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Archipel festival - Music and sound art

From April 17 to 26, 2026 Switzerland’s leading festival for experimental and contemporary music and sound art, takes place at the Maison communale de Plainpalais.

Alessandra Novaga

10h – First floor foyer / conference and discussion
•Listening in question·s
Martin Kaltenecker, Nicolas Donin
The art of sound is an art of listening. That much seems obvious. But what information is actually transmitted? Many researchers and artists are exploring the subject, revealing its political, neurological, sensory and intellectual dimensions.
Free entry
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12h30 - Listening Lounge / shared listening
Martin Kaltenecker
Every day at half past noon, a festival artist invites us to discover the music that has shaped their life, through encounters and discoveries.
Free entry
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19h - Main Hall / concert
· Lancinations ·
Ensemble 0: Alexandre Babel, Julien Garin, Stéphane Garin
The three percussionists take on composition and offer an acoustic version for three drums of Laurie Spiegel's work Drums. They extend the experience by inviting two artists to join the adventure: using field recording, claire rousay captures everyday life and weaves it into a writing made of ruptures and noise as much as half-toned sonic expanses that often give way to spleen. In Mica Levi's work, creative energy takes the form of sharp rhythms, sometimes transformed into long sentimental sonic stretches, here with three snare drums and three tubular bells.
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
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21h - Main Hall / concert
· Nostalghia ·
Alessandra Novaga: The Artistic Image Is Always a Miracle
Her project stems from an obsession: how can music illuminate the imaginary power of cinema, and how can cinema, in turn, open new dimensions to music?
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
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22h - Listening Lounge / concert · acousmonium
· Becoming Permeable ·
Olga Kokcharova and Luc Müller: Lucida Sonĝo
Through a process of slow immersion into ecosystems as rich as they are varied, the duo explores the experience of living things through sound capture.
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose

Dates and times

Friday 24 April 2026

Event location

Location name
Salle communale de Plainpalais
Address
Rue de Carouge 52, 1205 Genève - 1205 Genève

Prices and conditions

Price

5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Choose your price

Format
Online

Organiser

Proposed by
Festival Archipel
Alessandra Novaga