16th Barcelonas International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art www.sonar.

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18.19.20 June

Snar Venues and activities

Tickets
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Tickets & Prices
3 Day Ticket: 140 (3 days & 2 nights) 1 Day Ticket Snar by Day: 30 1 Day Ticket Snar by Night: 48 Snar LAuditori concert**: 18 Lars Horntveth + BCN 216 Snar CosmoCaixa Concert **: 4 Evelina Domnitch, Dimitry Gelfand & Francisco Lpez Ten Thousand Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid **The 3 Day Ticket and the Snar 2009 accreditation do not allow access to these concerts.

Venues and activities

Snar by Day from 12:00 22:00 de 12:00 a to 22:00

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SonarHall
SonarMtica Professional Fair Demo Area

Ticket Sales
3 Day Ticket, Snar by Day and Snar by Night Online*: www.ticketmaster.es By phone*: +34 934 929 180. Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 22:00 Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 22:00 Shops*: In the Ticketmaster sale points throughout Spain: complete list available at www.ticketmaster.es Sale & Collection of Tickets: Palau de la Virreina Ticket Ofce*: La Rambla, 99. From the 8th until the 20th of June. From monday to saturday from 10:00 to 19:30. Sunday from 11:00 to 02:30 Snar by Day Ticket Ofce: Centre dEstudis i Documentaci Plaa dels ngels, 8. From the 18th until the 20th June from 11:00 to 21:00. Snar by Night Ticket Ofce: Fira Gran Va (M2). During the festival from 20:00. Snar LAuditori concert Online*: www.telentrada.com By phone*: +34 93 326 29 46 LAuditori Ticket Ofce C/ Lepant, 150 From Monday to Saturday from 15:00 to 21:00 Snar CosmoCaixa concert Online*: www.laCaixa.es/ObraSocial (CosmoCaixa section) Sale & Collection of tickets at the CosmoCaixa Ticket Ofce From the 18th until the 20th June from 10:00 to 22:00. C/ Isaac Newton, 26. * advance sale expenses not included

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How to get there CCCB/MACBA

Buses 7, 9, 14, 16, 17, 24, 41,
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CosmoCaixa
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CosmoCaixa

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Demo Area Floor 2 SonarMtica Floor -1

LAuditori
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MACBA

Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona

Entrance via C/ Montalegre, 5. SonarDme Pl. dels ngels Editorial Fair Main Hall

Friday 19th At 20:30

Metro Line 1 (stations: Universitat i Catalunya), Line 2 (station: Universitat), Line 3 (station: Catalunya) www.tmb.net FGC Lines 6, 7, S1, S2, S5 and S55 (station: Catalunya) www.fgc.es

Metro Line 1 (stations: Glries i Marina), Line 2 (station: Monumental), Line 4 (station: Bogatell). www.tmb.net Tram Line T4 (station: Auditori/ Teatre Nacional). www.tmb.net

Bus Snar-CosmoCaixa: Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 19:00. Departs from Hotel Pulitzer (C/ Bergara, 8, next to Plaa Catalunya). Limited capacity Buses 17, 22, 58, 73, 75, 60 and
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Tramvia Blau FGC Line 7 (station: Avinguda Tibidabo).

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Friday 19th, Saturday 20th
SonarClub, SonarPub, SonarLab Open doors 21:30.

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Snar Lives and DJs

Snar by Day Thurdsday 18

SonarHall
13:00 Nboa (ES) Live 17:00 Roland Olbeter + Tim Exile +

Friday 19
SonarHall
13:00 Carrier to Noise Ratio (ES) Live 17:00 Quayola (UK) Live 19:00 Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP) Live 20:30 Micachu & The Shapes (UK) Live

Saturday 20
SonarHall
13:00 Anmic (ES) Live 17:00 Ebony Bones (UK) Live Raster Noton presents 19:00 SND (UK) Live 19:45 Byetone (DE) Live 20:30 Alva Noto (DE) Live 21:15 Atom (DE) Live

Jon Hopkins (DE-UK) Live 20:30 Konono N 1 (CG) Live

SonarVillage
12:00 Aitor Molina (ES) DJ 14:00 Vidal Romero presenta

SonarVillage
12:00 Davic Nod (ES) DJ 14:00 Mark Jones plays Wall of

GO Magazine (ES) DJ 16:00 The Wizard (US) DJ 18:00 Luomo (FI) Live Ghostly International 10th Anniversary presents 18:45 The Sight Below (US) Live 19:30 SV4/Michna (US) DJ 20:15 Lusine (US) Live 21:15 Michna with Raw Paw (US) Live

SonarDme
Red Bull Music Academy presents 12:00 Mwslee vs Chelis (ES) 14:00 Miaau (ES) DJ 14:40 Ccile (IT) Live 15:25 dJ`w (ES) DJ 16:30 Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics (ET-UK) Live 17:30 dJ`w (ES) DJ 18:15 Dbruit (FR) Live 19:00 Jamie Woon (UK) Live 19:45 Taras 3000 (RU) Live 21:15 Onra (FR) Live

Sound (UK) DJ BBC Introducing presents (Highlights on BBC Radio) 16:00 Young Fathers (UK) Live 16:45 Huw Stephens (UK) DJ 17:30 La Roux (UK) Live 18:15 Huw Stephens (UK) DJ 18:45 Bass Clef (UK) Live 19:30 Huw Stephens (UK) DJ 20:30 Omar Souleyman (SY) Live

SonarVillage
12:00 Fat Fish (ES) DJ 14:00 Txarly Brown presents

SonarDme
Red Bull Music Academy presents 12:00 Ruari (IE) DJ 13:15 Mano Le Tough (IE) Live 14:00 El Santo (CO) Live 14:30 Midee (ES) DJ 16:00 Muhsinah (US) Live 16:30 Dorian Concept (AT) Live 17:15 Bomb Squad (US) DJ 18:30 Mike Slott (IE) DJ 20:00 GoldieLocks (UK) Live 20:30 XXXCHANGE (US) DJ

Achilifunk (ES) DJ Ed Banger presents GazpaShow! 16:00 DSL (FR) DJ 17:00 Breakbot (FR) Live 17:40 Outlines (FR) DJ 18:50 James Pants (US) Live 19:30 Bullion (UK) DJ 20:40 Busy P (FR) DJ

SonarDme
Red Bull Music Academy presents 12:00 K**O (ES) DJ 14:00 Sonicbrat (SG) Live 14:30 Natalia Lafourcade (MX) Live 15:10 Mr Hudson (UK) Live 16:00 Cardopusher (VE) DJ 17:30 Guillamino (ES) Live 18:15 Kornl Kovcs (SE) DJ 19:45 Lukid (UK) Live 20:30 Culoe de Song (ZA) DJ

SonarComplex
13:00 Rominger (ES) Live 17:30 Joe Crepsculo vs la Estrella

SonarComplex
13:00 Nikka (ES) Live 17:30 Colch-n vs Suma (ES) Live 19:30 Tarntula vs Orquesta

SonarComplex
13:00 Carlos Surez (ES) Live 17:30 Ben Frost (IS) Live 19:30 Pau Riba i Mil Simonis (ES) Live 21:00 Penca Catalogue (ES) Live

de David y Los Thelemticos (ES) Live 19:30 Filastine (US) Live 21:00 Institut FATIMA (DE) Live

Caballo Ganador (ES) Live 21:00 Bstia Ferida (ES) Live

LAuditori
20:30 Lars Horntveth + BCN216 (NO-ES) Live

Snar by Night Friday 19

SonarClub
22:30 Nacho Marco (ES) DJ 23:30 Grace Jones (JM) Live 00:30 James Murphy &

Saturday 20
SonarClub
22:30 HD Substance (ES) DJ 23:00 Animal Collective (US) Live 00:15 Beardyman (UK) Live 00:45 Orbital (UK) Live 02:15 Tadeo (ES) DJ 03:15 Moderat (DE) Live 04:15 Deadmau5 (CA) Live 05:30 Henry Saiz (ES) Live

Pat Mahoney (US) DJ 02:00 Richie Hawtin (CA) 04:00 SebastiAn (FR) Live 05:00 Agoria (FR) DJ

SonarPub
22:30 Buenavista (ES) DJ 00:00 Little Boots (UK) Live 01:00 Buenavista (ES) DJ 01:30 Late of the Pier (UK) Live 02:15 Buenavista (ES) DJ 02:45 Buraka Som Sistema

SonarPub
22:30 Angel Molina (ES) DJ 23:45 Fever Ray (SE) Live 00:45 Rustie (UK) DJ 02:15 Crystal Castles (CA) Live 03:00 Jeff Mills (US) DJ 05:00 Carl Craig (US) DJ

(PT/AO) Live 03:45 Crookers (IT) DJ 05:30 Brodinski (FR) DJ

SonarLab
22:30 Cauto (ES) DJ Sunday Best presents 23:30 dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip (UK) Live 00:15 Rob Da Bank (UK) DJ 02:00 Mujava (ZA) DJ Ostgut Ton presents 03:30 Shed (DE) Live 04:30 Marcel Dettmann (DE) DJ 05:30 The Requesters (ES) Live

SonarLab
22:30 DJohnston (ES) DJ Mary Anne Hobbs presents (Highlights on BBC Radio 1) 00:00 Mary Anne Hobbs (UK) DJ 00:45 Joker (UK) DJ 01:30 The Gaslamp Killer (US) DJ 02:15 Martyn (NL) DJ 03:00 Heartbreak (UK) Live 04:00 Erol Alkan presents Disco 3000 (UK) DJ 05:30 Don Rimini (FR) DJ

Snar celebrates its sixteenth birthday on the psychological threshold of the second decade of the century. Among other things, this means that the festival has been seeking out new sounds, approaches and ideas for long enough for it to include artists in its line-up who were only children sixteen years ago. There are plenty of young artists at Snar 2009; they are part of a new generation in which musical inuences and very varied geographical origins intermingle, and so do a thousand ways of producing music and art. Snar is therefore once again a vibrant snapshot of the present a point at which these new talents share a stage with internationally renowned consolidated names, expanding their legacy in a profusion of directions. The do it yourself spirit applied to digital art and new musical trends also invades SonarMtica, in another clear sign of a paradigm shift and renewal: most of the artists on display are also new to their eld. Snar 2009 brings the beat of the planets emerging scene to its stages, in an exhaustive overview of current developments in todays music and electronic art. It is a landscape that is perhaps more varied and multi-faceted than ever, and that is what makes it tremendously exciting.

