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.

12h30 - Listening Lounge / concert
· Listening Optimisation ·
Composition students from the HEM dive into the ocean of loudspeakers in the listening lounge and take us along with them.
Free entry
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18h – Foyer / concert
· Going Breathless ·
Mazen Kerbaj, Lungless
The title of Mazen Kerbaj's work is drawn directly from the current situation in Palestine. Lungless is a composition developed for the custom-built instrument "Putin's Organ", constructed for seven prepared trumpets that can be played simultaneously, connected to balloons and activated by an air compressor.
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
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19h – Main Hall / concert
· In the sky with diamonds ·
• Martina Lussi - Proximity (2024): For this work, Lussi collaborated with an ensemble for the first time, with the aim of fostering a productive dialogue between acoustic instruments and sounds diffused through loudspeakers.
• Louis Schild - Myriads #3 (2026): This solo focuses on the result of a perpetual and highly idiomatic gesture — back-and-forth strokes of a plectrum across all the strings — within a simple amplification setup consisting of a large amp and a leslie cabinet.
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21h30 - Listening Lounge / concert · acousmonium
· Mechanics of Flow ·
• Jessica Ekomane diffuses on acousmonium Manifolds, a work entirely generated by computer, where polyphonies and timbres diffract into a swirl of sonic energies.
• Giuseppe Ielasi with An insistence on material live-deploys a set of degraded and layered sound fragments: a matter in motion that he reinvents at each concert.
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
