“Highly ambitious [..] The biggest avant-garde and experimental music festival in the Baltics”

• The Wire Magazine

Riga, Latvia’s Skaņu Mežs festival for adventurous music will host its 21 edition on October 6-8 at concert hall Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street), with an opening event on September 30 at “Tu jau zini kur.” (Tallinas street 10-3). 

This one-day ticket grants entrance to the opening concert on October 7. Full festival passes are also available.

The following artists will perform on this night:

MIVOS Quartet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va8ZaKj27Xk 

Raven Chacon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpFTM4dt33s&t=5s 

Daniel Blumberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt57833XFQ8 

Amnesia Scanner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzCRXEyVXPg 

The Vex Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7eQa7CmBkA 

Negativland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9Z6yXWlv4 

Max Eilbacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jlmoy3CF0 

Pūres Opera

https://soundcloud.com/pures-opera 

Skaņu Mežs is a member of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art as well as the project tekhnē, supported by the European Union and the Latvian Ministry of Culture.

Skaņu mežs festival is supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund, Riga City Council, the Latvian Ministry of Culture, Goethe-Institut Lettland, Trust for Mutual Understanding Foundation and the Nordic Culture Point. Sponsors of the festival are Valmiermuižas Alus and Radio NABA. 

Skaņu mežs is a member of the international network ICAS (International Cities of Advanced Sound) and the Northern European music festival network NERDS (North European Resonance and Dissonance Society). 

Media partners are TVNET, Rīgas Laiks, Satori and Mūzikas Saule.

The festival will also feature activities of LYRA, a project for kids and teens that is supported by the EEA Grants and Norway Grants funded by Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway.

LYRA receives grants in the amount of EUR 206,256.00 within the framework of the EEA Grants and Norway Grants funded by Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway. The project aims to introduce kids and teenagers to experimental music and to get them involved in its creation. As it is democratic and non-hierarchical in essence, experimental music gives trained and untrained kids the chance to take part in making music. Since the project crosses social and ethnic divides, it is also socially inclusive.

Total LYRA eligible costs: EUR 202,510.00, European Economic Area financial instrument programme Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Culture Cooperation support sum: 85% or EUR 85,000.00, of which:

• European Economic Area financial instrument co-financing: 85% or EUR 175,317.60;

• State Budget co-financing: 15% or EUR 30,938.40.

More info: www.skanumezs.lv