Sølv on synesthesia, childhood memories, and the personal worlds she builds through experimental sound.
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C2C Festival 2026: Twenty-Five Years of Turin After Dark
For its 25th edition, C2C Festival took over Turin with four days of experimental electronics, avant-pop and club music across seven venues, with Oklou, Robyn, Yung Lean and Bladee, and a surprise closing b2b from Arca and Bill Kouligas. COEVAL documented the weekend in real time through stories and photographs, and here is our look back.
SPIRITS: Richie Hawtin and John Gerrard in Paris for Reference Festival
Richie Hawtin and John Gerrard shaped a twenty-four-hour program for Reference Festival’s first Paris edition, with SPIRITS performed live at its centre. Half an hour before Hawtin’s set, we talked about solar cycles, plastic shoes washed up on four oceans, vinyl as oil and the next chapter of Minus.
Reference Festival Brings FREIE KUNST to Paris
During Art Basel Paris, Reference Festival held its first Paris edition, FREIE KUNST. Six days at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Silencio, Dover Street Market and the Reference Salon gathered FKA Twigs, Richie Hawtin, John Gerrard, Eartheater and a wide circle of artists and club figures.
Palazzi D'Oriente, TPT: The Perfect Tool
Luca Bolognesi, aka Palazzi D'Oriente, returns to the dancefloor with TPT: The Perfect Tool, his first DJ album, out since 11 September with RXK Nephew, Kibo, Deriansky, Massimo Pericolo and Rebecca Salvadori. We talked about soundsystem crews, remote sessions, Bloodborne and the city as a wilder kind of nature.
Pegassi
Pegassi, the alter ego of Belgian producer Sam Huybrecht, releases 'Ascension' after two years of testing it in his sets. He talks to COEVAL about the EP built around it and the eight hours he plays at Hemkade during ADE.
Moonvine
Berlin sibling duo moonvine are quickly becoming one of the names to watch in the city's alternative dance music scene.
OPERA FESTIVAL 2026
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.
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.
GENER8ION: VISIONS OF 2034
At 180 The Strand, GENER8ION’s VISIONS OF 2034 is all about cinema, music and visual art, imagining a future that feels disturbingly close to the present.
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.
Jamie XX and Solomun at Pacha Ibiza
Pacha's walls still remember the night Jamie xx and Solomun traded rhythms until sunrise, one playful and open, the other deep and relentless, together rewriting what a b2b can sound like.
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.
Hotel Infinito: On Sonic Ecologies of Presence
On the occasion of the release of Hotel Infinito, the new album by Missing Ear, we spoke with the Milan-based experimental drummer and sound designer about the project and his collaboration with multimedia and visual artist Alessandra Leone, who will be his partner in the upcoming live show.
An interview with dancer Siko Setyanto and choreographer Tianzhuo Chen
The God-Inhabited Body and the Theatrical DJ. An interview with dancer Siko Setyanto and choreographer Tianzhuo Chen. Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師. Venice, may 2026, We Travel To Know Our Own Geography, performances curated by KUBORAUM.
URBAPHONIA Festival 2026
Urbaphonia at Pista 500: An Interview with Neuf Voix on the New Frontier of Urban Sound.
MPa Sound System: Discs in Tokyo
MPa Sound System: Discs places VQ at the center of a speaker-circuit in Tokyo's CON Gallery. The room is the instrument. The audience is wired into it.
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.
Two Dots
Two Dots makes music the way a fist hits a wall. Raised in Alpine quiet, sharpened in Parisian raves. The sound always knew who it belonged to.