Sonar Chicago Announces Initial Lineup For September Festival
By Jeffrey Hyatt
Following last year’s two events in New York and Washington, the Barcelona-based experimental music festival Sónar announced its return to the United States last month, this time with a Chicago edition planned for September 9–11 in the windy city.
Today, the festival organizers, which include AC Entertainment (those behind Bonnaroo) and Advanced Music (the creators of Sónar festival), announced an initial list of artists who will be performing.
Some of the diverse cast of artists revealed on the initial lineup card include Martyn, The Slew, Oval, Nosaj Thing and experimental acts like Lesley Flanigan, Nicolas Bernier + Martin Messier: La Chambre des Machines and Ben Frost.
The objective of Sónar is to take the philosophy of the Barcelona festival to Chicago, with an ambitious and high quality line-up featuring plenty of electronic experimentation and its derivations and unusual venues, in this case the Jay Pritzker Pavilion – designed by Frank Ghery – in the popular Millennium Park (the 9th of September) and the famous Chicago Cultural Center (the 10th and 11th of September).
Sonar Chicago expands its line-up with its collaboration with Adventures In Modern Music (AIMM), the five-day festival organized by the renowned British magazine The Wire and the promoters at the Empty Bottle. Meanwhile, SonarCinema presents five films: Synth Britannia, Amplified Gesture, Sensuous Cornelius, Finisterrae and Sónar Around The World.
All the shows and activities at the festival are free of charge and open to all. That’s awesome. Thanks city of Chicago and Sónar. The AIMM events are not free, but that’s cool.
Details of the complete line-up and the performance times and days of each of the artistic projects in Sónar Chicago will be announced soon.
