EMM’s festival this year in a COVID-19 friendly edition
Yes, our yearly event celebrating electronic music making is back with live streamed events featuring live music by Maltese artists, talks and workshops on different topics, plus you will get to know about music software techniques and how to build a small music gadget.
The Circuits 2020 programme, which will start on the 17th of October 2020, is shaped around this year’s theme of ‘Away from the Comfort Zone’. Workshops will cover topics such as building the ‘Storbju’ DIY synthesiser device, health awareness on exposure to excessive sound levels, the history of music production in Malta from the seventies to today, and representation of the Maltese entertainment and arts industry, copyright and music law.
This year’s participants
Grammy Award Nominee Tom Ammermann will be delivering an online workshop on spatial sound, with the participation of a live and online audience. Discussions throughout the festival will meanwhile be hosted by organisations such as the MEIA, M3P Foundation, PRS and the Malta Association of Audiologists. Apart from several DJ and live performances by electronic music artists including Giacinte, Tina, Hearts Beating in Time and KNTRL.
Away from the Comfort Zone & Storbju
Circuits 2020 will also feature a special project in line with the main theme, filmed at various locations around Valletta. The ‘Away from the Comfort Zone’ project will feature artists such as Acidulant, Carlo Muscat, Dawn Williams, Duo Blank, Jeremy Grech, Keith Farrugia, Luc Houtkamp, Mari Terramaxka, Owen Jay, Ruben Zahra, and Toni Gialanze.
Finally, Mike Desira and Frank Cachia will present ‘Storbju (Noise Monger)’ which will consist of a DIY electronic noise generating device and which will be soon available from EMM’s website with simple instructions how this can be built.
Event Programme
This year’s edition will take place (as in the previous years) at Spazju Kreattiv and will feature a programme of events which will be free of charge and which will be streamed live with the possibility of a live audience in attendance (this will be in accordance with the health protocols at the time).
The live events will kick off on Saturday, 17th October 2020 and will then proceed till Saturday, 24th October 2020. The performances of ‘Away from the Comfort Zone’ will be premiered one by one starting on the 18th of October up till November.
Electronic Music Malta is Supported by the Arts Council Malta.
This event is part of the Spazju Kreattiv programme and is also further supported by the German Maltese Circle and the Goethe Institute.
