Futuresonic

Futuresonic is an annual festival of art, music and ideas. It involves a freeform mix of live events, exhibitions, workshops and talks in up to 30 different venues and spaces across Manchester, UK. Futuresonic was established in 1995 with the first major festival in September 1996. It has since presented projects in Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Europe.

Featured Artists

Featured musicians include 4hero, Apparat (musician), Battles, Cristian Vogel, Faust, Christian Fennesz, Graham Massey, Jamie Lidell, Kaffe Matthews, King Britt, Ladytron, Lee Ranaldo, Matthew Herbert, Merzbow, Mouse On Mars, Rhythm n' Sound, Def Jux ft. RJD2, Semiconductor, Shy Child, Skream, Sleeparchive, Wolfgang Flur.

Art and digital culture participants include onedotzero, Access Space, Akitsugu Maebayashi, Alexei Shulgin, Blast Theory, Augustine Leudar, Christa Sommerer, Cory Arcangel, Graham Harwood, Harun Farocki, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Light Surgeons, LoVid, Marko Peljhan, Masaki Fujihata, Olia Lialina, Owl Project, Sadie Plant, Shu Lea Cheang, Toshio Iwai, Zachary Lieberman.

Projects

* Futuresonic projects include:
* Environment 2.0 (2007-onwards)
* Art For Shopping Centres (2007)
* Futurevisual (2007)
* Manchester Peripheral (2007)
* Social Technologies Summit (2006-onwards)
* Music For The Beep Generation (2006)
* Off The Map (2006)
* Maphester (2006)
* Instrument (2006)
* Urban Play (2005-onwards)
* EVNTS (2005-onwards)
* Low Grade (2005)
* Mobile Connections (2004)
* Turntable Re:mix (2004)
* Migrations and Eurodac Express (2002/3)
* Blacktronica (2002)
* Sensurround (2001/2)
* BrokenChannel (2001)
* Women in Electronica (2000-1)
* Audiovision (2000)
* SenseSonic (1999)
* Sub.merge (1998)

Organiser

Futuresonic is presented by FutureEverything CIC, a non-profit creative 'community interest company'. It is registered with Companies House UK and regulated by the CIC Regulator. Futuresonic has been awarded Regularly Funded Organisation (RFO) status by Arts Council England. The founder and Artistic Director of Futuresonic is Drew Hemment.

External links

* http://www.futuresonic.com