Perspectives 2012

For the festival audience, the organisation Nya Perspektiv is famous for arranging the highly acclaimed Perspectives Festival in Västerås, Sweden. Since the grand start in 2004 the festival has been providing the very best in the progressive and contemporary improvisational scenes.


The festival has been hold 2004, 2007 and 2009.

The next one is going to be hold in 2012.


The festival curators of Perspectives 2012 will be:

Lisa Ullén, composer and musician (free form and jazz)

http://www.disorder.se/press.htm

Joachim Nordwall, record-label producer (IDEAL), musician (noise and electronic)

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Joachim+Nordwall


The date for Perspectives 2012:

20-21 April 2012


Line up

The planned line up is as follows (more updates will be available at the festival site)


Sophie Agnel solo (FRA)

Daniel Higgs solo (USA)

Mats Gustafsson solo (SWE-CHE)

SMEGMA (USA)

Ikue Mori (JPN-USA)

Aaron Dilloway (USA)

Sofia Jernberg, Christof Kurzmann (SWE/AUT-ARG)

Martin Kuchen, Seijiro Murayama (SWE/JPN)

Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui 4 (LBN-FRA/SWEx3)

Stine J. Motland, Jon Rune, Mats Gustafsson (NOR/NOR/SWE-CHE)

Dror Feiler solo (ISR-SWE)

Oceans of Silver & The Skull Defekts (SWEx4/GRB)

Raionbashi & Kutzkelina (GER/GER)

Lotte Anker, Craig Taborn, Gerald Cleaver (DNK/USA/USA)

Nina de Heney, Okkyung Lee (SWE/KOR-USA)

Raymond Strid, Joëlle Léandre, François Houle (SWE/FRA/CAN)

Andrea Neumann, Birgit Ulher (GER/GER)

Yun Kan 10 (SWEx10)

Joel Grip solo (SWE)

Erik Oscarsson 4 (SWEx4)

Thymeshift, Hilmar Jensson (SWEx3/ISL)

GoodBoy CowboyDog (SWEx4)


Venues:

The festival will have minimum three venues in Västerås:

CuLTUREN (main festival venue)

Västerås Art Museum (day concert friday)

Västerås Castle (day concert saturday)



for further information please contact

Tomas Nygren
producer

e-mail: http://www.perspectivesfestival.com/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=4%3Atomas-nygren&catid=94%3Aproduction&Itemid=58&lang=en

phone: +46(0)730-274623