Sonic Territories

In 2026, Sonic Territories works with water as a guiding image of change. Its movements, pauses, pressures, erosion and returns shape the rhythm of the edition, connecting a sequence of projects across Vienna and its surroundings with the main festival programme from 19–25 October 2026.

Taking water as both material condition and connective force, this year’s edition traces the ways in which Vienna has been shaped by systems of circulation, storage and transformation: from rivers and engineered urban landscapes to industrial architecture, collective infrastructures and spaces of concentrated resonance. Sound becomes a way of tracing these shifts.