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An international festival for experimental contemporary music and sound in Gothenburg, Sweden

Harmonic Space Orchestra (DE) & Catherine Lamb (US) · Clara Levy & Victor Guaita (FR/ES) · Farida Amadou (BE) · Ji Youn Kang (KR) · Áine O'Dwyer (IE) · Lisen Rylander Löve (SE) · Hardi Kurda (KRD) · ensemble hybrid (SE) · and more

22 SEPT. @ WÄRENSTAMS, BORÅS

Hardi Kurda’s work moves across and beyond the boundaries of music and sound, bringing together suggestive and unconventional sonic materials, unexpected silences, and textured noise created with radio antennas. His practice sits at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and sonic activism, including projects such as Archive Khanah in Kurdistan.

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Hardi Kurda (KRD)

22. 09
19:00h

WÄRENSTAMS
Allégatan 67
503 37 Borås (BT-huset)



22 SEPT. @ OCEANEN, GÖTEBORG

In Motion is a concert series shaped by students from the bachelor’s and master’s programmes in Improvisation Performance, Improvisation and World Music, and Improvisation – The Composing Musician. The series highlights emerging artistic voices through performances that move between composition, improvisation, and collaborative practice.

In collaboration with The Academy of Music and Drama. 

In Motion - Academy of Music & Drama

22. 09
19:00h

OCEANEN
Stigbergstorget 8
414 63 Göteborg

23 SEPT. @ KONSTKOLLEKTIVET, MÖLNDAL

This workshop delves into the artistic potential of electronic components by using their conventional functions as a starting point for creative exploration. Participants will learn the basics of electronics and how to read fundamental schematics. Through hands-on practice, we will identify the component's artistic attributes and experiment with ways to intentionally introduce "new complexity" into these circuits, creating unique, unexpected outcomes. The workshop will culminate in a short collaborative improvisation session, using these custom-built circuits as our primaray sound sources. Bring any conductive objects and an open mind. No background knowledge in music or electronics is required.

Learn more about Ji Youn Kang

WORKSHOP: Artistic Approaches to Analog Circuits with Ji Youn Kang (KR)

23. 09
13:00 - 17.00h 

KONSTKOLLEKTIVET MÖLNDAL
Pixbovägen 5
431 36 Göteborg

Ji Youn Kang is a Korean composer, performer and sound artist based in The Netherlands. Much of her work is informed by the rites of Korean Shamanism, and many of her pieces, written for Wave Field Synthesis systems, explore the relationship between sonic and physical space. As a solo performer, she combines three sound domains: acoustic instruments, analogue and digital audio, using DIY analogue synthesizers and live processing on a laptop. She currently teaches at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague.

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Ji Youn Kang (KR)

23. 09
19:00h

KONSTKOLLEKTIVET MÖLNDAL
Pixbovägen 5
431 36 Göteborg

23 SEPT. @ SYMBIONT, GÖTEBORG

This workshop invites participants into a shared space of listening, experimentation, and collective creativity. Through improvisation, sound becomes a means of exploration and exchange, where each participant contributes to shaping the musical experience. Working with instruments, electronics, objects, voice, and silence, the session will develop different approaches to spontaneous music-making. Simple exercises and collective practices will encourage attentive listening, responsiveness, risk-taking, and collaboration. Open to musicians and non-musicians alike, the workshop welcomes anyone interested in improvisation, noise, experimental music, or new ways of listening. No previous experience required. Participants are welcome to bring an instrument, a sound-making object, or simply their voice.

Learn more about Farida Amadou

WORKSHOP: Improvised Music with Farida Amadou (BE)

23. 09
13:30 - 18.00h

SYMBIONT
Textilgatan 14
415 11 Göteborg



23 SEPT. @ OCEANEN, GÖTEBORG

ensemble hybrid is a member-run ensemble working in contemporary music. Founded in 2022 and based in Gothenburg, the ensemble focuses on collaborative working processes and engages with composers and artists whose practices take experimental approaches to sound. At Göteborg Art Sounds Festival 2026, ensemble hybrid will premiere new works by Elias Frisk, Marcus Hesse, and Love Carbin.

Opening performance: In Motion. With students from the Academy of Music & Drama. 

