“Sound Forest” Experimental Music Festival in Liepāja. Project cluster “No More Heavy Metal”

This special edition of “Sound Forest” brings musicians and sound artists from Japan, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Sweden and beyond to Liepāja.

The festival explores the changing landscape of contemporary music, getting its inspiration from alternative pop, noise, free improvisation, electronic music and contemporary composition.

The concert features Tokyo‑based singer Hakushi Hasegawa, the microtonal ensemble “Harmonic Space Orchestra”, Japanese free‑jazz icon Akira Sakata, British post-club electroacoustic artist Flora Yin Wong, Dutch avant‑garde vocalist Jaap Blonk, the improvisations trio from Sweden “Space”, and others.

More information on skanumezs.lv

Organised by the “Skaņu mežs” Association for Unconventional Music and Film Art