ways of harnessing the latter as an active social force.
Through performance and debate, Calling Out Of Context sets out to test these concerns, its nine-day programme developed around a number of key themes, including collectivity, listening, noise, improvisation, composition and recording. Like Cardew, all of the participants in Calling Out Of Context push at the boundaries of sound, and importantly they also use it to inspire ideas and actions.
SONAR 2010: 
SONAR 2010: 
SONAR 2010
VISIONS FROM THE FUTURE
LIQUID GEOMETRY
IANNIS XENAKIS
ROMAEUROPA NOTTE DIGITALE 
SOUND THERSHOLD
THE BRIDGE FESTIVAL
SONAR 2008
