Refraction is a festival and ongoing project celebrating electronic music, visual art & internet culture.

Thank you to all of our artists, musicians and partners who contributed to the first edition. To watch all of the archived performances, you can view them here — or special features with our partners at Contact, Crack, FACT, MUTEK, Public Access and Worldwide FM.

Donations at dice.fm/refraction are encouraged to support Color of Change, The Bail Project, Primary Colours, The Okra Project & Afrotectopia.

Musical Performance Schedule

July 17th : Tawiah + Myrrh • Marcellus Pittman w/ Clips Co-op
Premiere with FACT at 20:00 CET

July 18th : Mathew Jonson • Ciel w/ Sandro S. Petrillo
Premiere with MUTEK at 20:00 CET

July 19th : Yu Su
Premiere with FACT at 20:00 CET

July 21st : Mood Hut AV
Premiere with Worldwide FM at 21:00 CET

July 21st : Contact Showcase: Sapphire Slows • Gonno + Genki Nishida • DJ Sodeyama + Manami Sakamoto
Premiere with Contact at 20:00 JST

July 22nd : Akiko Nakayama • Pacific Rhythm w/ Deep Gnome
Premiere with Worldwide FM at 21:00 CET

July 22nd : Amazondotcom • Hieroglyphic Being Presents SoMuchNoise2BeHeard • The 83rd
Premiere with Crack at 20:00 CET

July 24th : Hitmakerchinx • DJ Stingray w/ BFF collective + SVDK • Venetta
Premiere with FACT at 20:00 CET

July 25th : Nyege Nyege Tapes: DJ Diaki • Ecko Bazz • MC Yallah • Afrorack • Rey Sapienz & Fresh Dougis • HHY & The Kampala Unit • DJ Duke
Premiere with FACT at 20:00 CET

July 25th : Grey 93 Showcase: Grey 93 • Ana B • Blackman & Social Purposes • Maria Yurko
Premiere at refractionfestival.com at 20:00 EST

July 26th : Séance Centre • dreamcastmoe w/ care of tyrous morris
Premiere with Public Access at 20:00 EST

July 28th : Muqata'a • object blue w/ Natalia Podgórska • Omar-S • MoMa Ready
Premiere with Crack at 20:00 CET

July 29th : Daniel Rincón • D Tiffany & Roza Terenzi • Reptant • Regularfantasy w/ Ariana Molly
Streamed with Dublab. In partnership with MUTEK. Premieres at 20:00 PST onwards

July 30th : Refraction Closing
Channel Tres

Visual Arts Schedule

July 16th—31st : Refraction x Well Now WTF
Alex McLeod • Anneli Goeller • Antonio Roberts • Casey Reas • Chiara Passa • d0n.xyz • Daniel Temkin • Emilie Gervais • Eltons Kuns • Everest Pipkin • Hannah Neckel • Hyo Myoung Kim • Janet40 • Jillian McDonald • LaJuné McMillian • Lilly Handley • Mark Klink • Molly Erin McCarthy • Olivia Ross • Peter Burr • Rick Silva • Rita Jiménez • Haydiroket • Rodell Warner • Rosa Menkman • shawné michaelain holloway • Surabhi Saraf • Terrell Davis • Andres Manniste • Theo Triantafyllidis • Travess Smalley • Tyler KlineView exhibition here or at Well Now WTF

July 16th—31st : Harddiskmuseum x Generate Arts

Emilie Gervais • Domenico Barra • Haydiroket • Sandra Araújo • Snow Yunxue FuView exhibition at Harddiskmuseum

July 16th—31st: Audio Visual Effects Filter Showcase
@felipesalves3 • @juliorlixo • @lucii_ferr • @omega.c • @tokyyto • @vitulox
Ongoing at @refractionfestival

July 16th—31st: Robert Gallardo
Ongoing at @refractionfestival

July 22nd

Hieroglyphic Being presents SoMuchNoise2BeHeard
Premiered via Crack

July 22nd

Amazondotcom
Premiered via Crack

Archived Performance from July 21st

Mood Hut A-V
Premiered via Worldwide FM

Archived Performance from July 21st

Sapphire Slows
Premiered via Contact Tokyo

Harddiskmuseum x
Generate showcase

Well Now WTF x Refraction Festival showcase

Audio Visual Effects Filter showcase

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