Headphone Festival 2010 - Pécs - Hungary

the 2010 Festival is part of the european capital of culture program in Pécs / Hungary

A Headphone Festival is an Gathering of Music Enthusiasts, Musicians, Designers and Listeners who wants to enjoy the Music over Headphones. The Roots of this Idea comes from a group of people from Paris, France. Due the heavy loudness restrictions in the french Capital they wanna to be able to listen to loud music… and they invented the so called „Placard“ festival. This is more than 10 years ago. This Idea spread over the world.

Since 2003 the label privatelektro decided to make an own headphone festivalin Leipzig based on the idea of the placard Festival. The first Festivals are so called virtual Festivals for the public and a strong theme was the streaming of the music played on the Fest over Internet. The Last Festivals (from 2007), we did intended some modifications. We used small Radio Transmitters and streamed the whole live Event inside a defined Room.

The physical location was more important and the social component of the meeting with musicians and listeners. While the whole time of the concert the audience was able to listen over 3 different ways: over Radios, or Mobil Phones with integrated Radio, the provided Sound-Islands who you will be able to plug into a Headphone-Amplifier (who get the signal direct from the main mixer) and of course trough mini-radios with mini earplugs, we provided at the festival.


with the support of Simultan Festival Romania and the Academy for Fine Arts Budapest we will show a selection of Art and short Videos during this Headphone Festival.

This Years Headphone Festival will result in an Festival Compilation of some of the best parts of selected Concerts ! To be released after the Headphone Festival through the privatelektro label