Sónar+D

Sónar+D goes beyond music, exploring the shared spaces between the creative industries, innovation and technology.With a three-day programme fully integrated into Sónar by Day, it’s where you’ll find talks and panel discussions, radical performances, and an interactive exhibition space.An event like no other, it offers a unique mix of content and formats within an inspirational festival atmosphere: a place where you can engage and exchange with artists and thinkers as well as other professionals and curious attendees.
 

Discover the communityCome to Sónar+D and discover an environment designed to inspire, and encourage collaboration and experimentation, located entirely within the ecosystem of Sónar by Day. Interested in the creative industries? Whether you’re an artist, thinker, professional or just a member of the public, Sónar+D should be an unmissable event for you.

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Sónar+D 2024

+RAIN Film Festival; AI & Web3 Creative Summit; Alessandra Denegri (MONOM), CatherineTurp (Moment Factory), Manuel Carmona Martínez (Saco Technologies), Margot Mottaz (Superblue); All Our Minds; AlphaTheta 'Euphonia'; Anna Xambó (C4DM-QMUL), Magda Polo Pujadas (UB-EKHO), Rob Clouth, Sergi Jordà (UPF), Thor Magnusson (Intelligent Instruments Lab), Gunseli Yalcinkaya (Dazed Magazine); Arts Korea Lab; Barcelona Music Tech Hub; DICE Fernanda Alemán; Eduard Alarcón (UPC BarcelonaTech), Andrew Adamatzky (University of West England Bristol), Manolo Martínez (Universitat de Barcelona), Marta Handenawer (Domestic Data Streamers), Marta Peirano (journalist), Rebecca Fiebrink (University of the Arts London); Ela Minus & Querida, Philip Sherburne; Elektra Kotsoni (Deputy Director Vogue Business), Isabelita Virtual (creative director), Leanne Elliott Young (IoDF CEO & Co-Founder); Entangled Others, Daphne Xanthopoulou and Joan Llort; Espai ONÍRIC Onionlab, Desilence, Eyesberg, blit.studio, Jordi Massó, Sevi Iko Dømochevsky; Expand North Star; Foto Colectania and Jon Uriarte; Fundación SIFU & ABB; Günseli Yalcinkaya; Hildreth England (The Conference), Ida Faldbakken (Katapult Future Fest), Juliette Josse & Laurent Bigarella (Nuits Sonores), Pep Salazar (OFFF),  Simone Ross (TED), Zuraida Buter (AMaze); Hospital Sant Pau with Abdel Hakim Moustafa; Joanne McNeil; Kianí del Valle, Meritxell de Soto, Tianzhuo Chen (Asian Dope Boys), Moderated by Sabel Gavaldon; Konbini; Krea.ai (Boldtron); Marta Verde; Micaela Mantegna; Music:Response Adam Smith & Marcus Lyall; MusicDataUPC; Nicole L'Huillier; Organismo (TBA21); Peter Kirn & Cibelle Cavalli Bastos; Project Area; Realities+D; Red ACTS + HacTe; Revelator Labs & MUSIC x; Sarah Friend; Sasha Costanza-Chock presented by SEIDOR; Sergi Sagàs; Stability AI (dadabots); TikTok (Giulia Lizzoli); Tim Maughan. 

Project Area

+RAIN Film Festival; 3 out of 7 A MAZE. Awards 2024 Winners; Aalto University; All Our Minds; AlphaTheta & Tribe XR; Andy Gracie x NewArt { foundation;}; Anecoica Studio; ANTONUS; Arts Korea Lab; AudioStellar; Barcelona Supercomputing Center; BAU, Centre Universitari d'Arts i Disseny; Befaco; Candela Rodríguez x ESDI; Carla Molins-Pitarch - CITM (UPC); Col·lectiu Axolot; Componental; DataMind Audio; Endorphin.es; ESPRONCEDA / IMMENSIVA; Ferran Lega Lladós; FHV – Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences; Gabriel Helfenstein, Fantasia Malware; GameBCN; Harriet Davey and snake_case; IED Barcelona; Institute of Digital Fashion; Intelligent Instruments lab; IRCAM Forum; Krea; La Salle - Campus Barcelona; LAURA BENETTON X IRB BARCELONA; LCI Barcelona; Love Hultén presented by designboom; LOWKEYMOVES; Making Sound Machines; MONOGRID; Moth Quantum; mots; Music Technology Group, UPF; Mutan Monkey Instruments; NANO Modules; Neuroelectrics x Teo Ruffini x Nina Emocional; Nina Protocol; OXI ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS; Patching Panda; Post-computer; Rhett TSAI (蔡宇潇); Roel Heremans; sbrk devices; Sebastian Schmieg; Segmento Futuro; Shared Campus; SOUND OBSESSED; Stability AI; Studio Above&Below; Team Rolfes; Technology, Performance & Society / University of Music and Theatre Munich; Tesseract Modular; The Generative Art Museum; This is Not Rocket Science; Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (NTNU); UKRAiNATV / StreamArtStudio; Vostok Instruments.

AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS

Anna Xambó (C4DM-QMUL), Magda Polo Pujadas (UB-EKHO), Rob Clouth, Sergi Jordà (UPF), Thor Magnusson (Intelligent Instruments Lab), Gunseli Yalcinkaya (Dazed Magazine) 'We are the music makers'; Lee Gamble presents 'Models' with Candela Capitán; Marta Verde  'Surprise! AI Feedback and the Unexpected'; Myriam Bleau & Nien Tzu Weng present 'Second Self'; Nicole L'Huillier 'Vibrational Intelligences'; Rob Clouth; Sevdaliza; Showcase with Peter Kirn & Cibelle Cavalli Bastos  'AI Performance Playground'; Tardes de Prompting - Music and audio presented by Stability AI  (Josiah Taylor); Tardes de Prompting - Visual Arts presented by Krea.ai (Boldtron)        

TIMES

Blck Mamba; Coco Em; Hildreth England (The Conference), Ida Faldbakken (Katapult Future Fest), Juliette Josse & Laurent Bigarella (Nuits Sonores), Pep Salazar (OFFF), Simone Ross (TED), Zuraida Buter (AMaze) 'Curating the curators'; Iceboy Violet & Nueen present 'You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire'; Olof Dreijer & Diva Cruz (DJ + percussion set); Sarah Friend - 'Organizational Games: DAOs and their archetypes'; TORO presents: softchaos, engalanan, wicboyx; Valentina Magaletti & Theresa Baumgartner present 'Lucha Libre'