CLASH is an ode to art

Art at a music festival often degenerates into decoration, but that certainly does not apply to Groningen's CLASH. 'We don't want art to disappear in the programming, but rather to get full attention. We think it deserves that,' says organiser Milou de Boer. Fifty per cent of CLASH's programming budget goes to art, and it showed. A huge flapping canvas, a shower of sparks and 14 singing glass bells collided with the thumping electronic beats and kept ...