Futuresonic festival: Art, Music & Ideas

The Futuresonic festival takes place this week (13-16 May 2009) in Manchester, UK, together with the Social Technologies Summit. There will be a lot of artworks, an impressive music programme and talks by visionary thinkers from around the world. I would love to go, too bad I have other occupations.

One of the exhibitions is Futuresonic Sound Art, showing projects by Royal College of Art & Yamaha, 2D barcode graffiti sound project, premieres with Jodrell Bank Observatory and Liverpool Cathedral, SoundNetwork and The Owl Project.

The music lineup looks very promising, with performances by Murcof, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Xela, Daedelus, Tim Exile, Kode 9 and Philip Glass, to name a few! We’ll take a closer look at some of the Futuresonic projects during the coming days.

Photo courtesy of futuresonic.com