Martin Messier with Sewing Machine Orchestra at Baltoscandal
01.07.2026 - 05.07.2026 Baltoscandal
Rakvere (EE)
Singer sewing machines, objects charged with collective memory and family histories, evoke a transfigured past brought back to the present and decontextualized. In Sewing Machine Orchestra, twelve domestic machines, collected and diverted from their utilitarian function, become the protagonists of a choreography orchestrated by computer and amplified by contact microphones.
Directly inspired by the performance of the same name, this installation reveals the sound and light potential of this familiar object. Unsettling in the agitation it generates, the work evolves in a crescendo of sound: like a polycephalic mechanical monster, the machines come to life with increasing intensity, filling the space with a low tone.
The omnipresent light accentuates the spectral effect of the installation. It transcends the overall choreography and casts the shadows of these ghostly objects, symbolically reanimating an industrial and domestic past. This hybrid work invites us to take part in an unsettling experiment on our links to collective memory and its materiality.
Navid Navab with Organism: In Turbulence at Blaues Rauschen 2026
07.06.2026 Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr
Bochum (D)
Organism: In Turbulence
Solo concert with a century-old pipe organ prepared robotically to sound turbulent formations.
The organ is considered the epitome of musical order: an instrument of harmony, controlled breath, and “pure” tone. In Navid Navab’s work “Organism: In Turbulence,” this idea is radically expanded. The starting point is a century-old organ by Montreal instrument maker Casavant, which Navab saved from destruction and transformed into an experimental sound system. The pipes and pneumatic mechanics were modified and expanded with robotic actuators and ecological sensors. The organ now reacts to its surroundings and becomes part of a cybernetic cycle of air, material, and information. Navab thus continues a tradition in which machines are no longer just instruments, but become systems that can hear and react. Artists such as Nicolas Schöffer and Gordon Pask were already experimenting with such feedback loops between environment, technology, and sound in the 1960s.
Navab develops this idea into a living organism. The organ no longer sounds disciplined and monumental, but turbulent, rushing, and full of unstable overtones. The instrument leaves the sacred space of its history and becomes an open sound laboratory. Navid Navab was born in Tehran and lives in Montreal. As a musician, composer, and researcher, Navab moves between art, science, and experimental instrument making. For “Organism,” Navab and Garnet Willis received the 2025 Prix Ars Electronica award in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category.
Navid Navab’s performance is supported by the Québec Government Office to Germany.
Navid Navab
Organism: In Turbulence
Blaues Rauschen
Free ticket
tele-present wind (Mars wind version) in EMERGENCE[Y]
06.06.2026 - 06.12.2026 Science Gallery
University of Melbourne (AU)
Urgent times. Emergent futures.
EMERGENCE[Y] brings together artists, scientists, technologists, and collaborators to explore how we adapt to a world in flux. In an age marked by ecological collapse, technological acceleration, and social upheaval, adaptation becomes not only a biological imperative but a creative and ethical act. This Science Gallery Melbourne exhibition asks: how might we not only survive through change but emerge in a critically reimaged future?
tele-present wind, created by artist David Bowen in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory that uses data collected from the wind sensor on the Perseverance Mars rover.
The exhibition has been curated by Science Gallery Head Curator Tilly Boleyn, with input from a team of academic experts and young people.
CD Release: Tuning Time - Orchestral Works by Annelies Van Parys
05.06.2026 Antartica Records
Mechelen (B)
This first portrait album devoted to Annelies Van Parys reveals a distinctive voice in contemporary European music. Drawing on spectralism, she builds luminous orchestral textures that unite timbral exploration with clear musical architecture and strong dramaturgy. Conductor Marit Strindlund notes: "I find Van Parys to be one of the most interesting contemporary European composers… a uniquely individual artistic voice is always shining through her music."