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ensemble hybrid (SE)

23. 09
19:00h

OCEANEN
Stigbergstorget 8
414 63 Göteborg

Hardi Kurda’s work moves across and beyond the boundaries of music and sound, bringing together suggestive and unconventional sonic materials, unexpected silences, and textured noise. In Your Resonance, a work developed from the artist's mother’s health-check diary, Kurda uses an ECG monitor and sub-bass frequencies connected to his breath, to explore the intimate relation between body, memory, and sound. Audience members are invited to take a heart rate test on arrival; their data is used in real time to shape the piece's sonic outcome.

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Hardi Kurda (KRD)

23. 09
20:30h

OCEANEN
Stigbergstorget 8
414 63 Göteborg



24 SEPT. @ KULTURSKOLAN, GÖTEBORG

Recycling Objects introduces a new cartographic notation method involving found objects, geographical positions, and interactive public engagement. This work explores how people, the environment, and sound can collaborate for deeper mutual understanding through urgent listening. Represented through timbre and gesture, it redefines storytelling and interpretation by engaging other senses and speculative listening. In this workshop, participants become active interpreters and players, fostering a participatory approach to creating and experiencing the Found Score.

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WORKSHOP: Recycling Objects with Hardi Kurda (KRD)

24. 09
14:00 - 16.30h

RYASKOLAN
Erik väderhatts gata 11
418 31 Göteborg



24 SEPT. @ FOLKTEATERN, GÖTEBORG

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. Amadou 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.

Opening performance: In Motion, with students from the Academy of Music & Drama.

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Farida Amadou (BE)

24. 09
19:00h

FOLKTEATERN
Olof Palmes plats 5
413 30 Göteborg



Korean sound artist Ji Youn Kan will present machi-nory, a performance that 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.  

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Ji Youn Kang (KR)

24. 09
20:30h

FOLKTEATERN
Olof Palmes plats 5
413 30 Göteborg

25 SEPT. @ ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DRAMA, GÖTEBORG

In this workshop at the Academy of Music and Drama, Harmonic Space Orchestra invites students to explore different sensorial aspects of sound through experimentation and collective music-making shaped by the principles of the harmonic series. Rooted in the world of Just Intonation, the workshop opens up new ways of listening, tuning, and making music together. Drawing on the ensemble’s ongoing work in this field, it offers a space to engage with sound as a shared and exploratory practice. 

The workshop is arranged in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Schweden and the Academy of Music and Drama.

WORKSHOP: Harmonic Space Orchestra (DE)

25. 09
09:00 - 11.00h

ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DRAMA
Eklandagatan 86
412 61 Göteborg

25 SEPT. @ ATALANTE, GÖTEBORG

An open discussion between Catherine Lamb (US) and members from Harmonic Space Orchestra (DE) with the audience regarding their working methodologies and learning/developing of Triangulations - a commissioned work to be premiered at Göteborg Art Sounds Festival with support from Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. 

Catherine Lamb is a composer and co-initiator of Harmonic Space Orchestra - 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. HSO is today considered the most accomplished ensemble in the world dedicated to this kind of harmony.

The talk is moderated by Rosali Grankull in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Schweden and FST. 

Learn more about Catherine Lamb

TALK: Triangulating with Catherine Lamb (US)

25. 09
13:00 - 14.00h

ATALANTE
Övre Husargatan 1
411 22 Göteborg

CONNECT: SHARED SPACE is an opportunity to mingle, network or just hang out with others interested in or curious about experimental contemporary music and sound. The 2026 edition of Göteborg Art Sounds Festival has the theme Shifting Spaces. Space is never fixed. It is acoustic, social, political and embodied. Today (perhaps more than ever) there is a need for spaces where we can meet, talk, think, encourage, question, protest. Take a moment to have some fika and connect with artists, organisers and other human beings that happen to share this time and space with you. 

SHARED SPACE: Mingle and connect with GAS

25. 09
14:00 - 15.00h

ATALANTE
Övre Husargatan 1
411 22 Göteborg

25 SEPT. @ VASAKYRKAN, GÖTEBORG

Swedish saxophonist and composer Lisen Rylander Löve works across jazz, improvisation, and experimental music. Through years of artistic exploration, she has developed a distinctive voice that expands the possibilities of contemporary jazz. She works in a wide range of ensembles and collaborations, both in Sweden and internationally. Improvisation and a deep engagement with sound remain central to her practice. Her music is often contrast-rich, uncompromising, and highly suggestive in its use of timbre and form. OCEANS (2019), her debut solo album, combines saxophone, voice, and kalimba with field recordings and live electronics. The follow-up, In Fields Of Time (2025), further explores the meeting of acoustic instruments and electronic processing, and was nominated for both a Grammis Award and a Manifest Award for Jazz Album of the Year.

