

Since 1994, thousands have flocked to Barcelona’s annual Sónar Festival to witness its groundbreaking assemblage of innovators in music and multimedia. And now, after successful turns in New York and D.C., it’s bringing the spectacle our way with a series of film screenings, audiovisual performances and concerts that span electronic, post-rock and experimental (and everything in between).
MUSICIANS
Martyn

This D.C.-based Dutchman is one of dubstep’s brightest minds, mixing techno, new wave and sublime atmospherics into his bass-heavy and hypnotic productions. Sept 9 at 8pm; Millennium Park Pritzker Pavilion.
Ben Frost Taking experimental music to new extremes, Iceland’s Ben Frost combines effects-laden guitars, samplers, sequencers and layers of atmospherics for a dark and introspective result. Sept 11 at 6pm; Chicago Cultural Center
Oval
Germany’s Markus Popp is a glitch originator, taking disparate sounds from distorted audio and broken instruments and somehow churning out rhythmic tapestries akin to minimal techno. Sept 10 at 7pm; Chicago Cultural Center.
The Slew
Made up of turntable wizard Kid Koala, the ex-rhythm section of Aussie rock band Wolfmother and DJ Dynomite D, this quintet blows away traditional bands with its guitar-fuzz trip-hop. Sept 9 at 7pm; Millennium Park Pritzker Pavilion
Nosaj Thing

Think early Thievery Corporation on acid and you’re halfway to L.A. beat-tweeker Nosaj Thing’s sound. Couple that with psychedelic textures projected onto a huge screen behind him and you’ve got an awe-inspiring show. Sept 10 at 6pm; Chicago Cultural Center.
FILM
Finisterrae
The film follows two ghosts as they traverse unusual and beautiful landscapes, hoping to reach the end of the earth and a chance to rejoin the world of the living. Sept 10, 11, 2:05pm; Chicago Cultural Center.

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