Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2026 Concert Selection, Part 4 Festival Forum Wallis

PROGRAM

The Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2026 Selection Concerts are concert programs featuring acousmatic (electroacoustic) music performed on the 16-channel Acusmonium at MEbU (Münster Earport) in Münster/Goms. The program consists of pieces by the competition winners of the 11th Call for Acousmatic Works of the Forum Wallis Festival for New Music (http://forumwallis.ch): In 2026, a total of 182 works by 157 composers from 42 countries and all continents were submitted. Twenty-four works made the shortlist, and 17 others received a Special Mention. The programs will be performed by Simone Conforti (IRCAM Paris) and UMS’nJIP.

The special and unique listening experience at MEbU is made possible by an unusual instrument: the Akusmonium—a loudspeaker orchestra developed by the GRM research team in the 1970s at the Maison de Radio France. At MEbU, it is equipped with 16 individually controlled studio loudspeakers. The MEbU Akusmonium is one of the few permanent and publicly accessible Akusmoniums in Europe. The MEbU (Münster Earport) is an art space for contemporary music run by the Ensemble for New Music UMS’nJIP (Ulrike Mayer-Spohn and Javier Hagen) in Münster/Goms.

Kokoras Panayiotis 

Useless box *

11:00, SP

Delap Gordon

An Insect that Shuns the Light *

8:05, SP

Hayashi Kyohei

Butterfly Garden *

10:00, SP

Noiseau Etienne

Jardins d’Épicure *

7:11, SP

Moyers Jr. Timothy

Heliosphere *

9:25, SP

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Vanderburg Kyle

Tempest in a Teakettle *

8:00, SP

Yağlı Berk

False Awakening 

on a Mediterranean Island *

4:56, SP

Stollery Pete

Bosque *

7:07, SP

Totaleee (Pisano-Riise Giuseppe, 

Laudante Andrea, Montella Paolo)

Non è un atlante 

di traiettorie algo-siderali *

9:20, SP

Zouning Anne Liao

Dust Storm *

5:36, SP

* - Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2026 Selection

SP - Swiss Premiere

WP - World Premiere

Free admission (donations welcome)

Reservations recommended: mebu@umsnjip.ch / office@forumvalais.ch

http://forumwallis.ch

http://mebu.umsnjip.ch

MEbU (Münster Earport)

Furkastrasse 647

3985 Münster (Goms)