The 13th edition of the Eufònic festival is around the corner. In total, we will welcome 77 artists over 10 days – from July 4 to 14 – in 12 villages across the four counties of the Ebre region and in more than 35 natural and heritage sites. There will be musical activities, artistic installations, poetry and dance shows, sound actions, performances, and visual arts in locations such as an olive grove, a disused train station, the ballroom of a musical association, a bullring, the hall of a cultural entity with over 100 years of history, an astronomical observatory, or a pier on the Ebre River, with Amposta as the epicenter of the central days, Friday, July 12 and Saturday, July 13.

Below, we summarize the new additions to the program. Let’s get Eufònic!

Word, Voice, and Music

On the central days and during vermouth hours, Saturday and Sunday, the Embarcadero de Balada will host the poetic-musical performance “Tobetta” by actor Francesc Cuéllar and musician and DJ Judit Cortina. The square in Poblenou del Delta will welcome gavina.mp3, the new post-pop electronic project by poet Max Codinach. Poetry will also feature in the afternoon. The Church of the Miravet Castle will be filled with the voice of singer, pianist, and composer Maria Coma; and Leuclus, a poetic-musical experimentation project formed by poet Gerard Diaz, percussionist Alián Rodrigues, and composer Riccardo Massari. Additionally, British artist Rupert Clervaux will make poetry in dialogue with electronics and percussion, and néfur from Ulldecona will present a new piece created solely from her voice and the sounds of Icelandic glaciers.

Performance, Dance, and Actions in Nature and Under the Stars

The Ebro Observatory will host the creation “Astres” by Playmodes, an innovative proposal of light art and lasers, and “Fractal Listening” by Microfeel + Santiago Bartolomé, an AV show woven from ambient music and trumpets projected onto the spherical dome. The dance company La Taimada will present an intimate piece, “When Body Speaks,” in the Bosc de Ribera, Amposta; there, artist Rosa Tharrats and poet Gabriel Ventura will present the poetic performance “(-N-O-E-M-A-).” The Santa Clara Wall in Tortosa will host a performance by artist Marga Socias, and the Campredó train station will see a sound mapping of the territory by Mapasonor. The Riet Vell Nature Reserve will be the setting for a cinematic and participatory action by artist Anna Moreno.

The Casal and a new venue, La Lira de Amposta

The Casal and the ballroom of La Lira, in Amposta, will be dedicated spaces for audiovisual shows and the most daring young music, both being paid venues included in the Eufònic 2024 pass. In the ballroom of La Lira, we will have Blu Boi, a raw and avant-garde staging about the precariousness and anxiety of young people, and singer St. Frances, formerly known as Santa Monica, will present her delicate compositions in trio format.

The Casal, which will host the previously announced audiovisual shows by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Serafín Álvarez, and the experimental audiovisual live performance by PoleTwo, will also feature “Sirens,” an audiovisual performance by Greek artist Novi_sad and Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa: an exploration of sound and digital video. This show replaces the one by Maya Shenfeld and Pedro Maia, who, for personal reasons, will not be able to perform at the festival. The Casal will also be the stage for formats oscillating between body, voice, and technology, such as the performance by néfur, a new project by Laura Guargh from Ulldecona, and “Human Learning” by Eneritz Tejada, a dance piece incorporating technological devices.

Ten Artistic Installations in Four Towns and One Virtual Space

New additions: Colombian artist Leo Pum will present “Laboratorio sísmico” at the Tortosa Museum, with a performance by RIIIM on the opening day; “La forma de l’aigua” by Marie-France Veyrat and Jaime de los Ríos in an old oil mill in Ulldecona; the LEDs of “Amanita digital” by Marc Anglès in the center of Amposta; “BSM/MTHC” by Oscar Martín aka NOISH during BotCamp; and “Imaginaris”, a brand-new piece by Gerard Valls Montaño in the virtual space Sala Sintètica.

All these works join the previously announced ones: the new installation by Edwin van der Heide at Lo Pati, “Phasing air”; Alba Matilla, Miguel Aparicio, and Citlali Hernández with Núria Nia in the Antiga Farmàcia Ferré, and the premiere of the science and art project Thalastasi in an old lamp shop, also in Amposta. And a new space is added: the impressive piece by Anna Rierola, “El jardín de las delicias,” a 4.5-meter-tall lightbox, will be on display for a whole week at the La Lira Ampostina auditorium.

