SONICA www.sonica.si
SONICA is a festival centred on artistic expressions that combine music and sound with other art forms. It is designed as a temporary laboratory that explores an annual theme with the help of production residences, exhibitions, performances, and interventions in public space. Held in the last week of September, it places concerts, performances, and educational events in different spaces every day, creating new venues. SONICA has been held annually since 2009 and focuses on the top names in foreign and domestic contemporary electronic, experimental, and electro-acoustic music. It combines musical content and brings it face to face with different media and formats, places it in new spaces, and subjects it to different discourses; it showcases the content in the form of productions, exhibitions, and interventions in public space, and guest performances in unusual spaces, along with debates, workshops, and different concepts. In this diverse field of creativity, it is the only event to seek out thematic guiding lines that connect different creative endeavours related to sound. Previous performers at SONICA include Clark, Tim Hecker, Fennesz and Lillevan, Herman Kolgen, Burnt Friedman, ATOMtm, Roly Porter, Plaid, Actress, and Aisha Devi, and the Slovenian creators Random Logic, Warrego Valles, Octex, Zergon, Robertina Šebjanič, Vesna Krebš, and Saša Spačal. SONICA also organises three concert series: the SONICA Series, SONICA Classics (at the intersection of contemporary music and electronica), and a series of international guest appearances, i.e. SONICA X, which thus far has been held in London, Berlin, Venice, Belgrade, Paris, Baltimore, and several other cities. SONICA is a member of SHAPE, a platform that brings together 16 like-minded European festivals and whose mission is to promote less well-known artists in the diverse field of sound creation. It is also a member of the European festival network International Cities of Advanced Sound (ICAS).
Martin Bricelj Baraga: Lumitronome Kinetic light and soud instalalation
Lumitronome is a part of the Metronomes series, in which Martin Bricelj Baraga develops modular installations for public spaces that operate according to the principles of perpetuum mobile and energy transformation. He combines natural elements such as light, air, and water to explore the possibilities of infinite motion in repetitive patterns. Inspired by the repetitiveness of the metronome, his experimental works evoke natural forces as a source of energy that can be transformed into other forms of energy using modern technology. This meditative kinetic installation harnesses solar energy and transforms it into a moving light object. Created in collaboration with Bellastock, an architecture studio from Paris, Lumitronome is built from scrap materials and is as such an excellent example of repurposing. The end result is a poetic 46
