SuperSonic Festival 2011

The 9th Supersonic festival takes place at The Custard Factory in Digbeth, Birmingham from Friday 21st until Sunday 23rd October 2012.

The event curated by Capsule showcases all things avant-garde spectrum, from the eclectic and experimental. The festival offers new and emergent talent alongside established and international acts. Whilst the focus is on experimental music, Supersonic acts as an umbrella for creative practice in any media or art form.

Line-up

Friday: A.P.A.T.T., Cloaks, Drumcunt, Mike Watt + The Missingmen, Part Chimp, Scorn, Scotch Egg, Secret Chiefs 3, Slabdragger.

Saturday: Agathe Max, Alexander Tucker, Antilles, Backwards, Bardo Pond, Berg Sans Nipple, Electric Wizard, Klaus Kinski, Kogumaza, Lucky Dragons, Monarch, Mute Synth, Nathan Bell, Orthodox, Pharoah Overlord, Skull Defekts, Teeth Of The Sea, Wolves In The Throne Room, Zombi.

Sunday: Alva Noto, Astro, Barn Owl, Byetone, Circle, Cut Hands, Drunk In Hell, Drum Eyes, Envy, Eternal Tapestry, Fire!, Iconaclass, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Modulate, Ore, Pekko Kappi, Selfless, Silver Apples, Tony Conrad, Turbonegro, White Hills.

The event will utilise the venue's many rooms for music, art and film.

Tickets

Early bird tickets are no longer available. A ticket is priced at £75 for a weekend ticket. Day tickets are now on sale priced at £20 for Friday, and £35 fro Saturday or Sunday. To buy tickets, click here.

Films, exhibitions, and talks

The event also offers a programme of films, exhibitions, talks. Whitehouse/Cut Hands front man William Bennett will be giving a talk which will then be followed with a screening of the Vice film. There's a selection of film shorts from Fonal. The Finnish label includes artists Es, Islaja, Lau Nau and Circle, who will be performing at the festival this year.

London based artist and illustrator Conny Prantera will be showing a new piece titled Kore Kosmou, a video installation consisting of photomontage and drawings synced to a series of audio loops and drones. Other screenings include late night horror, programmed by Psychotronic Cinema who will be bringing 'Flesh for Frankenstein' and 'Suspiria'.

Birmingham experimental artists and producers SOUNDkitchen will be in residency at the festival, presenting their 'Cinema for the Ears' plus a concoction of installations and performances in a site-specific immersive sound sculpture. They will also be contributing the sonic element to the Imperfect Cinema performance on Sunday.

The Birmingham Zine Festival have invited some small press publishers to sell their books, comics and zines, alongside an exhibition of zine artwork. Continuing the zine celebrations, there will be a screening of Joe Biel's '$100 and a T-shirt'. Also a panel, From a to Zine, featuring Alex Zamora, Nic Bullen and Charlie Woolley who will discuss the history of zines, their inspirations and how this feeds into modern DIY creativity and publishing.

The festival also offers a programme of workshops.

More information will be here when available.

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