Sónar 2016 – 16/17/18 June, Barcelona
Music, creativity and technology
Sónar is the International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art taking place in Barcelona during three days every June. Created in 1994, Sónar is a pioneering festival with a unique format and content. It’s first class reputation as a leading reference for international festivals is by virtue of a carefully balanced cultural offering, combining a playful nature, the avant-garde, and experimentation with electronic dance music’s newest trends.
Sónar’s founding values have defined the festival since its inception: the link between creativity and technology, its commitment to being a global event and a meeting point for creative people from both public and industry sectors, from different disciplines and communities.
Sónar Barcelona’s activities are divided into two main locations: the recently premiered Sónar by Day, located from 2013 in Fira Montjuïc, with concerts and dj’s, showcases as well as the new Sónar+D area, the essence of which is discovering and tracking new talent and enhance professional activities; and the larger shows at Sónar by Night, in Fira Gran Via de L’Hospitalet, where the leading names in the current international music scene are staged.
Sónar+D presents a program with a common goal: to make the relationship between creativity, technology, mobility, innovation and business more transparent and accessible. The birth of Sónar+D in 2013 expresses a concrete commitment to Sónar’s professional activity, linking creative and technology companies of all kinds.
Since 2002 Sónar has organized more than 50 events in many different parts of the world, adapting the Sónar philosophy to unique venues and environments, and highlighting the most interesting homegrown talent and the scene in the city where it takes place. As well as the event in Barcelona, Sónar organizes festivals every year in other cities. In previous years, it has travelled to Reykjavik, Buenos Aires, New York, London, Frankfurt, Seoul, Lisboa, Lyon, Hamburg, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Boston, Denver, Oakland, Los Ángeles, Tokyo and Osaka, among many other destinations around the world.
FULL LINE UP AS FOLLOWS;
Sónar by Day
New opening hours: 1pm till 11pm
Thursday 16th june
jamie woon
kelela
bob moses
kenny dope
king midas sound & fennesz
lady leshurr
the black madonna
david august (live band)
james rhodes
tuff city kids
nicola cruz
field by martin messier
baelish
acid arab
cauto
gazelle twin: kingdom come
the spanish dub invasion feat. mad professor + sr. wilson + lasai & george palmer
strand
sevdaliza
lil jabba
lemonick
john grvy
kasper marott
insanlar
Friday 17th june
santigold
roots manuva
john grant
congo natty feat congo dubz + tenor fly + nãnci & phoebe
matias aguayo
kode9 x lawrence lek present the nøtel
underground resistance presents timeline
el guincho
ata kak
danny l harle
niño de elche + los voluble
gerd janson
soft revolvers by myriam bleau
las hermanas
dawn of midi
mikael seifu
awwz
ilia mayer
golden bug & desilence – v.i.c.t.o.r.
lloret salvatge
sobrenadar
jackwasfaster
silkersoft
sapphire slows
hiele
pulsinger & irl
jacob korn
Saturday 18th june
oneothtrix point never
yung lean
howling
nozinja
troyboi
section boyz
ed banger house party: busy p + para one + boston bun
badbadnotgood
ivy lab
club cheval
bruna & wooky + alba g. corral
tendts
ison
n.m.o
alva noto
cyclo (carsten nicolai + ryoji ikeda)
byetone
magic mountain high
lafawndah
malard
talktome
astrolith
homeSick
toxe
drippin
Sónar by Night
Friday 17th june
jean-michel jarre
james blake
richie hawtin
anohni: hopelessness
flume
four tet (7h set)
the martinez brothers
ben ufo b2b helena hauff
john talabot
dvs1 & rødhåd
kerri chandler
mano le tough
angel molina
kölsch
hot shotz (powell + lorenzo senni)
kode9
mind against
zero vs. chelis
red axes
intergalactic gary
soichi terada
noaipre
Saturday 18th june
new order
fatboy slim
skepta
santigold
boys noize
laurent garnier (7h set)
a-trak
stormzy
dj ez
kaytranada
jackmaster
booka shade
paco osuna
bicep
ben klock
eats everything
coyu
alizzz
melé & monki’s nrg flash
mura masa
krysko & greg lord
trill squad
undo
Tickets available from https://sonar.es/en/pg/tickets