Festivals
The Unsafe+Sounds Festival is searching for unconventional forms of (sonic) expression and artistic articulations at the fringes. It puts an emphasize on direct, anti-disciplinary and genre-crossing communication, structural patterns of hope, anger, fear & happiness, the politics of aesthetics and the infights of actuality & potentiality, of presence & possibilites. We want to focus on relations – on the polyrhythmic & polyphonous flickers created by open communities.
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Festival Forte is a techno festival in the unique and magical surroundings of a medieval Portuguese fortress. Filling its walls with the sounds hard hitting techno, the festival will be putting a heavy emphasis on the audiovisual, inviting a selection of artists to project their visions onto the old bricks.
And between the festival, fans are encouraged to take a stroll around the ancient streets of Montemor-o-Velho, indulging in its cafés and local culture.
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_Festival is focused on the dark, moving and industrial side of Techno._
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_Hellsinki Industrial
festival_
Hellsinki Industrial
festival is by far the biggest and most ambitious Industrial event in
Finland. The festival line up consists of top international acts from from Europe to Australia.
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Originally started by Gregor Zupancic (Kud Avgust) and Matski (Limbabwe). Goal is to present a variation of artists/events/performances/documentations pushing usual limits.The word ‘experimental’ is given by language limited choice attempting defining (labelling?) the festival, leaving the interpretation to everybody individual.
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With it's first edition in 2011, they managed to create the biggest punk-rock festival in the region (Soča
river in Tolmin, Slovenia). Breath-taking scenery, sunshine and beaches. Unrelenting punk rock, high-octane hardcore and stagediving chaos. Punk Rock Holiday offers everything you could possibly want from a festival, and does it with a relaxed nonchalance that makes it feel safer and better organised than any outdoor festival.
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_Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival_
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It all started many Bloody Mary mornings ago (1999) when brothers, Shawn
and Mark Stern decided over a round at the local alley that they wanted
to throw a bowling party for their friends in the punk rock community
consisting of bands, labels and zines at the time. What started as a
small party and an excuse to head to Las Vegas, morphed into what is now
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_dESTRUKTIVA FESTIVAL_
dESTRUKTIVA is an audiovisual experimental music festival that involves
the audience in the design process.
the audience in the design process.
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_ Rock in Opposition Festival_
Originally, the Rock in Opposition was a movement founded in the late 70s in Great-Britain by the Henry Cow group, following the organization of a festival of the same name. The aim was to challenge the music industry and the system in place by creating a non-profit organization promoting music groups. Over time, Rock In Opposition has become a trademark, a musical style of its own and a movement with the goal to revitalize the music. The Rock in Opposition put together groups, mainly instrumental, navigating between experimental rock, contemporary electric music, new music, free jazz, and classic.
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_Supersonic Festival_
Starting as a one-day event in Birmingham in 2003, Supersonic Festival, curated and produced by Capsule , is an internationally renowned experimental music and arts festival. Occupying an exalted position at the heart of Birmingham’s cultural life, as well as attracting an international audience.
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_Extreme Chill Festival_
Extreme Chill is a yearly festival in Iceland. Established in 2010, it is now Iceland longest running festival, focussing on experimental/electronic music and related arts.
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_Noizemachin_
Noizemachin!! London is a monthly noise and experimental music concert held once a month at the Amersham Arms, New Cross.
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_The Norcal Noisefest _
Originally, the Rock in Opposition was a movement founded in the late 70s in Great-Britain by the Henry Cow group, following the organization of a festival of the same name. The aim was to challenge the music industry and the system in place by creating a non-profit organization promoting music groups. Over time, Rock In Opposition has become a trademark, a musical style of its own and a movement with the goal to revitalize the music. The Rock in Opposition put together groups, mainly instrumental, navigating between experimental rock, contemporary electric music, new music, free jazz, and classic.
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Starting as a one-day event in Birmingham in 2003, Supersonic Festival, curated and produced by Capsule , is an internationally renowned experimental music and arts festival. Occupying an exalted position at the heart of Birmingham’s cultural life, as well as attracting an international audience.
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Extreme Chill is a yearly festival in Iceland. Established in 2010, it is now Iceland longest running festival, focussing on experimental/electronic music and related arts.
