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Full programme announced for Sonica Festival 2024, which will run at venues across Glasgow, from<br/><br/>the IMAX big screen to Govanhill Baths, 19th - 29th September<br/><br/>The eighth edition of the biennial festival for curious minds and adventurous spirits will showcase<br/>contemporary artists and musicians from across Egypt as well as welcoming talent from Myanmar<br/>to Ukraine, Australia to Luxembourg, Viêt Nam to Switzerland, Canada to the Netherlands to the city,<br/><br/>alongside top homegrown Scottish talent.<br/><br/>Sonica 2024 will open on 19th September with the Scottish premiere of Nati Infiniti by Nine Inch<br/><br/>Nails’ Alessandro Cortini<br/><br/>Other live highlights across the eleven days including the RSNO performing the Scottish premiere<br/>of John Luther Adams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Become Ocean with kaleidoscopic live visuals from<br/>legendary coder Alba G. Corral; a pay-what-you-can live concert at the Burrell from Scottish<br/>Ensemble inspired by the art and architecture of the collection; the first ever UK performances from<br/>Myanmar’s cosmic electronic artist and genre film aficionado Heft and Dutch queer warped<br/>classical-pop duo No Plexus; a triple bill of Quebec artists from Montreal’s renowned MUTEK<br/>Festival; a cyborg pop concert of the future from Danish music ensemble NEKO3 and German<br/>multimedia composer Alexander Schubert; Harry Gorski-Brown exploring the limits of the bagpipes;<br/>Michael Begg reflecting on his time as musician in residence aboard the Royal Navy’s Antarctic ice<br/>patrol ship; Alex Smoke summoning the sounds of colliding worlds in Govanhill Baths and the<br/><br/>return of Australian AV legend Robin Fox<br/><br/>Free installations across the city include the UK premiere of Celine Daemen’s Venice Film Festival<br/>Award-winning VR opera starring one headset wearer, a pack of wild dogs and a horse in trouble;<br/>Ukrainian artist Kseniia Shcherbakova exploring how interpersonal bonds are strengthened through<br/>the trauma of war; Quebeçois artist Bill Vorn creating an ICU for sickly robots; emigre Glasgow-<br/>based artist Andrey Chugunov attempting to erase the data of corruption and two new public<br/>artworks for Glasgow City Chambers, Ahmed El Shaer’s virtual reality tour inspired by the city’s<br/>cryptic crest and composer Amble Skuse’s new soundscape for the Lamp of Remembrance.<br/>Sonica Festival 2024 is the culmination of a celebration of 30 years of Glasgow’s Cryptic as world-<br/><br/>renowned award-winning producers of unique experiences.<br/><br/>The programme has been announced for the eighth edition of Sonica, Glasgow’s large-scale festival for<br/>curious minds and adventurous spirits. From 19th - 29th September, Sonica will bring some of the world’s<br/>top music and audiovisual artists to the city, alongside showcasing some of Scotland’s top homegrown<br/>talents. The festival offers a packed 11 days of city-wide live concerts, installations and events at vibrant<br/>venues ranging in scale from the IMAX (Scotland’s biggest screen), Tramway One and the Burrell<br/>Collection to the Glad Cafe and Govanhill’s Romalav and