ISPOD BINE, sound art festival

ISPOD BINE, sound art festival launched in 2016 in Split, Croatia, with a sharp idea to bring sound art closer to the general public, glitched to enable education and collaborations in the narrow hybrid contemporary field of sound art in and from many different perspectives. 2024 is the ninth consecutive year of production and organization of this specialized hybrid festival in Split, which has developed its audience and creates new international sound art presentations and collaborations here and now.

Although experimental music festivals in the world date from the 1960s, experimental and improvisational music scene in Croatia is largely neglected, in contrast to the scene in the neighboring countries and in Europe and worldwide. This scene, although there are outstanding representatives in Croatia, has only few festivals and specialized clubs in Croatia, and usually takes place on the sidelines and in the off programs of jazz and audio art festivals and festivals of contemporary music. Publishing, criticism and reception of this type of art are also small, because it has no commercial note nor great visibility and popularity, and national and local public issuance for it are insufficient for shaped and continuous development of the scene. So we decided to launch this festival of improvisation and experimental music and sound art, first of all to bring the general public closer to the Croatian artists who deal with this kind of contemporary art, but also to host improvised and experimental artists from abroad in Croatia, and also to encourage cooperation between Croatian and international musicians, get the audience closer to the different types of sound art, and ultimately educate the public and offer them a quality program specializing in the sound art.

ISPOD BINE, sound art festival is composed of experiments of various kinds, ranging from the implementation of which will take place in the space below the main stage of the amphitheater in the Youth Home, and this will be the first use of the space for that purpose, through artistic experiments where the audience will be able to witness throughout the program of the festival, up to the visual identity of the festival, which was made by the design duo Kazinoti & Komenda, who created the new font for this festival.

The idea and the programming of the festival were made by Natasha Kadin, producer and manager of several experimental musical projects, and Hrvoje Pelicarić, sound artist and sound engineer, who, for the first edition of the festival, selected cross-section of different types and ways of experimenting with sound and music.

2024 is the ninth consecutive year of production and organization of this narrowly specialized hybrid festival in Split, which has developed its audience in these 9 years and creates new sound art professionals every year, positioning itself as one of the most significant festivals of this type of art in Croatia, the region and Europe.