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B2B Festival - Barcelona to Berlín
International electronic music and mixed media festival featuring artists from
Berlin and Barcelona
What is the B2B Festival – Barcelona <> Berlin?
The B2B project ‘B2B Festival – Berlin to Barcelona’ first emerged in 2008. It
was conceived both as a platform for music groups and artists working with
new technologies to show their work, and as a means for two multidisciplinary
art venues, Piatto Forte in Berlin and Antic Teatre in Barcelona, to realise and
produce various projects.
Support is given to artists of all ages: they may be emerging and unknown, or
have long-running careers, but they share a difficulty in finding outlets for their
work on existing, conventional music circuits and festivals. Each artist develops
his or her own line in research on sounds, programmes, video creation, and
so on, working outside commercial and established parameters. We select live
acts and DJ sets in experimental music, dance, Electro, Electro-punk and visual
arts in order to give these artists visibility and establish a regular exchange
between the two cities.
Why Berlin?
Because Berlin is happening. At the moment, Berlin is the most dynamic
and lively city with regard to all art sectors. Artists in Berlin have a wealth of
possibilities for realising and exhibiting their work that is way above what is
available in any other European city. Also, Berlin is still economically accessible
to artists of all social backgrounds. The city is full of all-night venues, galleries,
clubs, shops, creation spaces, theatres, festivals, concert halls, bars, etc., with
local legislation adapted to make all these activities possible.
The material result of this project is the international electronic music and mixed
media festival featuring artists from Berlin and Barcelona, which will run for the
fifth consecutive year this November in Barcelona as Antic Goes Electric Vol. V.
This year and for the first time, thanks to the support of the Institute of Culture
(ICUB) and the Instituto Ramon Llull of Barcelona, the festival will also take
place in Berlin. On September 21st and 22nd seven Barcelona artists will
join Berlin artists to create the B2B Festival programme at the Gretchen
Club, one of the best-known venues in the Kreuzberg area – an opportunity
for experimental music from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands to reach
international audiences.
The B2B project is supported in Berlin by Piatto Forte, a music shop and venue
that also functions as a platform for happenings, performances and live acts. It
is managed by DJ Baroxmix, Michele d’Alessio, musician and well-known DJ
at many European clubs, and committed backer of anti-conventional electronic
music.
Festival B2B Barcelona to Berlín (21-22 September 2012).
Festival B2B Berlín to Barcelona - Antic Goes Electric Vol.V.(17 November
2012).
For more information on previous editions of the B2B Festival Berlin to Barcelona:
Antic Goes Electric 2008,
2009, 2010, 2011 →
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