Bjork, Underworld & Aphex Twin for Sónar 2003!

11 March 2003

The tenth edition of Spain's Barcelona Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Arts, Sónar 2003, will take place on the 12, 13 and 14 of June, at various venues across the city.

Among the highlights of Sónar's night-time activities in the Montjuïc 2 venue are concerts by Björk on Friday 13 and Underworld
on Saturday 14, both of which have new material to unleash and stunning stage sets. Underworld's show will integrate the visual work of the Tomato team behind tracks from all three of their albums released to date. Other artists on the 'Sónar by Night' roster are garage bad boys Oxide & Neutrino, Aphex Twin, Laurent Garnier, DJ Hell, Ladytron, TM Raumschmiere and Metro Area DJ among others.

Matthew Herbert will headline the first night of Sónar by Night, on Thursday 12, in the Auditori de Barcelona in an attempt to broaden, reorientate and diversify the programme of the festival by adapting novel and exceptional musical proposals to new spaces within the city. The collaboration between the festival and the Auditori de Barcelona has been a first step in this direction. Matthew Herbert will appear live with a big band of 20 musicians with whom he recorded his latest album 'Goodbye Swingtime'. An exercise in which jazz forms and traditions are mixed and reconstructed at the hands of Herbert with the collaboration of Arto Lindsay, Jamie Lidell and Dani Siciliano.

'Sónar by Day' will once again present its five regular stages, SonarVillage, SonarLab, SonarComplex, Sonarama and the Hall stage. Over the three days we will be given the opportunity to discover some of the most innovative and amazing artists on the international electronic music scene. In keeping with the broad scope that has always characterised the festival, the stylistic overview of this tenth edition comprises the latest trends in electronica, hip-hop, house, indietronica, electro-pop, electronic jazz, microhouse, electro and digital concretism, featuring names such as Tujiko Noriko, David Grubbs, Akufen, Jaga Jazzist, Schneider TM and Miss Kittin... Some of the key participants in this year's showcases will be labels such as Anticon, Jazzland, Mego, Tomlab, Foehn and Mutek.

Ticket details will be announced soon.