Sonar continues its expansion across the world with the next edition of Sonar São Paulo, a 3-day event in the Brazilian city to be held during the first half of 2012. Sonar São Paulo, organized by Advanced Music together with the Brazilian company Dream Factory (organizers of "Rock ...

On Friday 10th June, Sonar goes down to the Metro to give all its users a taster of the festival at Universitat Station (line 2), at 7pm, less than a week before Sonar 2011 kicks off at the CCCB and the MACBA. For this special taster, Sonar presents the show by the beatboxer Nose, who will be at t ...

SonarCinema is a programme of films highlighting the links between music and the moving image, while depicting various aspects of contemporary culture by means of recently produced documentary films and audiovisual works. There are 7 films included in the SonarCinema programme this year. Fight ...

Carles Santos will interpret the parts for piano that were to be played by Steve Reich at the concert for Sonar 2011 at L'Auditori Barcelona, which will remain intact for the planned program and its artistic result will not be modified in any way. In a statement made today by Steve Reich's agency ...

Sonar 2011 presents the shows by Underworld, Aphex Twin, Magnetic Man, M.I.A., James Murphy, Paul Kalkbrenner, The Human League, Boys Noize, A-Trak, Yelle and Tiga, among more than 250 artists. The festival's stages, in both Barcelona and Galicia, will become enormous dancefloors where you can e ...

Techno is a constantly mutating genre that has not ceased to provide fruit over the last  25 years. 2011 is an especially rich vintage for artists that base their style on the essence of techno (darkness, depth, the glimpse of an imminent future). Some are pioneers and absolute masters o ...

Germany's Alva Noto and Japan's Ryoji Ikeda, two of the most interesting sonic adventurers of our time, present Cyclo. The collaboration started 10 years ago and takes shape with the release of their work and the presentation of a striking show conceived around the idea of visualising sound. This v ...