[spectre] Rokolectiv Festival 2007, Bucarest/Romaina

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Rokolectiv 2007
Festival for electronic music and related visual arts
23, 24 March, Preoteasa/ 25 March, MNAC

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The second edition of Rokolectiv festival takes place at the end of 
March 2007 and introduces the Romanian public to 15 live acts, 
presentations and screenings. In addition to the already classic 
relation between sound and image in the live performance, Rokolectiv 
questions the relation between electronic music genres and 
socio-cultural codes. In the Romanian context, electronic music is 
still perceived as a division of different genres, each with their 
own urban and social codes and a very segregated public. This 
particular situation is quite specific to the local scene and is 
usually not to be found internationally. The new program of 
Rokolectiv reflects the current tendencies of reducing the 
differences between codes or genres, the oppositions between 
experimental/pop, dance/non-dance, analogue/digital, 
mainstream/alternative.  

Rokolectiv 2007 presents various genres, approaches and techniques of 
creating electronic music, as well as the visual arts which are born 
in relation to it, in the same spirit.

The festival includes a special program, Bouches bée, with three 
performances of the freshest artists coming from the new French 
scene. Amongst them, the sensation of 2006, Nôze, in a never-ending 
freak-house show, as well as the cute and sexy French-American duo 
Feadz & Uffie! Sunday, in The Museum Of Contemporary Art, it's Pierre 
Bastien's turn to present "Meccano", a mechanic orchestra of crafted 
robots that the French artist has been working on for years.

The screening program includes 4 documentary films. Bassline 
Baseline, House, Pioneers of Electronic Music: Richie Hawtin and 
Sound Freaks give descriptions of the specific Romanian and 
international contexts, investigate the iconography of music, 
cross-reference individual artists and analyze their strategies and 
social repercussions.

Details on <http://www.rokolectiv.ro>www.rokolectiv.ro