Dorian, The Zombie Kids, Undo and Buenavista will also be performing at the International Exhibition of Urban Fashion on 27th & 28th January 2012 in Barcelona.

The Brandery, International Exhibition of Urban Fashion, taking place in Barcelona from 27th to 29th January 2012, once again will be given a strong musical commitment. This time the performances will be focused on festive pop music with an electronic edge.

On Friday 27th January celebrated Belgian duo 2manydjs will provide a set somewhere between pop, funk, progressive-rock, R&B and hip-hop, followed by Dorian, who as representatives of the national electronic pop scene, will also be celebrating 10 years since forming. Undo, one of the most representative DJ's and producers of the national, electronic music scene will wind up the evening.

On Saturday 28th January, Fangoria will present at The Brandery a show full of their greatest contemporary hits marking their 20 year anniversary. Just after, the energetic duo The Zombie Kids will provide a set of electro, punk, hip-hop, metal, while Buenavista will break all the boundaries of styles mixing up an electronic finale.

All shows will be held at pabellón 8 of the Montjuïc exhibition site from 20.00h in the public open space named Brandtown, where catwalk shows by big names such as Custo and Superdry, and different exhibitions and workshops will be also take place to demonstrate the relationship between art, cinema, eroticism and fashion.

Tickets will be on sale as of Wednesday 21st December at the price of 15€ per day. As well as the daily concerts, tickets allow access to all Brandtown activities from 15.00h. Tickets can be purchased via: TicketMaster, Servicaixa, Fnac y Halcón Viajes.

More info at: www.thebrandery.com

Sónar São Paulo 2012 will take place on 11 and 12 of May, 2012 in the Parque Anhembi. The festival brings the philosophy of the Barcelona event to São Paulo. Sónar São Paulo 2012 combines showcases for new talent an experimentation with great shows and the audiovisual productions by key names on the international electronic scene. Over 2 days, Sónar São Paulo 2012 will present more than 50 activities featuring advanced music and new media art, including concerts, DJ sets, audiovisual performances and professional activities.


Confirmed Artists

Sónar São Paulo 2012 features the Icelandic artist Björk, returning to Brazil to perform at Sónar, five years after her last show there. Björk will be presenting the live version of “Biophilia”, one of her most ambitious projects to date, taking the aesthetic vision and interest in technology of the most namedropped and influential artist of the last two decades to its ultimate extreme. The festival also confirms the show by the French electro-rock duo Justice; the German-Japanese audiovisual collaboration between Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto; the biggest name in post-dubstep, Britain's James Blake; the sophisticated and eclectic British electronic artist Four Tet; the German techno-glitch-hop duo Modeselektor and the Swedish trip-hop quartet Little Dragon.

As well as a top level international line-up, Sónar São Paulo 2012 also presents a cross-section of advanced music from Brazil, featuring rap, dance music, experimental music with anthropological touches and in the case of DJs, the latest trends in global electronica. Confirmed artists include the rapper Emicida, the man responsible for the revitalization of hip-hop in Brazil, and an artist with a unique talent for improvization; The Twelves, the Niterói duo renowned worldwide for their remixes in the international indie-dance field; Psilosamples, who combine Brazilian mining tradition with electronics; Dago, the global electronica DJ and Bruno Belluomini, the ambassador for bass music in Brazil, among others still to be confirmed.


SonarPro São Paulo: professional experience, open to the public

SonarPro is the platform that the Sónar Sao Paulo festival provides for creative and cultural industries from all over the world to present in Brasil new businesses, projects and products within the binomial of technology and creation.

SonarPro will include various spaces for interaction and networking open to professionals and the public for sharing ideas, presenting products and making contacts with companies and entrepreneurs working in areas specialising in technology applied to art, and the distribution and dissemination of art. SonarPro will also be presenting ideas from unorthodox artists that are seeking a commercial outlet through business projects.

Tickets for Sónar São Paulo 2012 go on sale the 8th of December.

More information about Sónar São Paulo at www.sonarsaopaulo.com.br.

Sónar returns to Tokyo in 2012 to consolidate its annual date with Japanese audiences. The fifth SonarSound Tokyo will take place on 21 and 22 April, 2012 at the same venue as last year: ageHa-Studio Coast.

The Japanese version of Sónar will present a meticulous selection of international cutting edge artists and will feature a heavy contingent of Japanese musicians. Among the more than 30 artists that will be performing, SonarSound Tokyo can confirm Britain's The Cinematic Orchestra and Mount Kimbie - in Japan for the first time; Clark -presenting a new album - and the London-based Japanese artist Anchorsong.

You can purchase tickets for SonarSound Tokyo 2012 at the price of ¥14,500 on the festival's website.

More information about SonarSound Tokyo at www.sonarsound.jp.

Next Tuesday 22nd November SonarPro presents the ‘Music maestro: from vinyl to mobile, from the product to the services’ seminar, held by Will Mills, director of music and content at Shazam and Ventura Barba, COO at Advanced Music/Sonar within the FICOD (International Forum of Digital Content) program, held in Madrid from 22nd to 24th November.

In this session, Shazam’s Will Mills will propose an overview on the sector, followed by an interview directed by Ventura Barba where the keys to the technological future of music will be laid out.

Sonar by means of its SonarPro activities has generated meeting points for professionals of the music and technological industries, those of which applying to the creation of digital content where the likes of the development of Apps and music sharing are given opportunity.

FICOD is the International Forum of Digital Content devised by the Industry, Tourism and Commercial Ministry, as well as the Secretary of State for Telecommunications, for the development of digital content within Spanish industry with special attention on the Spanish speaking markets

• More than 15 000 participants
• More tan 100 000 people connected online
• Some 300 accreditted media

For this reason it has become a renown meeting point for professionals from many sectors such as; music, cinema, television, interactive, digital-entertainment, animation, education, audiovisual production, digital publishing, social networking, blogs, interactive marketing and advertising, etc…

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