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Noizemachin!! London is a monthly noise and experimental music concert held once a month at the Amersham Arms, New Cross.
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The Norcal Noisefest is the longest running experimental / noise / outsider sound art festival in North America.
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_THE LAUSANNE UNDERGROUND FILM&MUSIC FESTIVAL(LUFF)_
The Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (LUFF) is a film festival and music festival devoted to underground film and music. It is held each year in Lausanne, Switzerland. The festival is organized by a non-profit organization (APCI – Association pour la Promotion de la Culture Indépendante). The organization's goals are to promote independent artistic projects and creations and to make those projects accessible to a large public. The primary goal of the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival is to present films and music that largely exist outside the mainstream and profit driven production and distribution circuits. The cinematic section presents mainly films with an experimental character and/or films that challenge the spectator's viewing habits. Films are screened during the day and evening, followed by live music events featuring underground artists at night. Money prizes are awarded by the festival for the films selected in the international competition, in order to support the filmmakers in creating their art. The musical program of the festival proposes sonar experimentations of all kind.
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The Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (LUFF) is a film festival and music festival devoted to underground film and music. It is held each year in Lausanne, Switzerland. The festival is organized by a non-profit organization (APCI – Association pour la Promotion de la Culture Indépendante). The organization's goals are to promote independent artistic projects and creations and to make those projects accessible to a large public. The primary goal of the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival is to present films and music that largely exist outside the mainstream and profit driven production and distribution circuits. The cinematic section presents mainly films with an experimental character and/or films that challenge the spectator's viewing habits. Films are screened during the day and evening, followed by live music events featuring underground artists at night. Money prizes are awarded by the festival for the films selected in the international competition, in order to support the filmmakers in creating their art. The musical program of the festival proposes sonar experimentations of all kind.
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_ZASAVJE NOISEFEST INTERNATIONAL_
ZNFI covers/presents various projects/bands/artists, focusing on the experimental & underground productions of sound, practices represented by some of the forth-mentioned categories, such as: dark ambient, industrial, noise (from minimal to HNW and inbetween), avantgarde, power electronics, drone, field recordings, body activism through sound etc., and offshoots and/or combinations of different genres combining elements of jazz/noise/hardcore/death-black metal to anything you like/desire, as long as it usurps/challenges the senses and mind, to think/work in a new and different ways possible.
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ZNFI covers/presents various projects/bands/artists, focusing on the experimental & underground productions of sound, practices represented by some of the forth-mentioned categories, such as: dark ambient, industrial, noise (from minimal to HNW and inbetween), avantgarde, power electronics, drone, field recordings, body activism through sound etc., and offshoots and/or combinations of different genres combining elements of jazz/noise/hardcore/death-black metal to anything you like/desire, as long as it usurps/challenges the senses and mind, to think/work in a new and different ways possible.
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_WROCLAW INDUSTRIAL FESTIVAL_
This is the only one of its kind in the eastern part of Europe. The festival presents avant-garde art: music, visual and visual arts, performance. The
leitmotiv is multimedia expression that expresses various aspects of
our technical world recognized by the collective subconscious as an
opportunity, but also as a danger. The festival
refers to the activities of artists from the early twentieth century:
futurists, environmental art and industrial art.
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_Berlin Atonal_
Berlin Atonal is a festival for sonic and visual art. The history of Berlin Atonal provides a vivid snapshot of the capital’s progressive musical culture. Founded in 1982 as a big tent for experimental and electronic music, the festival hosted acts such as industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten.
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_AUDIOART_
Festival of experimental and improvised music in Pula (Croatia).
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Berlin Atonal is a festival for sonic and visual art. The history of Berlin Atonal provides a vivid snapshot of the capital’s progressive musical culture. Founded in 1982 as a big tent for experimental and electronic music, the festival hosted acts such as industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten.
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_AUDIOART_
Festival of experimental and improvised music in Pula (Croatia).
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_INTONAL_
The music festival Intonal is held for the third consecutive year in Malmö, Sweden. The focus of the festival is to offer an international programme of experimental and electronic music covering a wide range of genres, subgenres and unique expressions. Besides established artists within the electronic avantgarde and acts bordering towards sound art, a hefty club oriented programme will also present DJs acting within an innovative new scene for dance music.
