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thursday 5 october
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
21 h.
EL BICICLETERO (Sevilla)



LEM’s tenth festival begins with one of the high points that closed the festival in 2003. El Bicicletero reappears in Gràcia after its sensational successes, and it does so without, as yet, any imitators. Cantes plain and simple, round-trip cantes and the fabulous suitcase number. The return of Raúl Cantizano and Santiago Barber’s highly acclaimed creation. Cage dressed in polka-dot? Anyhow, flamenco deconstructed, and the art of bicycle maintenance. Both things, on a single stage, a unique show with a resounding reception.

thursday 5 october
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
22 h.
LES REINES PROCHAINES (Basel)
(www.reinesprochaines.ch)



In the Swiss independent scene, back in 1987, a group of video and visual artists used to mix performance, music, and cuisine. Shortly afterwards, Les Reines Prochaines came to the throne. These days Michèle Fuchs, Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Barbara Naegelin and Suzanne Zwick are armed with trumpet, sax, euphonium, accordion, synthesiser, guitar, bass, drums… and voice, of course. They have just released their fifth album, Protest und Vasen, and will be performing in Barcelona, which means that their pop-punk-dada cabaret, their incredible live show, is finally within the grasp of us long-forgotten courtesans…

friday 6 october
MACBA Auditori
plaça dels Àngels, 1
22 h.
ELIANE RADIGUE (Paris)
(kalvos.org/radigue.html) - (www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=8180)



Michel Chion says on her music that it is “infinitely discreet compared to any of those other types of music that seem to be tugging at your sleeve to attract your attention”. Radigue worked with Pierre Shaeffer and Pierre Henry, and she’s a pioneer in Europe of the use of sound as an engulfing stream in constant motion, closer to the repetitive American school than the European electro-acoustic one, and influenced by Eastern spirituality. Eliane Radigue’s music has the fascinating capacity of changing without our being aware of the change. She’s grande doyenne of electronic music. Presents L'île re-sonante. Essential.

friday 6 october
C3 Bar (Bar del Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
Montalegre, 5 (entrada CCCB)
23,30 h
PEINTURES SONORES (Arbo - Flix)
(www.tecn.upf.es/master/mad02/~m2308/joan-bages.htm)



Peintures Sonores is conceived as an interactive dramatic concert, where Joan Bages (sound artist) and Carmen Platero (visual artist) offer an exploration of the human body starting from its image and the sounds that can be produced with it. The manipulation of visual material uses superposition, fragmentation, the deconstruction of the image, while the sound material is treated using granular synthesis technique. Both come together by means of improvisation and randomness, and evolve in real time.
Starting at 12:30 PM dj JORDI TURTÓS

saturday 7 october
20 h. Experimentem amb l'Art
Torrijos, 68
XEDH (Vitoria)



This is the first of the projects selected this year for the OFF section. Conceived by Miguel Ángel García as a vision of industrial past and future landscapes, the music distilled by Xedh is a music of immersion, inscribed in a broad and evocative current that makes textures and their alternation an excellent narrative element. A music of planes where silence envelops perverse rhythms and opens gaps through which oppressive atmospheres slip in - pulsing music, inviting us on an inner journey, full of images and colours, of a strangely pictorial quality.

saturday 7 october
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
22 h.
JUDITH JUILLERAT (Besançon)
(www.shitkatapult.com) - (www.myspace.com/judithjuillerat)



After ten years of work at her studio in Besançon, a dazzling appearance when selected by Björk for the Army Of Me compilation, in aid of Unicef, marked the start of Judith Juillerat’s journey abroad, beginning with the interesting album Soliloquy (2005) and some important concerts in 2006 at the Transmediale in Berlin, the Kilbi in Dudingen, Reykjavik, Basel… Juillerat constructs her music with both analogue and digital elements, it is inspired by emanations of Teutonic essences and takes us to visit the surface of moons of icy beauty and bluish dawns. A music as beautiful as it is disturbing.

saturday 7 october
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
23 h.
MUSHKA (Badalona)



