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 / Listening Session
Zeynep Toraman
Every day at half past noon, a festival artist invites us to discover the music that has shaped their life, through encounters and discoveries.
Entrée libre
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14h - Games Room / Concert / Families
· Bagpipe Pop ·
Octave Courtin, Les Concertantes, Prélude (2026)
The artist presents a children's version of the piece performed the previous evening.
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18h et 23h30 – Concourse Hall / Concert-Performance
· Free Adequations ·
Bárbara González, Acción Rizoma 114 et 115
Her Acción Rizoma take the form of ephemeral and unstable concert-performances, where sonic and visual assemblages unfold, composed of radios, DIY circuits, scrap metal, mechanical toys and modified instruments, activated through the artist's corporeality.
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16h et 17h – Evening Room / Performance
· Earthly Airs ·
Elena Laurinavičiūtė
The Lithuanian artist creates ceramic works made of spherical elements linked by mesh components, bringing forth void and space within the continuity of the solid and the closed.
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17h – Games Room / Concert
Minuscules #1 · What's up, Nouf? ·
Elouen Hermand, Sebastian Robles et Defne Signoret
Three students from the Performer Composer class at HEM tell us in music the story of three friends, their instruments and a suitcase that sings but… doesn't quite sing.
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19h – Grande salle / Concert
· Whirlwinds of Time ·
Gérard Grisey, Vortex Temporum I, II, III
Zeynep Toraman, Sometimes at Night the Far Away Stars
Zeynep Toraman draws on the ololyga, a feminine vocal expression in ancient Greece, manifested as a cry or lamentation. In response, Vortex Temporum, the landmark work by French composer Gérard Grisey, illuminates and sets in resonance the richness of instrumental timbres, across an extended duration and without a conductor.
Concert followed by a drinks reception and vernissage to celebrate the release of Zeynep Toraman's vinyl Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon.
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21h30 - Listening Lounge / Concert · Acousmonium
· Chrono Friction ·
Marcin Pietruszewski et Lukas De Clerck, Oto Aulos
They set out to bring lost sounds back to life. To this double wooden flute, electronics are added in a creative process, to build a work that explores instability, wavering, and the dissolution of coherence — a reflection of our times and a form of transformed mythological resonance.
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22h30 – Grande salle / Concert
· Extreme Contiguity ·
DISPARS (Clara Levy et Alexis Degrenier)
The repetitive sonorities of percussion — amplified objects, skins, resonators, drone boxes and other curiosities — intertwine with those of the violin and its bowed strings. A moment of suspension and grace with these essential figures of the experimental and minimal scene.
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5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