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_SINE LINEA_
The festival of drone, minimal and electronic music in Zagreb /Croatia/ was created in 2009, from the need to present authors dealing primarily with new forms of sound expression as well as innovative synthetic practices of audio-visual performance.
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The festival of drone, minimal and electronic music in Zagreb /Croatia/ was created in 2009, from the need to present authors dealing primarily with new forms of sound expression as well as innovative synthetic practices of audio-visual performance.
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_IZLOG SUVREMENOG ZVUKA/SHOWROOM OF CONTEMPORARY SOUND_
Showroom of Contemporary Sound is a festival focused on
contemporary music, viz. contemporary sound, with a wider understanding
of the term contemporary, thereby following the conception of Music
Showroom.
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Other Minds is dedicated to the encouragement and
propagation of contemporary music in all its forms through concerts,
recordings, broadcasts, audio preservation, and public discussions that
bring together artists and audiences of diverse traditions, generations,
and cultural backgrounds.
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_Warsaw Autumn /Warszawska Jesień_
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Warsaw Autumn (Warszawska Jesień) is a festival with a long tradition
and a true witness to music history. It is the only contemporary music
festival in Poland on an international scale and with an international
status.
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MUTEK is a Montreal-based festival dedicated to the promotion of electronic music
and the digital arts.
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LEM is an international experimental music festival with activities
including public exhibitions and concerts, workshops, laboratories and
pedagogical initiatives. The festival is the result of the massive
amount of ongoing research and investigation undertaken each year
exploring the local, national and international landscape of
experimental music and sound art. LEM is organized by Barcelona-based
non-profit association Gràcia Territori Sonor and is held in various
venues during autumn, mainly in the Gracia district in Barcelona, but in
other parts of the city as well.
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KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis from
Zagreb (established in 2002) is a non-governmental, non-profit
organization which is directed towards critical examination of role and
meaning of science, technology and the body in contemporary society
through curatorial work, production of artworks, organization of
trans-disciplinary festivals and theoretical contextualization. In its
work, KONTEJNER is focused on intermedia and interdisciplinary projects
at the intersection of science, technology and art, body art and hybrid
and innovative usage of the media, while content wise the projects of
the organization refer to relevant society and culture phenomena, taboos
and ethical systems that legitimize them.
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_Cirkulacija 2 "Total Art Platform" _
Cirkulacija 2 is a transdisciplinary art collective that was founded in 2007 and which is dealing with longer-term practices in the area of contemporary technological art. They use different media approaches (radio, television, video, robots, mechanisms, devices ...), visual elements, and sound for an artistic expression.
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_Supersonic Festival _
Huddled down the canal from the retail palaces of central Birmingham sits Digbeth, an area permanently flirting with regeneration – making it the perfect place for the accessible yet decidedly off-grid lineup at Supersonic. With Colin Stetson’s sax, Laura Cannell’s recorder, Xylouris White’s Greek lute and Anna von Hausswolff at the controls of Birmingham town hall’s organ, there are plenty of fresh takes on traditional instruments, plus excellent brain-splintering noise from Melt-Banana and avant-rock legends Oxbow.
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_VISION_
One-day festival of underground music, street food, craft markets and summer fun in Hackney, east London.
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Cirkulacija 2 is a transdisciplinary art collective that was founded in 2007 and which is dealing with longer-term practices in the area of contemporary technological art. They use different media approaches (radio, television, video, robots, mechanisms, devices ...), visual elements, and sound for an artistic expression.
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Huddled down the canal from the retail palaces of central Birmingham sits Digbeth, an area permanently flirting with regeneration – making it the perfect place for the accessible yet decidedly off-grid lineup at Supersonic. With Colin Stetson’s sax, Laura Cannell’s recorder, Xylouris White’s Greek lute and Anna von Hausswolff at the controls of Birmingham town hall’s organ, there are plenty of fresh takes on traditional instruments, plus excellent brain-splintering noise from Melt-Banana and avant-rock legends Oxbow.
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One-day festival of underground music, street food, craft markets and summer fun in Hackney, east London.
