Supersonic Festival 2015

Supersonic Festival 2015

Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th June 2015
The Custard Factory, Gibb St, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 4AA, England MAP
£80 for a 3 day pass

Daily capacity: 400

Last updated: Tue 2nd Jun 2015

Supersonic Festival returns again from Thursday 11th until Sunday 14th June 2015 at the Custard Factory where it all began.

Line-up

Will Gregory Moog Ensemble, The Pop Group, Six Organs Of Admittance, Liima – Efterklang + Tatu Rönkkö, Eternal Tapestry, Liturgy, Happy Meals, Tomaga, Slow Magic, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Flamingods, Richard Dawson, The Hexadic System – Ben Chasny, Holly Herndon, Apostille, Afework Nigussie, Cicuit Des Yeux, Gazelle Twin, Ji Wehle, Phil Tyler, Ravioli Me Away, Rhodri Davies, Selventer, Sex Swing, and Woven Skull.

Supersonic are also partnering with Moog Sound Lab (previously pioneered at Rough Trade NYC ) and Birmingham City University to offer a temporary residency presenting a unique opportunity for artists to explore, experiment and create with analog sound-scaping, synthesis and effects.

Tickets

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4 day passes were priced at £95 and have sold out, a 3 day pass (Fri/Sat/Sun) is priced at £80, and a 2 day pass (Fri/Sat) is priced at £60.

More info

The event will as usual utilise the venue's many rooms for music, art and film.

Bees in a Tin 2015 will be taking place during the daytime on Friday 12th June, featuring a gathering for people who make or are interested in unique interfaces for the world around them, with talks and workshops from key makers and thinkers from around the country.

Audience participation is encouraged in a new commission by Circumstance titled A Folded Path - a pedestrian speaker symphony, a soundtrack for a city, carried through the streets by a participating audience, experienced by everyone it passes. Comprising of 30 custom-built, location sensitive portable loudspeakers, each plays a different element of the music. The speakers are highly directional, so the movement of the people within the group changes the acoustic relationship between them, the audience become the orchestra.

Secondly, there's the Dirty Electronics Horn & Bells Workshop. Audience members are invited to build a three-dimensional sound-object. The sound object will feature printed circuit board artwork and a DIY piezo flared horn that omits bursts of noise and generative electronic bell-like sounds. It also comes with a rustic stick beater. Dirty Electronics have become synonymous with DIY electronic sound and a music that is born out of hand-made machines. In Dirty Electronics, process and performance are inseparably bound. The 'performance' begins on the workbench devising instruments and is extended onto the stage through playing and exploring these instruments.

More information will be here when available.