Opening performance: Students from the Academy of Music & Drama perform music arranged for the venue of the night.

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Lisen Rylander Löve (SE)

25. 09
19:00h

VASAKYRKAN
Vasa Kyrkoplan 5
411 27 Göteborg

Áine O’Dwyer is a multi-disciplinary artist, instrumentalist, composer/performer whose practice is inspired by both the conceptual concerns of sound art and traditional compositional techniques, embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment, time, audience and architecture. She has created works internationally for large-scale and intimate settings which often allow for both planned and chance events to co-exist. O’Dwyer’s work is informed by her study of the individual idiosyncrasies found in each pipe-organ and the realisation that each individual organ is meticulously tuned to the measurements of its building, allowing it to connect intimately with surrounding architecture. Recent works include; 'Old Songs’, a commissioned performance installation for Oscillation festival in Brussels and ‘Sing in the Dark’ for voice and Acousmonium at Archipel festival, Switzerland. 

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Áine O'Dwyer (IE)

25. 09
20:30h

VASAKYRKAN
Vasa Kyrkoplan 5
411 27 Göteborg

26 SEPT. @ 3:E VÅNINGEN, GÖTEBORG

TALK: An introduction to Eufonia and sub_bar - a playground for subfrequencies and haptic art, which aims to bridge the gap between hearing and deaf individuals' perceptions of music. This movement of artists and researchers pioneers a shift in music production and education, transitioning its paradigm from sound to vibration and enriching the cultural landscape with narratives and sensations that have never been experienced before. 

The lecture is arranged by 3:e våningen, open to hearing and deaf participants, and accessible in sign language.

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TALK: Eufonia (PT) introduces sub_bar

26. 09
11:00 - 12.00h

3:E VÅNINGEN
Sockerbruket 9
414 51 Göteborg

WORKSHOP: The workshop, accessible in sign language, cater to both hearing and deaf participants. sub_bar academy designs music courses and workshops specifically for subfrequencies and stands out for its innovative approach and its aim to bridge the gap between hearing and deaf individuals' perceptions of music. In their courses, they prioritize co-creation, where participants' curiosity guides the learning process.

The workshop is arranged by 3:e våningen, and participant number is limited. More information in August. 

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WORKSHOP: sub_bar academy (PT)

26. 09
12:00 - 17.00h

3:E VÅNINGEN
Sockerbruket 9
414 51 Göteborg

26 SEPT. @ ATALANTE, GÖTEBORG

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 explores different scales of time – geological, biological, historical, and musical – through sequences or the layering of repetitive instructions, as they ask: what is left of these 800 years old songs?

Clara Lévy is a French violinist and composer, 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, with a masters in Viola with Paul de Clerck in Brussels and another in String Quartet with Oliver Wille in Hannover.

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Clara Lévy &
Victor Guaita (FR/ES)

26. 09
19:30h

ATALANTE
Övre Husargatan 1
411 22 Göteborg

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, 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 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 commission is made possible by support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and initiative neue musik berlin e.V. through co-commission with Harmonic Space Orchestra. 

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Harmonic Space Orchestra (DE) + Catherine Lamb (US)

26. 09
20:30h

ATALANTE
Övre Husargatan 1
411 22 Göteborg

27 SEPT. @ KONSTMUSEET, SKÖVDE

"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. 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.

The performance is a part of the program during Konsmuseets initiative "Hela havet stormar". The concept of the day is curated by K.Skaraborg, an association developed from the grassroots initiative Tidandalens konsthall. K.Skaraborg brings together organisations in the fields of art, design, architecture and public health, as well as ecological and social sustainability and adult education.

Learn more about Clara Lévy and Victor Guaita

Clara Lévy &
Victor Guaita (FR/ES)

27. 09
12:30h

KONSTMUSEET I SKÖVDE
Trädgårdsgatan 9
541 30 Skövde

GAS Festival 2026 is made possible with support from Kulturrådet, Göteborgs stad, Västra Götalandsregionen, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Goethe-Institut, Goethe-Institut Schweden, Initiative New Music Berlin, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse, Lundgrens understödsfond, Mölndals stad, Göteborgs universitet, Wärenstams, Konstkollektivet Mölndal.