Headphone Festival: Going East straight into your ears
After offering some intimate listening moments in Leipzig last year, the Headphone Festival will move to Pecs in Hungary for this year's edition. Organising German label Privatelektro has again invited a colourful array of artists from diverse genres for one of the more unusual Festivals on the experimental scene. As Privatelektro has revealed, visitors to the Headphone Festival will be given a FM Radio with integrated Headphones (or is it a pair of Headphones with integrated FM radio?), with which to receive the performances. Alternatively, visitors can bring along their personal headphones and plug into docking stations at „listening islands“ designed for relaxing listening sessions – or even use their mobile phones as a receiver. This year's motto for the two-day festival is „going East“ and next to the obvious geographic relocation to Hungary, the artists involved have prepared their personal vision on this theme – with either abstract sounds or field recordings, analog equipment or digital gear, as purely electronic projects or in a more traditional band line-up. Concerts will take up to thirty minutes and there will be a continous flow of music thanks to the involvement of DJs, filing in the gaps between live sessions.
One of the novelties for the 2008 edition of the Headphone Festival, scheduled for May 9th and 10th, will be the addition of more or less spontaneous collaborations, adding a strong improvisational element to the proceedings and offering a slew of fascinating musical dialogues and exchanges. Add to this the special ambiance of the festival's venue, the Media Art Laboratory „Labor2“ and you have all the ingredients for an event both in search of finding new forms of expression – and of perception.
The MySpace site of the Headphone Festival already offers an indication of what spectators can expect – with the stylistic spectrum ranging from delicate Sound Art experiments to contemporary composition and gentle Ambient excursions.
Homepage: Headphone Festival
Homepage: Privatelektro Records
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