Moogfest 2017 Lineup Set With Flying Lotus, Animal Collective, Gotye

Moogfest 2017

Over 150 participating artists, including FLYING LOTUS, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, GOTYE, SUZANNE CIANI, DERRICK MAY 808 STATE, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO and more have been added to the list of MOOGFEST 2017 participants. The independent, annual, four-day festival will take place in DURHAM, NC, from MAY 18th-21st. This year marks its 11th iteration honoring the spirit of inventor BOB MOOG.

Building on the experimental format of previous years, MOOGFEST continues to integrate FUTURE SOUND (performances) and FUTURE THOUGHT (conference) programming, with many of these artists also leading sessions during the daytime conference program.

Experimental electronic and avant-garde dance music is complemented by thematic programming like BLACK QUANTUM FUTURIST, PROTEST and TECHNO-SHAMANISM that span day-into-night. This year returns with live film scores, an overnight live music sleep concert, prelude to sleep listening parties, long-form durational performances, and presentations by leading Instrument designers.

MOOGFEST has also invited artists including GOTYE and PEANUT BUTTER WOLF to help honor some of the innovative musicians we lost in 2016, including JEAN-JACQUES PERREY, PAULINE OLIVEROS, BERNIE WORRELL and KEITH EMERSON.

Over 40 nighttime performing artists will also participate in the daytime conference program this year, including FLYING LOTUS and ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, who will both headline a conversation, and DETROIT’s godfather of techno, DERRICK MAY, who will hold forth with his own masterclass. The formats for these different sessions all put a premium on experimentation and collaboration.

STONES THROW/LEAVING RECORDS will co-present masterclasses and workshops with label-head PEANUT BUTTER WOLF; former NEW JERSEY b-boy MNDSGN; experimental drummer, songwriter and director DEANTONI PARKS; and autodidactic violinist/vocalist SUDAN ARCHIVES. Legendary DJ GREG BELSON will join PEANUT BUTTER WOLF to drop crate-digging knowledge in a masterclass of encyclopedic storytelling that only DJs of this musical caliber can pull off. NONA HENDRYX, "Queen of Transformation," and co-founder of pioneering Afrofuturist '80s funk group LaBELLE, will demo and host a conversation on her trend-setting wearable tech instruments and, as ambassador of artistry at BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC, will also support with their workshop program.

NEW YORK’s boutique imprint RVNG INTL. will co-present two workshops helmed by critically-acclaimed VISIBLE CLOAKS and '70s CANADIAN prog veterans SYRINX. MANCHESTER U.K.’s acid house pioneers 808 STATE will spread the electronic gospel in a unique masterclass.  Other talent doing multiple programs at this year’s MOOGFEST include PRINCESS NOKIA, RUSSELL E.L. BUTLER, ELYSIA CRAMPTON, K-HAND, COLLEEN, ELON KATZ, MARISA ANDERSON, MARY LATTIMORE, PHARMAKON, NOVELLER, CONTAINER, S U R V I V E, and WOLF EYES. 

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