#4 / Aural Cartographies – Festival Vision

For this fourth edition, we are especially excited to highlight how the process of drawing “aural cartographies” comes alive in works that merge electronic and acoustic sounds, with important historical works being performed next to new commissions by the festival. The festival will pay tribute to two pioneers whose radical gestures continue to shape the way we listen today. The music of Tom Johnson(1939-2024), with its lucid formalism and quiet intensity, stands alongside the work of Peter Ablinger (1958-2025), a composer whose presence has become a recurring thread throughout the history of the festival.

Echonance Festival celebrates striking musical concepts, which are derived from developments of the late-20th century avant-garde. These techniques that we frequently find today in experimental musical practice have an origin in the post-war avant-garde that developed somewhat ‘silently’, back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Hence the name : ‘Echonance Festival’ – we hear resonances or echoes of these groundbreaking past musical works and how they have contributed to sound practice in more recent times. Selected works have mostly been composed in the last thirty-five years and remain highly relevant and significant to younger generations. One of the particular characteristics of these musical works is that they explore minimal modulations and variations of acoustic perception. Musical materials such as rhythm and melody have been removed from the compositional parameters. Somehow they invite us to listen from another perspective. We enter an immersive sound flow where sounds resonate with space, and space reveals the three-dimensional acoustic sound.

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