Resonate is an annual festival for

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and

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, usually held over five days at the end of April. The first edition was held in 2012. It is the biggest

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festival in Serbia. The festival is part of a collaborative project We Are Europe (funded by the EU) together with festivals in other countries such as

Sónar Sónar is a festival dedicated to music, creativity and technology, founded in Barcelona in 1994 by Ricard Robles, Enric Palau, and Sergi Caballero. The festival has been divided into two parts since its inception: Sónar by Day and Sónar b ...

(Barcelona), c/o pop (

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

TodaysArt TodaysArt is the annual international festival for Art, Music and Technology in The Hague, Netherlands that takes place in the end of September. It is also the name of the cultural production agency ''TodaysArt (Stichting The Generator)'' that p ...

, Elevate, Insomnia,

Nuits Sonores Nuits Sonores is an electronic music music festival, festival based in Lyon, France. It usually occurs for five days in May. It has been held since 2003 and is organized by thArty Fartyrganization. The festival is set within the city of Lyon its ...

, and Reworks. Resonate co-curates at some of these festivals too with independent programs and vice versa c/o pop, TodaysArt, Elevate and Sónar co-curated wing programs at Resonate. The festival has several activities during daytime and in the evening: a conference, varying exhibition formats, a

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and video program,

performance A performance is an act or process of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function. Performance has evolved glo ...

s, and

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s. Non-payment scandal In the run-up to the 2018 edition of the festival, it emerged that many artists both local and international had not been paid, some for years. A group of local artists even set up the Facebook group Still Unpaid At Resonate Festival, where it then emerged that the travel agent was also owed more than €28,000 for flights. As a result, some artists began pulling out in solidarity, leading to cancelled shows. Despite this, the organisers advertised a further iteration in 2019 but owing to the brewing scandal the event was cancelled. As of September 2020, the festival's website is no longer active and the URL is available for sale.

Line-up

* 2012 -

Kim Gordon Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, Califor ...

Ikue Mori (born 17 December 1953), also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, electronic musician, composer, and graphic designer. Mori was awarded a "Genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 2022. Biography Ikue Mori was born and raised in Japan. She sa ...

Alva Noto Carsten Nicolai (born 18 September 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz) is a German artist, musician and label owner. As a musician he is known under the pseudonym Alva Noto. Life and career Carsten Nicolai was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Ch ...

, onedotzero,

United Visual Artists United Visual Artists (UVA) is a London-based art practice founded in 2003 by British artist Matt Clark (b.1974). UVA's diverse body of work integrates new technologies with traditional media such as painting, sculpture, performance, and site-sp ...

, WARP, Karsten Schmidt, Rafaël Rozendaal, Nicholas Felton, Régine Debatty, Josh Nimoy,

Blixa Bargeld Blixa Bargeld (born 12 January 1959) is a German musician who has been the lead singer of the band Einstürzende Neubauten since its formation in 1980. Bargeld was also a founding member of the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, s ...

* 2013 -

Casey Reas Casey Edwin Barker Reas (born 1972), also known as C. E. B. Reas or Casey Reas, is an American artist whose conceptual, procedural and minimal artworks explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. Reas is perhaps best known for having ...

, Joachim Sauter (ART+COM),

Zimoun Zimoun (born 1977) is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. As self-taught artist, he is most known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw, industrial materials such as cardboard boxes ...

, Moritz Stefaner, Zach Gage,

Golan Levin Golan (; ) is the name of a biblical town later known from the works of Josephus (first century CE) and Eusebius (''Onomasticon'', early 4th century CE). Archaeologists localize the biblical city of Golan at Sahm el-Jaulān, a Syrian village ea ...

, Raquel Meyers, Anthony Dunne (

RCA RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. It was initially a patent pool, patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Westinghou ...

), Revital Cohen, Karsten Schmidt, Spaces of Play, Memo Akten (MarshmallowLaserFeast), Andreas Müller (Nanikawa),

James Bridle James Bridle (born 1980) is an artist and author based in Athens, Greece. Bridle, whose work "deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one," coined the New Aesthetic. Their work has explored as ...

