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Moogfest 2014 Lineup

Moogfest 2014 Lineup

Moogfest is a celebration that honors the creativity and inventiveness of Moog Music founder Dr. Robert Moog, and pays tribute to the legacy of the analog synthesizer. The event will attract 50,000 people (10,000 per day) from a cross-section of creative professionals, hackers, influencers and trendsetters, circuit benders, designers, programmers, audio engineers, new media artists, coders, and bedroom producers, seeking to be inspired in their work.

Moogfest 2014 will take place in Asheville, North Carolina: Wednesday April 23 – Sunday April 27. Moogfest 2014 has expanded to a five day event exploring the synthesis of technology, art and music.

BY DAY – the event will be the conference style, technology/art portion of Moogfest 2014. Guided by pioneers of music and technology, and co-curated by some of the most important thinkers of today. Including talks, panels, discussion, presentations, and film screenings with futurist thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, artists, and musicians. There will also be synth building workshops and other interactive education and an open source hardware hackathon.

BY NIGHT – is the music portion of the Moogfest 2014 lineup. Five evenings of musical performances in over ten venues across the city, including arena concerts, experimental performances, and new music showcases.

Moogfest also hosts free events open to the public including a 4 day street festival, including new media art installations and live music. The 2 day North Carolina Tech Expo & Interactive Job Fair. And a 5 day new electronic instrument pop-up shop.

Along with inviting some of the world’s preeminent thought leaders to participate in the daytime conference, including multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder, film composer Cliff Martinez,and instrument pioneer Roger Linn, among others, the Moogfest 2014 Lineup invites Moog-inspired record labels from across the world and the music industry’s most respected taste makers to curate their own music showcases.

Moogfest 2014 Music Showcase Curators: Experimental Record Labels WARP Records, Fools Gold, DFA, Ghostly International, No. 19 Music’s Social Experiment, RVNG Intl., and Driftless Recordings, Electronic Tastemakers Crew Love, Brooklyn-based Cultural Organization Afropunk, Detroit’s Movement Festival, North Carolina’s Hopscotch Festival, and Austin’s Switched On.


Updates:

  • Newly added to the lineup – UR Presents: Timeline, Teengirl Fantasy, Just Blaze, Egyptian Lover, High Klassified, Salva, C Powers, Higher Learning, and Craig Leon performing Nommos live with a string quartet provided by The Asheville Symphony.
  • Dillon Francis, RJD2, Darkstar, Audion and More Headline Music Showcases
  • Q-Tip, Zed’s Dead, and Saul Williams Join Lineup
  • Moogfest 2014 Announces Daytime Programming Descriptions, Led By Newly Added Talks With Super-Producer Nile Rodgers and The ArchAndroid herself, Janelle Monae; An In-Depth Discussion With Electronic Music Pioneer Giorgio Moroder; Plus Futurama’s David X. Cohen; Talks With Google’s Brightest Minds; and Film Screenings, Workshops, and More.

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Moogfest 2014 Lineup

  • Kraftwerk 3D: 3 Concerts
  • Pet Shop Boys
  • M.I.A
  • Flying Lotus
  • Dillon Francis
  • CHIC Feat. Nile Rodgers
  • Giorgio Moroder
  • Moderat
  • Adult.
  • Art Department
  • Audion
  • Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks
  • Bernie Worrell Orchestra
  • Black Dice
  • Blondes
  • Body Games
  • Bombassic
  • Bottin
  • Brett Rock
  • C Powers
  • Com Truise
  • Craig Leon performing Nommos live
  • Daedelus
  • Dan Deacon
  • Darkstar
  • Earthtone Soundsystem
  • Eaters
  • Egyptian Lover
  • Ejecta
  • Eric Volta
  • Erika
  • Escort
  • Factory Floor
  • Green Velvet
  • Heads On Sticks
  • Hello Hugo
  • Hieroglyphic Being
  • High Klassified
  • Higher Learning
  • Holly Herndon
  • In Plain Sight
  • Jimmy Edgar
  • Just Blaze
  • Kaytranada
  • Keith Kemp
  • Kri & Amos Gaynes
  • Lapalux
  • LE1f
  • Les Sins
  • Louie Fresco
  • Machinedrum Vapor City Live
  • Mark Farina
  • Megafortress
  • Metro Area
  • Mike Huckaby
  • Mike Simonetti
  • Nick Monaco
  • Nitin
  • Noah Wall
  • No Regular Play
  • North Americans
  • patten
  • Publicist
  • Q-Tip
  • Razor & Blade
  • RBTS Win
  • Riff Raff
  • RJD2
  • Salva
  • Sasha
  • Saul Williams
  • Shigeto
  • Slow Hands
  • Soul Clap
  • Teengirl Fantasy
  • The Crystal Ark
  • The Gaslamp Killer
  • The Jellyrox
  • The Volt Per Octaves
  • Thugfucker
  • Tiga
  • Tin Foil Hat
  • TOKiMONSTA
  • Two Fresh
  • UR Presents: Timeline
  • Wolf Eyes
  • YACHT
  • Zed’s Dead

More info at Moogfest.com

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