Entanglements - Cape Town

Entanglements is a grassroots DIY festival of exploratory music. Our first edition runs from 24-6 April at Chiesa di Pazzo Lupi in Johannesburg and 1-3 May at Ganesh in Cape Town. Hosted by Sensa, the Sonic Exploration Network of Southern Africa, and growing out of the popular Edge of Wrong festival that ran from 2006-2019, it is an invitation to listen differently, to surrender yourself to a different unfolding of the spatial and the temporal. And while much of what you’ll hear is intended to challenge, our invitation is a gentle one. We’re not looking to alienate people with squalls of noise or abstruse meanderings on obscure instruments, although there will of course be a lot of noise and obscurity. We’re also not seeking to reinforce the boundaries of an elitist experimental music subculture. Instead, our aim is to create an inclusive, borderless space in which all sounds are equal and genre doesn’t matter.

If that sounds good to you, please join us as we practice listening differently together. Apart from a wide range of performances and improvisations each evening we’ll be hosting day sessions where you can participate in talks and workshops on various aspects of sonic creativity. We’ll also be screening a documentary or two, facilitating some deep listening sessions and probably a lot more besides.

Close your eyes again. Listen. What do you hear? What do you feel? What happens when we stop domesticating sound and allow it to unfold freely? There’s only one way to find out.

SENSA