Anyone there?
The king what is the king: Sonar Festival it is the audacious festival par excellence. It's the big event music, culture, technology and, ultimately, the future . And since his creativity has no limits, this 2018, the year in which he turns 25 years , they throw the house out the window until they reach space with their music... Literally.
Destiny? The Luyten's star b . This exoplanet is said to be "potentially habitable" . Who knows if we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sónar in it? For now, and before naming it the new venue for the festival, we settle for looking for possible extraterrestrial neighbors, and in the best way: with music . That is why of May 14 to 16 , there will be a broadcast from **Tromsø, Norway** of twenty-three musical pieces.
If you're there, send us a signal...
Twenty of the songs correspond to artists who have performed (or will perform) at Sónar
Agoria (France), Ah! Kosmos (Turkey) , Alva Noto (Germany) , Choi Sai Ho (China) , Cora Novoa (Spain) , Daedelus (USA) , Daito Manabe (Japan) , Desert (Spain) , Juana Molina (Argentina) , Kate Tempest (UK), LCC (Spain), Lorenzo Senni (Italy), Niño de Elche (Spain), Ryoji Ikeda (Japan), Squarepusher (UK), Yuzo Koshiro (Japan), and Zora Jones (Austria).
The other three have been created by the winners of the contest organized by the festival, "and selected from among 400 aspiring proposals that have wanted to participate in this unique collective call to extraterrestrial intelligence ", reads the official statement. The three lucky ones are Nisa Pujol Masià (Spain), Pavel Apisov (Ukraine) and Darko Keteleš (Czech Republic).
This "sending" of musical pieces into space is called Sonar Calling . In total, 35 artists will participate in the project, whose creations will reach the Luyten's star b in different phases.
'Sonar Calling'
** SONAR BARCELONA 2018 **
It's time to return to Earth. June 14, 15 and 16 , during the celebration of Sónar Barcelona Día , you will be able to discover the artistic and scientific aspects of this initiative in the space Sónar Calling GJ273b Control Room by Absolut .
If there is someone... will he like advanced music?