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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.

JessicaEkomane

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.
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Dates and times

Tuesday 21 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.- / Pay what you choose

Age
From 12 to 99 years
Format
Online

Organiser

Proposed by
Festival Archipel
JessicaEkomane