Mushka's music is lazy, mysterious, winding, Mediterranean, complex yet simple in appearance, luminous, energetic, visual, emotional and with a rhythmic clarity that sustains interwoven melodies both thoughtful and sincere. Its members have backgrounds as seemingly diverse as the post-punk band B-Violet (Blanca Cereceda, bass, and Merche Rosales, drums) on the one hand, and the classically trained (Lluna Aragón, violin and Mar Serra, piano) on the other. The quintet tops off its rhythmic tapestry with Xavier Carbonell, formerly of Camàlics, on percussion. Prepare for an impeccable live show from the band that is the great revelation of this year.

sunday 8 october
Auditori de la Biblioteca Jaume Fuster
plaça Lesseps, 20-22
12 h.
THE WALTER THOMPSON ORQUESTRA (New York, L'Olleria, Barcelona, Andorra)
(www.soundpainting.com)



Soundpainting is a language devised by Walter Thompson; it is formed of 1500 symbols that allow the direction of groups of improvisers in real time. Thompson simultaneously conducts musicians, poets, dancers... Soundpainting was performed in the LEM festival in 1999 and 2001. It was an unforgettable experience. This time it features the following line-up: Oriol Vilella, guitar; Josep Lluís Redondo, guitar; Roger Fortea, bass guitar; Merche Rosales, drums; Pau Torres, sampler; Imma Udina, sax; Agustí Martínez, clarinets, saxes; Arnau Vilardebó, acting, ukulele; Sebastià Malèvol, poetry and the choral group Sonorum Project with Oscar Vidal and Adolf Murillo.

tuesday 10 october
KBB
Joaquín Costa, 24 4º
20 h. - 21 h.
MIKA VAINIO (Helsinki)



Already well-known for being fifty percent of Pan Sonic, a true icon of electronic minimalism over recent years, Vainio aims his solo work at spaces frequently beyond rhythm, and uses the electronic processing of acoustical elements to create aural textures, paving the way for improvisation… in short, it offers a lesser known and very evocative dimension of the sound universe that has placed Finland on the international scene. The press call him “the more dangerous half”: this double concert will undoubtedly be as “dangerous” as it is energetic.

friday 13 october
MACBA Auditori
plaça dels Àngels, 1
22 h.
BARBARA MORGENSTERN (Berlin)
(www.barbaramorgenstern.de)



The elegance of minimal expression; the meeting of piano, voice and electronics. Touching melodies, reflections on global culture, the stages of happiness or the ages of life, or why it always seems to us that the grass is greener on the other side of the street, short stories, travel journals, fieldwork sketches... Barbara Morgenstern, who has released nine titles since 1998, captivated the world with Nichts Muss (Monica Ent. 2003) and embarked on a lengthy world tour, which ended happily with the beautiful album The Grass is Always Greener (2006). In this concert we’ll have the privilege of witnessing the moment of brilliant creative maturity that this very special composer is living. Don’t miss it: it heals.

friday 13 october
C3 Bar (Bar del Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
Montalegre, 5 (entrada CCCB)
23,30 h.
XYRAMAT (Hamburg)



Xyramat, formerly Maat - multiple personalities of composer Dörthe Marth, a.k.a. Black Bunny or Xyrabunny as a DJ – who has been, since 1990 and with half a dozen albums released, a singular personality in the German electronic scene. Committed to the search for freedom in the increasingly standardised field of music, she uses sound sources as emotional tools to reflect the true macrocosm of values: violence, war, authority, discrimination, especially that of women.
Starting at 12:30 PM dja LINKAHUMANA.

saturday 14 october
Sala d’assajos de l’Orfeó Gracienc
Astúries 83
19 h.
FAMELIARS (Eivissa)



There is a new, fresh, Mediterranean music, fed by the currents of contempporary popular music. LEM attempts to prove this theory in several concerts in this year’s festival. One of these is that of Fameliars. Among its members are some key names from the islands’ scene, associated with projects like Neo Tokyo, Neo Sol, Yeldings… diverse origins, including stylistically: those of Kiko Barrenengoa and Toni Torres (guitars), Mariano Torres, piano and vocals, Ferran Pascual, bass guitar and Andrea Fernández, drums. Luminous music of magical laziness. Their first CD, an “oasis-album”, according to the critics, testifies to this.

saturday 14 october
Claustre de l’Oratori de Sant Felip Neri de Gràcia
carrer del Sol 8
22 h.
CARO SNATCH (Newcastle)
(www.carosnatch.co.uk)



