NOTCH08

NOTCH08

NOTCH08 - Comma Coma, festival combining Nordic and Chinese music in four of China's big cities

General Information

Location: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong

Date: October 1st - October 5th, 2008

Website: http://www.notch08.com/ (offline now)

Introduction

NOTCH Festival fuses the frontier of Nordic audiovisual culture with China’s emerging local scene, triggering the experiment in “contemporizing the future” or “de-futurization”.

The theme of NOTCH08 is “Comma Coma”, i.e. “non-stop coma”, reflecting the overwhelming state in a year of natural disasters, stock market crisis and price increases of oil and food. How will we cope with it? Many people have no idea. NOTCH08 presents a vision that we should start reducing to lessen our burden to the fragile earth.

30 Nordic artists with multiple identities are selected as “evangelists” of NOTCH’s philosophy. The music spans across Free Jazz, Improvisation, Electro-acoustic, Psychedelic Folk, Sound Art, Avant Garde Rock, Indie Pop and Ambient/Minimal Techno.

-- from their website

Participating Artists & Schedule

See: http://notch06.blogbus.com/logs/28837343.html

Beijing Yugong Yishan

Ticket Price:Door: RMB 100 / day /// Pre-sale: RMB 80 / day

Oct. 2 Nils Petter Molvaer / Shining / Diskjokke // Norway + Dead J / Jeff Zhang / Mr. Soon // China

Oct. 3 BJ Nilsen // Sweden + Lost in Hildurness // Iceland + Kemialliset Ystävät // Finland + Li Tieqiao / Li Jianhong / GogoJ / Sulumi / Elvis T. // China

Oct. 4 Tape / Anders Ilar // Sweden + Efterklang // Denmark + The Wedding Beast / Gao Hu / Eddie LV // China

Shanghai 669 Greenhouse

Ticket Price: Door: RMB 80 / day /// Pre-sale: RMB 180 / 3-day pass /// Student: RMB 50 / day

Oct. 2 BJ Nilsen // Sweden + Lost in Hildurness // Iceland + Kemialliset Ystävät // Finland + Hard Queen // China

Oct. 3 Tape / Anders Ilar // Sweden + Efterklang // Denmark + B6 // China

Oct. 4 Nils Petter Molvaer / Shining / Diskjokke // Norway + Cold Fairyland // China

Guangzhou

Oct. 2 Tape / Anders Ilar // Sweden + Efterklang // Denmark @ Xinghai Concert Hall

Oct. 3 Nils Petter Molvaer / Shining / Diskjokke // Norway @ Sapphire Art Space

Oct. 4 BJ Nilsen // Sweden + Lost in Hildurness // Iceland + Kemialliset Ystävät // Finland @ Ping Pong Art Space

Hong Kong

Oct. 1 Tape // Sweden + Efterklang // Denmark + Kung Chi Shing / Peter Scherr / John Lee Yiu Shing // Hong Kong @ HITEC Auditorium

Oct. 5 Kemialliset Ystävät // Finland + ... // Hong Kong @ Videotage

NOTCH08 is supported by

Norwegian Embassy in Beijing, Consulate General of Norway in Shanghai, Consulate General of Norway in Guangzhou, Embassy of Sweden in Beijing, Consulate General of Sweden in Shanghai, Consulate General of Sweden in Guangzhou, Consulate General of Sweden in Hong Kong,Embassy of Iceland in Beijing, Embassy of Finland in Beijing, Rikskonsertene, Rikskonserter, Danish Cultural Institute, Caprice records, Full Pull Festival

Further Information

• Notch08 Intro at Cityweekend Shanghai