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OFF Festival is an alternative music festival series held annually since 2006. Until 2009 it was held at Słupna Park in Mysłowice, Poland in August and lasts four days. OFF Festival from 2010 takes place in Katowice in Dolina Trzech Stawow.
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_Raw Power_
A righteous psychic celebration of sound and fury that draws together the cream of the underground, Raw Power draws on the fiery worlds of psychedelia, heaviosity, electronic innovation and avant-garde inspiration, and both 2014 and 2015 saw visionary artists from across the globe converge on Tufnell Park to take part in weekends that fried brains and realigned perspectives in equal measure.
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_The Creepy Teepee_
The Creepy Teepee music open-air festival presenting a worldwide alternative, indie and experimental music scene.
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_Avant Art Festival_
AVANT ART - concerts, theater & performing arts, films, exhibitions, workshops,
artistic residence, ...
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A righteous psychic celebration of sound and fury that draws together the cream of the underground, Raw Power draws on the fiery worlds of psychedelia, heaviosity, electronic innovation and avant-garde inspiration, and both 2014 and 2015 saw visionary artists from across the globe converge on Tufnell Park to take part in weekends that fried brains and realigned perspectives in equal measure.
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The Creepy Teepee music open-air festival presenting a worldwide alternative, indie and experimental music scene.
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_Avant Art Festival_
AVANT ART - concerts, theater & performing arts, films, exhibitions, workshops,
artistic residence, ...
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Roadburn Festival is an international music festival held in Tilburg, Netherlands every April since 1999. It was set up as a spin-off from the Roadburn music blog founded by Jurgen van den Brand and Walter Hoeijmakers. Originally focused on stoner rock, Roadburn grew into a major event spanning the entire spectrum of heavy rock and experimental music.
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_Luminato festival_
Luminato is Toronto’s international arts festival dedicated to performance, media and visual arts, and programming that cuts across traditional artform boundaries. Luminato works closely with Canadian artists to support the development and creation of distinctive new work as well as presenting today’s most exciting artists from around the world.
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_JazzArt Festival_
Katowice JazzArt Festival is a series of concerts taking place at the turn
of April and May in Katowice.
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_Grolsch Artboom Festival _
Grolsch Artboom Festival is one of the biggest independent open space art festival in Poland. It is organised by the Kraków Festival Office in cooperation with artists from whole world. It is an interdisciplinary and international event - the showcased designs combine elements of performance arts, happenings, music, film, and social activism.
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_Unsound Festival Poland_
Said to be probably the most mysterious festival in Europe. Apart from Cracow, it also has New York, London, and Adelaide editions (We have also produced Unsound in Tbilisi, Minsk, Kiev, Prague, Bratislava). The festival started as an underground event, yet in the recent years it has gained so much popularity among vast audiences that it has been highly acclaimed all over the world. We deal with vibrant electronic, experimental, independent and club music scenes from all around the world. We like taking risks.
Luminato is Toronto’s international arts festival dedicated to performance, media and visual arts, and programming that cuts across traditional artform boundaries. Luminato works closely with Canadian artists to support the development and creation of distinctive new work as well as presenting today’s most exciting artists from around the world.
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Katowice JazzArt Festival is a series of concerts taking place at the turn
of April and May in Katowice.
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Grolsch Artboom Festival is one of the biggest independent open space art festival in Poland. It is organised by the Kraków Festival Office in cooperation with artists from whole world. It is an interdisciplinary and international event - the showcased designs combine elements of performance arts, happenings, music, film, and social activism.
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Said to be probably the most mysterious festival in Europe. Apart from Cracow, it also has New York, London, and Adelaide editions (We have also produced Unsound in Tbilisi, Minsk, Kiev, Prague, Bratislava). The festival started as an underground event, yet in the recent years it has gained so much popularity among vast audiences that it has been highly acclaimed all over the world. We deal with vibrant electronic, experimental, independent and club music scenes from all around the world. We like taking risks.
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_Tower Transmissions_
A 2 day private event of Power-Electronics/Industrial/Dark Ambient/Avant-Garde.
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A conference, performances, workshops, and an exhibition surveying culture through the lens of art and technology.
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_Tower Transmissions_
A 2 day private event of Power-Electronics/Industrial/Dark Ambient/Avant-Garde.
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