Seventh Wave, Festival of Electronic Music
Fifth Electronic Music Festival comes to Birmingham and this time around it includes an all-day free electronic music event under the name West Midlands Synth Network, featuring talks, demonstrations, interactive sessions, synth manufacturer attendance, a room for attendees to set up and show off their synth gear and a number of free live performances!
The fifth ‘The Seventh Wave Festival of Electronic Music’ takes place across three days Fri 9th, Sat 10th and Sun 11th March. For a relatively small festival The Seventh Wave continues to get some of the biggest names in electronic and progressive music.
This time around you can feast your eyes (and ears!) on Wolfgang Flur (ex-Kraftwerk) who, let’s not forget, is one of the original members of Kraftwerk and Ulrich Schnauss, who as well as being a distinguished solo performer in his own right is a ‘modern day’ member of electronic giants Tangerine Dream. To cap it all, the Festival finishes with Ian Boddy (DiN Record Label Owner) who is one of the founding fathers of the electronic music scene in the United Kingdom.
Tickets can be purchased for the individual paid events from Skiddle at https://www.skiddle.com/groups/theseventhwave/.
For free events just turn up on the day. No advance ticket reservation required. Events run from 10.00 am until 5.00 pm.
The West Midlands Synth Network event is on Sat 10th March
There is an opportunity for members of the public to take part in this event (have a dedicated space in the Modular Meet Room or set up something interesting in one of the side rooms).
Live artists currently booked: Very Special Surprise Live Guest (announced on the day!), Marta SmiLga (from Latvia), Defunkt Dialekt, Earth Is Flat, John Biddulph, Darkroom, Andrew Heath, Phonsonic, Concept Devices, Axxent Opaque …… and a live ‘synth jam’ by the Leamington Spa Home Electronic Music Society.
Talks/demonstrations by Korg, Expert Sleepers and BIMM Institute Birmingham (BIMM will be taking over one of the rooms and creating the ‘BIMM Experience’). Birmingham based Giraffe Audio will also be curating a room and will be working with Source Distribution (who represent Arturia and Moog) amongst others.
VJ, Musician and Birmingham based artist Leon Trimble will be curating a room.
Several companies from the synth and modular world will have display stands on the day and will be bring along some amazing pieces of kit. In attendance will be Korg, Novation, Erica Synths (from Latvia), Expert Sleepers, Abstract Data, Lamond Design, PMT Birmingham .... and others who we are in the process of confirming. There will be a rolling 'video'/visual room and one or two special guests on the day as well!
Sound On Sound will also be there so come along and say hello.
