UH FEST 2023

SHAPE+ platform** for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the European Union, announces the collaborative showcase with Tbilisi’s Mutant Radio. The two-day event will happen over two nights, June 23-24, at Mutant Radio’s outdoor space and will gather more than 12 SHAPE+ artists alongside Georgian acts selected by the radio station. The Tbilisi showcase will see The Stanley Maneuver from Budapest and Thea Soti, both nominated for SHAPE+ by UH Fest.

Full program

Friday, June 23

Levan Luka Nakashidze (DJ SET), ESI , Nziria*, m.a.t.a.d.a.t.a.*, Hui Ye*, The Stanley Maneuver*, Ale Hop*, Thea Soti*, ABADIR*, BMI (DJ SET), Nino Davadze

The Stanley Maneuver

Saturday, June 24

JD J (DJ SET), TeTe Noise, TINA & TEDI, Zesknel, Roxane Métayer*, Maria Bertel*, Jaka Berger*, Qow*, Felisha Ledesma*, undo despot*

More info about the artists here and here.

Thea Soti

After the showcase Tbilisi’s Mutant Radio will become a permanent partner of SHAPE+ in July.

Mutant Radio is a media platform that focuses on various directions: mixes, interviews, educational shows, live performances and discusssion broadcasts that are either live-streamed or filmed and streamed later on. It gathers various artists, DJs, and interesting personalities that have an opportunity to focus on the subject of their preference and their interest. What is unique about Mutant Radio is that it is mobile.

The physical station is a fully-equipped caravan-wagon that is based in Tbilisi yet also streams from other regions and special locations around Georgia. Apart from the live streams, Mutant Radio also has an open-air cafe, where like-minded people have an opportunity to enjoy quality music and a friendly vibe.

The second new partner of SHAPE+ is Portugal’s OUT.RA, responsible for organizing OUT.FEST. Started in 2004, and continuously held in Barreiro, Portugal, OUT.FEST is an annual festival celebrating adventurous and experimental music in all its diversity (improvised music, electronics, jazz, contemporary classical music, metal, new idioms), gathering and mapping, in its programme, music vanguard’s history, present and future.

Both organizations will start their work within SHAPE+ after July 15, 2023

The SHAPE+ member organizations are:

MeetFactory, Prague, CZ
Construction Festival/Kultura Medialna, Dnipro, UA
CTM Festival/Disk, Berlin, DE
INTONAL/INKONST, Malmö, SE
Les Siestes Électroniques/Association Rotation, Toulouse, FR
musikprotokoll/Österreichischer Rundfunk, Graz, AT
Rokolectiv Festival/Asociatia Rokolectiv, Bucharest, RO
schiev/Productions Associées asbl, Brussels, BE
Skanu Mežs, Riga, LV
SONICA Festival/Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana, SI
Terraforma/Threes Productions, Milan, IT
UH Fest/Ultrasound Foundation, Budapest, HU
Unsound/Fundacja Tone, Krakow, PL
OUT.FEST, Barreiro, Portugal
Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, Georgia

*Artists of the SHAPE+ platform.

**Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.