Sónar

     


     Last thursday was the first of a three day music festival called Sónar. Located in the heart of Barcelona and streaming live day and night. This festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art went all weekend long but I had other plans to travel so my two buddies and I bought day tickets for Thursday and decided to check out this fiasco. Scope out a brief overview after the jump.
#Electric

     Although not many headliners that every american craves were in attendance the talent was still impressive. There were three main stages - SonarVillage was the outside venue where we caught a set from "Thundercat". Interesting choice of DJ name but if you take a closer look at this 16 yr. old guy he has an interesting style, feathers coming out of his back and everything.

#Weirdo 

               

     For the record: This was not a melt your face off raging music festival full of drugs and alcohol. The official website classified it as, "Three days and three nights in touch with the most up-to-date developments and featuring the most relevant national and international artists". It almost seemed more like a music trade-show with cool exhibits like the home built vinyl recorder below. Nibhay, one pal I went with, sat down at a exhibit where his eye was calibrated to move the mouse on the screen and play beats by just holding his eye steady over a certain spot. It was as if he was just thinking of what he wanted to hear and it started playing.

#Cray

                      

     There was one good show that I really enjoyed. It was a set performed live by Jamie Lieder on the mic singing and pressing buttons (below) and Tim Exile (not pictured) to his right on the keyboard killin' it. I talked to some guy after the set was done and he said it was the first time they had done that together and that I just witnessed "magical music history" and proceeded to tell me everything about the performers including their hometowns and their age. Not gonna lie that guy probably was on drugs.

#Yikes 

 

     This is a picture of yours truly outside the bass blasting ballroom. Enjoying a cold estrella of course (local Barca beer). It's nice when re-entry to the venue is allowed. It makes it easy to walk outside, bargain with the Pakistani's for 1€ beers, pocket them, and then walk right back in again and avoid the 6€ beers they sell inside.

#Swine