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The 8th edition of the sound art festival  CITY SONIC, organised by TRANSCULTURES, is scheduled from August 27 to September 12 in Mons (Belgium), with a circuit of sonic/interdisciplinary  art works in the centre of the city. From the 3rd to the 18thof September at ISELP (Insitute of research for visual arts) in Brussels with the exhibition Sonopoetics (from word to image, from poetry to sound).

City Sonic was launched in 2003 by Transcultures (Centre for electronic and sound cultures) together with the city of Mons, and is a special event dedicated to innovative/sonic/artistic approaches. Featuring a poetic itinerary inter-multidisciplinary works  (sound, video, plastic arts, architecture, digital arts …) in the heart of this nice Wallonia city. The sound circuit features installations, lounge rooms and performances in 5 locations starting from the Grand Place. About 50 artists are taking part in City Sonic#8  : Diane Landry (Québec) with Flying school (automation umbrellas with motor-cycle accordions),  Laura Colmenares et Todor Todoroff, with Lungs [the breather], (a pool of virtual jellyfish and sounds created by the breath of the visitors), Binary waves by Brussels multimedia architectsLab[au], 2*540 KHZ (looping compositions transmitted by radio-transmitters and played by several tube-radios) by Mika Vanio ( Pan Sonic), MU, sound artists linking Paris, Mons and Tunis wih geolocalisation device  Sound Delta at Grand Placeor Musicomaton (interactive sound booth) by Brussels duet Anteloop.

During the opening night of the festival on August 27, Todor Todoroff (Brussels electronic music composer) and Dominica Eyckmans (viola, dance) will premiere Dances with viola, at Théâtre Royal, an interactive piece mixing dance, electronic music and interactivity. It will be followed by Livescape (Mons) ,an audio-bio-visualconcert using invented wood instruments, sonic salads and chickens.

City Sonic also offers sound art workshops for the youngsters (« Sonic Kids » - Sept. 11th ), acoustic performances and poetry readings in private gardens (Sonic garden party – Sept. 5th) in collaboration with Festival Cap Sonic organised by Le manège.mons. This edition will also present installations and performances by young Tunisan artists in the framework of the European project E-FEST (co-organisers Echos electrik, Transcultures, Gummi Gumi, Goethe Institut in Tunis); a double CD Essmaa(field recordings by Aymeric de Tapol treated by Leafcutter John, DJ Olive, Scanner, Christophe Bailleau, Lodz, Discipline, DJ Elephant Power, Paradise Now and many more) is released on the French label Tsuku Boshi, with an outdoor closing event of the festival called Essmaa live sessions (Sept 12th)

http://www.citysonics.be

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