Listen to recordings of live performances by Finnish psych folk musician Lau Nau and the Swedish free improvisation duo of Lisa Ullén and Nina de Heney. Lau Nau was joined onstage by Helena Espvall on cello and Matti Bye on the piano. Nina de Heney plays the upright bass and Lisa Ullén – the piano…. >>
Noise musician Puce Mary and dark techno producer SØS Gunver Ryberg will play at a special concert, hosted by Latvia’s Skaņu Mežs festival on June, the 3rd, 22:00 at club OneOne (Šarlotes Street 18, Riga). 21:30 – alise | esila 23:00 – Puce Mary 00:00 – SØS Gunver Ryberg 01:00 – STROPS 03:00 – Multilux… >>
April sees SHAPE – the Creative Europe supported platform for innovative music and audiovisual art – returning to concert-goers via the Rokolectiv festival in Romania (April 20 – 23), which will feature six performances by artists, participating in our platform. Read more about this event, new mixes and small changes to this year’s artist roster… >>
The Creative Europe-supported SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art is announcing its 2017 list of artists. The artist selection for the platform’s third year traditionally places a diverse selection of audiovisual projects and sound artists alongside musical acts that range from post-grime and techno to free improvisation and experiments with field recordings. The… >>
It’s a bold start for Skaņu Mežs to open its main festival weekend with a concert reworking November, the lost minimalist composition for piano by Dennis Johnson, who abandoned composition for mathematics shortly thereafter. American pianist R Andrew Lee hits simple chords one at a time, holding the spaces between them just beyond the threshold of comfort… >>
November 12 featuring Supersilent, Russell Haswell, Andy Maddocks, Autechre: October 15 featuring Zebra Katz, Tropic of Cancer, Peder Mannerfelt, M.E.S.H., Black Spirituals, Thomas Lehn + Roger Turner, and Killing Sound: October 14 featuring King Midas Sound + Fennesz, Vatican Shadow, Klara Lewis, Michael Finnissy, Santa Ratniece + ReDo, Charles Gayle + John Edwards + Roger… >>
November sees the member festivals of SHAPE, the Creative Europe supported platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, organizing the final showcases with SHAPE artists of 2016. The 2016 editions of Cynetart and Schiev are coming, and so are one-offs by Berlin’s CTM festival and Prague’s art center MeetFactory. Read more about these events and… >>
October proves to be one of the busiest months for SHAPE and its artists and festivals, with no less than 8 festivals across Europe presenting dozens of SHAPE artists. musikprotokoll (29 Sept – 9 Oct, Graz), UH Fest (2 – 9 Oct, Budapest), RIAM (7 – 29 Oct, Marseille), Maintenant (7 – 16 Oct, Rennes),… >>
Tonight, the London-based art radio station Resonance 104.4fm as well as its additional platform Resonance Extra will broadcast a special feature on last year’s edition of Skaņu Mežs. You can get into the mood for the upcoming edition by remembering the previous one: the show will feature excerpts of performances by Peter Brötzmann, Squarepusher, Powell,… >>
Today (September 27), Resonance Extra will air a special broadcast, devoted to the upcoming edition of Skaņu Mežs. In this hour-long broadcast, organizers of the Skaņu Mežs festival in Riga, Latvia take you through the program of its fourteenth edition, coming October 13-16 and November 12 and featuring Autechre, Zebra Katz, Michael Finnissy, Charles Gayle with… >>