DJ Wallizz and DJ Nomi are both from Berlin. They have run monthly parties such as “The Afro House Experience”, “Bantu’s Diary” or “Black Paper”.

Hence they created a nightlife audiovisual experience that fusions rhythms of African clubs with sounds from the Berlin clubbing scene.

Expanding their vision, Wallizz and Cambel decided to start their own project called Freak de l’Afrique (The Monster of Africa). Recently the collective has started to incorporate audiovisual in their shows and performances.

Their aim is to bring the modern side of African music to the clubbing scene.

Through music, events and fashion they continuously spread a lifestyle inspired by Africa. It is forward-thinking, unexpected, sometimes provocative but above all positive!

Among their project we find “Wena – Jame”: A Journey through Afropolitan Musical Encounters. Wena translates into the pronoun “you”. It comes from the Zulu, one of many languages in South Africa. “Wena” is often used to ask someone to do something.

The project is the result of the combined effort among Freak de l’Afrique sound system, six dancers and a team of creative light and projection artist.

They all invite you (WENA!) to join them on a journey through the modern musical landscape of Africa and its diaspora.

This trip unravels as a 90-minute stage show with DJs, dancers and visual art with music from Ghana, Congo, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Angola, South Africa and many other places.

The collective wants to develop audiovisual content and projection mapping to make the experience more immersive.

They aim to connect the dancers, the music and the audiovisual content with an urban, modern and futuristic style rather than the traditional cliché one.

I think the concept is very powerful, not only for the magical moment they bring but also because of its originality.

I definitely look forward to seeing how it evolves! We will definitely keep an eye on them, as we always follow closely any type of audiovisual innovation.

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Berlin, January 24 – February 2 2020

CTM Festival

Berlin, Germany

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Club Transmediale

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NORBERG, July 25-27 2019

Norbergfestival is a 20-year running festival, held on the abandoned iron mine site of Mimerlaven in Norberg, Sweden.

A growing group of artists presents contemporary music, performances, and interdisciplinary works. We make use of what the site provides and we sleep on the ground. We extract what we produce and leave the mine as it was left in 1981.

Norbergfestival brings experimental music and performing arts to the defunct mining site of Mimerlaven, centrally located in the small post-industrial town of Norberg, Västmanland, Sweden.

Three days a year, industrial concrete buildings transform into an international playground where festival visitors experience a multicolored spectrum of electronic music, sound art, and clubs. Norbergfestival offers a unique mixture of live electronic music at the spectacular location around Mimerlaven, an abandoned mining area in the small town of Norberg.

Since it’s inauguration in 1999, the festival has evolved from a utopian counter-cultural assembly to a national front-runner and internationally recognized platform for groundbreaking and unique musical experiences. Together with light and sound installations, workshops in the fields of audio and video and a friendly and creative atmosphere matched by none, this truly makes Norbergfestival one-of-a-kind.

In 17 years Norbergfestival has grown from being a utopian project for a handful of people into one of the most important annual events in the Scandinavian electronic music scene.

Norberg Festival 

Norberg, Sweden

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PRAGUE, 4-6 October 2018

Lunchmeat is an annual international festival dedicated to advanced electronic music and new media art based in Prague, Czech Republic. Since 2010, it brings carefully selected creators from different art spheres together on one stage, creating a truly synesthetic experience.

The festival connects the dots between quality electronic music, visual shows, and new media while creating a truly synesthetic experience.

It brings carefully selected creators from different art spheres together on one stage; people, who themselves are often meeting for the first time.

Lunchmeat festival creates a platform for people who believe that club culture should not be taken lightly and those really good things capable of shaking the common ground are well worth seeking out and paying attention to.

Lunchmeat Festival

Prague, Czech Republic

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NANTES, September 19-23 2018

Every year the Songo association organizes the Scopitone festival, dedicated to electronic cultures and digital arts. This internationally recognized festival offers a concentrate of today’s musical and digital creation. This multidisciplinary event highlights these artistic crossovers and is expected at each September break by more than 60,000 festival-goers.

Dedicated to the diffusion and the support for the creation and the accompaniment of the current music and the digital arts; Addressing a wide variety of audiences, intersecting discipline, and actors.

For artists, digital professionals, researchers, and businesses the Festival offers debates, talks, and workshops on the cross-cutting themes of innovation, scientific research, and digital creation. For school-kids, there are introductions to new art forms and techniques of digital production through visits, workshops and other events.

Scopitone has been staged every year since 2002 by Songo, the association responsible for running Stereolux, the center for contemporary music and digital creation in the Creative Quarter on the Île de Nantes. Part of La Fabrique, Stereolux is one of the key venues for the Festival.

Scopitone

Nantes, France

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BUDAPEST, September to December every Saturday 

Cinetrip is a must see bath party held in Széchenyi Bath twice a year. The summer edition is in August, the winter edition is around New Year’s Eve.