, Liam Young (The Unknown Fields Division), Andreas Gysin, Greg J Smith, Kyle McDonald, Peter Kirn, Studio NAND, onedotzero * 2014 - Justin Windle, Moritz Stefaner, Jonathan Puckey and Luna Maurer (Moniker), Theodore Spyropoulos (Minimaforms, AADRL), Cyril Diagne (Lab212), Eno Henze, Joshua Noble, Marko Nastic, Matthieu Cherubini, Mark McKeague, Rachel Binx and Sha Hwang, Resonate Concentio, Sasha Gavrilova (

Stain A stain is a discoloration that can be clearly distinguished from the surface, material, or medium it is found upon. They are caused by the chemical or physical interaction of two dissimilar materials. Accidental staining may make materials app ...

), Daito Manabe, Visual Music and the Geometries of the Unseen, Joanie Lemercier, Lanac /

The Chain "The Chain" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on their 1977 album '' Rumours''. It is the only song from the album with writing credits for all five members (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John ...

- Simonida Rajcevic, Generative Strategies, Choreographic Coding - Hosted by NODE Forum for Digital Arts,

Joe Gerhardt John Joseph Gerhardt (February 14, 1855 – March 11, 1922) was an American professional baseball second baseman whose career spanned from 1873 to 1893. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 11 major league clubs. Early years ...

(Semiconductor), Johannes Timpernagel (schnellebuntebilder), Ilija Ludvig, Andrea Cuius, Sunni Pavlovic (That Game Company), Jaume Sánchez, onedotzero_rewind, Andreas Gysin, Manuel Jimenez Garcia (Bartlett), Andreas Schlegel, Elliot Woods and Mimi Son (Kimchi and Chips), Michael Szivos (SOFTlab), Visual Music, Wesley Grubbs (Pitch Interactive), Karsten Schmidt, Julian Adenauer, Aaron Koblin, Yuri Suzuki, Paul Prudence, Monosaccharide, Energy Accreted Ecologies, Ways of Seeing, Pablo Garcia, Richard Banks, Benedikt Groß, Kyle McDonald, Bryan Chapman, Catalysts, Patricia Jones, Transcranial - Klaus Obermaier, Daito Manabe and Kyle McDonald * 2015 -

Senyawa ''Senyawa'' (; ) is a twentieth and last studio album by Indonesian singer, Chrisye, released in 2004 by Musica Studios. The album features a collaboration with numerous Indonesian singers and bands, including Project Pop, Peterpan, Ahmad Dhani ...

, Eric Raynaud, Automatic Orchestra, Svetlana Maras, Andrea Cuius,

Emika Ema Jolly (born 8 January 1986), better known by her stage name Emika, is an English electronic musician of Czech origin (her mother is from Příbram) currently residing in Berlin. Her self-titled debut album was released in October 2011 via ...

, Wouter van Veldhoven, Machinefabriek,

Yuri Landman Yuri Landman (born 1 February 1973) is a Dutch inventor of musical instruments and musician who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a number of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars (band), Liars, Jad Fair ...

Sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

Lichens A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...

, Ben Frost,

Olga Bell Olga Bell (born Olga Balashova, , 3 October 1983) is an American musician, music producer, composer, and singer-songwriter. She was born in Moscow, Russia, raised in Anchorage, Alaska and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. A classically ...

Fennesz Christian Fennesz (born 25 December 1962) is an Austrian producer and guitarist active in electronic music since the 1990s, often credited mononymously as Fennesz. His work utilizes guitar and laptop computers to blend melody with treated samp ...

, and others. Special guest speaker:

Bill Drummond William Ernest Drummond (born 29 April 1953) is a Scottish artist, musician, writer, and record producer. He was a co-founder of the late-1980s avant-garde pop group the KLF and its 1990s media-manipulating successor, the K Foundation, with wh ...

