If you’re an artist, creator, or part of a collective, startup, studio or business, the Project Area 2025 Open Call is now open until Sunday 22nd December. About the Open Call For the Project Area 2025 Open Call we’re acceptingsubmissions from individual artists, creators and collectives, as well as companies, studios and start-ups. To apply, read through the submission guidelines carefully. They include a link to a form where you can submit your proposal. The deadline for submissions is Sunday 22nd December 2024.IMPORTANT: please do not send us proposals for DJ sets or live performances, any submissions containing such elements will be deleted on receptionThis year we are accepting submissions under the following categories:
AI & Music: Send us innovative and unique research, design and tech that applies AI and machine-learning to music production and performance tools.
New Perspectives in AI: We’re after innovative, state-of-the-art, and above all,creativeprojects that use AI in radical ways, going beyond what’s already on the market.
Music Tech: From digital gadgets to modular synths, we want the best music tech around at Project Area 2025. We’re especially interested in innovative technology and inventive designs.
Nature & Tech: We’re looking for scientific and technological work with an artistic edge that seeks to deepen our understanding of - and increase our connections with - the natural world.
Quantum Computing in the Arts: We’re interested in anything that makes use of this cutting-edge technology for artistic purposes: whether it’s visuals, music, video, or something else entirely.
Alternative Futures & Radical Research: If you’re carrying out groundbreaking research that you want to exhibit, send us your proposal. Examples: Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), non-binary futures, terraforming…
Want to know what we offer in return? All the information is in the submission guidelines: make sure you read them carefully. before sending in your application About Project AreaProject Area is our interactive exhibition space, open to everyone at Sónar by Day. Located at the very centre of the festival, it’s where the entire Sónar+D programme converges, with state-of-the-art technology, innovative design, radical thinking and cutting-edge research presented in bold new ways. Bringing together individual artists, creators and collectives, as well as companies, studios and start-ups, it’s where you’ll find projects, prototypes and products from around the world. Recent Project Area success stories received through our annual Open Call include music software start-upDataMind Audio and Eurorack manufacturerNano Modules. Other highlights include open-source research projects such as Audiostellar, a first-time physical exhibition by The Generative Art Museum, andsite-specific works from artist-researcher duomots and sound artistFerran Lega.
SonarMix 053 goes out to the 160bpm crew. Hailing from Porto, NOIA is Portugal’s resident ‘160’ champion, part of a wave of artists who are bringing uptempo, bass-heavy music back to dancefloors across Europe and beyond. Opening with DevNull’s shattered amen breaks and closing with *that* Rashad and Spin remix of Addison Groove’s ‘Footcrab’, the XXIII co-founder has sent us maybe the most relentless SonarMix to date. Serving as an introduction to the geographically and stylistically diverse universe of 160, it’s proof that there’s more than one way to play fast as we career towards 2025. Of course, there’s plenty of jungle and footwork, but she also veers into ravey UK hardcore and breakbeat (Sweatpea, ODF), hyperspeed bass hybrids (Jurango, Jensen Interceptor), and even takes a detour into mutant ghetto house (Big Dope P, Feadz & TT The Artist).Even through your headphones, you can feel the infectious energy that’s NOIA’s calling card: it’s a challenge staying seated for the duration. She’ll bring that same intensity when she plays at Sónar Lisboa 2025: we’re expecting her to set the pace on the festival’s final day. We can’t wait.Tracklist: DevNull - Beats TrackSlim Sinna - Ragga GalPete Cannon - Hear DisJunction 17 - So HighAerbreak - Sucka PunchBone Box - FFBBig Dope P, Feadz & TT The Artist - Ride ItArkyn - Dance Still U WetMinor Science, Seppa - Reckless DaddyAmen Holmes - KickingWE ROB RAVE - RIOJensen Interceptor - Selective EmpathyCesco - Fake [Unreleased]DJ B - Let It GoJurango - SinkSoeneido - No Turning BackKomai - Sweetie DubODF - Alien BassSelector Spinach - The TenthJanaway - Till DawnFez the kid - Drop the merchandiseSweetpea - 10 B&H Gold ft. Origin8a & Propa, Hypershé)Arkyn & DJ B - Be Free [Unreleased]Drinkwater - Bring u HcoreKrunx & DJ Fantastic - Propaganda RemixArkyn - Openness [Unreleased] Sweetpea - The AftersFluid Haunts - Keep It HardcoreSknit - Yo FreeAddison Groove, DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Denham Audio - Footcrab (Rashad & Spinn Mix)
