Speaking of someone's homes, it turns out that, just as some great business ventures linked to technology were born in a garage, to start In-Edit its promoters had to take the elevator and gave birth to it in a penthouse. Specifically, on a Barcelona terrace owned by Uri Altell, which soon became too small, inhabited by curious people, eager to share and quite indie.
Those were times of the emergence of online download platforms that allowed this group of restless people to access documentaries and audiovisual pieces that, otherwise, they would hardly have known existed. About 24 years ago, that was quite a declaration of intent.
And from that domestic community an international festival ended up emerging, present in more than twenty countries. A small lesson on how shared passions can end up building great structures without completely losing the spirit of a gang. It was noticed during the conversation at Casa Seat, with the complicity that united the guests, and that they spread.
From that domestic community an international festival ended up emerging, present in more than twenty countries.
Because In-Edit is not just a screen: it is also what happens before, after and on the margins, when music brings together people who perhaps share nothing more than an obsession. Marc Gili summed it up well: "There is a music-loving international capable of uniting strangers from half the world with an ease that many diplomacies would wish for themselves."
And meanwhile, as Toni Querol warned, we live in a world (and a city) where we also continue to suffer the disappearance of venues and creative spaces, as if culture were a dispensable luxury and not a way of understanding each other.
The good news is that there are still stories to tell. Astrid Rousse, for example, would love a good documentary about Rosalía. There are still musicians to discover and many editions of this mythical festival to come.
TheIn-Edit of 2026 will do so this October 28, among others, with Jordi Savall and very different proposals on music from all over and of all kinds. And perhaps this is its great virtue: having turned that terrace into a window to the world, without ever forgetting that it all started by inviting friends home.