A Trips Festival for the Digital Age

Sónar seeks to bridge the worlds of art and technology, the popular and the avant garde, and club culture and cyberculture

Leading up to each edition of Sónar is a visual messaging campaign that’s come to be known as the SónarImage. This year’s SónarImage, above, was a short film, ‘Je te tiens’, directed by Sónar co-founder Sergio Caballero.

Two series of radio transmissions are currently beaming through interstellar space — bound, their senders hope, for intelligent life on a distant planet. The transmissions contain 38 encoded pieces…