THE ICAS SUITE
4 day festival of festivals
2011

Following the small but splendid ICAS KITCHEN, which cooked up the goods during CTM.11 for several days in the Paloma Bar, the four day ICAS SUITE caters for a wide array of tastes and foreign tongues during the second Berlin Music Week (7. – 10. September 2011): ICAS/ECAS-member festivals from Europe and North and South America  present a selection of their work and the most exciting artists in their networks at various venues in Berlin (Festsaal Kreuzberg, Blumenbar, Monarch, Paloma, West Germany).

The ICAS SUITE’s broad musical spectrum reflects ICAS members’ open-ended approach to issues of form encompassing the whole panorama of contemporary and experimental music presently holding out on the fringes of forced marketability. In an eclectic mix of club music, avant-Pop, experiment, listening, noise and improvisation, the ICAS SUITE club nights, concerts and performance gigs showcase established as well as up-and-coming artists from the member festivals’ home turf: a great deal of talent yet to discover.

Furthermore, the ICAS SUITE's purpose is to comunicate the ideas and aims behind the ICAS and ECAS networks to a wider audience.

Artists:
2562, Antilles, Benjamin L. Aman, Canibal Negro, Conforce, Deadbeat / Lillevan, Dirk Dresselhaus, Dunian, Edgars Rubenis, Fauna, Islaja, Jac Bérrocal / Vincent Epplay / David Fenech, Jacob Korn & Cuthead Aka Kornhead, Jam City, Jess & Crabbe, Jonsson / Alter, Kassem Mosse, Los Refrescos aka Andrés Bucci, Argenis Brito & Miguel Toro, Mārtiņš Roķis, Midaircondo & Michala Østergaard-Nielsen, Miosine, Mokira, Ossie, Peter Van Hoesen, Popper-C, Preslav Literary School, Rochite, Secousse Sound System, Sohrab, Table, Teve, The Magic State, The Mole, Toy Selectah, Un Mono Azul, Why Am I Mr Pink?, and many more...

Participating festivals:
CTM (Berlin), CynetArt (Dresden), Dis-Patch (Belgrade), Full Pull (Malmö), Insomnia (Tromsø), Les Siestes Electroniques  (Toulouse), MUTEK Argentina (Buenos Aires), MUTEK Chile (Santiago de Chile), MUTEK Mexico (Mexico City), MUTEK (Montréal), ORF Musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst (Graz), RIAM (Marseille), Rokolectiv (Bucharest), Skanu Mesz (Riga), Sperm (Prague), TodaysArt (Den Haag & Brussels), Unsound (Krakow).

Funded by Culture Programme of the European Union, European Fonds for Regional Development, Initiative Musik. In collaboration with Berlin Music Week, Festsaal Kreuzberg, ICAS, ECAS and others.