Lives and DJs

Intro

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of an artist who has reinvented house, r&b, pop and every other genre that has come his way. Ghostly International 10th Anniversary presents (US) Live For his debut LP Glider, The Sight Below went to the trouble to record all the edits live. Lover of small details and the unexpected, this Seattle-based artist delights in his melancholic arrangements, made up of guitars processed with pedals and ltered with reverb and delay that manage to slow down the concept of time and space in the form of melancholic, icy drones.

THURSDAY 18
12:00 Aitor Molina (Supernormal/ES) DJ The man behind Supernormal Records, a member of the Proboke Management Agency and above all, a fervent DJ and producer, Aitor Molina takes with his sets, the purism of his technique and his interest in using new technologies with the sound of Chicago house and Detroit techno. However, in order to raise the curtain at SonarVillage, Aitor has prepared a session that is a little more measured.
Go Mag (ES) DJ Head of Drone SC, responsible for programming electronica at Territorios Digitales, Electrochock and Espacio Iniciarte (all in Seville), Vidal Romero gives free rein to his more chaotic side in sets where noise and visceral electronica join krautrock, shoegazing and his beloved space disco. (Axis/US) DJ In the 80s, before being known worldwide as one of the greatest international techno DJs ever, Jeff Mills revolutionised the then already humming Detroit music scene going under the pseudonym of The Wizard. From the radio waves (WJLB, WDRQ) and alongside Charles Johnson aka The Electrifying Mojo, he redened the limits of the DJ persona with an exceptional technique and a mishmash of styles embracing the rst sounds of techno, Miami basss, hip-hop, Chicago house and new wave classics.

FRIDAY 19
12:00 Davic Nod (Loud Music/ES) DJ A believer in always trying something new, David has prepared a hybrid DJ set and live show based on digital glitches, melodic atmospheres, piano rifts and his latest experiments with generative music. 14:00 Mark Jones plays Wall of Sound (UK) DJ Largely responsible for putting names like Ryksopp, The Propellerheads and Les Rythmes Digitales on the map and for relaunching the career of the iconic Grace Jones, Mark Jones who also runs the independent distributor PIAS will dig deep into his memory chest and bring back the best moments of big beat and ambient, putting them up against some of the more indie and hip hop sounds that have made his label their home in recent years.
BBC Introducing presents (Highlights across BBC Radio) BBC Introducing supports unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar music. New UK artists are encouraged to visit bbc.co.uk/introducing, upload the music theyre making, and allow producers from across the BBC the opportunity to hear what theyve got to offer. (UK) Live Edinburgh-made, old school, kaleidoscopic hip-hop that takes irony-tinged delight in all the fads and styles of the past. A foray into arcade sounds, 70s aesthetics, partying and good vibes, that puts the vitality and ambience of the late seventies and early eighties back on stage with a touch of pop and a very healthy sense of humour.

Radio 1 shows, central to the BBC Introducing network. It continues in his other professional facets, where he curates festivals and acts as a serial DJ at many event.

SATURDAY 20
12:00 Fat Fish (ARTEC/ES) DJ A vinyl collector, DJ and promoter, Ricardo Ramos has displayed his good taste and eclecticism at both the independent distributor Discorder and at the ARTEC Art and Electronic Music Days. Dubstep predominates behind the decks, but anything is possible. 14:00 Txarly Brown presents Achilifunk (Uptight65/ES) DJ Music lover, record collector, acclaimed graphic designer and art director at Iguapop and Uptight 65, Txarly Brown has also been a catalyst of the rumba resurgence that is taking Barcelona by storm. He runs the already classic Rumba Club and hosts the weekly program Achilifunk Radio Show. Even the gypsies admit that Txarly is the payo who knows most about rumba... At Snar he will launch the second volume of the compilation Achilifunk, a new, personal depiction of Rumba as it is today, ready to go international.
Ed Banger presents GazpaShow!

including Sebastien Tellier, Justice, Fatlip, Arrow and PNAU. Pure spirit of the eighties, three decades on.

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Deluxe collaborations This year, the SonarVillage stage is pushing the boat out, with three extra special collaborations with the BBC, Ed Banger and Ghostly. Record label presentations have become a tradition in the Snar line-up, but these three are obviously something else again. On Thursday, Ghostly International celebrates its tenth anniversary in style: ten years of hits with a menu consisting of mutant funk, IDM and experimental approaches to the danceoor. On Friday 19, the BBC Introducing format goes beyond Britains frontiers for the rst time. It features a selection of key artists from the current British Isles scene, carefully selected by Huw Stephens. Finally, on Saturday, the GazpaShow! devised by the head of Ed Banger the versatile Busy P will take the conventional label presentation format to another dimension. The show presents artists that are not in fact on its books, but who instead make up an imaginary map of the inuences, interests and acquaintances of this powerful French label (which has been responsible for phenomena like Justice, Ufe and SebastiAn). Among the special guests involved are Bullion, Breakbot and James Pants. This is all in addition to the outlandish adventure of Omar Souleyman, and the genius known as The Wizard (Jeff Mills rst psuedonym in his early days as a legend on the decks.) 01. Omar Souleyman 02. DSL 03. The Wizard

18:45 The Sight Below

14:00 Vidal Romero plays

17:30 La Roux (Polydor/UK) Live This electropop duo restores the legacy of all-time classics like the Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Prince, without being anchored in the past. After the commotion caused by Quicksand, their rst single released on Kitsun Music in late 2008, the duo has signed for Polydor for their debut LP, an album entitled In for the Kill. 18:15 Huw Stephens (UK) DJ 18:45 Bass Clef (UK) Live His hard to miss hit Cannot Be Straightened was one of the unquestionable dubstep anthems of 2008, but it is his off the wall stage show that makes Bass Clef one of the most unusual artists on todays British scene. The Hackney bass wizard brings stfuls of syncopated dub to his live show with the help of an arsenal of analogue and acoustic instruments (trombone, theremin, cowbells) which give dubstep a new dimension. 19:30 Huw Stephens (UK) DJ 20:30 Omar Souleyman (Sublime Frequencies/SY) Live A true folk legend, Omar Souleyman has over ve hundred albums under his belt, all released on cassette and distributed across the length and breadth of Syria. His music combines tradition with a pop approach, creating an energetic mixture of sounds and unique features such as keyboards with Arab reections, mantric percussion, string instruments and a highly unusual use of his vocal cords, known as dabke. This is an exceptional opportunity to experience the sound heard at street level in the Middle East live and direct, with no lters or sweeteners.

17:40 Outlines (La Lettre 7/FR) DJ Few projects have caused as much of a stir as the rst Outlines 12 Lil Lovin. Several vinyls and one album later (the life-afrming Our Lives Are Too Short,) this French trio enamoured of good vibes, disco-pop, hip-hop and the seventies sound leave their mark wherever they go. 18:50 James Pants (Stones Throw/US) Live His is the story of a dream come true: he spring-boarded to fame on the label he admired so much, Stones Throw. The magic formula: Texan poise and a mixed bag of musical tastes that range from electro boogie to rap, new wave and disco music. All ltered through and imaginary sieve and reinterpreted with guitars, keyboards and his singular voice. 19:30 Bullion (One-Handed/UK) DJ The powerful beats that were the backbone of his rst single, the acclaimed Get Familiar, have placed him in the eye of the media storm in record time (his list of admirers includes names like Gilles Peterson, Tricky and Mary Anne Hobbs.) Eclectic but always effective, his live shows, sets and remixes are crammed with syncopated melodies, beats with a capital B and rhythms that you just cant ignore. 20:40 Busy P (Ed Banger/FR) DJ Pedro Winter is a goldmine: ex-manager of Daft Punk, Ed Banger mastermind, a de luxe remixer and the man responsible for raising the prole of a new batch of electro and house talents such as Justice, Krazy Baldhead, SebastiAn and DJ Mehdi, Busy P has lled the map of France with items that are 100% exportable, which of course include his own productions.

16:00 The Wizard

19:30 SV4/Michna (US) DJ The ubiquitous Adrian Mincha, also known as Egg Foo Young and a name that regularly crops up on numerous indies, joins up with the creator of Ghostly International, SV4 (that is, Sam Valenti IV) to concoct a special DJ set for a stylish celebration of the 10th anniversary of Ghostly. 20:15 Lusine (US) Live Lusine is the alias that Jeff McIlwain uses as an outlet for all his ideas for abstract, melodic and forceful electronica. Since he completed his studies of music and design at the prestigious CalArts school, he has recorded on labels like !K7/MAS, Hymen, Delikatessen and Isophlux. In 2003 he joined the Ghostly label, where he has had plenty of hits including Push, the remixes of Flat, and the Inside/Out EP, as well as the highly-praised Serial Hodgepodge in 2004. 21:15 Michna with Raw Paw (US) Live In his new incarnation, Adrian Mincha (a usual suspect of outstanding labels like Reprise, Big Dada, and Schematic,) joins forces with New Yorker Raw Paw. Together they sign up to the cause of funk revival, squeezing the best out of the equation technology plus visuals plus live instruments (including trombones.)

