CONCERTS : WORKSHOPS : TALKS :
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
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Hardi Kurda is a sound artist, violinist, improviser, composer, researcher, founder and curator of SPACE21 Sound Gallery (Slemani) and Archive Khanah. He fosters international collaboration and sonic archiving in Kurdistan. 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. Hardi will perform “Your Resonance” - a work developed from his mother’s health check diary.
Hardi Kurda (KRD)
22. 09
19:00h
WÄRENSTAMS
Allégatan 67
503 37 Borås (BT-huset)
22 SEPT. @ OCEANEN, GÖTEBORG
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In Motion is a concert series that brings together students from the bachelor's and master's programs in Improvisation Performance, Improvisation and World Music, and Improvisation – The Composing Musician. It offers a unique opportunity for musicians to explore a specific theme in depth, collaborate across disciplines, and develop their own artistic voices. In Motion is about finding freedom in change, embracing challenges, and growing as an artist.
In collaboration with The Academy of Music and Drama.
In Motion
22. 09
19:00h
OCEANEN
Stigbergstorget 8
414 63 Göteborg
23 SEPT. @ KONSTKOLLEKTIVET, MÖLNDAL
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WORKSHOP: This workshop delves into the artistic potential of electronic components and operators - such as logic gates and capacitors - 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; no background knowledge in music or electronics is required. Participants will experiment with ways to intentionally introduce "new complexity" into these circuits, creating unique, unexpected outcomes that serve as the foundation for a new instrument and aesthetic. Through hands-on practice, participants will examine a curated selection of components to identify their unique artistic attributes. The workshop will culminate in a short collaborative improvisation session, using these custom-built circuits as our primary sound sources. Bring any conductive objects and an open mind.
WORKSHOP: Artistic Approaches to Analog Circuits with Ji Youn Kang (KR)
23. 09
13:00 - 17.00h
KONSTKOLLEKTIVET MÖLNDAL
Pixbovägen 5
431 36 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.
Ji Youn Kang (KR)
23. 09
19:00h
KONSTKOLLEKTIVET MÖLNDAL
Pixbovägen 5
431 36 Göteborg
23 SEPT. @ SYMBIONT, GÖTEBORG
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP: This workshop invites participants into a shared space of listening, experimentation, and collective creativity. Through improvisation, sound becomes a means of exploration, exchange, and discovery, where each participant contributes to shaping the musical experience. Working with instruments, electronics, objects, voice, and silence, the session will explore 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 exploring 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.
WORKSHOP: Improvised Music with Farida Amadou (BE)
23. 09
13:30 - 18.00h
SYMBIONT
Textilgatan 14
415 11 Göteborg
23 SEPT. @ OCEANEN, GÖTEBORG
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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.
Opening performance: Students from the Academy of Music & Drama perform music arranged for the venue of the night.
ensemble hybrid (SE)
23. 09
19:00h
OCEANEN
Stigbergstorget 8
414 63 Göteborg
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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 and 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 to create Urgent Listening, based on his listening experience when he illegally moved to Europe.
For Göteborg Art Sounds Festival Hardi will perform “Your Resonance” - a work developed from his mother’s health check diary. 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 (KRD)
23. 09
20:30h
OCEANEN
Stigbergstorget 8
414 63 Göteborg
24 SEPT. @ KULTURSKOLAN, GÖTEBORG
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP: Recycling Objects introduces a new cartographic notation method involving recycled 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. The students become an active interpreter and player, fostering a participatory approach to creating and experiencing the Found Score.
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
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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. 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: Students from the Academy of Music & Drama perform music arranged for the venue of the night.
Farida Amadou (BE)
24. 09
19:00h
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.
Ji Youn Kang (KR)
24. 09
20:30h
FOLKTEATERN
Olof Palmes plats 5
413 30 Göteborg
25 SEPT. @ ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DRAMA, GÖTEBORG
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP: A workshop with Harmonic Space Orcehstra at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, where students will delve into different sensorial aspects through experimentation and collective music-making following the principles of the harmonic series. The world of Just Intonation is a growing one in the field of new composition and experimental music, promoting new ways of engaging with sound. The Harmonic Space Orchestra has emerged as a focal point for artists and composers working in the field. Because of the specialist skills required for this music, the ensemble acts as an incubator and catalyst for new ideas and ways of working.
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
TALK
TALK: An open discussion between Catherine Lamb (US) and members from Harmonic Space Orchestra (DE) with the audience regarding their working methodologies and learning/developing Triangulations - a piece commissioned to be premiered at Göteborg Art Sounds Festival with support from Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.
Catherine Lamb is an award winning 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.
TALK: Triangulating with Catherine Lamb (US)
25. 09
13:00 - 14.00h
ATALANTE
Övre Husargatan 1
411 22 Göteborg
MINGLE
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
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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.
Lisen Rylander Löve (SE)
25. 09
19:00h
VASAKYRKAN
Vasa Kyrkoplan 5
411 27 Göteborg
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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.
Áine O'Dwyer (IE)
25. 09
20:30h
VASAKYRKAN
Vasa Kyrkoplan 5
411 27 Göteborg
26 SEPT. @ 3:E VÅNINGEN, GÖTEBORG
TALK
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.
TALK: Eufonia (PT) introduces sub_bar
26. 09
11:00 - 12.00h
3:E VÅNINGEN
Sockerbruket 9
414 51 Göteborg
WORKSHOP
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.
WORKSHOP: sub_bar academy (PT)
26. 09
12:00 - 17.00h
ATALANTE
Övre Husargatan 1
411 22 Göteborg
26 SEPT. @ ATALANTE, 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 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.
Clara Lévy &
Victor Guaita (FR/ES)
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, 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.
Harmonic Space Orchestra (DE) + Catherine Lamb (US)
26. 09
20:30h
ATALANTE
Övre Husargatan 1
411 22 Göteborg
27 SEPT. @ KONSTMUSEET, SKÖVDE
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"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.
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.
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