MADEIRADIG

About the MADEIRADIG
The MADEIRADIG Festival is a unique Adventure in extra-ordinary Music. Each December the Portuguese island - celebrated as the 'paradise island' and 'floating garden' - is transformed into a hotbed of digital culture. The festival on the storied volcanic island, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, features stunning and inimitable line-up, a landscape to match and attractive spring temperatures. This is an avantgarde Trip through the world of serious new & contemporary music.

MADEIRADIG Festival 2011 | 2 - 5.12.2011 | Madeira Island / Portugal

MADEIRA ISLAND / PONTA DO SOL / PORTUGAL

Madeira Island just around the corner of any city in Europe, the island that as sun all year around, a place still to be discovered. Any part of the island is very special, mixing African vegetation with European. The northern part of the island you have the feeling that sometimes you are in Asia with the green valleys and the typical “ Laurissilva” trees.

The centre seems like a mix of Swiss Alps with the country side of England with the old Properties from the British and beautiful fields that surround them. Along the coastline you couldn’t get more African feeling, the rocks and gardens full of different flowers so close to the warm blue ocean.

MADEIRA ISLAND / PORTUGAL

The History

MADEIRADIG was created in 2004, filling a gap in Madeira’s cultural events in the field of multimedia and digital arts. The Festival aimed to bring to Madeira international top level artists from music, film, video, computer art and photography and also to motivate Madeiran artists to create new works in these fields.

Line-Up 2011

KTL = Stephen O'Malley (US) & Peter Rehberg (AT), Nadja = Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff) (CA), Taylor Deupree (US) & Jerome Faria (PT), Lee Ranaldo (US) + Manuel Mota (PT), Oneohtrix Point Never (US), Deaf Center (NO), Tim Hecker (CA) and Aki Onda (US/JP).

After Show Events with Schneider TM (DE) & Markus Detmer (DE) DJ (Staubgold), Thomas Bücker (DE) DJ (Jean-Michel) and there are more to be announced soon...

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2010 | Ben Frost, Janek Schaefer, PITA (aka. Peter Rehberg), The Beautiful Schizophonic, Peter Broderick, Caro Mikalef and Stephan Mathieu, Simon Whetham and Hugo Olim and more

After Show Events with Max Tundra, Clara Hill, Nosed & Stefan Botev, Thomas Bücker & Michael Rosen, KOMO - an audiovisuelle Performance by Markus Mehr & Stefanie Sixt.

2009 | Alva Noto, Murcof, Jean-Michael & Band, Christ., Zavoloka + Laetitia Morais, Gigantiq, Felix Kubin, Hugo Olim and Jerome Faria, Jade, Clara Hill, Jason Forrest

After Show Events with Clara Hill, Jason Forrest, Thomas Bücker & Michael Rosen DJs and more...

What does it sound like when volcanoes start to whisper?
MADEIRADIG Festival 2011 | 2 - 5.12.2011 | Madeira Island / Portugal