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.

10h - 18h - Games Room / Workshop
· Do it your souffle ·
Workshop led by Emma Souharce, Lise Barkas, Octave Courtin, Julien Vadet and Clément Vercelletto – Limited places
On the day's programme: building your own single-reed bagpipe with a drone and balloon bag. To finish: a unison parade, as noisy as it is joyful, through the Maison communale and its surroundings.
Free workshop, registration required (16 and over): billetterie@archipel.org
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12h30 - Listening Lounge / shared listening
Alessandra Novaga
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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14h - Main Hall / concert
· Deprogrammed Obsolescence ·
At the heart of it: the meeting between a string ensemble and an electroacoustic diffusion. Nicolas Roulive and Benjamin Gueit co-compose a work that questions memory and trace.
Benjamin Gueit, Nicolas Roulive and students from the Conservatoire populaire
Free entry
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17h - Listening Lounge / concert · acousmonium
· Listening to the Inaudible · #1
Programme of electroacoustic works (2003-2025)
Christina Kubisch captures the electromagnetic waves produced by the technical installations that saturate our cities, as well as the unsuspected vibrations of tuning forks and the human voice. Through editing and shaping of content — without transforming the sound — she creates works that make the inaudible perceptible.
Free entry
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17h30 - Games Room / Families
Majuscule #2: Sparrow, turtlebrief…
Every day birds fill us with wonder. Young flautists listen to them, imitate them, transform their melodies and offer us a moment of escape — a collective sonic stroll.
Flute students from the Conservatoire populaire
Concerts are suited for young people and children, and last between 30 and 40 minutes.
Free entry
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18h – Several spaces / parade
· On Reeds and Foot ·
After a day of sawing, taping and blowing, participants and their instruments emerge from the workshop. A unison parade, as noisy as it is joyful, through the Maison communale and its surroundings.
Free entry
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19h - Main Hall / concert
· Erosions ·
Ben Goldscheider, Callum Smart, Richard Uttley
Three musicians come together to bring to life and develop a repertoire as exciting as it is rarely performed. György Ligeti produced a landmark work that has left a lasting impression since its premiere. At the request of horn player Ben Goldscheider, Naomi Pinnock also draws us into a world rich in timbres. She works drawing inspiration from Louise Bourgeois's drawing methods, which the artist would repeat endlessly, following the same lines.
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
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21h - Main Hall / concert and projection
· Arythemetics ·
1+1
Anne Gillot and Laurent Estoppey make 1+1. With Francis Baudevin, that becomes 1+1+1. An encounter, then, which allows the duo to bring a resolutely visual dimension to their musical world.
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
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22h30 - Listening Lounge / concert · acousmonium
· Listening to the Inaudible · #2 and #3
Christina Kubisch
Programme of electroacoustic works (2003-2025)
Nocturnal crossing with intermission
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Choose your price
