Two festivals in Poland and Portugal suggest utopian futures by exploring the boundaries of music and noise – even as they freak out small children
Spend long enough at avant-garde electronic music festivals and, like the raver character in Spaced who dances to the beep of a pedestrian crossing, you start hearing music in everything. Brakes on a train, wind through a doorway … after Unsound in Krakow, Poland, and Semibreve in Braga, Portugal, you can even convince yourself that your local shopping centre is actually an elaborate sound collage lampooning the cacophony of commerce.
Continue reading...by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian
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