Of the November 7 to 8 he returns Mira Festivalin its fourteenth edition, which, according to its organizers, is the most ambitious to date. The Fira Montjuïc in Barcelona is going to become a melting pot of new avant-garde musical projections, with digital art and applied technology.
This year’s edition of the Mira Festival will feature thirty-eight electronic music proposals, through live/AV, DJ sets and concerts, in addition to 26 digital art proposals, including installations, performances, virtual reality experiences and immersive films. There will also be interesting creative duos between musicians and digital and visual artists, as is the tradition of the festival.
In the musical part, big names stand out like Floating Pointswhich this time will be accompanied by the visuals of Hamill Industriesthis union will provide one of the most vibrant live shows in terms of music and mixed projections. Flying Lotus will bring its own sound universe to experiment between electronic environments, hip hop and jazz touches. Oneohtrix Point Never It is always a safe value that moves between electronic styles and leaves its mark on all its mutations. It will make a stop on its long international tour to present its latest work. “Again”. With his most personal work and fresh out of the oven, SickElixir (XL Recordings), will be presented blawan with a live performance that promises a lot of muscle and sweat. Another who will come with the hardest abs on the planet for his jerky movements live, is the beloved university professor by day and whirlwind synth by night John Mauswho with only the help of an iPad, is capable of creating a live show of pure abrasive madness
Byetone (Olaf Bender)boss of the Aster-noton label, will exhibit a forceful live performance like a punch in the belly, rhythmic with cold and lethal surgical sounds. The Hungarian’s live performances will be found in the rough, cold and synthetic wave Gábor Lázárwith its extreme rhythms. Steevio & Suzybeeco-founders of the Mindtours label and the Freerotation festival, will explore analog modular sounds, sprinkled with more expansive psychedelic melodies. Another of the interesting collaborations that the festival has in store for us is the union between the Pakistani singer Ali Sethi and the Chilean Nicolas Jaar who will present Intiha, a journey between traditional ghazal poetry and advanced electronics. SLOTH also promises the live of Amnesia Scanner (Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala) based on schizoid broken rhythms, robotic voices, distortion, glitch aesthetics with artistic installation.
The local scene will be represented by Nara is neuswhich will exclusively play his latest work “ISOCHRON”where she reveals her intimate and introspective landscapes, the sound designer LANAV will debut live, developing musical repetition based on patterns, and Puntalaberinto will slide between modular and drones.
In this edition, the Mira festival opens the gap in search of broken and Latin sounds. What better than setting up a “Hyperverbena” with the help of Sapphire & Boar Lettuce or organize another party from the Latineo collective, based in Barcelona and for the whole world, where queer immigrants from South America participate with the b2b of: AMANTRA and M8NSE.
Feminine power on the dance floor can be enjoyed with the sets of Aurora Halal and of Sylvia or the live ones with melancholic elegance of Erika de Casier or that of Marie Davidson who returns to club music with his latest work “City of Clowns”which explores experimental pop with the spoken world.
In summary, this new edition promises to be a good amalgamation of established names in electronics, with more risky and experimental proposals mixed with new dimensions of electronic music, all wrapped up with the most unusual artistic visual proposals. More information and tickets at mirafestival.com
