Surfaces. Layers. Overlaps. The sixth edition of Opera Festival ran from 20 to 23 August in Milo, Sicily: a new stage carved out of the forest, a wider Ballroom, and six thousand people listening under an active volcano.
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COEVAL at Flow Festival 2026
Twenty-one editions in, Helsinki in August belongs to Flow. A former power plant, ten stages, forty-five kitchens. Names we loved: Florence + The Machine, Nick Cave, Lykke Li, Oklou, Habibi Funk, DJ Gigola, Ana Frango Elétrico.
LOST (Labyrinth Original Sound Track) is FMR’s Memory Artifact
Built on a promise to writer J.L. Borges, the labyrinth carries FMR's ongoing legacy. Bianca Peruzzi and Luca Giudici built LOST, an afterlife vision based on perceptual possibility.
Best way to celebrate Midsummer: Solstice Festival 2026
Nordic midsummer has always been a negotiation with light: how long can you hold it, how much can the body take before sleep wins. At Ruka, Kuusamo, Solstice Festival removes the question entirely. The sun does not set. The fell rises above the treeline. The reindeer cross when they want. You adjust.
Listening Beyond Ourselves at FIBER Festival 2026
In its 11th edition, Amsterdam-based FIBER Festival made this tension its focus of inquiry through its theme, Fragile Forces.
URBAPHONIA Festival 2026
Urbaphonia at Pista 500: An Interview with Neuf Voix on the New Frontier of Urban Sound.
Rewire Festival: The Hague's Beautiful Experiment in Sonic Chaos
Four days of pure experimentation, local heroes and international heavyweights sharing the same city. Blawan live, Batu, Torus, Aaron Dilloway's noise rituals, Caterina Barbieri's modular worlds, Oneohtrix Point Never and Freeka Tet's audiovisual fever dream, KMRU's field recordings turned seismic. This is what adventurous music looks like when it's done right.
3hd 2025: Vertigo
The Vertigo program investigates the friction between the body and systemic collapse. Through diverse performances, 3hd 2025 offers a study of how individuals maintain balance within increasingly environments.
Ultracinema Art Festival 2025
Ultracinema Art Festival 2025 makes a strong start. Though niche, what one encounters is a hulking presence that refuses to compromise. A body, a hybrid of bodies, for an audience conscious of what bodies are within cinema.
FASHIONCLASH Festival 2025
The new FASHIONCLASH edition brought Maastricht into sharp focus through performances, workshops and collective actions that carried a clear sense of intention across the city.
The global voice in Turin: C2C Festival 2025
In Turin, C2C Festival marked a defining chapter. Forty-two thousand gathered, carrying forward Sergio’s vision through music, intellect, and courage. A cultural force anchored in devotion.
Gaudeamus Festival 2025
From orchestral intensity to electronic experimentation, Gaudeamus Festival marks 80 years of innovation. In Utrecht’s incredible venues, emerging voices presented new forms of contemporary sound, reshaping the future of music.
Berlin Atonal 2025
Berlin Atonal made its highly anticipated return to the cavernous Kraftwerk Berlin complex from August 27 - 31, 2025, rolling out five nights of premieres, new commissions, art installations, and late-night club sets.
Opera Festival 2025
Music, the Etna volcano, wine, and wood shaped one of the most remarkable weekends of culture in Milo, Catania, Sicily. Opera Festival created a monumental dialogue between tradition and innovation.
'The Talk' at Terraforma Exo 2025
On stage on the June 28th in the gardens of the Triennale for Terraforma Exo 2025, The Talk is a hybrid device that remixes concert, theatre, and audiovisual art.
FIBER Festival Frames Sonic Landscapes
Where does innovation live? At FIBER Festival in Amsterdam, the answer came through care. Technology, performance, experimental sound and visual art moved with emotion, speaking a deeply personal language.
REWIRE FESTIVAL 2025
As soon as you arrive in The Hague during the days of the Rewire Festival, you immediately sense that something special is happening: a shared vibration runs through the streets, the venues, the faces.
Berlin Atonal 2024 "OPENLESS"
A report on Berlin Atonal’s OPENLESS, featuring artists such as Forensis (Forensic Architecture), Saint Abdullah, Lord Spikehart, N’diaye Rose, Demdike Stare, Sara Persico and countless others.
Vox Marmoris Festival 2024
Vox Marmoris, a one-of-a-kind festival in a breathtaking location— a project, now in its seventh year, that creates an immersive experience and brings together multimedia arts, interactive installations and international sound explorations.
Nextones 2024
The 11th Nextones festival brings together electronic music and visual arts in the scenic Val D'Ossola.