Founded in 1992 in Geneva, Archipel is an international festival of musical creation that promotes all forms of musical research and sound art.
It helps to give them recognition and a high profile in Swiss cultural life. For ten days each year, Archipel presents a rich programme of instrumental and vocal concerts, performances, improvised and electroacoustic music, sound installations, listening sessions, workshops, meetings and conferences.
Particular attention is paid to the conviviality and reception of the works, with a listening room equipped with an acousmonium - an orchestra of loudspeakers - and carefully designed spaces for both the audience and the artists.
The Archipel festival invites outstanding ensembles and personalities, both established and emerging, musicians from Switzerland and abroad, such as Ensemble Ictus, Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble Contrechamps, Eva Reiter, Clara Iannotta, Alvin Lucier, Jürg Frey, Eliane Radigue, Cassandra Miller, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Kanako Abe, Rie Nakajima, Charles Curtis, Sarah Hennies, Felicity Mangan, Will Guthrie, Valerio Tricoli, Michèle Bokanowski, Rashad Becker, Christine Groult, Oren Ambarchi, David Toop, Max Eastley, Louis Schild, Olga Kocharova, John Luther Adams, Christina Kubisch, Attila Faravelli, Ellen Arkbro, Michael Ranta, Oscar Bianchi, Aisha Orazbayeva.
For more information on the programme, visit the following link: https://archipel.org/fr/program/