entanglements: an exploratory music festival
Fri Apr 24, 19:00 - Sun Apr 26, 23:00
chiesa di PAZZO LUPi
ABOUT
Entanglements: An exploratory music festival
ABOUT
Entanglements is a grassroots, DIY, global south 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, Entanglements is an invitation to listen differently, but while much of what you’ll hear is intended to challenge, our invitation is a gentle one. We’re not looking to alienate you 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 all sounds good, 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, screening a documentary or two, facilitating a deep listening sessions and more besides. Close your eyes. 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.
For more information, visit www.entanglements.africa
PERFORMANCES AND IMPROVISATIONS:
Aragorn Eloff, Bettina Malcomess and Patrick Ward, Cedrik Fermont, Chantelle Gray, Duifie, Georg Dietzler, Issa Wessels, Justin Keep, Klumbsy Oxx, Lliezel Ellick, Lolo
Ntsewa, Naledi Chai, non-synths, Ogorogile Nong, Renzo Filinich, Sci-fi Kym and Sonic Lens.
WORKSHOPS AND SCREENINGS:
Acousmatics (workshop)
Audiovision (workshop)
Deep Listening (workshop)
Modular synthesis (workshop)
Deep Listening: The Story Of Pauline Oliveros (film)
A Different Kind of Time (film)