Sónar 2025 returns to Barcelona with a bold blend of electronic music, digital art, and future tech. Dive into AI, immersive creativity, and global sound culture at this pioneering festival.
A Festival Beyond Sound
Barcelona prepares to welcome the 32nd edition of Sónar 2025, a festival that has long outgrown its roots in electronic music to become a global beacon for culture, creativity, and future-forward technology. From June 12 to 14, Sónar will once again transform the city into a vibrant ecosystem where music lovers, digital artists, and futurists converge.
This year, the festival isn’t just about the beat—it’s about the next frontier. Over three days, hundreds of performances, exhibitions, talks, and immersive experiences will push boundaries and challenge assumptions. Sónar 2025 invites us not only to dance, but to think, imagine, and innovate.
A Celebration of Multidisciplinary Futures
True to its name as a “Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art,” Sónar 2025 blends techno’s sonic intensity with the cutting edge of digital culture. The festival continues to evolve as an incubator for ideas and experimentation.
From live DJ sets to thought-provoking panels, this year’s edition places a clear emphasis on cross-industry collaboration and disruptive creativity. Music, AI, design, performance, and immersive tech will all share the spotlight.
Three Cinematic Axes: Rewriting Tomorrow
Sónar 2025 has structured its programming around three cinematic axes designed to provoke, inspire, and guide the future of creative industries:
- AI + Creativity: Where machine learning meets human emotion. This track explores how artificial intelligence is being used to co-create music, visual art, and interactive installations.
- Futuring the Creative Industries: With expert panels and roundtable sessions, this segment investigates how evolving tools and mindsets are redefining the way art is created, shared, and monetized.
- Worlds to Come: Immersive and speculative, this strand examines future realities—virtual, augmented, and imagined—through installations, performances, and experimental showcases.
Music at the Core
While technology headlines the conversation, techno remains the heartbeat of Sónar 2025. Festival-goers can expect cutting-edge sets from underground icons and forward-thinking newcomers, curated with the precision and daring for which Sónar is renowned.
From sunlit afternoon grooves at Sónar by Day to euphoric warehouse vibes at Sónar by Night, the lineup will span genres while staying rooted in electronic music’s experimental spirit. Expect moments where AI-generated soundscapes meet modular analog warmth, and collaborations between human and machine elevate dancefloor expression.
Dialogue That Matters
Alongside performances, Sónar+D, the festival’s professional congress for digital culture, will host global pioneers in art, science, and innovation. These panels, presentations, and networking opportunities provide a crucial platform for conversations around climate-conscious creativity, equitable technology, and AI ethics.
Whether you’re an industry professional or a curious fan, Sónar 2025 promises insight as rich as its basslines.
A City Transformed
Barcelona itself becomes a canvas. With satellite events, off-venue showcases, and public installations, Sónar 2025 extends into the streets, inviting everyone to participate. It’s an open call to reimagine the role of festivals in public space, culture, and tech-driven community building.
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