Sonic Exploration Network of Southern Africa
Entanglements – exploratory music festival: 24 April – 3 May
Entanglements is a grassroots, DIY, global south exploratory music festival. Our first edition runs from 24-6 April at Chiesa di Pazzo Lupi in Johannesburg and 1-3 May at Ganesh in Cape Town.
Hosted by SENSA, the Sonic Exploration Network of Southern Africa, and growing out of the popular Edge of Wrong festival that ran from 2006-2019, Entanglements is an invitation to listen differently. While much of what you’ll hear is intended to challenge, however, our invitation is a gentle one. We’re not looking to alienate you with squalls of noise or abstruse meanderings on obscure instruments, although there will of course be a lot of noise and obscurity. We’re also not seeking to reinforce the boundaries of an elitist experimental music subculture. Instead, our aim is to create an inclusive, borderless space in which all sounds are equal and genre doesn’t matter.
If that all sounds good, please join us as we practice listening differently together. Apart from a wide range of performances and improvisations each evening we’ll be hosting day sessions where you can participate in talks and workshops on various aspects of sonic creativity, screening a documentary or two, facilitating a deep listening session and more besides.
Close your eyes. Listen. What do you hear? What do you feel? What happens when we stop domesticating sound and allow it to unfold freely? There’s only one way to find out.
About us
SENSA, The Sonic Exploration Network of Southern Africa, is a platform for exploratory music and sound art. Through our online hub, live events, workshops, collaborative partnerships, releases and so forth, we seek to cultivate a regional community of practitioners of experimental, improvisational and otherwise avant-garde forms of sonic expression, with a focus on creating a supporting, nurturing environment, as well as increased public exposure, for alternative forms of musical creativity.