Eufònic Terra: The Uniqueness of the Territory

In line with programming linked to two unique elements of the Ebre counties, the DOP Baix Ebre / Montsià olive oil and the IGP clementine, we add the site-specific action by sound explorer Shoeg, in an olive grove in La Sénia; a performance around olive oil by Senian dancer Sònia Gómez in the Tortosa Market, and the musical vermouth in the Municipal Park of La Sénia by lāminal, a project by Carles Querol (4hiverns) and Ramon Aragall (Els Amics de les Arts). The square of the old oil mill in Ulldecona will host the performance by the powerful singer-songwriter from Donostia, Sara Zozaya.

Canalla Nights and Connections with Urban Music

The Eufònic nights at the Amposta Castle will run over two distinct days. Friday, July 12, leans towards psychedelia and shoegaze with Linalab Band and Dani Blue DJ, joining the already announced concert by Isidora, the project of Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab). Saturday, July 13, on the other hand, focuses on younger artists and synth music, adding DJ Marie Prude to the electronic pop-punk spirit of Infanta, the dark and energetic synth-pop of Xenia, and the urban music of the duo Balma.

The Casino will host the young singer and producer from Mallorca, Marisol Eichborn. And the Barcelona band Los Yolos, representatives of the punk and new wave spirit, together with Youngbobby & Vierr, will be responsible for raising the voltage at the Ermita de la Pietat, closing the first weekend of Eufònic.

Sound Experimentation and Live Coding

New names to the already announced Pierre Bastien or Aluet. At the Casino de Amposta, Iraqi artist Dania will perform; and Xavier Bonfill, a Catalan composer and performer based in Copenhagen. And on the last Sunday of the festival, right after the 10 am mass at the Poblenou del Delta church, Paumm, a project by Castellón’s Pau Monfort created from Valencian musical heritage, will perform, revisiting marches, pasodobles, and parades.

In the context of BotCamp, the live coding performances by Turbulente and Eloi el Bon Noi and by Lina Bautista and Timo Hoogland, at the Bot CineClub, will provide new visions on algorithmic composition.

Dance, Body, and Technologies

Hybrid proposals between dance, music, and visual arts gain strength at Eufònic 2024. In addition to Sònia Gómez, La Taimada, or Eneritz Tejada, and in collaboration with the Deltebre Dansa festival, a new creation show with musician Thomas Vaquié, visual artist Yannick Jacquet from the AntiVJ collective, and dancers Ching Ying and BBoy Issue will be presented. And, going a step further, we can enter the “Multiverse” of the Humanhood company, a hypnotic dance and VR piece with passes for two people inside an inflatable bubble on Amposta’s Main Street.

Historical Memory and Tribute to a Pioneer

We pay tribute to the American composer and pioneer of mechanical music Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) with a program of activities on the night of Sunday, July 7, in Gandesa. It will include the screening of the video creation “¿Qué sabe la historia de morderse las uñas?” by the versatile Catalan artist Francesc Torres, recovering footage of the Lincoln Brigade during the Civil War. Additionally, the patio of the Escoles Velles will host a player piano concert by composer, musician, sound artist, and producer Riccardo Massari Spiritini.

We will find also one of those activities so linked to the eufònic territory that they could not happen anywhere else. The siren calls of the rice cooperatives have marked the passage of time for many decades, and that of the Càmara Arrossera del Montsià, in Amposta, is the last to be preserved. It rings for 15 seconds four times a day and, following a neighbor’s complaint, it was stopped for a few days this spring. Recognized as Intangible Cultural Heritage, it is one of the few signs that reminds us that we live in a world that is still our size. Blanca Regina will carry out a participative action based in augmented reality that will talk about what defines us as a community and the importance of preserving such elements.

Day and Night DJ Sessions

For the festival’s nighttime DJ booths, selectors like the French Marie Prude (EBM and Italo) or the Mataró-based Dani Blue (psych fuzz and post-punk) will perform. During vermouth hours, DJ Ecléctico‘s all-terrain spirit at the Balada Pier and m8nse‘s electronic ‘perreo’ in Poblenou del Delta. In the context of Eufònic Terra, the house-techno selections of the legendary DJ Rosario at the Ermita de Sant Roc in Paüls; DJ 106, alias of Lluís Asens from Arnes, in La Sénia, and a classic of the territory, Goodfellah, in the bullring of Campredó.

PASSES AND TICKETS

Eufònic 2024 passes are now on sale at a reduced price (while stocks last). There are two types of “Flamenc cansat” passes: the one-day pass (€28, for all activities on Friday, July 12 or Saturday, July 13), and the two-day pass (€44, including all activities on Friday, July 12, and Saturday, July 13). The pass grants access to all concerts and all paid festival activities in Amposta (subject to capacity), at the Casal, at La Lira, and on the nights at the Castle.

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