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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.

Clara de Asís

08:5412h30 - Listening Lounge / shared listening
Mariá Portugal
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 – Games Room / concert / families
Majuscule #1 - Recover & Play
Alessio Tognola runs a year-round workshop for children with intellectual disabilities. Together they create instruments and bring them to life through improvisation sessions.
Concerts are suited for young people and children, and last between 30 and 40 minutes.
Free entry
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16h - Games Room / concert / families
· Conducting is Winning ·
Make some noise!
La FanfareduLoup teams up with sound artist Benoît Renaudin to imagine and build a musical machine scaled to children, creating an interactive concert.
Free entry
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20h - Main Hall / concert
· With Open Hearts · One concert, two solos
Garazi Navas is one with her accordion. In alternation, melodies and chords emerge from long sonic stretches that unfold across an extended, airy timespan.
Mariá Portugal is a drummer and percussionist. She invites us to perceive her personal and subtle relationship with Brazilian musical traditions.
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose
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22h - Listening Lounge / concert · acousmonium
· Practice of Attention ·
Clara de Asís, Infinity this time
Settled in the listening lounge, she presents with Infinity this time a work on the identity of timbres: a multichannel diffusion of fixed sounds enters into interaction with a live synthesiser.
5.- / 10.- / 20.- / Pay what you choose

Dates and times

Wednesday 22 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.- / Choose your price

Target
Family
Age
From 6 to 99 years
Format
Online

Organiser

Proposed by
Festival Archipel
Clara de Asís