STRP’s final weekend is already filled with acts by Ikeda, Martyn, and Jon Hopkins, but has much more to offer.

STRP closes on Sunday 10th March with a special film programme in the theme of City of Cyborgs. Films such as ‘The Terminator’ (1984) present a future in which there is a war between man and machine and where technology is a threat. Do we live in an age in which man sees machines as tools rather than competition? But what if technology seems to become truly human? A panel of cultural visionaries will discuss these films and the questions they incite.

The film programme takes place from 13h until 19h, with the panel discussion in between from 15h until 16h30.

STRP will also premiere an opera by Marguerite Humeau and Jameszoo on 8-9 March, from 22h30 until 22h45.

Jameszoo is a beat creator, who loves weird samples and contrarian chords. He mixes these into his jazz and Brazil induced electronic music.

Humeau is a French visual artist who has reconstructed the vocal sounds of extinct animals, such as a baby mammoth, a prehistoric whale and a prehistoric pig. Detailed MRI scans were the starting point for 3D prototypes of the larynx, vocal cords, and the windpipes of these animals. By blowing air through these, a sound is created which is thought to resemble these animals’ sounds.