ME_MMIX, dedicated to electronic and mixed music, video creations and hybridizations, brought together —this Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, at Can Balaguer (Palma)— more than 900 people during the performances and sound experiences that opened the seventh edition of the festival.

Tribute to Pierre Boulez with the screening of Notations

The event began with the screening of the documentary Notations in tribute to composer Pierre Boulez, presented by photographer Marion Kalter (co-author of the film together with Andreas Brehmer).

Kalter, who over more than five decades of her career has portrayed key cultural figures such as Susan Sontag, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras and Éric Rohmer, highlighted the personal dimension of Boulez, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, on the centenary of his birth.

A second tribute: Luciano Berio

The festival’s first day also featured another tribute, this time by clarinetist Rafel Caldentey to Italian composer Luciano Berio.

Friday’s program was completed with virtuoso violinist Gregor Dierck, a concert by the group Alter Face, and an electroacoustic session led by Sebastian Shottke with the collaboration of members of the University Choir.

Saturday: music for families and local talent

On Saturday morning, family audiences enjoyed the interactive concert by Zulu Zulu.

At sunset it was time for the local talent: Geometrical Sardine, K12, Ensemble TEC, and a new electroacoustic session that included the premiere of Dialectes Marins by Joan Lluís Escrivà.

This weekend also saw the recording of the first ME_MMIX PPodcast, titled From Inclusion to Co-responsibility. It was moderated by Margalida Mateu and featured Tina Codina, Miguel Eek, Belén Martínez and Maria Jesús Riera.

The festival continues on Wednesday with one of the highlights

The festival’s activity will resume on Wednesday with one of the most notable moments of this edition: the screening, at the Teatre Principal of Palma, of three Buster Keaton short films in dialogue with cinema-concert maestro Martin Matalon.

Visual poetry, surrealism and constant surprise come together in a performance bearing the hallmark of Multilatérale, one of Europe’s most prestigious collectives in experimental music and fusions with theatre, dance, digital arts, literature and film.