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
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 … Continue reading Program announced for Skaņu Mežs’2020
Pictures from the Skaņu Mežs’ hosted “White Night” free-entry event with the following line-up: Rojin Sharafi (Shape), Clara De Asis (Shape), Cam Deas (Shape), Elvin Brandhi (Shape), Anthony Pateras, and MVTE. Pics by Mr. Arnis Kalniņš