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 / shared listening
Stéphane Garin
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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16h – First floor foyer / round table
Electroacoustic studios: a political history?
Laurent Güdel, Clara de Asís, Nicolas Donin
Composer and researcher Laurent Güdel has visited numerous historic studios that have championed tape and turntable music since the 1970s. Together with other festival artists, he discusses the subject and shares his research.
Free entry
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20h - Main Hall / concert
· Round trips ·
Fernando Garnero, Christina Kubisch
Ensemble Vortex, students of the HEM
Transformation, retranscription, superposition. These three words could sum up the theme of this concert organised around two composers and two ensembles.
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
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22h - Listening Lounge / concert · acousmonium
· A Little Air in the Electricity ·
Laurent Güdel - Concert and album launch of State Music
From crackles to hisses, from sine waves to layered soundscapes, Laurent Güdel propels us into the fourth dimension — the one where the past collides with the present.
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