Caro Snatch’s musical career began in 1998 with a serious back injury, a double-decker bus for a home and a Korg Poly-800 synthesiser. During her recovery, Caro researched sound synthesis and musical theory. Her concerts began in 2002. Old sound generating machines, sequencer, voice, effects, form the basis of her shows. Her music is hypnotic, her poetry is multilingual; she uses improvisation, loops, and the combination of different genres. Based in Berlin since 2005 and following the recent release of her new EP, Es muss sein, she begins the “Es muss sein – dare to shine Tour”, which will bring her for the first time to Barcelona.

saturday 14 october
Claustre de l’Oratori de Sant Felip Neri
carrer del Sol 8
23 h.
RADIAN (Wien)
(www.radian.at)



It has been said that the release of Juxtaposition, the first album by Radian, put the Vienesse scene on the map. Without doubt, that first album, as much as the recent Rec.Extern, reveals a fascinating music. John Norman (bass), Martin Brandlmayr (drums) and Stefan Nemeth (synthesiser) are able to create a sound tapestry as rich as it is appealing. How do acoustic instruments and electronics swap roles? In the beginning, an unusual working practice: “micro-recordings” of instruments passed through the synthesiser (John McEntire is behind some of them). The result: a live show that’s hard to forget.

sunday 15 october
Auditori de la Biblioteca Jaume Fuster
plaça Lesseps, 20-22
12 h.
MARAM TRIO (Barcelona)



Marina Albero (psaltery), Marc Egea (hurdy gurdy) and Mariona Sagarra (vocals), represent the meeting point of instruments of unusual beauty as well as that of ancient and contemporary music, improvisation and electronica. After a working process lasting many months, they present Sine Mare Nihil, a commission by three festivals for three of the most internationally renowned Catalan musicians. In the quest of a daring beauty and the creation of poetic universes, visions and new imaginings, these three artists bring tradition up to date, explaining the present using ancestral instruments and making them talk to modern technology.

thursday 19 october
La Pedrera
sala circular
Passeig de Gràcia, 92
21 h.
LES AUS (Barcelona)
(www.ozonokids.com) - (www.chessuchrist.cjb.net)



From their first project, Omega Cinco, to Les Aus, Dalmau Boada and Arnau Sala have made a journey from the most purist hardcore to the world of improvisation. Their conceptual voyage wasn’t their only one: two American tours, one European tour, consecutive projects (The Cheese appears half-way through), a few albums, a Philadelphia residency in 2004, have helped to make Les Aus a name on many people’s lips. Now relocated to Catalonia, this group, according to many, is one to keep an eye on. Music on the loose, a surprise…

thursday 19 october
La Pedrera
auditori
Passeig de Gràcia, 92
22 h.
LES POULES (Montréal)
(www.supermusique.qc.ca)



This trio made up of Joane Hétu, sax, vocals, Diane Labrosse, sampler, Danielle P. Roger, drums and percussion, is a musical adventure as special as it is legendary. Since 1980, these three women have developed a sound universe absolutely unique. In their hands, improvisation becomes a tool to show the listener scenes from imaginary films, sound tapestries in which electronics and acoustic instruments swap roles. Elements of exploration: the unorthodox use of instruments, their musical chemistry. Results: music in free-fall, overflowing, with dangerous leaps. An ode to the parachute.

thursday 19 october
Biblioteca Vila de Gràcia
Torrent de l'Olla 104
24 h.
NOISE DREAMS MACHINA (València)
(www.noisedreamsmachina.blogspot.com)



Oscar Martín is a visual artist who came to sound art through working with Leopoldo Amigo, Bartolomé Ferrando and Llorenç Barber. He mixes in his work different codes and artistic languages: sound, performance, video, photography, installation… a notable example was the sound installation-performance Mekanicas Moebius, made with Javier Jiménez and presented in many European countries, as well as his participation in the Grupo de Intervención Artística, with the performance Sorolls de Guerra, given in many Spanish cities. He also wrote music for dance and video. In Noise Dreams Machina he explores the sound aspect of his work.

friday 20 october
22 h. MACBA Auditori
plaça dels Àngels, 1
.TAPE. (Oviedo)
(www.tapesoundsytem.tk) - (www.sparkreleases.com)



