Sonar İstanbul 2021

Reflecting the perfect harmony of music and technology, the Istanbul edition of Sónar Festival is once again receiving the support of Digilogue in its fifth year. Follow Digilogue's Footsteps in Sónar!

Digilogue Artistic Director Lalin Akalan has undertaken the curation of Sónar+D Istanbul, which owns a series of events that bring the technology of the future together with creativity. Sonar +D, which took place at Zorlu PSM's Sky Lounge, Meydan Foyer and Sonar Hall, hosted many panel and AV performances.

In this period when technology shapes today's world, we put the limits of imagination aside and see the music-visual media feast together within the scope of Sonar+D, where creativity and digital are intertwined. This year's program hosted many visual shows that questioned the dimensions of reality. One of them was Justintonic, which revealed the relationship between the physicality of sound and movement by Gurur Gelen, Barış Büyükyıldırım and Erdal İnci. Ecem Dilan Köse's Human performance, Kerem Altaylar and Katran's Algorave Istanbul, and Introversion in collaboration with Character and Motus Lumina, which evoked a similar effect, were inspired by our inner thought patterns and emotional fluctuations, just like the meaning of its name. Zeliha Doğusan's Rogue work and Zo, which creates a virtual sound and light universe, are some of the memorable shows of the festival.

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Sónar+D's panels on Sunday, hosting valuable speakers, deserve to be talked about at least as much as their visual shows. Orhun Canca, CEO of the new media platform Aposto! and Aposto! While Taner Tuna, one of the music writers and music writers of the magazine, explained what the media means in our lives in the 21st century, Tunahan Mert Topuz and Yağız Genç, one of the founders of the magazine, discussed the severity of the climate crisis that we are facing in the 21st century. under the moderation of many creatives who have signed sustainable works, brought together in the same speech. Apart from the many conversations in which the nature-human relationship was covered in depth, another topic covered was crypto art and NFT. A few years ago, the pandemic, which most of us did not know the meaning of the word, was examined under the title of Post-Pandemic Artistic Approaches. The panel named “Shifting Artistic Practices”, which was held with the participation of the We Are Europe team, focused on the experiences of the artists in this process.

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