"There is something brilliantly strident about the music of Belgian composer Annelies Van Parys. A spectral composer - her musical structures are grounded in the acoustic properties of sound itself - Van Parys creates music that exudes a terrific power, both intellectually and emotionally. [...] A challenging but enormously rewarding disc." - Kate Wakeling - BBC Music Magazine
Tuning Time - Orchestral Works
Tracklist
1. Eco… del vuoto for orchestra
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Kristiina Poska
2.-4. Concerto for piano and orchestra
Jan Michiels, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
5. EUTOPIA for orchestra
Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono
6. Fantasie for soloists, choir and orchestra
Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Revue Blanche, Kristiina Poska, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
RESIDENCY KIKK X CCN - SHOWCASE: ARTS, SCIENCES & TECH
20.05.2026 CCN - Centre culturel de Namur
Namur (B)
Artists Laura Colmenares Guerra and Julien Clauss, both recipients of the “Arts, Sciences & Tech” grant awarded by KIKK, TRAKK, Le Pavillon and the Cultural Center of Namur, open the doors to their residencies and invite you to discover the results of their research. A moment of discovery and exchange in a friendly atmosphere!
The aim of this residency is to foster interdisciplinary research, experimentation, and artistic creation through digital and technological media, by offering a framework conducive to exploration, prototyping, and dialogue between disciplines.
Laura Colmenares Guerra is a Colombian artist based in Brussels. Her artistic practice moves between technology, environmental awareness, and installation art. She explores the complex relationships between contemporary Western societies and nature, with particular attention to ecosystems and environmental justice through interactive installations, sculptures, and the use of 3D.
The Persistent Elsewhere explores Timothy Morton’s theory of hyperobjects, things that surpass us and remain unseen, yet are present and interact with us through corporeality. Morton questions what we feel in the presence of these entities when they are not merely described but inhabited: like a pressure, an immersion, a loss of distinction between one’s body and its surroundings.
The Persistent Elsewhere is an immersive real-time 3D visual essay created using the Unreal Engine 3D generator. The viewer is guided through an ever-evolving inner landscape that originates within the body, expands through aquatic, industrial, and geological spaces, while remaining, at all scales, within. The body contains the hyperobject just as the hyperobject contains the body.
Discover the innovative research and the installations, while immersing yourself in the creative processes. A unique opportunity to explore their stimulating work around art, sound, and science. Don’t miss this chance to meet the artists and be part of the KIKK adventure!
Organism: In Turbulence at Münchner Biennale für Neues Musiktheater
15.05.2026 - 16.04.2026 Ampere / Muffatwerk
München (D)
Organism: In Turbulence
Solo concert with a century-old pipe organ prepared robotically to sound turbulent formations.
“Organism destabilizes the socio-historical tonality of a century-old organ to liberate its turbulent materiality, robotically unleashing timbres unheard after centuries of sonic repression. In concerts, Organism’s shifting metastable states allow for its energetic thresholds to fall into and out of compatibility with one another. Navab aerodynamically shapes the resulting ecology of interdependent timbres into emergent realms, traversing microsonic polyrhythms, post-rock overspill and swampy soundscapes.” – Navid Navab
Concert: Navid Navab – Organism: In Turbulence - Set 1
Solo concert with a century-old pipe organ prepared robotically to sound turbulent patterning.
15.05.2026 at 22:00
Concert: Navid Navab - Organism: In Turbulence - Set 2
16.05.2026 at 21:30
Curated by Dietmar Lupfer – a collaboration between the Munich Biennale 2026 and Muffatwerk Munich
The Münchener Biennale – Festival for New Music Theatre – celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2026!
Numerous international composers are confronting the complexities of our present-day in a bold and experimental manner, alert to the contradictions of our time. Together with their artistic teams they create music-theatre worlds that sharpen our gaze, fuel resistance, and give us hope; they connect us and solicit conversation about unforeseen ways of watching and listening.
1 Drop 1000 Years at Mapping Festival
08.05.2026 Le Groove
Genève (CH)
1 DROP 1000 YEARS - Scientists agree that a drop of water travels the globe in less than 1,000 years. This drop shapes our world: it transports nutrients, heat and living organisms, while regulating our planet's climate and ecosystems. It contributes to the fundamental process of life's equilibrium.
