Category: Uncategorized

Sound Days – the annual festival for sound art, electronic and experimental music, media art and audiovisual experiments – will take place from April 22 – 26, 2025 in Liepāja, Latvia.

Sound Days gathers young artists, musicians, students, professionals and others that are interested in sound art and media arts. The festival will include electronic music and visual arts workshops, the first Baltic Live Coders Meetup, an algorave and audiovisual performance nights. in 2025 the main festival theme is programming and algorithms in audiovisual art.

The workshops will cover such topics as live coding music and visuals, DIY electronics and instrument making, creating audiovisual artworks, sound composition, generative art and others. Application for the workshops will be open from March 17. The attendance is free but there is a limited amount of participants in the workshops.

Lina Bautista (CO/ES)  “Introduction to Live Coding with Mercury”
linalab.com
Jasmin Meerhoff (DE) “Computational Poetry”
nervousdata.com
Patrick Borgeat (DE) “~ Colliding Waves ≈ Waves Colliding ~”
borgeat.de
Florencia Alonso // Flor de Fuego (AR/DE) “Hydra: Live Coding Visuals for Live Performances”
flordefuego.xyz
hydra.ojack.xyz
Ioanna Vreme Moser (RO/DE) “Sizzling Semiconductors. Politics of Parts”
ioanavrememoser.com
Jan Georg Glöckner (DE/LT), Tatjana Frenkel (LT) “Biotechnology Radio”
jan-gloeckner.com
Kaspars Jaudzems (LV) “Building Audio-Reactive Sculptures”
kaspars.cc
Rihards Vītols (LV) “Creating Generative AV Art from Nature Data”
vitols.xyz 

Additionally to the festival main programme there will be the first Baltic Live Coders Meetup (BLCM) held on April 25, 2025. The BLCM aims to bring together live coders from the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – to foster exchange, get to know each other and to create opportunities for further cooperation. The live coders will present their work, and exchange ideas, culminating with n Algorave with international and local artists in the evening and night. Sound Days 2025 is a satellite event of the International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC).

On April 26 there will be the closing event for the festival – the main festival concert and presentation night. The participants will present their workshop results in a performance programme or a pop-up exhibition. After that there will be a performance night with festival participants and guests.

The main public events will take place in cultural space “Tipogrāfijas radošais kvartāls”.

The festival is organised by “ASTE. Art, Science, Technology, Education”, “E-lab, center for electronic art and media” and “RTU Liepāja Academy” and will be hosted in the RTU Liepaja Academy’s Art Research Laboratory (MPLab), Kūrmājas prospekts 13, Liepaja, Latvia.
Sound Days is made possible by the support of Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, “RTU Liepaja Academy”, Liepaja municipality Culture department.

If you have any questions please contact us: skana@aste.gallery

The annual festival Sound Days in Liepāja (Latvia) is calling out to all Baltic live coders, and anyone who is interested in this topic of creating music and art with code, to join us in the first Baltic Live Coders Meetup (BLCM) on April 25, 2025.

The BLCM aims to bring together live coders from the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – to foster exchange, get to know each other and to create opportunities for further cooperation. It is embedded within the festival Sound Days, that takes place in Liepāja from April 22 – 26, 2025. On Friday, April 25 during the BLCM there will be an opportunity for live coders to present their work and to exchange ideas, culminating with an Algorave with international and local artists in the evening and night. If you cannot make it to Liepaja on that day, you can also participate in the event remotely.

If you would like to actively participate in BLCM (do a presentation and/or perform), please complete this form by March 23, 2025. Applications received after this date cannot be accommodated. Application form: https://forms.gle/F5p6rg7caumwnzKT9 

Attendance is free of charge. Unfortunately, at this time, accommodation and travel expenses cannot be covered. If you want to attend, but are not sure if you can make it, please anyways fill out this form and leave a note about it at the end. We can provide a formal letter of invitation in order to apply for funding individually.

If you have the time, we also want to invite you to join us for the whole Sound Days festival. There will be another performance night on April 26th for you to enjoy and you can apply and attend a 4-day Workshop from April 22nd to 25th. Applications for workshops will be open one month before the festival:

Lina Bautista (CO/ES)  “Introduction to Live Coding with Mercury”
linalab.com
Jasmin Meerhoff (DE) “Computational Poetry”
nervousdata.com
Patrick Borgeat (DE) “~ Colliding Waves ≈ Waves Colliding ~”
borgeat.de
Florencia Alonso // Flor de Fuego (AR/DE) “Hydra: Live Coding Visuals for Live Performances”
flordefuego.xyz
hydra.ojack.xyz
Ioanna Vreme Moser (RO/DE) “Sizzling Semiconductors. Politics of Parts”
ioanavrememoser.com
Jan Georg Glöckner (DE/LT), Tata Frenkel (LT) “Radio art space station”
jan-gloeckner.com
Kaspars Jaudzems (LV) “Building Audio-Reactive Sculptures”
kaspars.cc
Rihards Vītols (LV) “Creating Generative AV Art from Nature Data”
vitols.xyz 

The festival is organised by “ASTE. Art, Science, Technology, Education” and “RTU Liepāja Academy” and will be hosted in the  “RTU Liepaja” Art Research Laboratory (MPLab), Kūrmājas prospekts 13, Liepaja, Latvia.
Sound Days are made possible by the support of Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, “RTU Liepaja Academy”.
Sound Days is a satellite event of the International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC).

A look back to “Sound Days” festival in 2024: https://aste.gallery/en/sound-days-2024-2/
Video documentation re-cap of 2024: https://fb.watch/xd0QwOHSsW/

If you have any further questions please contact us: skana@aste.gallery

We look forward to your responses!
https://sound.mplab.lv

Sound Days 2023 will be held from 27.05. until 04.06. at Liepaja University.

Sound Days 2023 will take place from May 27 until June 4 in Liepaja.

Sound Days festival is an interdisciplinary festival dedicated to promoting freedom of creative expression in sound art, media art, literature and electronic experimental music. Sound Days 2023 will explore the intersections of sound and text in various forms. Festival activities will consist of an exhibition, workshops and performances. 

Festival workshop participants will be interacting with analog and digital sound instruments, learning sound improvisation techniques while interacting with space, creating text and context based sound works, using text based live coding visual software to produce visuals, as well as making connections, new creative bonds and networking with the creative community.

Workshop hosts:

Olivia Jack (US/DE), Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) (FI), Friedemann Dupelius (DE), Artūrs Punte, Maksims Šenteļevs, Platon Buravicky, Reinis Semēvics, Tobias Hartmann (DE).

Programme:

Saturday, May 27 19:00
Sound Days Exhibition Opening. Artist talks and performance. 

Sunday, May 28 12:00 – 16:00 

Family Day. Exhibition and open workshops for families and children.

Monday, May 29 19:00 

Sound Days orientation. Participants Arriving. Opening of the Workshops.

Tuesday, May 30 – Saturday, June 3 10:00 – 17:00 

Workshops. Participants are working on individual and group projects

Friday, June 2

Readings, text workshops, performances.

Saturday, June 3 17:00 

Sound Days Performances and workshop result presentations

The festival is organised by ASTE. Art, Science, Technology, Education and Liepaja University Art Research Lab (MPLab) and creative writing studies in collaboration with creative space “Pegaza Pagalms”. “Sound days” is created with the support of Liepaja City Municipality institution “Culture Department” and State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia (VKKF).