16:00 Young Fathers

18:00 Luomo (Huume/FI) Live No introduction is necessary for the pop alter ego of Vladislav Delay. Convivial, his fourth album using the Luomo moniker, reveals his more extroverted side. It is full of vocal collaborations, including those with Sascha Ring (Apparat) and Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters). This is a marvellous opportunity to enjoy the nishes and sound

16:00 DSL (Ed Banger/FR) DJ Coming out of Sarcelles, to the north of Paris, David, Stephane and Lionel (hence the abbreviation) have reinvented the concept of the mnage trois with an avalanche of hip-hop with an electronic nish, with in-yourface rhymes and rhythms sharp enough to cut yourself, all on a retro tip which gushes the spirit of Ed Banger through each of its pores. Invaders, their rst EP release, has everything they need to make them an international phenomenon.
(Moshi Moshi/FR) Live One of the latest to achieve the status of remixer de rigueur is Breakbot, whose hands have already worked their magic on cuts by artists

16:45 Huw Stephens (UK) DJ Huw Stephens is interested in discovering new names and new sounds, which he showcases in his weekly BBC

17:00 Breakbot

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FRIDAY 19
22:00 Lars Horntveth + BCN216 (Smalltown Supersound/NO-ES) Live
For what is now the traditional concert at the Auditori this year, Snar offers a very special collaboration between the BCN216 Instrumental Group (an institution in avantgarde music in Spain, which has been playing together since 1985) and the Norwegian artist Lars Horntveth, the composer and main man behind the highly regarded experimental jazz combo Jaga Jazzist, which brought success to the Scandinavian label Smalltown Supersound. Horntveth has always stood out due to his astonishing capacity to write pieces that fall halfway between several styles not for nothing

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THURSDAY 18
13:00 Nboa (ES) Live When Javi lvarez disembowels and modies old hardware (Casio keyboards, electronic toys, Atari computers,) he does so without a shadow of nostalgia for the technology of the past. His project Nboa is all about turning something old into something new and nding the strange in the familiar, wrapping his critical attitude and punk spirit from yesteryear in the bizarre sounds that will soon materialise in Todo Volver a Ser Diferente. 17:00 Roland Olbeter + Tim Exile + Jon Hopkins (DE-UK) Live Robotics and electronic music go hand in hand in this collaboration between three very different artists, specially commissioned by Snar and the UK festival Faster than Sound. Two of the most respected musicians in Britains new electronica, Jon Hopkins and Tim Exile, accepted the challenge of composing a piece for a very special group... The Soundclusters line-up consists of ve robot-instruments created by Roland Olbeter. Two violins, a viola, a cello and a drum packed with micro-keys and mechanisms allow them to play live with Hopkins and Exile, in one of the most amazing stage shows of this years Snar. 20:30 Konono N 1
(Crammed Discs/CG) Live The Orchestre Tout Puissant Likemb Konono N 1, led by Mawangu Mingiedi, who founded the group 25 years ago, is a bridge between tradition and modernity. The musicians play likembs or thumb pianos, with adapted microphones handmade from magnets salvaged from abandoned cars and other instruments made from pieces of scrap, giving a new dimension to the traditional trance music of the Bazombo ethnic group. The result is surprising it is a sound that is undoubtedly African in its rhythm and textures, but curiously close to punk and western electronica. Their raw and sophisticated sound has led them to work with artists of the standing of Timbaland and Bjrk. A one-off!

FRIDAY 19
13:00 Carrier to Noise Ratio (ES) Live This Seville trio have taken their openly minimalist and abstract perspective to many venues, in the context of both art (from NYs MOMA to the Guggenheim in Bilbao) and the theatre (for the Cirque du Soleil). They produce a sonic landscape and intricate rhythms in which painstaking work on the sound synthesis and an impressive visual approach takes centre stage. 17:00 Quayola (UK) Live Quayola is an audiovisual artist and graphic designer, and his work combines video, photography, installation and live performance as if they were all part of the same language. Path to Abstraction is a perfect example of his modus operandi, which explores the relationship between audio and video, and is inspired by the physical representation of sound itself, in order to be able to see sound waves while we hear them. 19:00 Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP) Live Kurokawa uses a completely revolutionary approach to bringing visual and sound material together to create impressive audiovisual compositions. In his language, which has become a new international benchmark in digital art, eld recordings coexist harmoniously with computergenerated structures, allowing us a glimpse into an imaginary world in which the complex becomes simple (and vice versa) every couple of milliseconds. 20:30 Micachu and The Shapes (Rough Trade/UK) Live At 21, Mica Levi has already composed for the London Philharmonic Orequestra, won over Londons garage and grime scene and debuted on Matthew Herberts label with her highenergy pop project with The Shapes. After two much-hyped singles in 2008, they have just released the LP Jewellery, produced by Matthew Herbert and brimming over with dissonance, youth, and a serious commitment to fun.

SATURDAY 20
13:00 Anmic (Error! Lo-Fi/ES) Live With a carefully designed aesthetic, this sextet from Esparreguera has received awards and an excellent reception from the critics thanks to their concern for detail and a highly personal sound, in which any object that comes to hand can become a tailor-made instrument.
(PIAS/UK) Live This mutant tigress has been accustomed to the spotlight since the tender age of 12 years old, when she started her career as a television actress. With her unusual fashion sense and a renowned sense of humour, she has turned the British music scene upside down, with a combination of post-punk in an electronic style, driving rhythms and rock arrangements from outer space. Raster Noton presents 19:00 SND (UK) Live The sixteen sound-origami pieces in Mat Steel and Mark Fells fourth album Atavism further expand their personal approach to digital audio: a DNA chain cobbled together from bits of classic techno, a rationalist aesthetic and generative algorithms. Always halfway between the structures and methods of techno and electro and the rough, abstract sounds that set his work apart from the danceoor (do not miss his latest album, Death of a Typographer) Byetone paints a sound postcard that is cold, organic, dark and overwhelming, all at once.

21:15 Atom (DE) Live The legendary Uwe Schmidt makes a triumphant debut on Raster Noton with Liedgut, which once again pays tribute to his own inuences. A symphony of enigmatic electronica packed with interferences, reverberating melodies, white noise and digital micro-cuts to deconstruct the legacy of classics like Oskar Sala and Kraftwerk.

do his inuences include artists as versatile as Joanna Newsom, Robert Wyatt, Stereolab and Jean-Claude Vannier. And his most recent composition, the acclaimed album Kaleidoscopic, simply reafrms that idea. It is a monolithic exercise in post-rock with a jazz edge, and innite layers and readings, full of sub-rhythms and optimistic melodies, which was originally recorded with more than forty members of the Latvian national orchestra in a church in Riga. On the Auditori stage, a total of thirteen musicians will undertake the live reconstruction of the score of Kaleidoscopic, transporting the audience back to a no-mans land (by turns unclassiable post-jazz, and instrumental avant-rock.)

17:00 Ebony Bones

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Visual music The relationship between sounds and images takes on a new dimension in several live shows on the SonarHall stage. Work by artists with extensive experience and an understanding electronic art as a language covering several disciplines, leads to an interaction in which music and video become a practically inseparable binomial. Quayola, a highly regarded Italian visual artist based in London, adds colour, form and a physical aspect to the sounds of other artists in his impressive Path to Abstraction; his show is a perfect example of the importance of this combination of ideas in SonarHall. Japans Ryoichi Kurokawa embodies the philosophy of audiovisual performance like few others. He sees it as a seamless discourse, dominated by reciprocity between what we see and what we hear. Kurokawa considers image and sounds from the same perspective, and creates moving audiovisual sculptures using organic materials and advanced digital treatments. In the still fertile eld of minimalism, there is the cohesion of the Seville-based group Carrier to Noise Ratio, and of course the work by the artists in the Raster Noton collective, whose live performance boosts the audiovisual format by taking it to its very essence: frequencies, rhythms and structures that are both audible and visible.

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Dimitry Gelfand & Francisco Lpez (RU-NL-ES) Ten Thousand Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid C/ Isaac Newton, 26. Known all around the world for his sound installations and his spectacular surround multichannel performances, Francisco Lpez joins forces with Dimitry Gelfand and Evelina Domnitch for the very rst time. The result is a unique synesthesic show, halfway between experimental cinema, VJing, musical performance and real time science demonstration. In Ten Thousand Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid, Dimitry Gelfand and Evelina Domnitch use laser beams to scan and project the surface of the soap lm they produce by combining a

19:45 Byetone (DE) Live

20:30 Alva Noto (DE) Live Always equally concerned with concepts and aesthetics, over the last twenty years, Carsten Nicolai, aka Alva Noto, has created his own sound universe based on the compulsive exploration of minimalisms full range of potential (physical and sensorial.) This time, he presents his much praised Xerrox vol. 2.

variety of chemicals in real time. Unlike other types of light beams, the laser is able to penetrate inside the micro-structures of these soap lms and project them on the planetariums ceiling. The image that surrounds the viewer reminds the activity and the dynamics of living cells (or, as the title indicates, the complex shapes and colors of the peacock feathers.) Curated by Arnau Horta. Snar by Day-CosmoCaixa Bus Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 19:00. The bus departs from Hotel Pulitzer (Bergara, 8 next to Plaa Catalunya.) Seating capacity: 20 (rst-come, rst-served.)

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has just released an album on Strut with The Heliocentrics, who will be his live band. They will show off their synergies by adding hip-hop, funk, jazz, psych rock and a touch of the cutting edge to the mix.

