Sonar is a Belgian musical group. Sonar combines

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, and industrial music. Sonar was formed as a side-project of noise artist

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in 1996. At first, Ivens employed the help of Patrick Stevens. Later, Eric Van Wonterghem, who had worked with Ivens in

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, joined Ivens as the second member of Sonar. Sonar toured in Europe with Canadian music project

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in 2001.

Discography

Music festivals

Sonar performed at: *

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, United Kingdom (2002, 2011) * Kinetik, Canada (2008) *

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, Germany (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) *

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, Germany (2002)

References

Belgian industrial music groups Noise musical groups Musical groups established in 1996 {{Belgium-band-stub