Today begins one of the most unique and also attractive proposals of the musical and sound calendar of the city, the LEM. That is to say, the international festival of experimental music that this year reaches the very respectable figure of 27 editions.
The, literally, International Experimental Music Meeting (LEM) of Gràcia-Barcelona, expands its activity spaces this year, which will host more than fifteen proposals and highly decentralized activities until the 29th of this month
Because in addition to its operational centers known as La Sedeta or the Traditional Artisan Center, this time the map opens to locations such as the church of Sant Joan de Gràcia, the Ateneo El Poblet and the Museo de la Música, in the grounds of The Auditorium.
At the presentation of this year's poster a few days ago at the C.A.T. headquarters, the artistic director of the so-called Dispositiu LEM, Maria Vadell, acknowledged that "2020 was very crazy, in 2021 it started with a pseudo-normality and now here we are".
She and Aleix Salvans, a member of the Gràcia Territori Sonor team, recalled the main lines of this sui generis festival, starting with a memory: "the line of work that we follow is the one that Víctor Nubla taught us", in reference to the musician, founder and alma mater of this initiative passed away two years ago. "The LEM is not a mass festival and it has affordable prices. We work with very clear lines and not only in experimental music. And we also like making people angry".
The line-up -with more than 60% of women- itself kicks off today with the Catalonia-Argentina Trackatlántica multimedia electronic connection, by Jordi Heras Fauque and Gabriel Pereira Spurr., and on Saturday the concert of Veus Lliures, a splendid group of female improvisers with some of the most relevant singers in the country such as Celeste Alías, Magalí Sare or Joana Gomila.
Also noteworthy is the presence of the Orchestra Fireluche (October 14), which will present Segona florada, the last album recorded with Pau Riba. Or the closing day on the 29th with a closing concert by the Danish Jørgen Teller and the legendary Macromassa sound project -propelled, among others, by the lamented and cited Víctor Nubla- at the Museu de la Música