Drawing on data from the Global Conveyor Belt, the vast ocean current that orchestrates the mixing of water from the five oceans and redistributes heat on a global scale, Martin Messier underlines the fundamental role of water as a vital substance. Yet, over the past two centuries, human action has been shaking this fragile balance: the gradual slowing of this ocean current could trigger a major climatic upheaval, threatening the entire chain of life.
In this hypnotic performance, the artist explores the tensions between the global currents that drive planetary equilibrium, and the intimate currents that resonate within each of us. Fifteen suspended devices, veritable kinetic sculptures, orchestrate the flow of water particles in real time, materializing oceanic dynamics. The patterns generated, fed by data such as the temperature and salinity of the Pacific Ocean, intertwine in a visual and sonic choreography. 1 drop 1000 years reveals itself as a masterful, poetic ballet, conveying the fragility of ecosystems and the delicate harmony that binds all things on Earth.
The Endless Speaker in Oscillation Festival 2026
25.04.2026 - 03.05.2026 iMAL
Brussels (B)
Oscillation ::: from the Mothership focuses on the technologies, tools, and techniques that are an important part of the apparatus of music-making. The festival departs from the observation that cultures are shaped by the way technologies are used, rather than by the intention behind their design. But while technologies might be invented with a certain goal for use in mind and against a backdrop of specific socio-political situations, this junction can be severed and new constellations and findings can emerge. Historically, new technologies have in this way often opened up spaces for marginalised or excluded artists to realise their music without constraints such as manuals or a canon.
The Endless Speaker by Aernoudt Jacobs
What happens to our perception when a speaker takes on a radically different form? The Endless Speaker is a spatial sound installation using a long, single continuous speaker foil. A voice-based composition is amplified along its entire length, creating a planar acoustic field rather than a point source. The installation explores both spatial unfolding and temporal continuity of sound by investigating how distance, movement, and material geometry can shape our perception. The work is set up in different forms and shapes—each transforming how sound is experienced, shaping both the sonic and visual dimensions of the installation.
Aernoudt Jacobs
Oscillation Festival
QO-2 - workspace for experimental music and sound art
wilderness during Shiga Future Thinking Week
17.04.2026 - 26.04.2026 Hikone Data Art & Science (DAS) Center
Hikone (JP)
wilderness - Thirteen disposable plastic shopping bags playfully dance in the gallery space articulated by wave data collected on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
Data for this installation was collected as artist at sea resident aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute Research Vessel Falkor as it transited from Astoria, Oregon to Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2019. While in the middle of the enormous ocean, at times, it felt this place was completely untouched by human activities. This delusion was destroyed by the occasional piece of human made debris floating in this vast wilderness. Using an on-board accelerometer, every movement of the ship caused by wave action was collected during the entire journey. The Z movement data is directly mapped to the movements of the bags floating in the gallery space creating the effect that the bags are suspended in waves of the Pacific.
In collaboration with Ars Electronica
Humming the Ubique at Rewire 2026
09.04.2026 - 12.04.2026 Pulchri Studio
The Hague (NL)
Rewire 2026 marks the sixth edition of Proximity Music, a joint exhibition programme by Rewire and iii, exploring the intersections of music, architecture, technology, ritual, and play through immersive, multisensory installations. Running from 9 to 12 April, this year’s programme – Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum – takes place across multiple venues in The Hague’s city centre, and features newly commissioned and adapted works by multidisciplinary artists.
Humming the Ubique by Aernoudt Jacobs
The universe is permeated with electromagnetic energies that cannot be perceived with human senses, such as infrasonic sound, ultraviolet light or cosmic radiation. Sensors distributed throughout the installation record a spectrum of electromagnetic activity: from the city to outer space. This activity is translated into artificial voices and 64 luminous colour fields through a mosaic of wafer-thin foils. The electromagnetic phenomena speak in a register one can understand instinctively, thus letting them experience the complexity and layering of the immediate, everyday environment.
Aernoudt Jacobs is a Belgian artist working primarily with the medium of sound. His work has its origins in acoustic and technological research and investigates how sounds can trigger sonic processes that will affect the observer's scope of perception. His work focuses on a central question: how can one experience the complexity, richness, and stratification of their direct, daily environment?