Sparty event series has been running for more than twenty-two years and now it is one of the most frequented events of the Hungarian capital with 50-55 thousand visitors annually (from 165 different countries).

Sparties are held almost all weekends of the year in either Lukacs or Szechenyi Bath, however, there are two occasions each year to take part in the outstanding musical and visual experience of Cinetrip Sparties.

From the world famous castle district to the endless maze of ruin pubs, there is no doubt that Budapest will serve to amaze and inspire all that choose to visit. There is but one party experience that stands tall above the rest. One experience that has never been, and will likely never be offered anywhere else on Earth.

Cinetrip

51/B. Üllői út, 1091 Budapest

info@cinetrip.hu

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Vienna, April 28th to May 1st . The Playground AV Festival

More than 40 national and international artists from 13 European countries will be giving performances, workshops and parties for three days. In addition, the exhibit “Playground Evolution” will be taking place in the Ankerhalle. It focuses on audiovisuell art as well as on live performances that want to be seen, heard and astound. The Playground AV sees itself as a a meeting point to network, learn and experiment. “Bring your toy & get connected” at the Playground AV festival 2016.

Artist
Full program here

Exhibitions
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Workshops
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Panel discussions
Talk “AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MEETING“ by AVnode | LPM 2015 > 2018  28.4. – 19h-22h

How can we succeed cultural institutions , for new target groups to be attractive and relevant? That is the key issue with which the originating from the Anglo-American research and cultural practice concept of ” Audience Development ” deals . Launched mid 90s expression represents the strategic acquisition, retention and development of public culture of today and tomorrow for cultural institutions and creative industry players . It approaches from the cultural marketing , the culture – PR , visitor research , art education and cultural education used a comprehensive cultural program to bring different audiences closer.

The Playground AV invites in order to find new ways and strategies to audiovisual art to make the Audience Development meeting to a wider audience.

Melanie Wetter (B-SEITE FESTIVAL – MANNHEIM)
Vaclav Kovar (LUNCHMEAT FESTIVAL  – PRAGUE)
Yaniv Tal (PLATTENBANK / LABEL MANAGER)
Henrich Fischer  (LABOR FAMILY / PRODUCER & VERANSTALTER)
Frederick Baker (FILMEMACHER & REGISSEUR,AUTOR VON “THE ART OF PROJECTIONISM“)
Geralsd  Herlbauer  (4YYOUREYE PROJECTION ART / PLAYGROUND AV FESTIVAL)
Eva Bischof  (4YYOUREYE PROJECTION ART / PLAYGROUND AV FESTIVAL)
Nadine Abado  (PLAYGROUND AV)
Sebastian Danz (DJ & PRODUCER, UNTERTAGETECHNO)

And do not forget the special After Party of Saturday, 30th April at Ankerhalle, in collaboration with COOH (Position Chrome, PRSPCT, Yellow Stripe – BG)

Full program of the Festival here

Info: http://www.playground-av.com/

This Festival is part of AV/Node 2015 – 2018

AVnode is an international network of artists and professionals organizing festivals and/or working in the fields of audiovisual live performances.

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Winnipeg, August 13-16 2015 

The Manitoba Electronic Music Exhibition of Technology, Innovation and Creativity promotes exploration of new sounds and sights through cutting edge technology and hands on participation.

The festival is organized by Memetic Crew; the next edition of MEME will run from August 15-18 2013, where celebrating local and international talent in the world of digital creativity.

Plans for the next MEME are well under way, and theywill be announced  in December alongside information on venues and early-bird festival passes.

Meme : Manitoba Electronic Music Exhibition

Winnipeg, Canada

info@memetic.ca

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Seattle, 2014

Over the past nine years, Decibel has booked over 700 artists ranging from experimental, to leading-edge electronic dance music and visual art.

With a focus on live performance, interactive multimedia art, state-of-the-art sound and technology-based education, Decibel has solidified itself as one of the premier electronic music festivals and promotional organizations in the world.

The 8th edition of the Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music Performance, Visual Art and New Media took place September 28th 2011 in Seattle.

The 2011 program included several venues: The Showbox Market, The Crocodile and Fred Wildlife Refuge, Neumos, The Triple Door, The Baltic Room, Sole Repair and The Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya.

Db Festival

Seattle, WA

info@dbfestival.com

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Nijmegen, August 15-24 2014 

Oddstream is a communication and multimedia festival where the participation of the visitor and the interaction with the location of the festival plays an important role.

It takes place at the Vasim (a former factory) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. They use the word participation as opposite of passivity and indifference.

Oddstream brings and shows inspirational examples of participation from the arts, culture, communication and media together, let the visitors participate in the festival and doesn’t avoid the debate.

Oddstream

Vasim, Winselingseweg 41 6541AH

Nijmegen, Netherlands

info@oddstream.org

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Oddstream

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