Let’s recap the 13th edition, which concentrated the bulk of its programming between July 11 and 14. This year, the festival changed dates and expanded across the four counties of the Terres de l’Ebre. Amposta, the epicenter of the festival, hosted most of the programming: the magnificent Casino hall offered the most avant-garde music with performances by Pierre Bastien and Tatsumi & Masako; the dance hall of La Lira presented electronic music and pop revisitations with memorable live shows by Verde Prato, Odalie, and the powerful Blu Boi; the Casal de Amposta featured audiovisual shows by Novi_sad and Ryoichi Kurokawa or PoleTwo; and Eufònic nights were celebrated outdoors at the Amposta Castle, showcasing the energy and emotional impact of Infanta, Balma, and Linalab Band, among many others. All of this took place in urban, easily accessible spaces, allowing for easy mobility on foot during the two main days of the festival.

A special mention goes to the impressive Playmodes show at the Ebro Observatory in Roquetes, “Astres,” on a magical night with nearly 250 people awed by lasers pointing at the stars. The festival also took place in the towns of Tortosa, Sant Jaume d’Enveja, Bot, Campredó, Miravet, Paüls, La Sénia, Deltebre, Gandesa, and Ulldecona, both during the main days of the festival, from July 11 to 14, and during the Pòrtic Eufònic, from July 4 to 7.

Eufònic 2024 also expanded into natural spaces of the Delta, with new landscapes for festival activities that proved to be magnificent settings for music, poetry, and dance. This includes the Embarcador de Balada, a small village between Amposta and Sant Jaume d’Enveja, and the Barraca de l’Encanyissada, which hosted programming on both Saturday and Sunday, during morning and midday hours; dance and poetic performance at the Bosc de Ribera; a literary walk discussing the fragility of the territory to the Mirador de Migjorn, facing the river’s mouth; and a site-specific action by Shoeg on a centuries-old olive tree in La Sénia, among others.

The connection between art, science, technology, and the relationship with the territory has been one of the main themes of Eufònic 2024. This focus was evident in many of the 10 artistic installations presented this year: Edwin van der Heide‘s immersive sound installation at the Centre d’Art Lo Pati, which can be visited until July 28; the impressive digital art piece by Anna Rierola, inspired by Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights”; “Thalastasi,” a science and art project about marine microorganisms; and the sound installation of robotic insects by Madrid-based Miguel Aparicio, recreating the aquatic and terrestrial soundscape of various Delta areas, among others.

With the change of dates, Eufònic aimed to interrelate with other festivals in the region. In collaboration with Deltebre Dansa, it presented a new creation by musician Tobia Tauber, visual artist Yannick Jacquet of the AntiVJ collective, and dancers Ching Ying and BBoy Issue, in an impressive piece that filled the festival tent. Additionally, in collaboration with the Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana biennial, there was the poetic performance by Rosa Tharrats and Gabriel Ventura.

Eufònic Pro and the Co-vision project

Eufònic Pro has been promoted and established as the meeting of peripheral culture professionals in southern Catalonia, co-produced with the Escola d’Art i Cultura de la Diputació in Tortosa, and this year has meant a real dialogue between different sensibilities and approaches to science from the arts, both from the digital and performative fields, with more than 70 participating professionals.

In addition, Eufònic has started this year a new cooperation project in collaboration with seven European festivals, “Co-vision – Mapping natural heritage”, an initiative that aims to co-create and co-produce a model of cultural content around environmental challenges through a cultural participatory strategy. On Wednesday, July 10, the first part of the project, which will run until 2026, was presented at the headquarters of IRTA La Ràpita in a day of debate with the participation of different entities of the territory as well as artists and citizens with concerns about the climate emergency and its effects on a territory as fragile as the deltaic.

Eufònic has also presented the first edition of BotCamp, a three-day stage in Terra Alta where several participants have shared knowledge from the hand of four mentors, with a specific program of performances around generative code, automations in art and the ubiquity of bots.

Save the date!

We can already announce the dates for next year, from July 10 to 13, 2025, as always with a series of activities and openings beforehand that are a gateway to the big days of the festival.