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The MADEIRADIG Festival is a unique Adventure in extra-ordinary Music. Each December the Portuguese island - celebrated as the 'paradise island' and 'floating garden' - is transformed into a hotbed of digital culture. The festival on the storied volcanic island, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, features stunning and inimitable line-up, a landscape to match and attractive spring temperatures. This is an avantgarde Trip through the world of serious new & contemporary music.

MADEIRADIG Festival 2009 | 4 - 7.12.2009 | Madeira Island / Portugal

Line-up and further information coming soon.

 
     
 

THE HISTORY

MADEIRADIG was created in 2004, filling a gap in Madeira’s cultural events in the field of multimedia and digital arts. The Festival aimed to bring to Madeira international top level artists from music, film, video, computer art and photography and also to motivate Madeiran artists to create new works in these fields.
 
2004 | Vladislav Delay + Lillevan [visuals]; Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit with Joseph Suchy
AGF; Quarteto Sei Miguel (with Rafael Toral); Radian; Kevin Blechdom; Jamie Lidell; Mocky (with Kevin Blechdom, Ad Hawk and Taylor Savvy)
2005 | Music Lab (Madeira); NNY (Madeira); Colectivo Mascero (Canarias); Pygar (Portugal)
@c + Lia [visuals]; Hecker + Tina Frank [visuals]; Fennesz
2006 | Emi Maeda + Lia [visuals]; Phonophani + Marius Watz [visuals]; Frank Bretschneider
2007 | Alog; Boiar (Portugal); NNY; Vitor Joaquim + Laetitia Moraes [visuals]; Vladislav Delay;
Ran Slavin
2008 | Cluster, Scanner, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Philip Jeck, Nuno Rebelo, Vitor Joaquim
 

THE FESTIVAL HOTEL

The Design Hotel Estalagem da Ponta do Sol is a main sponsor of the MADEIRADIG. The hotel hosts the afterhours sessions during the festival which mix the public and artists in a relaxed, yet party atmosphere. Set on a top of a cliff, in the south coast of Madeira Island, just a 25 minutes drive from Funchal, the hotel results from the renovation of an old Quinta. Member of the “Design Hotels“ the Estalagem da Ponta do Sol is an excelent example of how arhitecture and nature can be seamlessly joined.
 

 
CASA DAS MUDAS ART CENTRE / THE FESTIVAL VENUE
 
DOWNLOAD

The MADEIRADIG festival description
MADEIRADIG09.pdf

POSTCARD "in the middle of the atlantic is a place that still believes in the richness of culture"
postcard_blue.pdf

POSTCARD "what does it sound like when flowers start to think"
postcard_green.pdf

 

 
NEWS

JEAN-MICHEL (DE) live with band @ MADEIRADIG 2009

After a few releases with Colognian label Eleganz things have lately been a little quiet about Jean-Michel. Instead of seeing his tracks released he started producing a variety of sounds for television, artist movies, and Internet projects. Nevertheless, he contributed remixes for Blackmail, Tenfold Loadstar, and Computerjockeys to name just a few.

After his superb ‘Bersarinplatz Mix’ had been selected for Bjoerk’s ‘Army of Me/Remixes & Covers’ compilation CD, things where going back into right directions. Suddenly, more than one label was starting to show interest in his electrizism.

Jean-Michel’s ability is one to be watched, as he does not fear to play with all different genres out there. The brethren of his making is somehow hilarious, yet stunning. There are techhouse and breakshouse tunes as well as electronic freaky ambient. His ability of converting the unusual into something common leads up to a perfect mixture of sound in his works.

On top of all that, he creates more sorts of sound with other aliases. For example, there is Bersarin-Quartett, a rather ambient filmscore project, as well as BNC, his alias for totally crazy loop-based and rocking computernoises. Before starting the sound production of his new ideas, he had been playing ping-pong with Quappen in order to finish the ‘30seconds’ project, which is a nice journey through two electrifying sound diaries.

http://www.myspace.com/esmogplayground

http://www.myspace.com/bersarinquartett

http://www.esmogplayground.de

 
PICTURES
 
 
 
 
 
MADEIRADIG Festival 2009 | 4 - 7.12.2009 | Madeira Island / Portugal
 
 
 

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