Mixtur was born in Barcelona out of a desire to promote the creation, teaching and dissemination of music and sound art.

Founded in 2012, the Mixtur festival 's mission is to bring new music closer to the public by establishing a meeting point between musicians and other artists whose work focuses on research, on the one hand, and the public, whether specialized in contemporary music or not, on the other.

" We're looking for artists who see risk as an inherent part of their business. We think it's important to offer the public the chance to discover their work and provide a space for dialogue so they can discuss it."

One of the main activities of the Mixtur Festival is to encourage education: "from our point of view, pedagogy is fundamental to bringing new aesthetics closer to the public, not only for non-musicians but also for musicians who don't have the opportunity to approach them."

Each year, Mixtur organizes a composition and sound experimentation workshop led by internationally renowned composers.
This year, 2022, Mixtur will welcome : Michael Beil, Edith Canat de Chizy, Agustí Charles, Ann Cleare - Misato Mochizuki, Isabel Mundry, José María Sánchez Verdú for the composition workshops.
Lotte Anker, for the improvisation workshop and Christian Dierstein (percussion), Nicolas Hodges (piano) and Marcus Weiss (saxophone) for the interpretation workshop.

As for the program for this 2022 edition, in addition to Raquel Garcia Tomas's creation by the German ensemble Via Nova, which Hémisphère son shares with the festival, it will welcome, among others, the Acantho Trio with a creation by Daniel Apodaka, Aslan Ensemble with a work by Benjamin Attahir (in residence at Casa Velazquez), the Italian ensemble Suono Giallo and Rafael Murillo Rosado 's creation, and Biliana Voutchkova and Enno Pope...

Another of the festival's aims is to discover new artistic trends: the Mixtur call for projects represents (also for the festival organizers!) "a way of discovering what's happening in terms of music and sound art in other parts of the world, particularly among the new generations, and this allows us not to retreat into what we already know but to broaden our vision and that of the public."

Mixtur 2022 took place from October 5 to 19 in Barcelona.

Discover the latest 2022 edition in pictures, here