CONCERTS / PERFORMANCES / WORKSHOPS
AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR EXPERIMENTAL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND SOUND IN GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
Shifting spaces: The 2026 edition of the festival invites artistic practices of sound that engage with spatiality, reconsidering spaces as dynamic fields of relation. Space is never fixed. It is acoustic, social, political, and embodied. Sound can expand or contract distances, alter our sense of duration, reveal invisible relations, and reconfigure how we inhabit environments together.
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ensemble hybrid is a member-run ensemble active in contemporary music. Founded in 2022, and based in Gothenburg, Sweden, the ensemble focuses on collaborative work processes and seek to work with composers and artists who uses experimental approaches to sound.
For Göteborg Art Sounds Festival 2026 they will premiere pieces by Elias Frisk, Marcus Hesse and Love Carbin.
ensemble hybrid (SE)
23. 09
19:30H
@OCEANEN - Stigbergstorget 8, 414 63 Göteborg
Tickets soon to be released!
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Hardi Kurda’s works defy the boundaries of music and sound through his evocative interplay of suggestive, unconventional sounds, unexpected silences, and textured noise. He includes interactive approaches to his works, such as the ECG monitor, Sounding Carpet and the interactive radio antenna, where he explores noises that may have been considered illegal, abandoned, unheard, invisible, broken, distorted, untold, forgotten, or simply noises from nowhere, without a place or destination. Through using radio frequencies as sound material, Hardi bridges the physical and metaphysical, turning ephemeral signals into interactive performances that he developed the concept of The Found Score to connect noises deeply with audiences to create Urgent Listening, where listening became a force of necessity based on his listening experience when he illegally moved to Europe.
For Göteborg Art Sounds Festival Hardi Kurda will perform “Your Resonance” - a performance work developed from his mother’s health check diary. The diary functions as a Found Score dedicated to her memory. Hardi is connected to an ECG system that translates his bodily activity into deep sub-bass sound, modulated by his breathing. Audience members are invited to take a heart rate test on arrival; their data is used in real time to shape and control the sound system alongside the performer’s ECG signals.
Hardi Kurda (IQ-KR)
23. 09
20:30h
@OCEANEN - Stigbergstorget 8, 414 63 Göteborg
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Farida Amadou is a self-taught electric bassist and sound sculptor based in Brussels. Known for her raw, intuitive approach to improvisation, she has become a vital force in experimental music, collaborating with artists such as Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, and Moor Mother. Blending free jazz, noise, and deep rhythmic structure, Amadou creates immersive soundscapes that balance intensity with clarity. Her solo work, including the acclaimed When It Rains It Pours (2024), showcases her unique ability to shape spontaneous sonic worlds with power, precision, and emotional depth.
Amadou is radically aware of her idiosyncratic relationship with the bass guitar. She neither emulates the virtuosos of the electric bass, nor does she use the instrument as a pure sound generator that merely emits humming and feedback. She takes a completely independent and unique approach. This freedom enables her to create an overwhelming wall of sound, as well as simple, clear structures that are rhythmically concise yielding a wide associative space that lands somewhere between free jazz and noise. If there's one musician in the last decade that you may hear in wildly diverse musical contexts it is Farida Amadou.
Farida Amadou (BE)
24. 09
19:30h
@FOLKTEATERN - Olof Palmes plats 5, 413 30 Göteborg
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Ji Youn Kang is a Korean composer, performer, and sound artist based in The Hague. Much of her work is informed by the rites of Korean Shamanism, and many of her pieces are written for Wave Field Synthesis systems, exploring the relationship between musical and physical space. She is also active as a solo performer, exploring ways to combine three sound domains on stage: acoustic instruments, analogue and digital sound, using DIY analogue synthesizers and live processing on a laptop. She currently teaches at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire.
For Göteborg Art Sounds Festival she will perform “machi-nory”. This performance unfolds as a live construction of an unstable sonic machine, built from circuits, metal plates and electromagnetic feedback where sound emerges from shifting relationships between materials, performer, signal and space. Through acts of tinkering, the system reveals the hidden vitality of matter and its dynamic behaviors.
Ji Youn Kang (KR/NL)
24. 09
20:30h
@FOLKTEATERN - Olof Palmes plats 5, 413 30 Göteborg
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Lisen Rylander Löve is a musician and composer from Sweden, working in the field of jazz, free jazz, electronic music, experimental pop, and improvisation. Her main instrument is the saxophone but her artistry also often includes voice, live electronics and field recordings.
Lisen Rylander Löve (SE)
25. 09
19:30h
@VASAKYRKAN - Vasa Kyrkoplan 5, 411 27 Göteborg
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Áine O’Dwyer (b. Co.Limerick, Ireland) is a composer and multidisciplinary artist whose work is informed by both the conceptual concerns of sound art and traditional composition techniques,embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment, time, audience,and structure. She has created works for large-scale and intimate settings that allow for both planned and chance compositions to co-exist in live situ.
Áine O'Dwyer (IE)
25. 09
20:30h
@VASAKYRKAN - Vasa Kyrkoplan 5, 411 27 Göteborg
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Like a haunting melody emerging from a distant past, buried in the depths of timeless memory, the music of Clara Levy (violin) and Victor Guaita (alto) envelops us in a state of weightlessness and introspection. Songs of Erosion offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a 13th-century collection of monodies, viewed through the lens of erosion. Designed as a collaborative and evolving space, the project takes on various forms depending on the context, whether performative or installation-based. It explores different scales of time – geological, biological, historical, and musical – through sequences or the layering of repetitive instructions, as they ask themselves: what is left of these 800 years old songs?
Clara Lévy is a French violinist and composer, whose career is mainly focused on what is commonly called « new music » For the past few years, she has been developing solo projects, questioning in turn the conditions of listening and the dramaturgy of the concert (Outre-Nuit), or the sometimes blurred edges between interpretation and composition (13 Visions). Victor Guaita Igual is focused on the performance of new music and other sonic explorations. After obtaining a masters in Viola with Paul de Clerck in Brussels and another in String Quartet with Oliver Wille in Hannover, he often works with ensembles as Ensemble Modern, Ictus or Klangforum.
Clara Lévy &
Victor Guaita Igual (FR)
26. 09
19:30h
@ATALANTE - Övre Husargatan 1, 411 22 Göteborg
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Harmonic Space Orchestra is an ensemble of Berlin-based musicians specialising in the research and performance of microtonal music, particularly its relationship to acoustics and
rational intonation/just intonation, using unique collaborative models. With over half a decade of experience working together synthesising the knowledge and practices of its members, themselves world-leading experts in the field of microtonality, HSO is the most accomplished ensemble in the world dedicated entirely to working with and investigating this kind of harmony.
For Göteborg Art Sounds Festival 2026 they will present the world premiere of the piece “Triangulations” by award winning composer Catherine Lamb [US]. The piece is a deep exploration into areas where three points converge and form a shape. Points will be extracted from conceptual, theoretical, socio-political, ethical, poetical, fantastical, physical, and material elements alike. The question is: what occurs musically in space and time when three distinct points converge in the ensemble experience?
The commission of Triangulations by Catherine Lamb is made possible by support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
Harmonic Space Orchestra (DE) + Catherine Lamb (US)
26. 09
20:30h
@ATALANTE - Övre Husargatan 1, 411 22 Göteborg
Tickets soon to be released!
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