13/6/2012
Sonar
Different venues, Barcelona
The 19th International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art features Hot Chip, Modeselektor, James Blake dj, Squarepusher, Nicolas Jaar, Luciano, Azari & III and many more.
Sónar is the festival of advanced music and new media art that takes place at various venues in Barcelona (Spain) in the third week of June since 1994.
Sónar is a pioneering festival that is unique in terms of its format and content: a leading international benchmark thanks to a carefully assembled range of culture that combines entertainment with artistry, the avant garde and experimentation, featuring the most consolidated artists and trends in electronic music and their interactions and hybridisations with other genres.
In Barcelona, Sónar’s artistic programme is divided between the activities at Sónar by Day (concerts, showcases, professional zone, exhibition area), the keynote of which is the search for new talent, and the major shows at Sónar by Night, which presents the leading names on the international music landscape.
Each year, the festival also features a series of parallel events in cultural venues in the city such as the Auditori (the Barcelona main music Auditorium) or Cosmocaixa (Barcelona’s Science Museum), and occasional collaborations with other main city events (such as the Summer festival’s GREC in 2010 and 2011).
More than 8o thousand people enjoy a faultless programme which combined the major headliners in modern electronica with an extensive line-up of emerging artists and djs, trendsetters in today's music and new media art.
Sónar is also a meeting point for an audience eager for new ideas and specifically for professionals from all over the world from various sectors in the creative industries, who come together at SonarPro, the ideal place for doing business and making contacts.
The festival has regularly crossed Spanish frontiers since 2002 with events in various parts of the world, adapting the Sonar philosophy to unusual spaces and environments, and highlighting the most interesting aspects of Spanish talent and the scene in the city where it is held. To date, Sonar has travelled to London (an annual event since 2002), New York, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Frankfurt, Chicago and Tokyo, among many other destinations.
Program by days
Thursday 14th
Sónar by Day
Flying Lotus ,Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Thundercat, Daedelus Archimedes Show, When Saints Go Machine, Trust, Kutmah, Lapalux, Masaki Batoh - Brain Pulse Music Mostly Robot, DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad, Ricardo Donoso, Doc Daneeka, Yosi Horikawa, d.Forma, Monki Valley, Eltron John, Om UNoche, Sizarr, Exeter, Koulomek, Microfeel, Jeremiah Jae, Chico Unicornio, El Txef A, Blastto
Friday 15th
Sónar by Day
Peaking Lights, Mouse on Mars, Austra, John Talabot, Nina Kraviz, Jacques Greene, Supersilent feat. John Paul Jones, Trevor Jackson, Psilosamples, Dago, Plapla Pinky, Flying Lotus, Esperit!, Nguzunguzu, Daniel Miller, Club Cheval featuring Canblaster, Myd, Panteros 666 & Sam Tiba, Clip!, Nehuen, Stand Up Against Heart Crime, Raisa K, Lolo & Sosaku, Nightwave, Diego Armando vs. Guillamino, Esperanza, Fábel
Sónar by Night
Fatboy Slim, Richie Hawtin, Amon Tobin - ISAM, Friendly Fires, James Blake DJ, Nicolas Jaar, Lana Del Rey, Squarepusher, James Murphy, Simian Mobile Disco, Jacques Lu Cont, Untold, UNER, Annie Mac, Brodinski vs Gesaffelstein, Jack Beats, Nina Kraviz, Eduardo de la Calle, Coyu, Machine Beats, Igor Marijuán
Saturday 16th
Sónar by Day
Díamond Version + Atsuhiro Ito, Darkside, LA Vampires, Maria Minerva, Cornelius presents salyu x salyu, The Suicide Of Western Culture, Ital, Magic Touch, DJ Harvey, Sinjin Hawke vs. Zora Jones, Keys N Krates, xxxy, Andrea Balency, Pegasvs, Salva, Discodromo, Brenmar, Jesse Boykins III, Lenticular Clouds, Santiago Latorre, Star Slinger, Arbol, Logical Nonsense, Radiorifle
Sónar by Night
New Order, The Roots, deadmau5, Hot Chip, Luciano, Metronomy, Die Antwoord, Azari & III, Laurent Garnier presents L.B.S., Modeselektor, Mary Anne Hobbs b2b Blawan, Kode9, Maya Jane Coles, Pretty Lights, Julio Bashmore, Madeon, The 2 Bears, Cooly G, DVA, DJ2D2 AV SHOW, Yall DJs, DJ Amable
The complete program is on the website
International Media Department
Head of the Dept.: Georgia Taglietti
press@sonar.es
National Media Department
Head of the Dept.: Gustavo Sánchez
Person in charge: Teresa Vallbona
press@sonar.es
Different venues - Barcelona