12-14.06.2025
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Sónar+D is the innovation and technology arm of the Sónar Festival in Barcelona. Running alongside the main music events, it functions as a curated exhibition and conference space exploring the future of creativity through tech. The program includes interactive installations, AI-generated cinema, and showcases of emerging tools in sound, visuals, and digital storytelling. It’s where artists, researchers, and tech companies meet to present experiments and prototypes shaping creative industries.
Marije Baalman
12.06.2025
A Musical Understanding of AI as Resonance, talk
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Sometimes it feels like the human side of our relationship with technology has been forgotten. Artist, researcher and performer Marije Baalman is a welcome correction to narratives that treat technology as something that exists separately from ourselves. Her work – which covers music (both digital and analogue), performance, livecoding, and theatre – emphasises the complex entanglement between man and machine.
Marije is an iii member in addition to artist-run Amsterdam space Grond, she is also an active member of the open source community, she champions community-driven creative work as an antidote to a capitalist world.
“At Sónar+D 2025 we’ve tasked her with applying her human-first approach to the thorny subject of AI. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear what one of the most unique, creative and curious minds around thinks about the technology that’s defining the decade.”
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Kexin Hao
Future Dance of Nostalgia
What kind of movements were once embedded in our collective body at work? how do we preserve the body movements and restore our moving bodies as the living archives?
Taking the form of classic video dancing games, Future Dance of Nostalgia invites audience to perform the choreography that extracts the movements found in the pre-industrial manual labour. Motion tracking technology allows the body movements to be measured and evaluated. Historical archives of work songs provide the inspiration for the music that renders the old tales and melodies into clubbing beats that lead the dance.
Through ethnographic research into work songs and the moving body, the project draws much needed attention to alternative historical archives of our times. The gaming technology, visual, and music, bring people closer to the past through a tangible and modern experience. The work also brings fun and togetherness to audience through public participatory dance sessions and interactive gameplay.
Supported by iii (Instrument inventors initiative) as an iii production residency
Yolanda Uriz
Chemical Calls of Care.2
The installation is a science-fiction machine for wired chemical telecommunication. Attempting to establish olfactory communication with plant species, it consists of tubes and fans transmitting chemical information from plants to a receiving terminal. From another transmitting terminal, visitors can send messages—limited in this case to messages of care—by choosing among various beneficial substances that promote the health and balance of the ecosystem. Plants respond by emitting their volatile organic compounds (VOC), odors we might be able to decode. Additionally, Chemical Calls of Care includes gas sensors that provide data on air composition, translating it into sound—a language potentially easier to understand than olfactory signals.
A new version of the work, acquired by the New Art Foundstion will be premiered at Sonar+D 2025
