Sonic arts Waterford - SAW Fest 2013 (call for submissions)

old gregg

Hi folks. A few of us in Waterford have come together to try and get a small but tasty experimental electronic music and arts festival running for the 20 - 22 September 2013. The event will take place in various galleries and indoor locations in the city and form part of a cross cultural exchange. In my case, I've just returned from performing in Gdansk, Poland for Museum Night (similar to Culture Night in Ireland but on a larger scale) as part of this exchange. We already have 2 international artists who have signed up so that's a start.

At the moment we have almost no funding but that should change somewhat over the coming month or so. This is the first edition of the festival but we really feel an event that focusses mostly on experimental and ambient electronic music has a future. Obviously we'll have some more mainstream original electronic music for the late night events but it won't be a dance music festival in any way.

if you know someone locally or internationally who might be interested in taking part whether they create and perform music or work with electronic visual arts then we'd like to hear from them. Or please feel free to spread the word. It's all voluntary at our end so go easy on us and advice is welcome

Web site is also in early stages but being worked on: http://www.sonicartswaterford.com
Face Book Group is already active: https://www.facebook.com/SonicArtsWaterford

I'm not a festival promoter but my background of 20+ years is in writing and performing ambient electronic music at events around Europe.
Many thanks,
Mick

O Riain

Sounds good, I know a guy who might be interested. Leave it with me and I'll get back to ya!

old gregg

Thanks mate. A big part of what we're about is to provide an opportunity to folks working in more 'difficult' genres to get a chance to play to an audience who are happy to be challenged.

old gregg

Will bump this once only as we are moving towards the last few weeks of our Open Call: https://www.facebook.com/events/131514560384818/

So far we have artists confirmed from Poland, Malta, Sweden, Ireland and talking to some from other places including Detroit. Fi, Sat & Sun night line-up in Garter Lane Theatre is almost complete. Working now on events for Soma and other places around the city.