( KLF) * 2016 -

Squarepusher Thomas Russell Jenkinson (born 17 January 1975), known professionally as Squarepusher, is an English electronic musician, record producer, bassist, multi-instrumentalist and DJ. His music spans several genres including drum and bass, IDM, a ...

Omar Souleyman Omar Almasikh (; born 1966), better known by his stage name Omar Souleyman (), is a Syrian singer. He began his career in 1994 singing at weddings and has since released numerous records and performed all over the world. He produces a modernized ...

, Holly Herndron,

Alec Empire Alec Empire (born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on 2 May 1972)https://www.alec-empire.com/ae Alec Empire official website biography is a German experimental electronic musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot, a ...

Hans-Joachim Roedelius Hans-Joachim Roedelius (born 26 October 1934) is a German electronic music, electronic musician and composer, known as a co-founder of the influential 'kosmische musik, kosmische' groups Cluster (band), Cluster and Harmonia (band), Harmonia. He ...

, Rashad Becker, Ninos Du Brasil, Daniel Miller,

Pierre Bastien Pierre Bastien (born 1953 in Paris) is a French musician, composer, and experimental musical instrument builder. Life and career Bastien began building mechanical-based musical instruments at an early age, using items such as metronomes, cymbals ...

Dopplereffekt is an electronic music act from Detroit which has been active since 1995, and whose main member is producer/artist Gerald Donald (also one half of the band Drexciya with James Stinson). Another member is To Nhan Le Thi. The group released a co ...

, Dadub, Peter Van Hoesen, Jan Nemecek, Mariska de Groot, Nicholas Felton, Moment Factory, Chris Sugrue, Pablo Garcia, Romain Tardy, Kimchi And Chips, Murat Pak, Atau Tanaka, Daniel Hirschmann, Phoenix Perry, Rebecca Fiebrink, Artists & Engineers, Domestic Data Streamers, Ishac Bertran, Bethany Koby (Technology Will Save Us), Andreas Müller, Karsten Schmidt, Neil Mendoza, Darsha Hewitt, Jonathan Wohl, Random Studio, Pe Lang, Memo Akten, James Auger, Shane Walter, onedotzero, Jakob Bak (CIID), Dennis P Paul (HfK), Joreg (vvvv), Cathrine Kramer, Playmodes, Kevin Walker (RCA), Daniel Sciboz (HEAD), Gael Hugo (ECAL) * 2017 - Adisson Groove, Alba G. Corral and Regen,

Anna Von Hausswolff Anna Michaela Ebba Electra von Hausswolff (born 6 September 1986) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and pipe organist. She is known for her Gothic rock, gothic-styled music, usually accompanied by the pipe organ. Von Hausswolff ...

Biosphere The biosphere (), also called the ecosphere (), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed the zone of life on the Earth. The biosphere (which is technically a spherical shell) is virtually a closed system with regard to mat ...

, Feloneezy, Gabber Eleganza, Jackie Dagger,

, Jichael Mackson, Kristijan Šajković,

Lee Ranaldo Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" li ...

(

Sonic Youth Sonic Youth were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Founding members Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar), Thurston Moore (lead guitar, vocals) and Lee Ranaldo (rhythm guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of ...

), Lil Taty, Marko Nastic, Mirko Lazovic & Nenad Popov,

Mykki Blanco Mykki Blanco (born April 2, 1986) is an American rapper, performance artist, poet and activist. She has collaborated musically with artists including Kanye West, Teyana Taylor, and Blood Orange. Early life Blanco was born in Orange County, C ...

, Nemanja Aćimović, Peder Mannerfelt, Rastko Lazic, Roly Porter, Stephen O’Malley, STEPNIAK, Stevie Whisper aka Stefan Unkovic, Vvhile, Woo,

Rosa Menkman Rosa Menkman (born 1983) is a Dutch art theorist, curator, and visual artist specialising in glitch art and resolution theory. She investigates video compression, feedback, and glitches, using her exploration to generate art works. Menkman's ...

, and others.

Sources

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External links

official website

We Are Europe
Arts festivals in Europe Cultural festivals in Serbia Culture in Belgrade Annual events in Serbia