More than 60 artists of electronic music and DJs from Austria and abroad will turn the ruins of Dobra and the castle Wetzlas into an international meeting place of the electronic dance-culture. The Sonnenklang-Festival in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria will last five days from May 25th to May 29th 2005. Multimedial worlds of sensual experience will again provide a top mega-event. Fans of Trance-Culture not only from Austria but from all over the world will be expected in 2005 again. Sonnenklang is the biggest open-air-festival in Europe in the beginning of summer 2005. In 2003 Sonnenklang I was the first Austrian electronic sound-culture-festival in the history of the country and stood in the name of a partial eclipse of the sun. Also in 2004 Sonnenklang II was be the biggest and longest open-air-festival ever organized in Austria during the Venus Transit. The visitors came from all over the world. For five days and four nights, 150 participants will build up a magnificent scenery for thousands of expected fans of the trance-dance-culture. 2005 Sonnenklang III will be organized in the name of the “Crystal Children”. Crystals are the most beautiful expression of nature. Crystal-clear wonders form their shapes in millions of years. They are the aesthetic centres of the visual sphere which extricate the spectral colours from the white light and dip the world into the sea of colours that we perceive permanently around us. Every snow crystal is a unique piece of art with a very short lifetime. Even the rainbow is the defoliation of sunlight turning the entire atmosphere into a huge crystal. Sonnenklang 2005 is supposed to extricate the colours from nature and from the depth of ourselves and make them visible for ourselves and for all visitors of the festival. WE are the crystal children and only WE are able to realize this light within ourselves and let it shine on our fellow men as well as on the living and non-living nature around us. More than 60 live-acts and DJs, mainly coming from the trance-genre and various electronic ethno-tribal-ambient- and experimental music scenes, will present their music on four different dance floors. While there will be breaks on the mainfloor during the afternoons, the turntables on the ambient floor will be operating around the clock. On various stages different performances will be shown, reaching from pois, percussions, fire shows to shadow-performances and spontaneously created theatre interludes. Numerous decoration artists from Austria and abroad will present their black-light-installations. The well-known Phoenix Fire Dancers (“Spirit Fire”) will present their breathtaking fluoro-show and the international renowned visual artist El Geko from Austria and BuzzT from Berlin will shroud the place into a colourful moving sea of light with their multimedia performances. The ancient castle of Dobra will be shaped in spectral colours by the well known light artist Lilalutz and his space-creation-team with 40 rotating projectors. Take-off and highlight of the festival will be like 2004 the performance of the German cult-band Star Sound Orchestra whose powerful music is accompanied with huge gongs and percussions. Europe’s most beautiful tent “Schmox” will be at the service for the visitors. For the time of the festival, a couple of bars, camping areas with shower facilities can be used by the visitors. A whole meadow will be formed into a Tipi village, where workshops and other activities will be offered. Further, numerous market stalls, offering dance-ware clothing, jewellery and multicultural food will be there as well. The camping area is separated from the parking space, to keep away the traffic noise. For childrens’ care, a special area will be at visitors’ disposal. The entrance fee of the festival is intentionally very low to ensure the visit for as many fans of this music as possible also from the new EU countries.
Psycraft - Hommega - ISR Sub 6 - Hommega - ISR Star Sound Orchestra - MilleniumRec - D E - Chip - solo feat. Alpha - Millenium Rec. - D Imix FX - SynergeticRec - A Taliesin - Asonus Prod - A Kajola - Austria - Sonnenklang rec/Cosmixed Society E - Pos - Creative Lab Heyoka - Earthdance @ dungeon-floor: Turbodeli Mr. Boomcheck Miss. Princess of Syria