21. - 26.10.: Elevate Festival 2009 | Graz / AT

Festival for contemporary music, art and political discourse - 21.10. -26.10.2009

Five nights packed with concerts, live acts, and DJs from all over the world. Five days of lectures, discussions,
workshops, installations and performances from (independent) organizations, critical thinkers, activists and artists.
Most events take place in venues carved inside the historic Schlossberg – the hill in the center of Graz.

Here you can download the flyer for more information.

www.elevate.at

Here's this years music lineup & elevate lab programme:



you can also download and print the timetable (PDF Format).

More detailed information to follow!

The current Elevate Compilation presents music from upcoming as well as already established artists of the Elevate Festival in Graz/Austria. Covering a variety of genres it highlights the most stunning tracks - all characterized by individuality at its best!

01. Reflector - Fields
02. Fontarrian - Lossless
03. Microthol - Fragile
04. The Clonious - Armoury Hardaway
05. B.L.O. - Dr. Bashir? Always Happy?
06. Lori J. Ward - Kiss You All Over (Hadrian & Renoa Remix)
07. Simon/Off - Bilals Echo
08. Ritornell & Mimu - Urban Heartware
09. El Rakkas - While ...
10. Martin Kober - Industrie
11. Sozonov - About It We Are Silent (Monique Fessl Remix)
12. Lalinea - Narrenfreiheit
13. Cluster - Xanesra (Herwig Holzmann Remix)

Downloadlink: http://www.zero-inch.com/hello/elevate

Get your tickets now!

It's a few weeks until this years Elevate Festival takes place in Graz. From 21st to 26th of October you're able to join exciting discussions and experience a DJ and live-music programme beyond mainstream. Elevate continues to keep track of current developments in underground music, offering a blend of contemporary electronic music genres in its intimate atmosphere: from multi-instrumentalist Bass Clef, promising Detroit House and Techno producers Omar-S and eclectic Dave Aju to the minimalist sounds of Byetone and the indie electronic pop outfit Micachu & The Shapes.

Click here for an overview of this year's lineup – free entrance on Wednesday and Thursday.


Online tickets

Those who want to continue partying during the weekend can very easily and comfortable buy online tickets. The tickets will be sent via email. Self printed tickets will be scanned at the door at the festival. Customers then get a wristband for a valid ticket.

For further booking offices look here.

Pat Mooney: leading expert on food crisis

Internationally well-known scientists and thinkers are visiting Graz for this years Elevate Festival from 21th to 26th October. Pat Mooney, for instance, from Canada is internationally deemed one of the leading experts on the food crisis, the depletion of genetic resources, as well as on the risks and dangers of genetic engineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and geoengineering. Pat Mooney was also awarded the Right Livelihood Award. Mooney is one of the guest speakers at the Elevate Opening on Wednesday the 21th October.

He`s also going to participate in a panel discussion on Friday 23th October, where he is going to point out the interconnections between the climate crisis, the energy crisis and the food crisis.

The deep and fundamental interconnection between the global crises will also be discussed in the final panel discussion on Saturday 24th October. Besides Mooney also Geoff Tansey, David Barstow and Gabriele Michalitsch will participate.


David Barstow: Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

New York Times Journalist David Barstow is another guest at this years Festival. In 2009 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. His piece "Message Machine: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand" revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq.

What will the future of journalism look like? This main question is going to be discussed with Barstow and other participants in another panel discussion.

And we are also looking forward to the final panel discussion, where the global crises will be placed in context to each other.


New: Recommended Reading Section

Those who want to have further information on the Elevate guests can find a collection of texts and links at the Elevate homepage.




Elevate is touring through different countries for ten days, presenting local artists as well as this years festival programme. The Elevate tour is going to stop two more times: the events will take place this Friday the 9th october in Zagreb and the day after in Vienna at the Planetarium. Artists like Scuba, [a]pendics shuffle, DJ Glow, el rakkas and IZC, M.A.R.S. and Funk Guru are going to perform.

Here you can see the lineup of Zagreb.

And here you get an overview of the artists who are going to perform in Vienna.

Here you can see pictures from the events in Graz, Bratislava and Ljubljana.

Recently the documentary "The Yes Men Fix the World" had it's premiere in New York. On Saturday 24th October Elevate is bringing the film to Austria. The filmscreening is starting at 8.30pm at the Forum Stadtpark. Free entrance!

"The Yes Men are anti-corporate troublemakers who get themselves invited to high-level corporate conferences and onto television, where they hilariously unmask global injustice. They are the 21st century’s answer to Abbie Hoffman, and like him they care less abut changing consciousness than changing policy. Announcing, as faux spokespeople for Dow Chemical, that the company will at last take full financial responsibility for the victims of the Bhopal disaster, they create a media sensation.(...) The Yes Men collaborated on the entirely fake issue of The New York Times, originally printed last fall, to the great amusement of many. They don’t exactly speak truth to power — but their lies are just as powerful and very, very funny."


Links:

http://info.interactivist.net/node/13117
http://www.filmforum.org/
http://www.nytimes-se.com/
http://nypost-se.com/

Click here to watch the trailer.

King Midas Sound is the duo of Kevin Martin, known for his groundbreaking work over the last decade as The Bug, teamed with Roger Robinson, reputed writer and spoken word performer. The pair first worked together in 2003 on The Bug's Pressure album, but within these King Midas grooves, the visceral drive characteristic of The Bug's fevered sound is replaced by deeper core energies, and graced with Robinson's gentle soul lilt, the combination is blissfully, crushingly powerful. read more...

Jon Hopkins is a musical shapeshifter: a composer, pianist and a self-taught studio wizard. He makes big, bold electronic music using walls of synths, twinkling melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. Hopkins's aesthetic is perpetually intriguing. He transcends genres, melding digital coldness with subtle, bucolic textures; veering from skewed elegance to strange, unsettling depths. Insides artfully constructed, unparalleled palette of rhythmic loops and treated piano can be partly explained by Hopkins' unusual adolescence; he was a child piano prodigy before discovering the bleeps and beeps of dance music. read more...

Since 2006, people around the world have been able to tune in to panel discussions and lectures at the Elevate Festival over the internet via live videostreaming. 2009 is no exception. In cooperation with FH Joanneum in Graz (Graz University of Applied Sciences), in the areas of Journalism & Corporate Communication and Information design, as well as in conjunction with a large team of engaged young film makers, this Do-It-Yourself project is brought into being once more.

All panel discussions from Dom im Berg, as well as opening events, selected live music acts, and many more exciting events promise a diverse program for all those who can`t be present on site to follow Elevate in person.

2009 will also be the first time that the videostream public has a chance to give interactive feedback: a specially installed system will allow you to participate in live chat.

One more premiere will take place this year: Okto.tv will air the panel discussions via livestreaming on cable TV. Okto is a cable network available from UPC as well as from aon Digital TV. There is additional live streaming to be viewed at http://www.okto.tv

Tune in to the Elevate livestream at http://live.elevate.at! (starts Oct. 21 2009)