This year's programme includes three festival nights at the CD Club, Cukrarna and Kino Šiška, a festival pre-event with an AV programme at the Slovenian Cinematheque and an exhibition at the MSUM.

The lineup includes a performance by the British king of bass music, The Bug, who is showcasing his double LP of apocalyptic industrial dubs Machine (Relapse, 2024), the Slovenian premiere of the Japanese futuristic black metal/techno/IDM sensation Violent Magic Orchestra ("Like Aphex Twin with corpse paint") and the Spectral Evolution (2024) show by Portuguese guitar virtuoso Rafael Toral.

Highlights also include The Etna Sessions AV show by Mexican electronic music icon Murcof, the playful performance The Infinite Hip-Hop Song Live! by Egyptian artist and musician Hassan Khan, winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, an AV show by Hungarian IDM trailblazer Gábor Lázár and the mesmerising Polish multi-instrumentalist and singer Antonina Nowacka (SHAPE+).

As part of the SONICA x SHAPE+ residency 2025, German electronic producer PYUR (SHAPE+) and Stella Ivšek and Urša Čuk from the Slovenian multidisciplinary art collective Beam Team will premiere their new show. 

Slovenian musician/producer Jan Bajc Funa is doing a live band premiere of his new project Stamor. Local electronic music don Nitz is preparing a special performance, The Constants of Vanishing, a live ambient soundtrack to a screening of experimental films by Slovenian filmmaker Vasko Pregelj. The Slovenian ambassador of experimental techno/dark ambient, Lifecutter, is premiering his new album DELUGE (Kamizdat, 2025) in AV format, while Ljubljana techno boss Shekuza will be in charge of the festival closing.

SONICA 2025 is kicking off on 1 April with the opening of an exhibition by Slovenian artist Vesna Petersin at MSUM, followed by a performance by Croatian musician and sound artist tonota (SHAPE+).

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SONICA 2025 PROGRAMME

TUE, 1 APRIL
SONICA 2025 - EXHIBITION
Vesna Petersin: Exhibition Opening (SI), tonota (SHAPE+, HR)
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)
20:00

TUE, 15 April
SONICA 2025 PRE-EVENT x Kamizdat Rentgen

Nitz x Vasko Pregelj: The Constants of Vanishing (SI), Lifecutter: DELUGE (SI)

The Slovenian Cinematheque

21:00

WED, 16 April
SONICA 2025 - DAY ONE
Rafael Toral (PT), Stamor (SI), Antonina Nowacka (SHAPE+, PL)
Klub CD
20:00

THU, 17 April
SONICA 2025 - DAY TWO

Murcof (MX), PYUR x Beam Team (SHAPE+, DE/SI), Hassan Khan (EG)

Cukrarna

20:00

FRI, 18 April
SONICA 2025 - DAY THREE
The Bug (UK), Violent Magic Orchestra (JP), Gábor Lázár (HU),
Shekuza DJ set (SI)
Kino Šiška
20:00

SONICA 2025: -STREAM

15─18 April 2025

Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Co-produced by MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art, SONICA Festival Institute, Curkarna, Cankarjev dom, CUK Kino Šiška, Slovenian Cinematheque, MSUM, Kamizdat and Emanat Institute. Supported by Ministry of culture RS and Municipality of Ljubljana - Department of Culture. PYUR, Antonina Nowacka and tonota are artists of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.

SHAPE+ Platform for innovative music and audiovisual art is co-funded by the European Union and ProHelvetia. 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.