Tonight we present three independent record labels based in Barcelona and with an English name, very clear ideas and catalogues created with love. First turn is taken by spa.rk. The artist: Daniel Romero, a musician from Asturias who, under the name of .tape., creates crystal clear music, of rare beauty, introspective and serene. Toy-like electronica, acoustic instruments, voices singing to themselves over repeating bass lines… .tape. has already released three CDs (the latest of them licensed in Japan).

friday 20 october
22,45 h. MACBA Auditori
plaça dels Àngels, 1
SESAM-O (Sitges)
(www.houstonpartyrecords.com)



The label Houston Party numbers amongst its projects one in which neither is the music simply a soundtrack nor do the images function merely illustratively, that’s to say, a truly audio-visual project: Sesam-o, consisting of Jordi Moncho, Ferrán Vilanova, David Curto and Ignasi Corella: three musicians and a video artist who conceive the compositional process as a joint sound-vision creation, which they take on stage in all its complexity. On this occasion, they’ll present their latest work, Abscience.

friday 20 october
23,30 h. MACBA Auditori
plaça dels Àngels, 1
GUILLAMINO (Barcelona)
(www.guillamino.com) - (www.bankrobber.net)



BankRobber is to blame for the appearance of Guillamino’s new CD, Somnis de llop, as is clearly stated in his press release. It also explains that his first album, 1 dia, was released in 2003. That year’s LEM brochure reads: “Guillamino has entered another dimension, probably unique, from which in only a few months he has attracted the attention of many people”. And, further on, it defined his music as a trip “from Soul to Sardana" (Catalan traditional dance). Well, three years later, Guillamino rules that dimension and Soul and Sardana has transfigured into a unique style: his own. Guillamino returns to LEM.

friday 20 october
C3 Bar (Bar del Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
Montalegre, 5 (entrada CCCB)
23,30 h.
IRIS (Barcelona)



Iris says she began to compose by chance and to sing by accident, as with most good things. The truth is that this electronic arts and digital design graduate has become the creator of beautiful music and small doses of evocative electronic pop. In two years, ever since her début at the Mau-Mau in Barcelona, she has shone in live shows (just recently in her Sónar), until she ended up on the Berlin label Monika Enterprise, where she’s working on the fourth part of the album 4 Women no Cry. A possible pairing: warm voice and electronica.

friday 20 october
C3 Bar (Bar del Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
Montalegre, 5 (entrada CCCB)
00,30 h.
SHAKIRA BENAVIDES (Barcelona)

As a DJ, Shakira Benavides is already an institution in Barcelona. Over ten years of work, sessions in countless clubs, residencies, festivals… as a co-founder of Wah Wah Records, a cult store in the city, Shakira has created audiences and passed on information to the local scene, collaborated in scheduling, widened our world of reference… what is still unknown to many is her work as a composer, creator of soundscapes, inventor of collages. Lucius Works Here is the project that will explain it.

saturday 21 october
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
22 h.
LE NŒUD LOGIQUE (Crest)
(www.grandchahut.com)



Anne Montagard, clarinet and bass clarinet, Yanis Frier, guitar, Lionel Malric, keyboards, accordion, electronics, are members of the collective Le Grand Chahut who decided in 2004 to give birth to this project of amplified improvisation. Jazz, but not just jazz, noise, but not just noise, rock, perhaps, electronica... the ability of these three instrumentalists to break the connections between instruments and genres is remarkable; they use intensity, the creation of fictional sound scenarios, the timbric search, the breakdown of codes, to create a music where the surprise factor is fundamental.

saturday 21 october
Teatre dels Lluïsos de Gràcia
plaça del Nord, 7-10
23 h.
KONK PACK (London/Köln)
(www.timhodgkinson.co.uk/) - (www.thomaslehn.com/)
(www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi/mturner.html) - (www.grobcologne.de)



It wouldn’t be hard to claim that this trio brings together the essential names in contemporary music: the fortunate union of multi-instrumentalist Tim Hodgkinson (lap steel guitar, electronics, clarinets) with master analogue synth player Thomas Lehn and the restless drummer and percussionist Roger Turner is something that mustn’t be missed, given that Konk Pack is right now one of the most exciting improvisation groups in the world. Between them they boast over a hundred albums and are largely responsible for the way music sounds today. Simply not to be missed.

