Sónar is pleased to announce the latest additions to this year's Sónar: Martin L. Gore, Luke Vibert, Matt Elliott, Diplo, Guillamino, Professor Angel Dust, Tim Goldsworthy reviewing DFA's catalogue and a showcase by Finnish label Fonal, among other new features.Sónar is pleased to announce the latest additions to this year’s Sónar: Martin L. Gore, Luke Vibert, Matt Elliott, Diplo, Guillamino, Professor Angel Dust, Tim Goldsworthy reviewing DFA’s catalogue and a showcase by Finnish label Fonal, among other new features.
Martin L. Gore, the brains behind the band and charismatic member of Depeche Mode, will visit the Festival just a few months after releasing his new record with Dave Gaham and Andrew Fletcher. He will offer a special session at the turntable, demonstrating his extensive musical knowledge. Also featured will be a live session by Luke Vibert, magician of the British electronic scene. Vibert has maintained an unstoppable pace, recently releasing two new records, one on Ninja Tune under the name Wagon Christ and another on Planet Mu under his own name.
Matt Elliott, the brilliant musician from Bristol who in the 90’s was responsible for memorable records such as Third Eye Foundation, will perform his second record under his own name, “Drinking Songs”, live. The album confirms his stature as one of the most interesting artists of today. In a totally different style, American beatmaker Diplo will round out SonarPark Saturday, offering a special session full of fast-paced beats and rhythms that can also be heard on his debut album, “Florida” (Ninja Tune).
DFA, one of today’s most influential labels, will be represented at SonarLab with a set by Tim Goldsworthy, who along with the popular James Murphy will showcase the label’s impeccable catalogue. Some of the most interesting works in recent years has come out of Finland. Unsurprisingly, then, Finland will be very present at the Festival in the form of a showcase of the label Fonal, with performances by Islaja, Es and Kemialliset Ystävát, musicians who use electronic music to update traditional Finnish folk.
Two important names on the Spanish scene need to be added to the aforementioned announcements. One is Professor Angel Dust, a fixture on the Barcelona scene over the last ten years, who has just released an album loaded with breaks, Latin rhythms and house groove. The other is Valencia-based Lontano, a duo that has been giving people a lot to talk about both within and outside our borders thanks to “Chroma”, their first LP for emerging label Factor City.
Extramusical areas
SonarMática: The exhibition Randonnée (A walk through 21st century landscaping) will analyse the presence of landscape in contemporary electronic by looking at the works of more than forty artists. Orogenetic photographs by Joan Fontcuberta, a model of the Llobregat delta by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman, perceptive fragmentations by Dietmar Offenhuber, data visualization by Marcos Wescamp, panoramic snapshots and security cameras are some of the new 21st century landscaping works that will be featured.
Sonarama: This area of the Festival focuses specifically on the new media, and will show the latest advances regarding installations, software presentations and medialabs. Highlights of the programme are: the presence of a renowned international figure in the programming field such as Casey Reas; a glimpse of a worshipped Dj such as Laurent Garnier; the fascinating audiovisual world of Skoltz_Kolgen; a live manipulation of computer codes by Toplap; and the surprising kitsch show by My Robot Friend.
SonarCinema: The Auditorium at CCCB will present throughout the day an exhibition of works created in all formats and concerning all subject matter pertinent to audiovisual creation. This year’s highlights are: a selection of shorts by Groupe de Recherches des Images (GRI), under the name of “Cinema Concrete” and with soundtracks by composers such as Xenakis, Parmegianni y Schaeffer; “Unseen Forces”, a hilarious video-sidereal journey in homage to Carl Sagan, by Blevin Blectum, Wobbly, Lesser and Ryan Junell; “Chronopolis”, an audiovisual experiment by Piotr Kamler presented at the Cannes Festival in 1982 and yet to be seen in Spain; and the traditional compilations of clips and electronic shorts.
More info:
www.sonar.es (source: Press release) 
