At LEM, we are not only convinced that a lot of different worlds can and do exist but also about the fact that even the most unpredictable type of music is a much better guarantee of peace than any other weapon… But life is not about music only and, yes, even us musicians think this way. We are indeed very interested in the world and in all those themes that might not directly refer to music but that they somehow affect they way music can be enjoyed. This is precisely what this festival is all about. It's about this world and about the musicians who not only propose free social and economic organizational models as an alternative to / (to confront) the growing mass consumism and its consequences but also have set the wish of freedom and the will/ (commitment to) of deep change. LEM owes a lot to the movements which brought pleasure back to life and culture, hence stimulating our curiosity, thus treating this project as our own baby. In its 8th edition, LEM gives shelter to 62 activities, featuring 160 artists of 12 different countries, which will spread about 17 spaces within the city, mainly in such peculiar and 'human' urban territory known as Barcelona's district of Gracia, core of this land that becomes an island (free territory?) in the so called emerging civilization which disgusts contrast and hides evidence while defending the difference and, with this hypocrisy, aims to materialize a world in which the superior/higher individuals are the ones who own arms, and the lowest ones are those less informed...

Barcelona is again the world's center of experimentation and these days, imaginary folklore, daily routine gulfs, monologues sang in 2 voices, cuisines which turn to music, glasses that sing, machines which cry and other desire-like sound objects will meet at this festival to the enjoyment of an increasingly bigger audience whom make all this adventure have more sense...Having crossed the line between two centuries, the festival acts as the wave that disturbs the uniform soap in which traditional aesthetics swim so as to reveal the unknown present and future. Pay careful attention to the program, the artists and the new venues because as Josep Pla once said "One of the best things about caviar is that, despite being so expensive, it's excellent". Put it this way: if caviar was cheap, it would still be excellent.

Gràcia Territori Sonor crew.