Alex Berman • Lalya Gaye • Organisation of Events

ToToGo - mini headphones festival in Göteborg (2006)

Posted by Lalya on 1 October 2007⋅ Comment⋅ Share⋅  Email ⋅  Print
Tags: Festivals, Göteborg, Live Music, Sound-Art

In July 2006, we organised a “Le Placard” headphones festival event in an apartment in Göteborg. Le Placard is an international movement and non-stop streaming festival where live music is exclusively listened to through headphones, whether on location at the site of the performance or remotely through streamed audio. Whoever wishes to organise their own Placard event can register and book time-slots of the Placard server in Paris.

Audience listening to live music performances through headphones.

This mini-festival called ToToGo (which stands for Tokyo - Toronto - Göteborg - and - more) included both local artists playing live in the apartment and international artists distributed around the globe (Tokyo, Toronto, Amsterdam, Geneva, and Berlin) and playing live as well. Alex was one of the performers who played in location in Göteborg.

The event was broadcasted through the Placard server and as a short-range radio broadcast, with a local audience in the apartment and a distributed international audience that communicated with us via a live chat room projected on the living-room wall. Everyone was experiencing the music through headphones only.

Project Team
* Dånk! Collective: Alex Berman, Lalya Gaye
* sync24: Mattias Rickardsson and Måns Almered
* Le Placard Paris.

More Information
* Festival programme
* Photos

Press
Reportage about the festival on the k103 radio station (Göteborg)