Music A La Carte
Aula 1. CCCB.
Ten showcases in CD format with a selection of musical themes that shed light on some of the relevant styles and trends of the moment, or, that look back on a brilliant and mysterious past. Coordinated by Javier Blánquez. The following compilations are this year’s addition to the corpus of works from previous editions of Sónar:


“Schaffel”, Philip Sherburne
Lumbering and woozy, the triplet-riddled rhythm is what you get when you combine minimal techno’s metronomic pulse with glam rock’s syncopated stomp.


“Glitchtarras”, Vidal Romero
Guitars plus glitches. Or the entire universe of every perversion imaginable when someone plugs a guitar into a laptop computer in search of warped sounds and impossible textures.


“Breakcore”, Javier Blánquez
Broken rhythm taken to its ultimate consequences, sound terrorism conceived as an extension of illbient, drum’n’bass and the most unbearable industrial noise on the fringes of rave.


“Audio generativo”, a+r
By altering the traditional concepts of composition and interpretation, so called generative music places the software programme at both ends of the process. Hence, the code is composer, interpreter and the resulting audio, all at the same time.


“Dirty South”, David Broc
With its mix of electronic, rhythms, strident choruses and saturated basslines, dirty south has not only turned itself into the most vibrant and impressive music phenomenon of the year, but into the first big sound revolution of the XXI century as well.


“Politrónica”, Oriol Rossell
Politics and electronica. Electronic sound as a vehicle for spreading political messages. Or as a message in its own right. Or as subject matter that can acquire political connotations through the express intentions of the producer.


“Laptop Folk” , Pablo G. Polite
In recent times an array of different proposals have sprung up from the encounter between laptops and acoustic instruments and have opened up new horizons in folk music. This selection gives us an inkling of where things are heading.


“Grime”, Simon Reynolds
The sound of London’s pirate radio culture, grime is gangsta rave -a mix of UK garage, Southern rap, and dancehall reggae, its jagged beats designed for MCs to rhyme over.


“Funky Carioca”, Eduardo Marote
Funk carioca was born when music technology reached the corners of the third world and met up with the blatant sexuality of the dwellers of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Every weekend thousands of young people get together in hundreds of venues all over Rio and its outer suburbs. The mantra of the favelas.


“Riddims”, Dani Relats
In Jamaican music circles, when different artists decide to put their own vocals to the same instrumental piece this is called riddim. Despite the fact that its music economy is somewhat modest, this format has become the nerve center of music production on the island.

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