Floating Sound Gallery: ACOUSMONIUM 2026

International festival of multichannel electroacoustic music

ACOUSMONIUM 2026

International festival of multichannel electroacoustic music

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

https://floatingsound.at/

Program: https://floatingsound.at/ACOUSMONIUM2026

Thursday, May 28, 2025, 7pm

with: Simone Borghi · Daniil Koronkevich & Snir Kaduri · Wolfgang Musil · Anna Maly · Alla Zahaikevych

Talk „Ukrainian Association of Electroacoustic Music – UAEM Studio: Possibilities of the Future“
by Alla Zahaikevych

Friday, May 29, 2025, 7pm

with: Maja Osojnik & Christopher Sturmer · Günther Rabl · Daniel Teruggi · Amir Teymuri

Talk „The particularities of Acousmatic Music“ by Daniel Teruggi

Saturday, May 30, 2025, 6pm

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

with: Brii Bauer & Tina Hochkogler · Patrick K.-H. · Kristina Warren · Tatiana Panyaeva · Christian Pusch

Talk „Sonic Transitions“ by Amir Teymuri

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).

https://floatingsound.at/
https://www.youtube.com/@floatingsoundgalleryvienna8899

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