The Open Sound Festival 2019 is about to debut in Matera

From August 28 to September 1, 2019, a wave of sounds will invade Matera. The city of Basilicata, nominated European Capital of Culture 2019, will become the set of the first Open Sound Festival, a festival that mixes electronics with ancient instruments of popular tradition. As the organizers say it is "an event never experienced before, a unique mix of street-carnival, folk festival, rave, art performances and contemporary music, where ancient instruments of millennia meet electronics and sound system, bells, electric guitars, bagpipes, dark-shear, subwoofer, screams, polyphonic songs".

The result of this project is five days of activities, exhibitions, installations, workshops and open rehearsals with musicians and producers from the international scene. The ancestral rhythms of Agotrance, the dreamlike sound of Douglas Dare, the experimentation of JoyCut and many other artists will alternate between the Cava del Sole in Matera, the cloister of the Monacelle and the Sassi to create the perfect nu-lucano sound. The main star of the festival is Yuval Avital.

The Israeli composer and multimedia artist who is also guest artistic director of Open Sound will close the event on September 1 with #Urla, a sort of itinerant "geographical musical score" inspired by the rituals of Lucanian culture that through a series of parallel processions of Lucanian sound artists, instrumental stations and theatrical actions will take the music through the streets of Matera.

All events are free, except for the "Cava del Sole" where it can be accessed with the Passport to Matera 2019.