In May 18th - 21th, we’ll launch Wetware: the first ever Douban Music Week. Over the last 9 months we have put together Wetware, a 4 day event at Tango & School Bar in Beijing, featuring progressive, contemporary music styles, visual arts, talks, workshops and technology. With the performance of 60 musicians from worldwide, you will have the most magic experience.  

Main Stage 

Wetware’s main stage (located on the 3rd floor of Tango) is its spiritual core. We have indie rock pioneers like Low and Cass McCombs, as well as Stephen O’Malley, founder of drone metal group SunnO))) and modular synth pioneer Alessandro Cortini.  The originator of IDM，Mouse on Mars will bring their creative performance.

2nd Stage

2nd stage

On the Wetware’s second stage (1st floor of Tango), multimedia artists Kim Laughton and Jonathan Zawada will turn the stage into a ever-flowing, ever-changing digital landscape, a world which will develop and evolve throughout the festival. Performing in this digital environment will be legendary producer Nightmares on Wax, footwork originator RP Boo and Teklife member DJ Earl, PC Music’s A.G. Cook.

Wetware’s third stage (at School Bar) is an extension of the ‘Outside the Billboard’ spirit of Douban Artists. Diel Guik, whose works are rooted in the traditional music and culture of the Miao people; Liujiafan, a young band that sings in the old dialect of Teochew; and Wong Hin Yan, a singer-songwriter with a social focus on local life and thoughts in Hong Kong. 

Evian Christ

Mouse on Mars

A.G.Cook

Forum & Live Performance with Cutting-edge Synthesizers at Douban Music’s Wetware Festival

The forum will be held on the afternoon of May 19th on the second floor of Tango. Later that evening, the engineers from the forum will give live music at School Bar.

Synthesizers of all dimensions and from different eras will be seen on-stage at Douban Music’s Wetware Festival. Aside from hearing them in live performances, Douban Music has invited scientists and engineers from four cutting-edge synthesizer brands — Elektron, Make Noise, Verbos Electronics and Teenage Engineering — to present an afternoon forum during the Wetware Festival. What design philosophies and aesthetic concepts do the instrument makers of this new generation espouse? What are their opinions on the prospects of music and musical instruments for the future? Han Han, vocalist of the band Duck Fight Goose, and Benjamin Bacon, musician and designer of Shanghai’s Dogma Lab, will host the discussions.

The schedule of Wetware Douban Music Week↓

Wetware Douban Music Week official site:

https://www.douban.com/wetware/

论坛部分（糖果二层）

5月19日：

欧洲顶尖合成器厂商对谈

论坛邀请了欧洲目前最火的几家顶级合成器品牌，包括Verbos、Teenage Engineering、Elektron、Mouse on Mars的厂商和创始人进行对谈，由鸭打鹅乐队主创韩涵和上海艺术家Bacon担任主持。

5月20-5月21日论坛

西柏林纪录片放映 / 豆瓣阅读·科幻小说家论坛 / 瑞典大使馆·瑞典流行音乐历史与影响 / Hyperdub厂牌创始人演讲 / 新锐设计师毛婷演讲 / Vice影片放映

市集（糖果二层）

从5月19日周五开始，糖果二层将变身为潮潮市集，现场不仅有各类文创、服饰、唱片、书籍、文化周边摊位，还邀请了被誉为“北京最好的威士忌酒吧之一”的赋格、以及专注精品美食美酒品牌的企鹅团联合加盟，除常规的啤酒、软饮之外，还将提供由老板精选的威士忌和红酒，享受音乐的同时，还有美食美酒相伴。

除此之外，豆瓣音乐也将携手造作，为大家打造一块舒适且有创意的“豆瓣精神家园”，从豆瓣征集的以#机器之美#为主题的优秀摄影作品也将在此展出。