SHAPE platform’s inspiring partnership with RIAM festival has reached its conclusion, and a new partner organization has been added to the platform’s network – Intonal festival from Malmö, Sweden. Intonal is an annual festival for experimental and electronic music that has been held in Malmö, Sweden since 2015. The festival is held at and by Inkonst. … Continue reading Intonal joins SHAPE platform
IDA Radio is happy to announce the open call for a sound residency for musicians, music producers and sound artists coming from the Baltic States and Nordic countries in collaboration with festivals Skaņu Mežs and Intonal. The residency will take place in different parts of Estonia in autumn 2021. Four artists will be selected who … Continue reading IDA Sound Residency 2021
Riga, Latvia’s Skaņu Mežs festival announces a series of six online talks, devoted to different fields of avant-garde music as well as ways of listening to it. All of the online talks are available for free, and the first one will happen on March 6: music and sound art theoretician Douglas Kahn will talk about … Continue reading Skaņu Mežs announces a series of online talks
Liudas Mockūnas is one of today’s leading Lithuanian Free jazz musicians in Europe, a composer and a lecturer at the Jazz Department of the Lithuanian Academy of Mu-sic and Theater. He has played with such a great masters of this genre as Barry Guy, William Hooker, Vladimir Tarasov and Agustí Fernández. Arvydas Kazlauskas is a … Continue reading Double album PURVS by saxophonists Liudas Mockūnas and Arvydas Kazlauskas come out on jazz label Jersika Records
Concert series Kontraklang – REMAIIN’s Berlin partner organization – focuses on the film music of composer Teiji Ito for its first activity as part of the project. A lecture performance/film titled “The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito”, created by Michiko Ogawa and Manuel Pessoa de Lima, can be watched via below. The groundbreaking experimental films … Continue reading Watch a short film on the music of Teiji Ito
Concert series Kontraklang – REMAIIN’s Berlin partner organization – focuses on the film music of composer Teiji Ito for its first activity as part of the project. A lecture performance/film titled “The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito”, created by Michiko Ogawa and Manuel Pessoa de Lima, will be published online on March 15. The groundbreaking … Continue reading Kontraklang: The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito
The Creative Europe-supported SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art is announcing its 2021 list of artists. The artist selection for the platform’s seventh year traditionally places a number of audiovisual projects and sound artists alongside musical acts that range from club music and forward-thinking media art to free improvisation and spatial music. Keeping … Continue reading SHAPE platform announces 2021 list of artists
From November 11 until November 25, SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art will collaborate with the US-based online music magazine XLR8R on a string of exclusive live streams and mixes from a selection of 2020 SHAPE artists. The collaboration further highlights a path that the majority of SHAPE festivals chose to take during … Continue reading SHAPE platform & XLR8R announce two-week collaboration
Artists and acts of the festival: Jason Kahn Radu Malfatti NPVR (Peter Rehnberg & Nik Colk Void) Ashley Paul & Otto Willberg 19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma Jay Glass Dubs (SHAPE) Clausthome & Mārtiņš Ratniks Oren Ambarchi & Crys Cole Liudas Mockūnas & Arvydas Kazlauskas Agnese Egliņa (plays world premiere of George Lewis’ „Blombos Workshop”) Marina … Continue reading Pictures from all Skaņu Mežs’2020 events
The 19th edition of Skaņu Mežs festival for innovative music will take place on October 9 and 10 at concert hall Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street) with a free-entry opening event on October 2 at event space Fantadroms (74a Gustava Zemgala street, building „Heinrihs”). Tickets can be purchased at www.bilesuserviss.lv; one-day tickets costs 15 EUR, whereas a … Continue reading KTL cancelled; three performances added to the festival program