Friday, March 11, 2011

The Human League, MIA, The Magnetic Man or Astrud, the Sonar

Steve Reich, The Human League, MIA, Atmosphere, A-Trak, Africa Hitech, Global Communication and Chris Cunningham are among the more than 130 artists and groups that participate in the Barcelona edition of the Sonar festival, coinciding with Sonar Galicia, 22 performances will be more. The singer and composer Steve Reich will open June 16 at the Auditorio Barcelona the 18th International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, Sonar 2011, which for three days will draw the world map of today's electronics, while the Sonar will be held in Galicia La Coruna 17 and 18.

American music, the evolution of British urban beats and techno essence of many of the proposals are some of the pillars on which programming Sonar articulate, explained Enric Palau, festival co-director with Richard Knight and Sergi Robles . According to Palau, the present edition, which has a budget of 3.7 billion euros, similar to last year, show some of the leading representatives of today's electronics, "from the abstract techno bass music to stadiums, contemporary minimalism to new rap.

" The exhibition will run from the abstraction of the bass techno music and rap new stadium addition to Steve Reich, the "tapestry" U.S. will be well represented by Janelle Monáe, Atmosphere, members of the seal Tri Angle, Dominique Young Unique, The Gaslamp Killer The experimental Tyondai Braxton, as well as A-Trak, head of global success Barbara Streisand.

As an example hop bass music electronics British masses will be at Sonar Magnetic Man, Pearson Sound, Ms. Dynamite, Floating, Africa Hitech and one of the new figures, Katy B. The essence of techno is present in another bunch of groups like Aphex Twin, Scuba, Silent Servant, Shackleton, Actres, Apparat, Surgeon, Global Communication, Lory D.

The program has tried to maintain a balance between established artists as Underworld, Aphex Twin, The Human League, MIA, Global Communication and Chris Cunningham, and emerging talents like Nicolas Jaar, the collective Numbers, Floating Points, Dominique Young Unique or Toro Y Moi. The Sonar has also care a broad geographical representation, ranging from the first South African presence at the festival with a dual proposal, Die Antwoord and Shangaan Electro, plus Cut / Copy (Australia), Mujuice (Russia) and Daito Manabe and Open Reel Ensemble (Japan).

Palau has announced that this year's Sonar Barcelona will have one more night, will be a closing concert at the Teatre Grec by Alva Noto and Sakamoto Ryichi. Galicia Sonar presented in its second edition to most major international names present in Barcelona (MIA, Underworld, Thes Gaslamp Killer, James Holden, Shackleton, Cut Copy, Buraka Som Sistema, Die Antwoord, Magnetic Man) with a significant representation Galician artists.

In collaboration with OFFF, multimedia art event, will host the exhibition Sonar OFFF / Matic, from 9 to 19 June, the CCCB (Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona), with a choice of interactive or static works returning to the idea of portraits, by artists who use technology to develop this genre.

In his annual world tour, Sonar will present its seventh edition of A Taste of Sonar in London on 19 March and the fourth edition of Tokyo SonarSound 2 and April 3 next

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