Festival Novas Frequências is the Main exploratory music festival in South America.

The result of a partnership between cultural producers Chico Dub and Tathiana Lopes, the Novas Frequências is driven by the search for diversity and the creative use of technological tools under what we have come to call the fine arts of contemporary music. Considered the Best Festival in Rio by the Rio Nightlife Award 2013, the Novas Frequências only features unseen performances in the country. In the case of national artists, the festival curators favour performances that have never occurred in the city before – be it by bringing artists from other states who have not yet played in the city or by proposing commissioned performances by resident artists. Among the artists that performed in Novas Frequências are: Stephen O’Malley, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, Hype Williams, Actress, Andy Stott, Vladislav Delay, pole, Mark Fell, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Aki Onda, Demdike Stare, Heatsick, Lee Gamble, David Toop, Philip Jeck, Julianna Barwick, Sun Araw, Murcof, Rashad Becker, Lubomyr Melnyk, Laraaji, John Butcher & Mark Sanders, Ashley Paul, Cut Hands, DJ Marfox, Bill Orcutt, and many more.

It’s worth mentioning Novas Frequências is the only Brazilian member of ICAS (International Cites Of Advanced Sound), network that gathers some of the most important festivals of advanced sound cultures, vanguard music and related arts such as Mutek (Montreal, Canada), Unsound (Krakow, Poland), CTM (Berlin, Germany), Future Everything (Manchester, England) and TodaysArt (the Hague, Holland). ICAS has the goal of stimulating discussions, the exchange of knowledge and mutual support among international organizations involved with music and advanced sounds. This way, it promotes the community and collaborations through cultural entrepreneurs. It’s a creative platform for self-reflection and learning in a global scale calling the members to constantly reinvent themselves.

The 5th edition of Festival Novas Frequências, main international event of experimental music and sound explorations in South America, happens between 01 and 08 December in Rio de Janeiro with a series of surprises. Among them, for the first time, the edition has a theme, named “RECAP”, due to its fifth anniversary. The programme happens in several locations in the city and gathers 42 artists from 12 different countries in activities that include gigs, performances resultants from artistic residencies, party, talks, panels, workshops and, for the first time, a film festival and a hacklab.

The Novas Frequências is accomplished by Cardápio de Ideias Comunicação e Eventos, and counts on master sponsorship by Oi, the State Government of Rio de Janeiro, the State Secretariat Culture of Rio de Janeiro and the State Law for the Encouragement of Culture of Rio de Janeiro; sponsorship by Skol Music; institutional partnerships with SESC Rio, British Council and Creative Scotland; media support from British magazine The Wire and the online German radio Berlin Community Radio; and support from the Municipal Secretariat of Culture, the ICAS, Arts Council England, the Consulate General of France, Air France, the Consulate General of the Netherlands, DGArtes – Government of Portugal, Project DE.MO./MOVIN’UP session 2015 and Conterflows Festival.

 

About Novas Frequências

 

Chico Dub – artistic director and curator

 

Based in Rio de Janeiro, Chico Dub is a curator, music promoter and artistic director with a focus on new trends and vanguard and experimental music. He is the curator and artistic director of Novas Frequências, festival held since 2011 that integrates the international network ICAS which has over 40 events of music and advanced sounds. Chico is the consulter for ECCA (International forum of Economy, Creativity, Culture and Art), event that will be held in November in Rio and was already the curator for Sónar São Paulo (2012), Eletronika Festival in Belo Horizonte (2013, 2014 and 2015), SESI Cultura Digital (2014 and 2015) and Red Bull Music Academy (2014 and 2015), not including the series Invasão Paraense and Invasão Baiana for CCBBs in Brasília, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (2012, 2014 and 2015). Last year, he coordinated the project of cultural programming from the new Museum of Image & Sound (MIS) of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the technical and deliberative board of Casa Rio, multi-use space from the Secretariat of the State of Rio de Janeiro and FUNARJ dedicated to the development of projects linked to art, culture and creativity, Chico Dub is the founder and curator of the collection series Hy Brazil, whose goal is to map and to
promote the new electronic and experimental Brazilian productions – until this moment, 9 volumes were released. From 2007 to 2011 worked as an assistant director of the festival of audiovisual performances Multiplicidade and is the co-founder and screenwriter of the documentary Dub Echoes, first feature film to show the importance of Jamaican dub to the birth of hip-hop and electronic music.

Tathiana Lopes/ Cardapio de Ideias Comunicação e Eventos – production director and executive producer

 

Tathiana Lopes is the founder and director of Cardápio de Ideias Comunicação e Eventos, a production and projects development in cultural, corporative and social areas opened in 2008. She is the production director, executive producer and founder of Novas Frequências Festival, developed and held since 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, winner of Noite Rio Award, member of ICAS (International Cities of Advanced Sound), that had its first international showcases in April and May 2015 in Scotland, London and Germany. She will conduct in 2016 the 1st Edititon of the Festival “+ Performance” with the main international and local names of performance art. Tathiana is responsible for elaboration and production of Cine Daros it the museum’s courtyard, an open air film festival that in August had its 3rd edition. She developed and organized the opening events of Casa Daros Latino America. In partnership with the visual artist Vik Muniz and the Ministry of Environment, developed and produced the project “Paisagem para Rio+20”. She was responsible for the creation and production of the launching event of the Oscar nominated documentary ‘Wasteland’. Between 2009 and 2011, Tathiana coordinated the production of the festival Multiplicidade. She graduated in Art, Advertising, and Marketing and Business Management and, in the last few years has conducted lectures in universities like PUC, ESPM, Facha and Estácio.
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