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FRIDAY 19
Red Bull Music Academy presents

12:00 Mwslee vs. Chelis (Arkestra-Urbarritmo/ES) DJ Chelis, a pioneer of Aragons electronica scene for more than a decade, and Mwslee, from Vigo, come together in a musical dialogue that speaks of the future and the past from a contemporary perspective. 14:00 Miaau (Marchlewski/ES) Live He was inspired to begin making his own compositions after immersing himself in the club scene of Barcelona. On the ipside to his kicks and snares, his penchant for Badalamenti-styled Twin Peaks melodies and ambience conjure up all kinds of dreamscapes and depths of the human psyche, taking the club environment to an altogether unfamiliar place. 14:40 Ccile
(Mac Mac/IT) Live It might have been a sign when a ve-year old Carlo Alberto broke the violin his grandfather gave him, trying to play it like a guitar. However, Cciles not just about electropunk aesthetics, and creates a softer, more melancholic palette via his Satie-inspired Color A project.

17:30 dJ`w (Megabeats/ES) DJ 18:15 Dbruit (Musique Large/FR) Live Xavier Thomas is a producer, DJ, instrumentalist and vocalist from Paris. He released an LP called Coup Dcal, twisting amenco guitars, eld recordings, and just about any sound he can get his hands on, into his electro hip-hop noise Dbruit trademark. 19:00 Jamie Woon (One Taste/UK) Live As well as running one of Londons leading music and spoken word gatherings called One Taste, Jamie has supported dons like Tony Allen, Terry Callier and Amy Winehouse, while also clocking up the mileometer with festival appearances this year. Jamie takes the timelessness of folks like Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Jeff Buckley and Lee Perry, and brings it to smack up to date with acoustic guitars and loop effects. 19:45 Taras 3000 (Idle Conversation/RU) DJ This disco lover has been ghting for Russias right to party for time, promoting two of Moscows foremost club nights, and catching an global rep in the process. Alongside international guests like Diplo, Mr. Oizo, or Headman, he got everyone excited about the neon-headed monster rising in Russia.
(Favorite/FR) Live His Tribute LP project caught the ears of music lovers and DJs like Benji B and Gilles Peterson, Onra has been on a roll, and his Chinoiseries LP, made from a crate digging expedition to Vietnam, has been released to the delight of fans of offbeat hip-hop.

12:00 Ruari (Galway/IE) DJ Whether its making ambient tracks, jamming on the keys with his jazz sisters, rocking oors with his deep techy selections or just designing that cybernetic music software helmet, you know Rory D likes to have a good time doing it.
(District of Corruption/IE) DJ Our Mano in Berlin has already had his rst tracks signed to Prins Thomas label, and last years split 12 on District of Corruption Inside Animal Minds caught the ears of global DJs, Mixmag writers, and Jack Russells alike. As well as improvising his tracks live, Manos also quite likely to drop a few surprises in his sets.

16:30 Dorian Concept (Kindred Spirits/AT) Live After dropping an EP on Treble O, he exceeded the expectations with his recent 12 on the Nod Navigators series, fore-running his debut LP When Planets Explode a collection of woozy funk and twisted electronic chord changes which nods to everyone from Dabrye, Trane, Prince, and Boards of Canada. 17:15 Bomb Squad (Shocklee Innertainment/ US) DJ The mighty force behind Public Enemy is also credited with creating seminal recordings for a variety of top artists such as Madonna, Janet Jackson, Slick Rick, and Run DMC. Now, after many successful years in the studio, Hank lands at Snar to perform one of his banging sets, with the darkest hip-hop and the freshest dubstep as main courses.
(Lucky Me/US) DJ He has already released a couple of EPs on the Mecca of Dublin hip-hop, All City Records, as well as four EPs with Hudson Mohawke, and a collaboration with the intergalactic soul diva Muhsinah.

SATURDAY 20
Red Bull Music Academy presents

13:15 Mano Le Tough

12:00 K**O (Desparrame/ES) DJ K**O (pronounced Kigo) is known for his love of fat bass, whether it be it hip-hop, bmore, ghetto house or almost anything fresh-sounding. His set today will focus on cuttingedge beats, hyphy, crunk, alien dancehall, grime, purple dubstep, and the like. 14:00 Sonicbrat (NIL/SG) Live Finding as much inspiration in the sounds around him as he does in the works of minimal composers or experimental rock bands, Darren Ng wanders around Singapore sampling cicadas, creating shimmering soundscapes with them on the Tenori-On, or rigging up a broken piano with contact mics. 14:30 Natalia Lafourcade (Sony BMG/MX) Live All of her music comes directly from the heart, whether solo or accompanied by an orchestra. Natalia cites artists like Canadian torch singer Feist or hip hop soul-innovator Erykah Badu as inspirations, and you can hear how she spins that into her unique sashaying bossa on her Latin Grammywinning LP Casa. 15:10 Mr Hudson (G.O.O.D. Music/UK) Live Ben Hudson is the ringleader of the r&b supergroup Mr Hudson & the Library (on Kanye Wests label). But as if this wasnt enough, he decided to surprise the world on his own with the powerful Straight No Chaser. This collection of hits based on energetic pop, futuristic breaks, polished synths, galactic rap and vocoder vocals, also blessed by Kanye, turns the concept of contemporary urban music inside out. 16:00 Cardopusher (True Tiger/VE) Live Luis Garbn blurs the lines between dubstep, electro and breakcore as easily as he

crosses geographical borders. Having released his album Unity Means Power on Murder Channel late last year, its little wonder Fact Magazine named him as one of their producers to watch in 09.

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Seeking out new names, sounds and talent has been one of the driving forces behind Snar since its very earliest days. And in 2009, the exploratory spirit of the festival has linked up with that of the Red Bull Music Academy to make the three days of the SonarDme line-up full of surprises. The Red Bull Music Academy, an inexhaustible source of talent for years, is the backbone of this stage, which features artists from all corners of the planet, who are coming to Barcelona with the most varied styles. Academy participants, usual teachers on this travelling experience, and special guests brought together for the occasion form a line-up which contains experimental minimalism from Singapore (with Sonicbrat), New Yorks dirtiest beats with XXXCHANGE, cosmic funk with Russias Taras 3000, the breakcore-cum-dubstep of Cardopusher (Venezuelaborn, but Barcelona-based), the percussive house of South Africas Culoe de Song, the infectious British phenomenon called GoldieLocks, and the bright auteur pop of Natalia Lafourcade, a major star in Mexico, where she was born. A bit of everything to suit all tastes, with the added excitement of new discoveries.

17:30 Guillamino (BankRobber/ES) Live Though he says his productions are 50% hip-hop beats and 50% classic songwriting, you can hear wide horizons in everything Guillamino does. Travelling the Sahara desert and Burma has probably affected his recent solo work as much as the fact that he went to NYC to work on it. 18:15 Kornl Kovcs (Forza Marginale/SE) Live Since his days as resident at Paradise, Kornl Kovcs has done his best to place Stockholm on the international rave map. His contribution to the third Emil.Rulez LP, Zanga!Zanga, was his debut on the Hungarian jazz scene, and today he keeps himself busy in the studio, adding the nal touches to his tracks with Axel Boman and Petter. 19:45 Lukid (Werk Discs/UK) Live Back in 2007, he released an LP and an EP on Werk Discs, full of emotive abstract electronic beats, as well as contributing to the We Are... monthly podcasts, while the start of this year saw his second LP Foma receive critical acclaim for his bass-heavy, tripped out grooves. 20:30 Culoe de Song (Innervisions/ZA) DJ Drawing inspiration from producers like Osunlade and Franck Roger, Culoe, whose family name means Our Song, has recently delved into production and started dropping jaws with his take on deep afro house, mixing eld sounds and powerful strings to euphoric effect.

15:15 dJ`w (Megabeats/ES) DJ Organiser of the rst Scratch ITF 2003 Spanish Championship, a standard bearer of the RBMA in Spain, and DJ and producer, dJ`w takes you on a journey across various genres in which the common denominator is the use (and abuse) of low frequency oscillators and analogue lters. 16:30 Mulatu Astatke and
The Heliocentrics (Strut-ET-!K7/UK) Live Mulatu combines his jazz and funk training with the roots of his Ethiopian heritage, and has created a sound that is both light and heavyweight, but which is above all undoubtedly Abyssinian. He

14:00 El Santo (Premier Evil Crusher/CO) Live When not playing in bands like El Fat Chorizo or La Superbailable!, El Santo can often be found in the instrument lab, building synths and developing ideas such as street art made with conductive paint and tiny circuits, where bystanders can modify a musical tone by touching the artwork. Somewhere between Ryoji Ikeda, Pan Sonic and Nine Inch Nails. 14:30 Midee (Labolatory/ES) DJ Working as a sound technician and Dolby Stereo expert means that Midee has forgotten more about mixing and the stereo eld than most producers learn in a lifetime. He creates a glorious mix of dubby electronica with plenty of Kraftwerk and YMO inuences on his sleeve. 16:00 Muhsinah (Circulations/US) Live Anyone whos dreamt of a better day will feel this lady. Recently dropping her debut LP Daybreak 2.0, Muhsinah has scooped nuff props for her compositions, a collision Chopin and Alice Coltrane, as well as Georgia and J Dilla.

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20:00 GoldieLocks (Puregroove/UK) Live Since GoldieLocks wolfed down the whole lot, shes been creating spangled party anthems with an emphasis on heavy bass, snapping snares and trippy effects. Taking her cue from The Streets, Gwen Stefani, MIA, Spank Rock, and Dizzee, Goldielocks has got the game on lock... 20:30 XXXCHANGE (Fullly Fitted/US) DJ NYC native XXXCHANGE got everyone off the wall with his trax for Philly rapper Spank Rock, and has since been producing and remixing the great and the good, from Santogold, James Pants, and Gang Gang Dance to Space Ghost co-stars Thom Yorke and Bjrk. Simply XXXplosive.

