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.

11:00 – Listening Lounge / Performance
· Resistance and Sound Archives #1 ·
Mohamed Ali Ltaief and Lamin Fofana
The two artist-researchers continue their conversation in a sonic and conceptual form. They evoke the “archaeology of the voice,” an approach that combines text, visual culture, and sound to weave a conversational narrative, like a two-chapter sound book intended for collective listening.
Free entry
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14:00 – Listening Lounge / Conversation
· Resistance and Sound Archives #2 ·
Maya Al Khaldi, Sarouna, Mazen Kerbaj, Mohamed Ali Ltaief, Lamin Fofana, Laura Bohnenblust
Five festival artists come together to speak about collective memory in relation to sound archives.
Free entry
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18:00 – Listening Lounge / Concert · Acousmonium
· Textures and Resonances ·
Martina Berther
Of the instruments we hear only their memory: recorded, worked on, transformed. Starting from this acoustic material, she creates sonic planes that unfold, take shape, and dissolve within an extended stretch of time.
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