When is mona foma 2017

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Broadsheet Media. Get the best of Broadsheet straight to your inbox. Even the press conference at Mona Foma Mofo was strange. But, as minutes passed, these loops doubled up on themselves, morphing into something squally and nauseating. You have to be nice. Whether dystopian or utopian, glistening or decayed, the analogue synth has become a metaphor for these visions.

In that light, they become numbing, melancholic. It was beautiful, forlorn and the highlight of the weekend. Nearby on the Turrell stage, perched on a lookout above the Derwent River, the noise artist Scott Cotterell took a different tack.

Using his mixing desk, his soundscapes were all steel and glass, empires melting, catastrophe and ruination. An active installation throughout the entire weekend, the locus of Mess was a tower of analogue synthesisers buzzing away in a dining area. At about 5pm each day, the ambience crescendoed in a live performance by the duo, which teetered between industrial techno and harsh noise in a pitch-dark room.

By contrast, on Sunday, the synthesist and songwriter Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith achieved a lightness and optimism with her analogue electronics, which managed to avoid the fetishisation of her tools: they were a means to a songwriterly end.