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Records/ES) Live Although their sound is very personal and recognisable, the universe of Perdi, Leo and Yeray is difcult to dene. After releases on the California label Vocoid and on Pendrive, the trio is currently recording their rst LP for the Granada net label Miga.

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(Lovethechaos/ES) Live The most natural thing for Nikka is being among machines: she is reected in them like a mirror, and gives her audience a complex mlange of sounds, rhythms and feelings that are apparently melancholy, but which have a strong personality. In her live show, she will be collaborating with Alba G. Corral on visuals. (Foehn/ES) Live Colch-n, the solo project of Frank Rudow (Manta Ray), is a continuous experiment involving tetric and tantric pieces, which are simultaneously circular and broken up, which collide with the organic nature and sweetness of Suma, a new benchmark on Foehn. Music and audiovisuals as part of a single effort to create an experience that verges on the orchestral.

SATURDAY 20
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(ES) Live Sonic landscapes in danger of extinction, recorded in Venezuela and Galicia over a fteen-year period, are used as raw material in this concert. These sounds have been processed and recongured in order to create a sonic perspective that is the basis for performance, using several instruments in Surezs collection. These come from various cultures which the artist has studied, some of which are more than 600 years old.

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Friendly confrontations and local extravagance
Since last years festival, the more unusual cutting edge side of the Catalan scene has been appearing on the SonarComplex stage. Projects like Institut FATIMA (who are also taking part in Mecnics, the 2009 SonarMtica exhibition), Filastine, Bstia Ferida and the legendary Pau Riba accompanied by Mil Simonis, will be responsible for showing how far new local experimentation has travelled (and in what directions). Peculiarity, often verging on the bizarre, is a certainty... Another idea returning to SonarComplex is the versus performances: shows based on a musical confrontation between two or more projects on the same stage in order to experiment and nd new perspectives. There are three versus this year at SonarComplex, all of which feature bands that established in Barcelona: Colch-n vs. Suma (the ex-member of Manta Ray, Frank Rudow with Laura Clark;) Tarntula vs. Orquesta Caballo Ganador; Joe Crepsculo vs. La Estrella de David y Los Thelemticos. A thousand ways of tackling sonic extravagance in three days full of experiments.

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Estrella de David y Los Thelemticos (Discoteca Ocano/ES) Live With two albums under his belt, Joe explores a territory midway between handcrafted and ea market sounds, backed by totally bizarre lyrics that are part mundane, part popular philosophy. Accompanied by La Estrella de David (Beefs David Rodrguez) and Barcelona-based Asturian group Los Thelemticos, they promise to lead us by the hand into unexplored territories of pop. Industries/US) Live Profoundly involved in the antiglobalisation movement, his 20-piece band Infernal Noise Brigade marked the rhythm of the WTO protests in Seattle as well as clearly revealing which side of the fence Grey Filastine sits on. This Barcelona-based, internationally sought-after artist handles the richest and most complex styles with total ease, allowing him to mix Bollywood with Balkan beats, breakcore and hip-hop and emerge unscathed. (DE) Live Inspired by situationism, free improvisation, space universalism and spontaneous creation, Paul and Carsten (two German musicians based in Barcelona) explore new ways of controlling the generation of electronic music. Using small cameras, they operate their machines without touching them with their hands, so that their live act becomes a wireless show, full of movement and surrealism.

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19:30 Tarntula vs. Orquesta Caballo Ganador (Producciones Doradas/ES) Live Vincent Leone, Joe Crepsculo, Eneko Trece and Daniel Descabello take punk, electronica and transcendental pop to the most surprising iconoclastic, rufan and erudite corners. They have won over critics and audiences alike through innumerable live shows and unrepeatable albums, sometimes offered to fans for free. Here, the Orquesta Caballo Ganador joins the combo to present one of their most magical moments. 21:00 Bstia Ferida (Ozono Kids/ES) Live Adrin de Alfonso (Veracruz, Don the Tiger), Arnau Sala (drummer with Les Aus) and trumpeter Mark Cunningham (icon of late 70s New York no wave and long-time Barcelona resident) make up the lineup of this internationally renowned conceptual noise trio with echoes of free jazz and post-rock, who have distortion and free structures as their only guidelines.

17:30 Ben Frost (Bedroom Community/IS) Live Ben Frosts music goes from the most rural ambient to post-minimalism, and though its not a light approach, it has easily appealed and worked with artists such Bjrk, aminaa or Valgeir Sigursson. Two years after being published, Theory of Machines still represents one of the highlights of nowadays experimental electronica. 19:30 Pau Riba + Mil Simonis (Matriu Matrs/ES) Live Pau Riba, iconcoclastic, multifaceted and transgressive by denition, is a true institution on the Catalan scene, with a solid career as singer-songwriter with an ever-present sprinkling of provocation and controversy. In his current live act he shares the stage with Mil Simonis with a lineup including members from Mil pesetas, Don Simn and Telefunken that add colour to Ribas more hallucinogenic, playful side with an evocative and highly original minimalist instrumentation that sheds new light on the high points of his repertoire. 21:00 Penca Catalogue
(Persona Isla/ES) Live Backed up by collaborators like Strand, tape, Castropol, Kresy, Jumbil and Bacanal Intruder, Luis Sierra leads this contemporary pop machine through melodic paths that prove IDM can have choruses and structures just like good old fashioned songs. Luis himself denes Cocaine Rocks as Cooked Kind as eight songs created by and for the heterogeneity of music.

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MECNICS
Mecnics is an exhibition that reects this return, at the heart of the information society, of the DIY philosophy as applied to the creation of sound production instruments. With that in mind, in this project SonarMtica includes the driving forces behind artistic creation in the twenty-rst century: centres of art production. Media labs are the tip of the iceberg of a new cultural paradigm based on the idea of a process, collective co-operation and the exchange of knowledge. This journey takes us around some of the most important centres of production in a renascent and creative Barcelona that is devoted to this new culture. It shows us ongoing projects, workshops, postgraduate projects and open rehearsals. This is craftsmanship for the third millennium, open to all in CCCB, Hangar and NIU.

medium, and invite users to reect on the physical value of music. Through several musical toys and a prepared turntable with ve tone arms that the user can move at will, Suzuki poses questions about the ephemeral nature of digital technology, which he describes as just data, purely virtual. Institut FATIMA (ES) El sistema Reacball www.institutfatima.org During the research process that led Paul Rose and Carsten Galle to Everybody Can Be Wireless Artist, they came to the following conclusion: There is no absolute control, but rather a small dose of chaos which stimulates creativity. Institut FATIMA apply this idea to The Reacball System, in which a football, a camera, a computer and a MIDI controller generate a remix of sounds, samples and slips. The ball generates random sequences of MIDI notes which de-control a musical arrangement. The MIDI controller rearranges the chaos dialectically. This creative and intuitive process leads to surprising results. Institut Universitari de lAudiovisual Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES) http://iua.upf.edu

which enables musicians to experiment with sound, change its structure, control its parameters and be creative in a direct, refreshing and unseen way. The instrument is based on a translucent and luminous round table, and by putting these pucks on the Reactable surface, by turning them and connecting them to each other, performers can combine different elements like synthesizers, effects, sample loops or control elements in order to create a unique and exible composition. Dani Garca Rodrguez, Ivn Hernndez Gutirrez and Miguel Ferreiro Novoa (ES) Punk-o-Table Punk-o-Table is a tangible musical game created for the Reactable platform that allows music to be created in a simple and fun way, in a style similar to punk-pop bands. Using simple mechanisms, Punk-o-Table is a fun and straightforward way of creating an innite number of themes and variations based on a small amount of stored material. As a result, it is possible to switch from creating punk music to any other musical style just by changing the sound tracks. Roger Pujol, Pablo Molina, Frederic Font and Francisco Garca (ES) Puckr http://iua.upf.edu/puckr Puckr is a collaborative multi-player game that is simple and fast-moving, based on the popular game of air hockey, with added features from other games (including Pinball and Arkanoid) such as rebounds and power-ups. Up to teams of 1 or more people can take part. Each team starts with a xed number of lives which is reduced every time the puck enters its goal. At the beginning, the participants place their mallets on the tangible surface so that the system can recognise the number of teams taking part. The game starts when the puck is hit and includes different levels, which become more advanced as

the game goes on. Carles F. Juli (ES) SongExplorer www.iua.upf. edu/~cfernandez/songexplorer In a world in which the amount of available music is increasing exponentially, we need new methods to nd the music that we might like. SongExplorer uses the immense ability of human beings to explore space (depicted by maps) to present a galaxy of songs in an ordered way, in which similar songs tend to be close to each other. Using the functionality of interactive tables, SongExplorer allows users to gesture with their ngers to browse this map, create and manipulate playlists and, obviously, listen to music. Sebastin Gonzlez / Javier Chvarri (CO-ES) WeAreWaves www.wearewaves.info WeAreWaves is an interactive installation which invites the participant to explore the qualities of sound based on the bodys movement and forms. In other words, it is a space for considering the concept of timbre as a specic quality of sound waves, using the interface that human beings are most familiar with: their own body. Using a camera, WeAreWaves takes the points making up the silhouette of the bodies in the image and converts them into sound. WeAreWaves allows viewers to experiment with the feeling of seeing and listening to themselves, and to stop for a moment to reect on a universe in which everything and all of us are waves.

