Celebrated contemporary musicians set for Georgia’s annual SOU festival
Tweet 
Share
Enthusiasts of contemporary experimental music are set to flock to the second edition of Georgia’s newest Stream of Unconsciousness (SOU) festival featuring some of the most acclaimed local and foreign artists starting next month.
Throughout 40 days of the 2017 SOU Festival, composers and producers including Masayoshi Fujita, Ryo Murakami and Grischa Lichtenberger will entertain audiences in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi and other locations.
Launching on May 15, the event will be held at nearly all of Tbilisi’s concert halls and theatres and also involve local musical talent including Natalie Beridze, Tetenoise and Nika Machaidze.
See Japanese contemporary artist Masayoshi Fujita in a live performance at AV Picknick series of audiovisual concerts in Muenster, Germany below:
Some of the performance venues will be the St. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church on Javakhishvili Street in central Tbilisi as well as the Royal District Theatre and Tbilisi State Opera House.
On Monday festival organisers unveiled part of the roster involving dozens of artists, with 26 event dates on the program.
Beside artists working in experimental electronic music genres, the event will also showcase bands performing contemporary classical compositions.
German producer Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) photographed at the 2016 edition of SOU Festival in Tbilisi. Photo: SOU Festival.
These will include music by celebrated composer Steve Reich performed by Ensemble Modern, and the Rondane Kwartet from the Netherlands in a rendition of Canto Ostinato by Simeon Ten Holt.
The full roster of participating artists will be unveiled on April 20, with the festival tickets also going on sale on the date.
SOU Festival is promoted as a "new audiovisual platform” for showcasing contemporary music "at cultural crossroad of East and West”.
Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda was part of the 2016 line-up of artists for the festival. Photo: SOU Festival.
The annual event hosts "musicians and artists whose works have greatly influenced the formation and establishment of contemporary music and art”.
Launched in 2016, the maiden edition of the festival involved acclaimed artists including Alva Noto, Blixa Bargeld and Ryoji Ikeda performing for 10 days in Tbilisi.
This year’s SOU Festival will run through July 5.
Georgia’s capital Tbilisi will be one of seven locations around the world to host club music enthusiasts in an extraordinary 24 hours of a raving marathon this summer.
Today and tomorrow Tbilisi is hosting a festival of street musicians, with the participation of local and foreign street musicians.
A selection of Georgian artists will be on stage at Berlin Atonal, a major festival of music and visual arts, to perform for crowds in the German capital later this month.
Georgia’s Black Sea resort of Anaklia will host some of the most sought-after musical artists including Martin Garrix, Cassegrain and Paul Kalkbrenner for the largest edition of the GEM Fest electronic music festival starting this July.
Grammy- and MTV Video Music Award-winning British band Jamiroquai will headline the 11th edition of the Black Sea Jazz Festival in Georgia’s seaside city of Batumi in July this year.
Music enthusiasts from dozens of countries are set to flock to Tbilisi for two shows of Iceland's iconic singer and songwriter Björk next week, with the date at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre already sold out.
World-famous Icelandic singer and songwriter Björk is set to perform for festival-goers in Tbilisi following extensive talks to bring the influential musician to Georgia’s capital.
Internationally celebrated music producer Nicolas Jaar will perform in Tbilisi for a show heralding the launch of Decoder, a new electronic music and visual arts festival in Georgia’s capital.
Enthusiasts of contemporary experimental music are set to flock to the second edition of Georgia’s newest Stream of Unconsciousness (SOU) festival featuring some of the most acclaimed local and foreign artists starting tomorrow.
International electronic music artists including Stephan Bodzin and Arnaud Rebotini will join local talent on Tbilisi's former Hippodrome Park for the second edition of Ornament Fest, held over two dates starting next week.
Belgian electropop act Oscar and the Wolf will be back in Georgia with their trademark show of dreamy vocals and atmospheric sound in a follow-up to their popular performance in capital Tbilisi last year.
Experimental music producer Natalie Beridze, a prominent figure of the country's music scene, has been named among 15 must-know artists from the former Soviet states by Resident Advisor, a leading online platform of electronic and experimental sound.
Concert venues in Georgia's capital are gearing up to host a line-up of global jazz stars over four days for the 2016 Tbilisi Jazz Festival.