tuesday 24 october
Mediateca de la Fundació "la Caixa"
avinguda Marquès de Comillas, 6-8
20’30h
LE VOL (Berlin)



The reason behind this concert is the presentation of the sound archive Women in LEM 1997-2006, which will be available on the website of the media library of La Caixa Foundation. Annette Krebs, known for her different ways of preparing the electric guitar, exploring its possibilities and those of its amplification. Krebs is an improviser and composer, and among her vast list of collaborators is Steffi Weismann, performer, vocal artist and video creator, who combines in her sound work techniques that range from the use of computer programs for voice to that of prepared everyday objects, and, of course, involving her own voice. Together they form Le Vol.

friday 27 october
MACBA Auditori
plaça dels Àngels, 1
22 h.
SONS OF BRONSON (Barcelona)
(www.myspace.com/sonsofbronson)



The Mano Dura label has its best asset in Sons of Bronson and their “slap-in-the-face” of sound. Toni López and Jesús Brotons, members of the sound projects Bukkake and Música Veneno, as well as music journalists, paid tribute to Charles Bronson (of course), Richard Widmark and James Woods, by starting this project in 2001. But it wasn’t until the release of the tremendous cd Niñas y Marisco (2006) that the city fell at their feet and their few concerts of sickly industrial wrinkliness, their sonic pillage and their free-death-ambient plunderphony have exalted everyone with the clear statement that there’s been enough whingeing and now it’s time for some action.

friday 27 october
C3 Bar (Bar del Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
Montalegre, 5 (entrada CCCB)
23,30 h.
SONIC BITCH (Moscou)



Olga Molchanova, a.k.a. Sonic Bitch, was born on the very border between Europe and Asia. She has dealt with nomads and aristocrats in Kazahstan’s Gulag and since her childhood she’s been exposed to an explosive mix of music (as well as lifestyles). The result is her music, which is eclectic, cinematic, melancholic, Russian, jazzy, dark and heavenly all at once. She currently lives in London, and from there she has taken her music to the United States, South Africa, Europe, Russia... alternating her collaborations with The Orb and Talvin Singh with appearances at S&M clubs such as the Brixton Mass-Torture Garden.
Starting at 12:30 PM dj FRANCESC FELIU

saturday 28 october
Caixafòrum Auditori
avinguda Marquès de Comillas, 6-8
22 h.
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE BARCELONA
dirigida per Òscar Vidal
Me gusta como me maltratas de MIREIA TEJERO (Barcelona)
videoart de NÚRIA FONT (Barcelona)
(www.nu2s.org) - (www.bcn.es/festes/menu3.htm) - (www.lasreinas.com)



This is a new encounter between the Banda Municipal de Barcelona (Barcelona City Band) and contemporary composition and video art. Opening the evening in collaboration with long-established composer and saxophonist Mireia Tejero, and Núria Font, video artist and a pioneer of video-dance. Tejero has a résumé as extensive as it is varied: Error Genético, La Fura dels Baus, Las Gambas, Alius, a dozen compositions for choreographer Sol Picó… as celebrated within the city’s music scene as Font is for exploring the relationship between electronic image and dance. She has created pieces with companies such as Mal Pelo and Mudances, and she is constantly active as an organiser in the field of the electronic arts.

saturday 28 october
Caixafòrum Auditori
avinguda Marquès de Comillas, 6-8
22,30 h.
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE BARCELONA
dirigida per Òscar Vidal
Despressa de XAVIER MARISTANY (Barcelona)
videoart de HARMONIA CARMONA (Barcelona)
(www.bcn.es/festes/menu3.htm) - (www.xaviermaristany.com)



A tireless sound activist, founder of the Orquestra del Caos, Kòniec, la Banda Aèria, Maristany is the composer of pocket-sized operas and concerts for three thousand musicians, creator of music for glass instruments, installations and soundtracks. Here he joins forces with audiovisual director and scriptwriter Harmonía Carmona, who has worked in fiction, experimental video, spots, videoclips... and her celebrated filmography as a documentarian includes titles such as Muerte de una puta (a vision of prostitution from a perspective usually outlawed and silenced), Bajo la piel del conflicto (award winner at the 22nd International Biennial of Scientific Films of Ronda), Un tal Mulibahan and Sama Samaruck Suck Suck.