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Roland Olbeter (ES) Soundclusters 2 www.olbeter.com Soundclusters 2, a series of four string instruments and a drum, is a platform which musicians and composers from any musical genre can use to experiment. Apart from the sound aspect, the work also operates at a visual level, through the movement of the instruments. Ten actuators can be programmed to create various choreographies. For this piece, Snar and the English festival Faster Than Sound commissioned Jon Hopkins and Tim Exile, two of the most highly respected musicians in the new wave of British electronica, to produce compositions for the quintet of robot-instruments created by Olbeter. Yuri Suzuki (JP) The Physical Value of Sound www.yurisuzuki.com

The works presented here have been created by students of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona during the present course 2008-2009, in the Master of Digital Arts (MAD), the Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media (CSIM) as well as in the Interactive Systems Workshop I course. Sergi Jord, Gnter Geiger, Marcos Alonso and Martin Kaltenbrunner (ES) Reactable www.reactable.com The Reactable is a new electronic musical instrument with a simple and intuitive design,

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The Physical Value of Sound is a series of pieces that use vinyl records as a point of departure and principle

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IED - Istituto Europeo di Design (ES) www.ied.edu/City/Barcelona Jay Barros (CU-US) The Sounds of Science http://biomusic.labbs.net The Sounds of Science uses cheap and accessible equipment, which is mainly recycled, to create remixes of sounds and images gathered from our microscopic domestic/ urban context. This produces rhythms and frequencies that provide a musical score for a visual journey that shows the astonishing realities that exist beyond our everyday vision. Based on concepts of petri art, bacterial art, bio art and bio punk, The Sounds of Science uses a home-made microscope designed with a CCD sensor from a camera and the lens from a CD player. Various image processing programmes such as Pure Data are used to analyse various samples from protozoa gathered in urban environments, in order to make them into algorithms which provide the basis for visual and sound composition. Andy Gracie (UK) Deep Data (extract) www.hostprods.net/projects/ deep-data Deep Data (extract) is a working prototype from the current state of development of the Deep Data project; a developmental work connecting deep space exploration with terrestrial extremophiles and the science of astrobiology. This prototype focuses on receiving and recreating magnetic eld data from the Pioneer and Voyager probes within cultures of tardigrades, a microscopic species being used for current space and astrobiological research. Telenoika.net (ES) www.telenoika.net Telenoika.net (ES) LOrquestra dels Luthiers Drapaires http://luthiersdrapaires.wordpress.com The instruments in the Luthiers Drapaires Orchestra are the result of recycling and reuse of technological waste. This installation is a collection of audiovisual automata including a percussion set made of electromagnetic pistons; a theremin made from two radios; an adapted television which works as an oscilloscope; a guitar made of string, a crate of wine and the engines from a hair removal machine; and an interactive visual installation consisting of adapted VGA monitors. Using a wireless sensor device developed on the Arduino platform, a series of accelerometers and gyroscopes analyse the performers movements, and control the audio and video aspects in real time during the performance. It is during this metaphorical dialogue between dance and technology when Oscillare combines all its elements. This is accompanied by three-dimensional abstractions generated in real time using the Max/MSP/Jitter programming tool. These transmit the events caused by movement, which also produces or modies sound, using visual sensations. Alex Posada (ES) Workshop: Arduino and open hardware tools www.arduino.cc Arduino is an open source hardware platform based on a simple board of inputs and outputs and a development environment that uses Processing/ Wiring programming language. Arduino can be used to develop interactive autonomous objects and may be connected to programs such as Flash, Processing, Max/MSP and Pure Data. Over the three days of Snar, a group consisting of artists, programmers and designers, co-ordinated by Alex Posada (the head of the interaction laboratory at Hangar) will be working intensively on several projects based on the Arduino platform. Lluis Gmez i Bigord / Nico Baixas (ES) Workshop: Hands-Computer-Music Our hands are one of the most powerful, complex and versatile means of physical interaction in existence. They are the means by which instruments come alive and become an expression of our ideas, moods and feelings. They are a part of the body that enable us to control machines and transform elements. But they also have another facet which is perhaps less well known: hands generate shapes. In this workshop, we will look at this ability, and interact with various image and sound management mecha-

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nisms (software and hardware) which make it possible to create mosaics, textures and visual and sound effects based on shape recognition. This process will be open to participation by visitors, and to the ideas contributed by those involved in the workshop. tension to achieve temporary or momentary stability. Vibration, lines in the void towards a destination or not. The search for equilibrium and harmony with oneself, and ones environment... i_man:es. Ruin & Wesen (DE) Workshop: MIDI hacking workshop www.ruinwesen.com Friday 19th In this workshop, held by Wesen, attendees will enter the world of MIDI hacking. After a short introduction into MIDI (the protocol, the uses), programming with Arduino and some basic electronics, they will form small groups to build a MIDI controller project. Using the extensive MIDI framework developed at Ruin & Wesen, as well as a multitude of electronic sensors, the projects can go from a simple ribbon controller to sensors involving pressure, temperature, and movement, or traditional MIDI controllers and sequencers. Also, traditional synthesizers and controllers can be hacked to extend their functionality. microBCN (ES) Workshop: Chiptune & GameBoy Art http://barcelona_ hq.micromusic.net Saturday 20th microBCN is a local collective that promotes activities and events related to 8-bit culture in artistic spheres such as music, visual art, net-art and circuit bending. The collective is made up of artists who use obsolete computers and video game systems such as Commodore, Atari and Game Boy. The collective is based in Barcelona and the surrounding areas, and has organised concerts and festivals at various venues. Most of its members have travelled around Spain and elsewhere, raising the prole of their music and visuals.

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Snar by Day-Niu-Hangar Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 12:30 and 16:00. Approximate tour length: 2 hours 40 minutes. All buses depart from Hotel Pulitzer (Bergara, 8, next to Plaa Catalunya). Seating capacity: 20 (rst-come, rst-served).

The Istituto Europeo di Design in Barcelona works in the eld of training and research within the disciplines of design, fashion, visual arts and communication. The school belongs to an international network with branches in Milan, Rome, Turin, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona and So Paulo, which promotes educational and practical initiatives related to business, through the culture of the project. VV.AA. (ES) Voice Constructer Voice Constructer is a puzzle and an interactive construction game. The work requires the participation of visitors, who use their voice to construct geometric pieces, with which they complete various drawings on the screen, and use a control to move them around and rotate them. It is a complex multidisciplinary project similar to producing a video game, requiring a script, research and conceptual analysis, storyboard production, graphic design, Processing programming and animation. Medialab-Prado (ES) Ciencia de Garaje http://medialab-prado.es

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Almogvers, 208. Barcelona 12:00-21:00 www.niubcn.com

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Marcell Antnez (ES) Metamembrana The interactive installation Metamembrana is the third episode of Membrana, and was preceded by the two mecatronic performances of Protomembrana (2006) and Hipermembrana (2007). The installation is a projection in 16:3 format, which shows a single 12-metre image, and four interfaces which allow users to browse hypertext consisting of eight interactive microtales. It aims to create aspects that can be identied with, so that viewers feel as if they have participated in the work. Metamembrana was produced by Anella Cultural, the CCCB, the I2CAT foundation and by the towns of Olot,Reus, Granollers, Lleida andBarcelona.

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Passatge Marqus de Santa Isabel 40. Barcelona 12:00-21:00 www.hangar.org

Medialab-Prado is a public centre for the production, research and dissemination of digital culture and the area where art, science, technology and society converge. Among the programmes projects is Interactivos?, a production and research platform based around the creative and educational applications of technology. It focuses on collective creation using open hardware and open software tools.

Hangar is a centre for artistic production and research founded by the Catalan Association of Visual Artists (AAVC) in 1997. It supports designers and artists and offers services meeting the production needs of the art world. The centre is based in a restored industrial building in Barcelonas Poblenou neighbourhood. The 1800 m2-space has a capacity for fteen individual workshops, a medialab, two sets, an equipment hire service, technicians and production advice. Hangar also organises a programme of workshops for training artists, an international exchange programme and provides production grants. Electronic Performers (ES) Rehearsal open to the public: Oscillare http://electronicperformers.in

Niu is an art space located in Barcelonas Poblenou neighbourhood. It produces, exhibits and disseminates contemporary audiovisual art, multimedia design, digital art and independent electronic music. The focus for study, creation and exhibition is the audio and visual culture arising from the emergence of digital technology in the world of art, design and communication. Their activities include exhibitions, services for artists, artists agency, training courses, and an online radio station. Julio Lucio (ES) SoundWalk, Cymatics, i_man:es www.juliolucio.com Sound Walk is a human sequencer which users use to generate various musical events with their own movement. The viewers play the central role and are the creators of the work. Sound Walk creates an interactive game between the user and the sequencer, making the visitor feel like both the instrument and the composer of the music. Music written by Nikka. Cymatics is the visual representation of sound its embodiment, its shape. Cymatics traces sound, its textures, its oscillations, its movements, and even its personality. The work allows sound to be played with, viewed and modulated at the rhythm of the users movement and play. A speaker, movement sensors, and a pinch of bicarbonate that shows us the shape and life of the sound. i_man:es represents the struggle of magnetic forces to nd equilibrium. Oscillating

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Quinquis de los 80. Cine, prensa y calle (80s hoodlums. In lm, press and the street). Curated by Amanda Cuesta and Mery Cuesta. CCCB. From 25 May to 6 September. Montalegre, 5. Barcelona. Ingrid. Last Login A project by Eduard Corts La Virreina. Centre de la Imatge. From May 16 to June 21. La Rambla, 99. Barcelona. Time as Matter. MACBA Collection. New acquisitions Curated by Bartomeu Mar and Antonia Maria Perell. MACBA. From May 15 to August 31. Plaa dels ngels, 1. Barcelona.

