No Idea Festival 2018
February 22-25, 2018
All info on festival artists and venues: noideafestival.com

The 15th annual No Idea Festival brings together a selection of artists whose work and participation in the festival has played a role in our development. These artists will be joined by musicians from around the world performing in the festival for the first time.

Audience witness the full spectrum of an artist’s work as they move through new, festival-curated first-time meetings, to emerging groups, to their most established working ensembles.

Line up
Thomas Lehn → analog synthesizer (vienna)
Marcus Schmickler → laptop (cologne)
Judith Hamann → cello (melbourne)
Bonnie Jones → electronics (baltimore)
Tetuzi Akiyama → guitar (tokyo)
Greg Saunier → drumset (baltimore)
Akira Sakata → alto saxophone, clarinet, voice (tokyo)
Marshall Trammell → drumset (kansas city)
Bhob Rainey → soprano saxophone, laptop (philadelphia)
Birgit Ulher → trumpet, radio, objects (hamburg)
Juanjosé Rivas → electronics (mexico city)
Juan García → double bass (mexico city)
– – → percussion, electronics, text (vancouver)
Sean O’Neill → electronics, light (austin)
Damon Smith → double bass (boston)
Liz Tonne → voice (dallas)
Chris Cogburn → percussion, electronics (austin / mexico city)
Raquel Bell → voice, organ (austin)
Parham Daghighi → guitar (austin)
Stefan Gonzalez → drum set (dallas)