saturday 28 october
Caixafòrum Auditori
avinguda Marquès de Comillas, 6-8
23 h.
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE BARCELONA
dirigida per Òscar Vidal
Summer Tears de MIGUEL MARÍN (Sevilla)
videoart de MARIA DURÁN (Sevilla)
(www.bcn.es/festes/menu3.htm)



Two eager young creators: Miguel Marín is as yet an undiscovered talent in this country, in spite of leaving a mark in cult groups such as Sr. Chinarro or the English Piano Magic and being the author of the soundtrack of Son de Mar, by Bigas Luna. He’s the creator of installations with Chu Uroz and Leo Obstaum and sole member of the new project Arbol. A career as intense as María Durán’s who, after wining the Joan Brossa award of visual poetry in 2001, has devoted four years to developing and presenting the sound project Cuisine Concrète currently focussing on the making of a series of eleven documentaries on video art for the Xarxa de Televisions Locals (Local Television Network)

sunday 29 october
Mercat de l’Abaceria Central
entrada per carrer Puigmartí
13 h.
ÀGAPE
ORIOL LAGÉ / ÀLEX MIOTA (Barcelona-Cuenca)

Àgape: ritual. LEM ends its 2006 festival with the coming together of music and words with taste and scent. A marriage of poetry, music and gastronomy. And at an exceptional venue. Let’s begin with taste, sight and scent: Oriol Lagé, psychologist, poet and cook, founded the OT restaurant where Álex Miota from Cuenca turned up. The rapport of both creators is renowned, and with the music, poetry and wine which follow, they will mix a mushroom cream, a marinade of artichokes and quails, steamed bouchon mussels, wild boar stew with prunes and variations on a "musician" dessert.

sunday 29 october
Mercat de l’Abaceria Central
entrada per carrer Puigmartí
13 h.
ÀGAPE
ACCIDENTS POLIPOÈTICS (Barcelona)



They were featured in the LEM Festival of October ’99. In the confined space of the café-theatre they tested their explosive mixture of phonetic poetry, visual poetry, poly-poetry, plain poetry… and humour. The shock wave is still expanding: Theros and Metlikovez have now given over six hundred performances. Someone defined them as “the triumph of the everyday over the mediocre, of simplicity over pretension, paella over art”. Maybe the market is a natural habitat for them. Ágape will be your host. Enjoy! - with all your senses.

sunday 29 october
Mercat de l’Abaceria Central
13 h.
entrada per carrer Puigmartí
ÀGAPE
SEBASTIÀ JOVANI (Barcelona)



Philosopher, poet, wine waiter and activist. Co-founder of Ágape and creator of the acronym: Accidents Gormands I Altres Poètiques Esparses (Gourmet Accidents and Other Scattered Poetics): he’ll be busy choosing the wines in close collaboration with the cooks, musicians and the poets, he’ll also read his river-poetry, which is more than a river, because it also climbs mountains at vertiginous speeds or descends gently by the fastest drops, and he’ll be probably the best possible MC in this multi-sensory close to the festival.

sunday 29 october
Mercat de l’Abaceria Central
entrada per carrer Puigmartí
13 h.
ÀGAPE
MIL COCRETAS (Barcelona)



Umpteenth reincarnation of the musical part of Usted es un colectivo. As Mil Pesetas, they performed at LEM in 2005. Mil Mofetas, Mil Mesitas, or Migminutemen (in this case with Sebastià Jovani), are just some of their names. Like Le Fou Gras, they worked at the proto-Àgape Golafreria Escalivada, creating music for the making of a cod dish by Oriol Lagé. Hara Kraan (tap, Kaoss Pad and small instruments), Miquel Cabal (synthesiser, Polish), Roger Fortea (bass and trumpet) and Oriol Luna (drums), make edible music, in this case, of course as Mil Cocretas.

sunday 29 october
Mercat de l’Abaceria Central
entrada per carrer Puigmartí
13 h.
ÀGAPE
RABBIT (Barcelona - Brusel•les)



Two huge fresh carrots try to make on stage the best rabbit music they possibly can. The result is expedition into the forest of all things transgenic pop-punk, penile, corrosive, delirious mushroom-induced, truffled with concrete sounds, melodies swallowed like sparkling apéritif, surprising instrumental moments and soundscapes of melancholic vegetables for existentialist rabbits. In addition, Improvisation - for explorer rabbits - and ballads, for the more romantic. Happy Àgape for everyone. See you at LEM 2007, and bon appetite!