The Telenoika Cultural Association has been promoting, supporting and participating in the electronic arts scene for almost ten years. The group includes VJs, musicians, programmers, artivists, video artists and cultural activists with a shared social commitment.

Oscillare is an interactive multimedia performance that brings together four artistic disciplines dance, music, video and interactivity and aims to dissolve them in a new ephemeral language arising from the present moment.

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02 04:00 Richie Hawtin (Minus/CA) DJ The hypnotic and elegant abstraction of Ali Demirels visuals form the perfect backdrop for a new lesson in minimalist groove by the Canadian grandmaster, who is now resident in Berlin. A touch of new generation techno, dry house plated with digital dub and booming frequencies in the best Minus tradition. 05:00 Agoria (Different/FR) DJ His most recent project took the form of a soundtrack for the lm Go Fast, which led to his third studio album. The album once again showcases the production talent of the Lyon-based DJ and composer, who is at the cusp between techno and elegant house, with a touch of the retro spirit... pretty much the same recipe that Agoria uses when he takes control of a danceoor.

03 00:15 Beardyman (UK) Live A wizard of improvisation, Beardyman has reinvented hip-hop and beatboxing using enormous doses of imagination, humour and charisma. His level of sophistication takes full advantage of technology by using Korg Kaoss Pad III-Live samples, and he achieves an absolutely phenomenal level of audience participation in his live art. 00:45 Orbital (FFRR/UK) Live They are back. The most famous duo on the British dance scene returns to the stage to breathe new life into the legend. Orbital were trailblazers in audiovisual shows and pioneers in combining a thousand and one inuences to create their unmistakable sound melodic, accessible and seasoned with political manifestoes. One of the unquestionable classics of electronica. 02:15 Tadeo (NET28-Cyclical Tracks/ES) DJ With the meticulousness of a scholar, Tadeo has experimented, researched and developed both his danceoor and studio sound, and today he is a renowned DJ, producer, and label manager. In his sets, he leaps from minimal to techno and vice versa with consummate mastery. 03:15 Moderat (Bpitchcontrol/DE) Live Modeselektor + Apparat = Moderat. In their LP debut for Bpitchcontrol, Szary, Bronsert and Ring bring together the best from the private domain of each, in order to make their analogue equipment shine and create a new time bomb armed with electro, IDM, electronica, a serious commitment to having fun and visuals by Pfadnderei. 04:15 Deadmau5 (Play DigitalXfer Records-mau5trap/CA) Live Winner of numerous awards, Joel Zimmerman has the gift of ubiquity: he even has an application on the iPhone allowing users to ne-tune and mix 10 of his biggest hits. His stage presence mixes the latest technology with an audiovisual circus that even includes a futurist mouse costume. A non-stop dance marathon extravaganza.

04 05:30 Henry Saiz (Natura Sonoris/ES) Live Henry Saiz dissects dance music in four, in order to base his sound discourse on four essential elements: trance structures, IDM melodies, a minimal nish and the energy of techno. A lucid, discerning approach that has aroused the interest of labels such as Logical Noise and Global Underground.

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in 2005 surprised the cream of international DJs (from Kode9 to monsieur Garnier) with a style that is difcult to classify, halfway between drumnbass, dubstep and the calculated precision of Detroit techno.

FRIDAY 19
21:30 Open doors 22:30 Nacho Marco (Loudeast Records/ES) DJ Unusually hyperactive, it is becoming increasingly difcult to keep track of his productions, remixes, his Loudeast imprint and everything else he does. This man of a thousand registers and one constant that is always there, high-quality, has put together a special set of space disco and recycled boogie. 23:30 Grace Jones (Wall of Sound/JA) Live Andy Warhols muse, catwalk diva, a regular at Studio 54... Grace Jones name has survived almost 20 years of recording studio silence. The so-called black panther returns to the international arena with a new album, Hurricane, which is aimed 100% at the danceoor she really wouldnt have it any other way. The new Grace Jones prowls stealthily to the beat of techno and jungle, and makes her return backed by a list of associates and remixers to takes your breath away, which includes Brian Eno, Sly and Robbie and Tricky. 00:30 James Murphy & Pat Mahoney (DFA/US) DJ James Murphy, DFA founder, leader of LCD Soundsystem and godfather of dance-punk and worlwide disco revival, comes back joining forces with Pat Mahoney (LCDs drummer) to pay a tribute to disco music. A set which will represent a time travel under the same directions of the fantastic mix signed by both for the FabricLive series. 02:00 SebastiAn (Ed Banger/FR) Live Ever since he set foot in Ed Banger Records for the rst time, Sebastian Akchot has been forging a reputation which has led to him remixing Daft Punk, Cut Copy and Revl9n, being selected to include one of his mixes on the cult video game GTA IV, and performing soundtrack duties on Mr. Oizos lm Steak. The reason why his vibrant vision of electro, which is cut to suit all tastes.

FRIDAY 19
21:30 Open doors 22:30 DJohnston (Underhits/ES) DJ The resident DJ at Barcelonas BeCool brings us the sound of the Look Back Nights, a monthly night dedicated to recovering the most remarkable sounds from our immediate past. Drawing inspiration from the spirit of these sessions, DJohnston lls his suitcase with original disco and Italo music bent on taking further than mere revival.
Mary Anne Hobbs presents (Highlights on BBC Radio 1)

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A more electronic SonarClub than ever
The return to electronica in its purest form, which is apparent in various slots in the Snar 2009 line-up, is perhaps most tangible in SonarClub. The main Snar by Night stage has shows by various artists who base their style on a musical approach that is overtly electronic. Of course, one of the highlights in this area is the visit by Orbital, one of the key projects in electronic music in the 1990s. Their techno hymns with an emotional bedrock helped propel club culture to chart success more than two decades ago. Their eagerly anticipated return is the perfect occasion for recalling immortal classics of recent musical history such as Belfast, Chime, Lush, Halcyon and Are We Here? But this electronic immersion at SonarClub is not only a nostalgia trip... The sonic spectrum is in fact so varied that it easily includes the asymmetrical techno adventures of the new German trio Moderat, hits from the French remixer de luxe SebastiAn, the progressive house of Deadmau5, the almost psychedelic structures of the American trio Animal Collective, Agorias truly deep house, and the uncompromising techno of the always marvellous Richie Hawtin. All these shows are a symptom of the maturity and sophistication of the many branches of electronica as a genre, which lead to new directions full of possibilities and optimum results.

SATURDAY 20
21:30 Open doors 22:30 HD Substance (Software Music/ES) DJ In this special set, HD Substance invites us on a sixty-minute sonic journey through the more rhythmic stretches of the IDM sound, taking in obscure pop classics from the 80s, dub versions, bootlegs and collectors remixes. It will be a quickre summary of the best dance music of the last 30 years, prepared with love and on vinyl, like a good forty-something product of the 80s. 23:00 Animal Collective (Domino/US) Live Animal Collective are coming to Snar for the rst of one of the few concerts they will be performing in Europe this summer. A key group of the rst decade of the twenty-rst century, and one of the most highly-praised musical projects of recent years, they have recently raised their prole among a wider audience with their latest album, Merriweather Post Pavillion. They have achieved this without compromising their artistic approach in the slightest, and followed the trail they blazed with the equally excellent Strawberry Jam, winning over both listeners and the specialist press all over the world.

00:00 Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC/UK) DJ Each week, on her acclaimed Experimental Show on BBC Radio 1, Hobbs unearths new club electronica talent from the latest in techno to the new breed of hip-hop, and anything in between. The contents of her case reect this daredevil attitude, which is always apparent when the godmother of dubstep hits the decks. 00:45 Joker (Kapsize/UK) DJ
Joker was already considered one of the strongest talents in grime and dubstep on the British scene when he was only 18. Today, this production genius has created a label and his own style, making him the new name to keep a very close eye on. Booming basses with a touch of old school video games, memories of Detroit and razor-sharp beats in a Neptunes style.

03:00 Heartbreak (Lex/US) Live On Lies, their debut on Lex, Heartbreak take the sound of the eighties, from Italo disco to synth pop, to the most hysterical and dramatic extreme, taking full advantage of falsettos, melodrama and over-the-top vocals. It is a very subtle exercise in style with hints of karaoke, in which it is difcult to say where the tribute stops and parody begins. 04:00 Erol Alkan presents Disco 3000 (UK) DJ On his Disco 3000 podcast, Erol Alkan sets his sights on the disco music of yesterday, today and forever, brings it up to date and lets it shine anew under the mirror ball. The merit lies not only in the selection, but also in Erols tweaks to the tunes, which take disco to his own dimension and the concept of the mix a step further. 05:30 Don Rimini (Mental Groove/FR) DJ Artists of the stature of Busy P, 2 Many DJs, Digitalism, Tiga, A-Trak and Diplo, are among Don Riminis most loyal fans, and his inammatory and ironic electro-house, which comes straight from the gut and is full of references to hip-hop and the classic rave sound, has raised the temperature on innumerable danceoors from Paris to Miami.

01:30 The Gaslamp Killer (Obey/US) DJ California has given the world some of the best cuts of psychedelia and abstract hip-hop. The Gaslamp Killer combines both traditions in a devastating mix which includes slices of B movies, space jazz, esoteric rock and the worlds strangest funk. Turntablism meets Satanism. 02:15 Martyn (3024/NL) DJ Although he lives in Washington today, Martijn Deykers grew up in Holland, where he cut his teeth on the sounds of Detroit and Chicago. Thats why his debut as a producer

SATURDAY 20
21:30 Open doors 22:30 Cauto (DisbootDiscontinu Records/ES) DJ With polished productions that hint at his classical music background, Pau Encinas Laftte was the rst producer on the Barcelona scene to echo the British dubstep sound. His works, rst released on DJ/ Ruptures label, mix deep bass with warm, danceable sounds that plunge listeners into a sea of broken, forceful rhythms.

