"Sonar se ha consolidado como uno de los platos fuertes de las citas musicales en el mundo (…) convierte a la ciudad en verdadera capital de la música y lugar obligado para todos aquellos que quieran estar al día."
(La Vanguardia – Spain)
"Fa 15 anys que existeix Sonar, un projecte fet per gent d’aquí i dirigit al món, un festival d’art i cultura únic, una marca que prescriu la crònica de l’era pop digital."
(El Mundo – Spain)
"Una cita que es ya, de largo, el festival urbano más importante de Europa."
(El Correo Vasco – Spain)
"Postales visuales del mañana. El festival electrónico Sonar en Barcelona representa algo más que la explosión de un género musical. En el espacio museístico del CCCB se revelan las nuevas tendencias del arte digital y multimedia. El futuro discurre delante de tus ojos."
(Simon Lund, Politiken newspaper – Denmark)
"Music festivals: how it should be done (…) Sonar festival of ‘advanced music and multimedia art’ is built on a virtually faultless formula of sunny, never ending days and classy network of slickly run venues, snugly housed within Barcelona historic and stylish landscape. It sets a standard that Sonar’s peers find near impossible to follow."
(Jamie Hodgson, The Guardian online – UK)
"The Sonar festival was and enlightening visual experience, which offered a huge variety of some of the best examples of digital art creation. It is a proof that Sonar –as an organization concerned with cutting edge art, music and technology- has firmly cemented its reputation as one of the largest and most progressive festival of its kind, while not compromising on innovation or experimentation."
(Shift – Japan)
"Sonar 2008 was as educating as it was entertaining. It was a wealth of resources, and contacts with a vast spectrum of high caliber art from all mediums, from music to film. I have a number of artists flagged that now need to play the US. The whole Sonar experience was reaffirming to my belief in the future of music and art and an awakening to the senses."
(Brian Keigher, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Cultural Centre – USA)
"Unlike most festivals which tend to distance themselves from local infrastructure- Sonar deliberately makes teh city an integral part of the party."
(4 talent magazine – UK)
"Barcelona a offert aux musiques electroniques un supplément de réflexion et de culture grâce au Sonar qui, en dix ans, s’est affirmé comme les plus important festival mondial consacré au ‘musiques d’avant-garde et aux arts multimédia."
(Le Monde – France)
"Un festival di arti digital e elettroniche. Per mostrare che la tecnica ha bisogno di reativitá e inspirazione. La sfida della Catalogna a Silicon Valley"
(Ludovica Amoroso, L’Espresso – Italy)
