The dance music industry currently relies on a touring model that is heavily dependent on flying. However, a wider reckoning of the environmental and societal impacts of the aviation industry, increases in ticket prices, climate catastrophes impacting transport infrastructure and a growing conversation of the mental health issues related to hyper-mobility, call this model into question. This workshop aims to facilitate conversations around ways in which all protagonists of our dance music cultures could work together towards more sustainable alternatives and dream up fairer futures.

The workshop will be held in English.

With:

Nono Gigsta (Cashmere Radio I DE)

Free, registering is recommended

Can we keep on dancing in a world on fire? As climate change intensifies and extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, significant challenges are posed to festivals—and more broadly to the entire cultural scene. How can organizers adapt to such changes? What measures should be put in place in this context to ensure the mental health of artists, festival-goers, and audiences of such cultural events? How to envision the future of cultural and artistic activities in a world subjected to these extreme weather phenomena? By giving voice to one of the organisers of the Italian festival Terraforma—an event putting environmental sustainability as one of its priority—as well as to the artist and theorist Gigsta who ≠reflects on the links between the music industry and social justice, this exchange aims to explore strategies for managing and adapting to these challenges for the entire contemporary cultural scene.

The talk will be held in English.

With:
Nono Gigsta (Cashmere Radio I DE)
Mariavittoria Perrone (Terraforma I IT)

In cooperation with TIMES (The Independent Movement for Electronic Scenes)

16:30 – 22:30

A Conversation with
Grandes Locos

In this two-hour workshop, participants will join Resident Advisor‘s Senior Producer, Chloe Lula, to learn about how to make a podcast in a media environment that increasingly favors multimedia formats. They will learn the basics of audio production and editing for broadcast, as well as how to come up with a compelling story for the air and write a podcast script. By the end of the workshop, participants should have a working understanding of how to put together a podcast themselves. Resident Advisor will also partner with a local community radio station to air one episode that comes from this workshop.

Participants should come equipped with a topic they would like to explore in a podcast that will be discussed during the workshop.

The workshop will be held in English.

With:
Chloe Lula (Resident Advisor, US / DE)

Accessible with a ticket for Day 2

As part of Nuits sonores Lab 2024, Greek community radio Stegi Radio program will investigate the ways in which the music and culture of the so-called ‘periphery’ have historically informed European culture, even when the subjects of the periphery have been deprived of representation in the mainstream narratives. Listening sessions featuring Greek artists like Tasos Stamou and the Entropia records label, and in-depth discussions with Deena Abdelwahed and professionals from cultural venues, will initiate a discourse that extends beyond European borders, unearthing new connections and hidden stories between genres and cultures.

Discussions will be held in English.

16.30 – 17.30 | Entropia Records Listening Session – Balkans & The Mediterranean: Unearthing Sonic Connections

Exploring the cultural collage, connections & movement in music throughout the Balkan and Mediterranean territories.  Sometimes western-influenced, others oriental, hardly homogenous. A hand picked selection of vinyl records that fuses  instruments, traditions, geography and evolution in the music industry. 

17.30 – 18.15 | European Cultural Spaces Conversations

A discussion centered around understanding the role of European cultural venues/spaces (concerts hall, clubs, theaters, whether they are institutions or not) in addressing contemporary challenges in Europe, how they should rethink their models to tackle climate crisis, be more inclusive, reconnect with artistic communities which are often forgotten, and reflect on how  such spaces manage (or not) to talk about ‘Europe’.

18.15 – 19.15 | Tasos Stamou Listening Session – Transcendental Folktronica from the Balkans 

A listening session of original tracks and remixes compiled by “Future Folk” producer Tasos Stamou from his collection of Balkan folktronica, featuring vintage recordings with a unique and creative use of electronic gear, which coincidentally (or not) have a strong affiliation to avant-garde electronics from the west from the same period.

19.15 – 20.00 | A conversation between Deena Abdelwahed and Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

16:30 – 22:30

A conversation with • Grandes Locos

During this DIY radio workshop, participants will learn and create short radio shows on themes related to the Nuits sonores Lab theme Sketching Out The Future. In a pedagogical, playful, and offbeat approach, participants, divided into small groups of 2 to 4 people, will be encouraged to address the subjects in a completely free manner. Each group will then take turns in a production area led by one of the collective members (voice recording area, sound design area, sound recording area…), in a style similar to “radio speed making”. To conclude, the creations of the different groups will be gathered on a website created for the occasion by the collective, and/or presented within the framework of a live mini-show hosted by the collective and the participants.

This workshop will be held in French.

With:

Ondorphine

Free, registering is recommended

Connected performance between live electronic music and video, and blending various DIY machines, the CNSMD students offer us to surf the web through synthesizers and guitar/bass loopers.

With:
Les Acousmaflics (Collectif I FR)

16:30 – 22:30

A conversation with • Grandes Locos