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04 05:30 The Requesters (Highlights/ES) Live The Requesters unites Sidechains, one of this seasons biggest hits, with D.A.R.Y.L, one of the key names on the Barcelona scene. Together, they take pop references, 80s culture and the possibilities of electro and house and raise them to the power of two.

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its high-energy, percussive sound. And if one name stands out in its own right in todays Kuduro scene, it has to be Buraka Som Sistema. After their resoundingly successful live show last year, DJ Riot, Joo Pekeno and Conductor return to Snar armed with a new LP (Black Diamond) and a special show, set to turn everything upside down again with that combination of thick bass lines, syncopated percussion and electronic arrangements.

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to be considered one of Europes nest techno selectors. Angels sessions are versatile and exible, and range from breakneck techno to balmy house, although on this occasion he promises one of his legendary sessions of danceable darkness.

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lin, mechanical funk and echoes of science ction in the best Detroit tradition, mixed with all the power, skill and musical quality in the world, as only the Axis master knows how.

FRIDAY 19
22:30 Buenavista (AudioSushi/ES) DJ Whether it was playing nights at the (late) Mond or as resident DJ at Razzmatazz, Buenavista has built up a loyal following for his congenial, hedonist approach to the danceoor, that joins pop and rock in a mad dance to the rhythm of the rowdiest electronica. Iconoclastic, provocative entertainment guided by good taste. 00:00 Little Boots (679-Atlantic/UK) Live Victoria Hesketh burst onto Pop Idol like an elephant in a china shop: good geek that she was, she wasnt just fearless with technology, she also used a strange Japanese instrument called TenoriOn. Her eagerly awaited debut LP, Hands comes after her Human League covers in pyjamas posted on YouTube, tracks distributed free on Myspace, projects like Dead Disco and collaborations with Hot Chip. Pop, disco, house and the best of the 80s in version 2.0. 01:00 Buenavista (AudioSushi/ES) DJ 01:30 Late of the Pier (Parlophone/UK) Live After several singles, this Nottingham band has nally taken the great leap forward with their LP Fantasy Black Channel: a mashup of sounds, styles and references that is as difcult to categorise as it is addictive. It contains hints of funk, dance and rock, and a pinch of progressive, which with the invaluable help of Erol Alkan takes us back to the days of Gary Numan, Todd Rundgren, Yello and Zappa, while updating their legacy with the fashions and fads of the twenty-rst century. Entertainment and extravaganza guaranteed. 02:15 Buenavista (AudioSushi/ES) DJ
(Fabric/PT-AO) Live Kuduro is a real institution in Angolan (and by extension Portuguese) dance culture. But in spite of its long tradition, it only recently came into the international spotlight when big names like MIA and Diplo began to show an interest in

23:30 dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip (UK) Live Controversial, cutting and hilarious, the Essex duo has carved out a niche in the no mans land of experimental hip-hop. First with Thou Shalt Always Kill and later with Angles, the boys have avoided being pigeonholed by deconstructing the pillars of rap, with hammer blows of folk and danceable outpourings.
(UK) DJ In clubs, at raves or in the studios of BBC Radio 1, Robert Gorhams ear is constantly alert for the latest ground-breaking sounds and ideas (from pop, to downtempo, to folk). Pure Sunday Best spirit. (Domino/UK) DJ Graeme Sinden is a unique DJ-producer who has revitalised the club scene, staying one step ahead as musical boundaries become ever blurred. Sinden is renowned for his genre-blending DJ sets, cracklin hot radio show, his bumpin remixes and most importantly for being the Sinden in hotly tipped The Count & Sinden. Ostgut Ton presents

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New urban beats
Urban beats are evolving towards new sounds and new latitudes, and creating an intricate map featuring a crossover of rhythmic abstraction, the return of the melody and futuristic beats with a touch of jazz and psychedelia. The SonarLab line-up brings us some of its leading representatives. This year, what is now the customary presence at the festival of Mary Anne Hobbs, one of the stars of BBC Radio 1 and the guru of the British electronic scene, provides a complex snapshot of todays urban beats. Hobbs brings three key names on the international dubstep scene, although each one has their own individual take on the genre: from the Netherlands, Martyn constructs meticulous and dynamic electronic structures that are best described as IDM with a dub cushion; from Bristol, Joker combines dubstep with dark instrumental hip-hop; and from L.A., The Gaslamp Killer brings together all the strands of urban electronica in long-distance sessions with beats on a futuristic tip. And of course, we cant leave out Rob Da Bank, another highly regarded er and British radio personality who will be presenting Sunday Best, his magical musical tour which has been on its travels since 1995.Also from the UK, Sinden is aneclectic musical tornado that includes funk carioca, baltimore club, kuduro, juke house, Southern hip-hop, dancehall, electro and much much more.

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03:45 Crookers (Southern Fried/IT) DJ Showing us another face of danceable sounds made in Italy, Bot and Phra bring out their inner hooligan to add a touch of the ash and aggressive to the smartest in electro-tinged house. Its a winning formula that has already charmed labels like Fatboy Slims Southern Fried Records, Big Sur Recordings, P-House, Man Recordings and Potty Mouth Music, and taken them all over the world. Expect demented basses, a whiff of video games, hysterical jokes and the itch to have a good time at the expense of the nest-tuned speakers 05:30 Brodinski (Turbo/FR) DJ He burst onto the French scene in 2007 with a provocative down and dirty sound that owed as much to techno as it did to bass-laden house and melodic minimalism. So much so, that he immediately found his way into the cases of Soulwax, Tiga, Chloe, Erol Alkan and Laurent Garnier. He hasnt rested on his laurels. Since then, this hyperactive Frenchman has remixed Bonde do Role, Klaxons, Das Pop, Shoes, D.I.M, Heart Revolutions and Adam Sky, and his diary for 2009 is full of collaborations.

23:45 Fever Ray (Rabid/SE) Live Inspired by her previous work as The Knife but this time without the help of her brother Olof, Karin Dreijer Andersson took advantage of the forced hiatus of the birth of her second child to give birth to Fever Ray, in which she exploits the avalanche of the sensations and emotions of motherhood, extracting full potential from the sleepless hours and sleep betweenhours. More temperamental and harder than The Knife, but equally faithful to the mix of acoustic and electronic instruments, this Swedish artist with an unmistakeable voice brings alternative pop into her own territory. 00:45 Rustie (Wireblock/UK) DJ The best sign of originality is usually when someone has to invent a new label to describe a sound. In the case of Rustie, one of the freshest talents on the Glasgow scene, the term is bass fuelled party aquacrunk. Thats how the man himself denes his crazy combination of hip-hop, dubstep, techno, booty bass and the kitchen sink which has made tracks like Cafe de Phresh, Jagz the Smack and Zig Zag into devastating hits. 02:15 Crystal Castles (Lies Records/CA) Live The distorted voice of Alice Glass, whose stage presence is impossible to ignore, comes straight into the listeners ears, on the synthetic foundations inherited from amusement arcade culture produced by Ethan Kath. Crystal Castles have manipulated the 8-bit sound and adapted it to a dark trash aesthetic, spreading like a virus in the Myspace community. 03:00 Jeff Mills (Axis/US) DJ Snar by Night would not be the same without The Bells, Sonic Destroyer, The Dancer, The Extremist or any other of the essential techno classics that Mills has given us during his awless career. A compendium of adrena-

05:00 Carl Craig (Planet E/US) DJ The festivals closing set in SonarPub is traditionally one of Snars most special and eagerly anticipated moments. This year, we have an exceptional master of ceremonies. He is one of the most signicant artists in the history of Detroit techno, and is willing to add the nal touch of icing to the cake with a session of exquisite material especially selected for the occasion.

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Although the repertoire of sounds and styles that will pass through SonarPub is the most varied in the entire festival, there is a common feature in many of the shows: boundless energy on stage. Infectious melodies, wild rhythms, high energy pop and cheek by the ton are the dominant feature of music by a new generation of bands and projects, which contains a crossover of all types of inuences from recent popular culture. This whirlwind of energy takes very varied forms. It may be electro pop with 1980s video game tunes, like the unstoppable Crystal Castles, an explosion of electronic and dramatic glam by the British quartet Late of the Pier (one of the revelations of recent months), or a perfect song, like those by the new diva of English electronic pop, Little Boots (and her assortment of unusual instruments) or the hybrid sound of Buraka Som Sistema, the Portuguese-Angolan group who triumphed last year, and who are returning to Snar with their own version of the critically acclaimed kuduro sound.

03:30 Shed (DE) Live Shed incorporates the contagious excitement of old school rave in his music. Steeped in classic techno, his productions for Soloaction and Ostgut Ton explores all the niches of the genres history in order to breathe new life into it, as can be heard on Shedding the Past. The authentic sound of Detroit, created in the heart of Berlin. 04:30 Marcel Dettmann (DE) DJ A regular face at Hardwax, a programmer and the resident at Berghain club, this Berliner is also one of the favourite remixers of Ellen Allien and Modeselektor. His output on both Ostgut Ton and his own label MDR is a kind of techno that is stylised, dark and especially eager for the latest and most disconcerting sounds.

SATURDAY 20
21:30 Open doors 22:30 Angel Molina (SonarMusic/ES) DJ Ever since his early days as a DJ back in 1991, Angel Molina has played a key role in the development of electronic music in Spain, thanks to his marvellous technique, praised unanimously by critics and audiences alike, and an exquisite taste that has led him

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