Hear the live recording of Digge Shim's lush liveset combining modern and new-age instruments, at Solstice Festival (Rukatunturi, Finland) on june 20th 2024.

Hear the live recording of Malmö native Rivet "nail a three-deck, three-hour mix of dizzying variety and undeniable fun, effortlessly combining everything from heady rhythmic ambient and subtle experimental music to junglist bangers and live-wire grime". From Solstice Festival (Rukatunturi, Finland) on june 20th 2024.

Archive of the live streamed DJ sets at INTONAL 2024

Digge Shim
SAATANS KVINNA
forlorn
Denzel
Vio Lino
Thomas Bush
juliettehenriu
gab_i

Mens jeg banede mig vej gennem mængderne af skånske teens med A.G. Cook-frisurer og bdsm-halsbånd, noterede jeg mig en uprætentiøs og åben feststemning uden den cerebrale selvbevidsthed, som ellers nemt får eksperimentalmusikfestivaler til at føles lidt kropsfjendlige. Her rakte eksperimenterne og ambitionerne ud over det musikalske og længere ind i det sociale. For eksempel i form af en mærkbar bestræbelse på at skabe mere inkluderende og mere queerede rum, uden af den grund at have behov for at udbasunere det som arrangør.

Intonal är en given, årlig höjdpunkt för musikälskare som drar åt det mer experimentella hållet. Den första sammankomsten sker i år i Johanneskyrkan. Ett lika smalt som starkt startfält står redo, men en akt sticker ut, och bevisar att less is more.

“Intonal dag 1 och 2 – festivalens rum i fokus

Experimentlusten på årets upplaga av Intonal i Malmö sträcker sig bortom musiken. Flera av akterna, under festivalens två första dagar, sätter rummen där spelningarna…”

“On April 28th 2024 I performed Fields of Unknowing as part of the festival INTONAL in Malmö, Sweden. The performance is based on simple waveforms, sounds from site-specific recordings, of electro-magnetic fields and meandering feedback loops. These sounds are mixed with manipulated vocals and storytelling.

Fields of Unknowing is a proposal to imagine differently about everyday life with incomprehensible technologies. Vague memories are merged with uncertain futures. This is an invitation to contemplate and emotionally drift away for a while, to let the mind go to an alternative yet familiar place.”

An 1hr of bass-massage worthy selections that have been bugging bela’s mind for some months.

They dive from 145 to 119 BPM on 3deck - in mutable electro, dubstep, DnB and delectable hand-drum goodies.

This is a collaboration of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

The Brussels-based electronic music composer is the co-founder of Plapla Pinky, a duo noted for their atypical approach to club music, somewhere between rave, baroque and contemporary music. However, for some years now, his solo work has focused on church organs. In 2020, he released Solarium on the Belgian label Vlek: this organ-centric record relies on the emotional potency of sunrise to spawn an experience that is both musical and social. Two years later, he presented Nachthorn, a new LP for MIDI church organ. Critically acclaimed – notably by Boomkat which selected it in their top ten records of 2022 – it was also chosen as the soundtrack for the Chanel Haute Couture fashion show in January 2023. For this edition of Intonal, the SHAPE+ artist will perform on the MIDI organ of St Petri Church.

This is a collaboration of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

The Swedish and Karelian-Luxembourgish musicians Prins Emanuel and Cucina Povera, respectively, and the Swedish visual artist and producer Maja Li Härdelin navigate a space between soundsystem-optimized dub, bedroom pop, experimentation, and quotidian life and sounds, refuting the hierarchy between mundanity and avant-garde..

This is a collaboration of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

The long distance duo of Berlin-based Bridget Ferrill and Copenhagen-based Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, accompanied by experimental choreographer/ dancer Olivia Rivière. The existing duo is known for deconstructing classical components, fragmenting and incorporating them into intimate arrangements, pushing the boundaries of composition. Rivière experiments with obscure vocal-techniques, delving into their materiality and sensory resonance.

This is a collaboration of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Interview and mix with Sarahsson.

Producer, composer, costume designer, and performance artist, Bristol’s Sarahsson fuses hedonistic club with guttural noise, euphoric trance, and neoclassical composition. Dealing in extremes, she draws inspiration as much from the natural world as from gore and harsh noise: themes of bodies being contorted, ripped apart, and combined anew create beautiful and painful scenarios. Rather than using pre-made samples, she creates her own transforming field recordings of marsh reeds and whispers into percussion; she also built her own daxophone, a bowed instrument which under her ritual conjures monstrous blasts and wails.

A unique voice in the landscape of electronic music, Sarahsson brings together her distinct ear for melody, rich textural harmony, and dramatic narratives to achieve awe-inspiring timelessness on her debut album The Horgenaith (Illegal Data, 2022). The live rendition of her album is just as intense and immediate, a visceral experience that rejects categorization. Sharing line-ups with the likes of Bendik Giske, Lyra Pramuk, Leya, Oklou, Varg2tm, LSDXOXO, and many more, her soundtrack work spans Acne’s Studios FW23 Paris Fashion Week runway show, Harpies – about Europe's first trans strip club for The ICA – and Welsh folklore horror short film Nânt.

We headed to Malmö to check out Intonal, a nine-year-strong experimental music festival where eclecticism is no mean feat

Commision for Intonal Festival 2022

Listen back to a recording of Gavsborg’s performance at Intonal Festival 2023

Listen back to a recording of Solid Blake's performance at Intonal Festival 2023.

“At several points over the long weekend of Intonal 2023, the organisers seemed a little uneasy about how well everything was going.”

“Bold Choices”

“Intonal’s mission – to provide a platform in which challenging, boundary-pushing, concentration-demanding art can be celebrated to the fullest – has long since been completed.”

Only in Swedish

Only in Swedish

Only in Swedish

Shape+ talk to Vica Pacheco about her inspirations, creative upbringing in Oaxaca and her Intonal/ Inkonst & SHAPE+ residency

For If-Only mag

For Swine Daily

Live from Tbilisi
FH HF
Prins Emanuel
Esi
Vanligt Folk
Ulf Eriksson

Interview with International Orange

Ahead of their performance at Intonal Festival, Abdullah Mniawy delivers a one hour guest show.

Ahead of his performance at Intonal festival, Cassius Lambert delivers a one-hour guest show.

Ahead of their performance at INTONAL Festival, Maya Shenfeld delivers a one hour guest mix.

Interviews with Ying-Hsueh, RIVET, Maria Bertel and Gregory Vartian-Foss

From experimental sounds in a Swedish church to trance on a beach in Taiwan, here are the best festivals happening in April.

Ahead of Phew's appearance at this year's Intonal Festival and the recent Mute reissue of Our Likeness, Jennifer Lucy Allan offers us ten points of entry into the back catalogue of the Japanese artist, aka Hiromi Moritani