MATRIU activities

friday 13 october
Goethe Institut
Manso, 24-28
17h a 20h

ROUND TABLE OF FEMALECREATORS,
WORKERS AND SOLICITORS OF THE SOUND ARTS
(www.constantvzw.com) - (www.constant.irisnet.be/~constant/santa_monica/)
(www.clubkombinat.de) - (sonicas.org) - (matriu.org) - (www.femmes-breaks.com/)



Matriu (Womb) is a section that runs throughout LEM 2006 and its importance in the programme is substantial. Of a hundred participants, fifty are women, and this, conceptually, defines the present moment in the history of the festival, since it’s a statement about our intentions regarding equality in future programmes. Nevertheless, there’s still much to be done, and Matriu proposes, in the first instance, this round table discussion wherein the debate will centre on what are the hierarchies, roles and working differences that female creators and organisers need to confront in order to make society, and the sectors of artistic production, aware of their presence - as well building the active participation of the female public. Participants: Montse Romaní, (Barcelona), Laurence Rassel, (Brussels), T-Ina (Femmes with fatal breaks) (Berlín), Dörte Marth (Hamburg), Pilar Ramos (Girona), Martí Perramon (Barcelona), Monike Nicolás (Bilbao), Io Casino (Barcelona). With the invaluable assistance of sonicAs.

friday 20 october
Centre Cívic Convent de Sant Agustí
Comerç, 36
17 h a 20h

COLLECTIVE MENTORING SESSION: THE STAGE EXPERIENCE
(www. gracia-territori.com) - (sonicas.org) - (matriu.org)



Mentoring is the communication of experience. It’s about giving clues, approaching the realities of work, experience, creativity of different professionals in the fields of music and sound. How did they get there? Where are they? Aimed at women creators and future professionals. Mireia Tejero, Mariona Sagarra, Lluna Aragón, Stefanie Ringes, the FEMELEC collective, Io Casino, and Monike Nicolás, will explain their best and worst moments. And above all, they will pass on their experience.

On Friday, November 17th the closing act of MATRIU will take place with the presentation of the study MATRIU 2006, Dones i música de risc. Further information at Gràcia Territori Sonor and Sónicas websites.

permanent activities

WOMEN IN LEM ARCHIVES 1997-2006
Mediateca de la Fundació "la Caixa"
avinguda Marquès de Comillas, 6-8
(www.mediatecaonline.net) - (sonicas.org) - (matriu.org)



One of the aims of the MATRIU program is to make audible, in the tenth anniversary of LEM, the sound creation of women who have participated in the festival since its beginnings. This sound archive will be accessible on the web page of the media library of La Caixa Foundation and, physically, at the media library, from the beginning of the festival.

from the 1st of october until the 17th of december

RÀDIO S.I.S. (SISTEMES D’INOCULACIÓ SONORA)
Inauguració: 1 d'octubre a les 18:30 horas
Experimentem amb l'Art
Carrer Torrijos 68
(www.hempreslaradio.net) - (www.experimentem.org)

In symbiosis with Jorge Luis Marzo’s project, Hem pres la ràdio! (Centre d’Art Santa Mònica), the collective Experimentem amb l’art with the special dedication of José Antonio Delgado and David Armengol, proposes an appropriation of the radiophonic medium to generate a permanent exhibition space open to sound experimentation, where the radio format functions as a platform for creation, presentation and reflection about the exhibition phenomena. Two virtual rooms (one at Ràdio Gràcia, the second at RNE-Ràdio 4, COM Ràdio and Ràdio Tele-Taxi) and one physical: the exhibition space at EART (concerts, debates, conferences, educational and participation projects). All the information on the website.

other activities

monday 9 october
de 19h a 20,30h
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP TO FREE SOFTWARE
AND THE SOUND APPLICATION AUDACITY
Biblioteca Jaume Fuster - plaça Lesseps, 20-22
(www.transversalweb.com)

Coordinated by TransversalWEB, this workshop aims to bring open source programming closer to our everyday use of the computer and especially as regards the possibility of creating music with it in the area of open source license software. The workshop is free with limited places.
Inscriptions at: b.barcelona.jf@diba.cat