Acousmonium 2026

International festival of multichannel electroacoustic music

Curated by Alisa Beck & Anton Iakhontov
A co-production of Floating Sound Gallery Vienna and echoraum

Program:

Thursday, May 28, 2026, 7pm

Anna Maly, Schnufa (9’36”) 2026, Rising Amen (4’24”) 2022, Lux Aeterna Unlimited (5’08”) 2021
Daniil Koronkevich & Snir Kaduri, Lines (25’) 2025
Wolfgang Musil, nordlicht remix (13’) 2025 / 26
Alla Zahaikevych, RANA (9’14“) 2022, Motus (10’23”) 2003
// TALK // Alla Zahaikevych: Ukrainian Association of Electroacoustic Music – Possibilities of the Future
Morning Seance, Apparatus for obscure phenomena (19’) 2026

Friday, May 29, 2026, 7pm

Daniel Teruggi, Symphonische Träume (22’) 2000
Amir Teymuri, WARPING TIME IN SEARCH OF SIMILARITY (11’30’’) 2025, DANCE SONG (06’11’’) 2025
// TALK // Amir Teymuri: Sonic Transitions
Maja Osojnik, BLENDE #01 (20’04“) 2024, 2026, including Maja Osojnik / Christopher Sturmer, INTO EVERYTHING, INTO ANYTHING (6’46’’) 2025, austrian premiere of the video
Günther Rabl, GEZEITENWENDE (CHANGING OF THE TIDES) (selected movements, ca. 20’) 2017

Saturday, May 30, 2026, 6pm

6pm-7pm: Public workshop “Hands-on-Acousmonium”
(free admission, no registration required)

Saturday, May 30, 2026, 7pm

Kristina Warren, Downriver Light (17’) 2026
Tatiana Panyaeva, Flâner (7’28”) 2025
Christian Pusch, Time Out (05’) 2026
// TALK // Daniel Teruggi: The particularities of Acousmatic Music
Patrick K.-H., RE- (or where did the water come from) (selected movements, ca. 15’) 2026, premiere
Brii Bauer & Tina Hochkogler, Flight 2401 (2’24”) 2025, Another Cut Up Drama. And where have all the flowers gone? (4’00”) 2025, TinyNoisyCutUpLoopsForTheNastyBrainLabyrinthOfSuspiciousness (2’00”) 2025, How the fuck did I get here (6’35“) 2025, Drop Eye (8’01“) 2023

Floating Sound Gallery Vienna is a platform to support and promote the creation and performance of multichannel electroacoustic music and sound art. Founded by composer and multimedia artist Patrick K.-H. (Anton Iakhontov) in 2008 in Moscow, it relocated to Alexandrinsky Theater, St.Petersburg in 2013, and to Vienna in 2022. Floating Sound Gallery has presented music of over 200 artists in festivals and programs, intensively collaborating with partner institutions around the world. It is also known for its unprecedented public video archive of acousmatic performances, conferences and artist-talks.

Its early period was highlighted as „pivotal in engendering sound-art as formal and informal practice in the post-soviet domain“ for international festivals and programs like “SoundArt @ GogolFest” (Kyjiw, 2010) and ACOUSMONIUM (St.Petersburg, since 2018) among others. Since 2014, FSG has established connections with the Austrian cultural scenes featuring local composers and artists in several programs in Moscow and St.Petersburg. Since the first ACOUMONIUM Festival at Alexandrinsky Theater in 2018, FSG has worked closely with composer Daniel Teruggi, former director of GRM in Paris, who has become a mentor, board member and joined curator of ongoing programs. Within the same time period FSG has started its cooperation with the France-based organization Alcôme who do not only provide their own loudspreaker orchester for the gallery’s festivals but are also close partners in curating, organization and in mutual artistic exchange – arching to the next generations of electroacoustic composers.

Since 2022 Floating Sound Gallery is based in Vienna and established an annual program that consists of the series of octophonic listening sessions Circuit Fantôme at Vronihof (2x per month) and the three-day festival ACOUSMONIUM at echoraum. Within these activities Vronihof serves as a physical space of Floating Sound Gallery and by 2026 will also be used as a studio on a weekly basis, open to colleagues to prepare and work on their multichannel compositions.

In recent years, FSG has been invited to present its program in festivals and institutions like Autumn Waves Festival (Belgian Electroacoustic Music Federation, Bruxelles, Oktober 2023), New Ear :: SPATIAL :: (NYC, April 2025), Diapason Gallery (NYC, April 2025), Teheran Electroacoustic Music Festival (September 2025) and New Adits Festival (Klagenfurt, November 2025). Since 2023, FSG is co-curating the three-day festival ZVO.ČI.TI Akuzmonij Di-Fuzija together with CONA | Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing in Ljubljana (Slovenia). During 2025, FSG has been part of the EU-Project „Ondes Croisées“ organized by Alcôme with partner festivals in Vienna (Austria), Bari (Italy), Reus (Spain) and Chalon-sur-Saône (France).

Supported by Stadt Wien Kultur / Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport /
SKE austromechana / echoraum.