em guide a snapshot into festivals, clubs & networks in electronic music through the independent movement for electronic scenes (times)
Festivals, and especially clubs, are in a tricky situation in recent years, and 2024 is arguably the most challenging year after COVID and since the start of the war against Ukraine. Obvious reasons are inflation and less money in the pocket of festival goers/clubbers, less obvious ones include the lack of the usual generation takeover on the dancefloor due the COVID years, and lastly, there seems to be a transition in genres and trends where festivals and clubs need to adapt to.
gespräch mit sounds now: believed resolved, still pending
Launched in 2019, Sounds Now is a large-scale cooperation project co-funded by Creative Europe, consisting of a network of 9 European music festivals and arts centers that promote contemporary music, experimental music and sound art. The project aims to actively stimulate inclusion and diversity in the current European contemporary music landscape. Roberto Beseler Maxwell met up with Anne Appathurai, project manager of Sounds Now, to talk about the project, their goals and future.
