Novas Frequências is Brazil’s most adventurous and experimental music & art festival. Founded in 2011 by curator Chico Dub, the Rio de Janeiro-based event has played host to pioneering experimental artists form Brazil & across the globe.

Premiere article on Brazil’s Noize Magazine (in Portuguese).

The festival curates and platforms artists in a way that means you are always experiencing artists in different settings, contexts, environments, during the day and night and always resetting focus. By doing this and being a location based festival, Novas Frequências is a festival experience like no other, the polar opposite to the field and single location festivals we have become used to and this is a breath of fresh air and deserves attention.

It also manages to mix Brazilian with international talent in a way that doesn’t put the spotlight only on international and more well known artists, something that in Brazil is unusual as the country is still very American and international centric when it comes to lineups. It suffers from cultural cringe in many ways, however, there is a new wave of Brazilian experimental and underground culture breaking this apart and Novas Frequências is at the forefront of this movement.