11h - Games Room / Families
Majuscule #3: Percussion: Playgrounds
· 30 and 1 percussionists ·
In the middle stands a drum kit. Around it, thirty percussionists! The instrument serves as the basis for an exploration of sound, as students discover its many possible uses.
Concerts are suitable for young people and children, and last between 30 and 40 minutes.
Free entry
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12h30 - Listening Lounge / shared listening
• Collective session •
Every day at half past noon, a festival artist invites us to discover the music that has shaped their life, through encounters and discoveries. As part of Séverine Ballon's project, for once, the artist portrait through musical affinities becomes a collective proposition.
With participants from the Day Centre workshop – Geneva Red Cross
Free entry
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14h - Games Room / Families
Minuscule #4: The Fish, the Witch and the Dragon
· The concert where you are the hero ·
A musical tale in which you are the hero, composed collectively with the audience: the artists draw from their repertoire like puzzle pieces, following whichever direction the story takes. A wonderfully fun way to discover a contemporary music repertoire, perfectly accessible to young ears.
Maïa Xifaras, Fiona Fauchois
The Minuscule series is designed for babies and young children (but everyone is welcome)
Free entry
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15h – Foyer and several spaces / concert - performance *
· Sonic Situationism ·
Peter Ablinger
He dedicated his life to research into the very qualities of sound, its propagation and reception.
Having passed away in 2025, his work is celebrated by Archipel and the HEM. In keeping with his thinking, this event unfolds as a journey with the feel of an initiation rite: small ensembles or solos appear in different locations, unveiling short, conceptual and awakening pieces.
Students of the HEM
Free entry
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17h - Listening Lounge / concert · acousmonium
· Electroacoustic Concert ·
Pierre Henry, Le voyage
Inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Le Voyage was composed by Pierre Henry for Maurice Béjart's ballet of the same name. The narrative of Le Voyage traces in 7 parts the journey of a human being who, after death, is led towards reincarnation. Thierry Simonot, curator of this concert, performs this monument on AMEG's acousmonium, which he personally set up for the festival.
Free entry
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17h – Victoria Hall / off-site / concert
· Songs from the Other Side of the Plain ·
Luciano Berio
Coro is a monumental and essential work by the Italian composer. Forty musicians and forty choristers share the stage for one hour of music. Drawing on folk melodies, the piece unfolds through numerous playing techniques, harmonies and interactions between timbres.
Ensemble Contrechamps, orchestra and soloist-choristers from the HEM, Zürcher Sing-Akademie
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
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17h and 18h30 – Evening Room / performance
· Airs de terre ·
Elena Laurinavičiūtė
Evoking a world halfway between the plant and animal kingdoms, these ceramic sculptures can be filled with water or activated by small fans: the air flowing through them generates whistling sounds, which can be modified by potentiometers controlling the intensity of the airflow.
Free entry
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17h30 - Games Room / Families
Majuscule #4: The Butterfly Queen
· Emerging from the cocoon ·
The accordion students of the CPMDT take on a formidable challenge: composing the score for the film The Butterfly Queen (1927) by Ladislas Starewitch. This film-concert promises an incredible journey through the creation of atmospheres that illustrate and support an astonishingly inventive story.
Concerts are suitable for young people and children, and last between 30 and 40 minutes.
Free entry
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20h - Main Hall / concert and screening
· Final Cut ·
·Jannick Giger - Addio - New work for film and ensemble
Addio is a study of how emotions are constructed in cinema and music. It focuses on farewell as a culturally coded gesture, shaped by voice, repetition and cinematic convention.
·Liza Lim - Garden of Earthly Desire (1988)
Monster Chetwynd - Trying to empty the sea with a fork (2024-26) - Editing: Joe Campbell, Oscar Oldershaw
For the grand finale, the well-known Zurich ensemble arrives with an unprecedented multidisciplinary project exploring various forms of combination between cinema/video and music. With Addio, a new work for film and ensemble, Janick Giger offers an immersion into farewell; Liza Lim and Monster Chetwynd, whose works are brought together at the curators' invitation, draw inspiration from Italo Calvino's novella Il castello dei destini incrociati; and finally, five students from ZHdK compose music for short films selected by the Institute of Incoherent Cinematography.

5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose