Culture | Music Musicians and artists from all around the world will flock to Glasgow this September for an “unmissable highlight” in the city’s “cultural calendar”. Sonica 2024 launches on September 19 and runs for a total of 11 days, with various venues across the city hosting a range of talent from Scotland as well as acts from countries including Australia, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The event launches with with Alessandro Cortini, touring member of American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails , who will perform the Scottish premiere of his Nati Infiniti project.
Other live highlights across the 11 days includ3e the RSNO performing the Scottish premiere of John Luther Adams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Become Ocean with kaleidoscopic live visuals from legendary coder Alba G Corral – a pay-what-you-can live concert at the Burrell Collection. The first ever UK performances from Myanmar’s cosmic electronic artist and genre film aficionado Heft and Dutch queer warped classical-pop duo No Plexus will also perform at the festival. There will also be a triple bill of Quebec artists from Montreal’s renowned MUTEK Festival, and a cyborg pop concert of the future from Danish music ensemble NEKO3 and German multimedia composer Alexander Schubert.
With all festival installations completely free to experience and some live events pay-what-you-can, I urge everyone to come and experience Sonica 2024 - and celebrate 30 years of Glasgow’s very own Cryptic for themselves .
