The 19th edition of Riga, Latvia’s Skaņu Mežs festival for innovative music will take place on October 8 and 9 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 cost … Continue reading Skaņu Mežs 2021 announces second wave of artists
Artists of the evening: Gischt Riccardo la Foresta Audrey Chen Arvydas Kazlauskas with Riccardo la Foresta Kœnig Semjons Haņins – “Hafons” Pics by Mr. Arnis Kalniņš
On September 4, as part of the annual White Night contemporary culture forum, the Skaņu Mežs festival will host its traditional experimental music evening. The event will take place in the New Teika neighbourhood at a new event venue Fantadroms (Gustava Zemgala gatve 74a, 1st floor, Henrihs building). The event can only be attended by people, … Continue reading Skaņu mežs announces its White Night programme
Центральные мероприятия фестиваля экспериментальной музыки «Skaņu mežs’2021» состоятся 8 и 9 октября 2021 года в Латвии, Риге, в концертном зале «Hanzas perons» (ул. Ханзас, 16а), а бесплатный вступительный концерт пройдёт 2 октября на Новой Тейке, в концертном зале “Фантадром” (Густава Земгала гатве 74а). Билеты можно приобрести в кассах Biļešu serviss и на сайте www.bilesuserviss.lv. Посещение … Continue reading Фестиваль “Skaņu mežs’2021” объявил первую часть программы
The 19th edition of Riga, Latvia’s Skaņu Mežs festival for innovative music will take place on October 8 and 9 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 cost … Continue reading Skaņu Mežs 2021 announces first wave of artists
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