INTONAL 2026: Acousmatic Concerts at IAC

22 to 26 April 2026

Welcome to a new edition of INTONAL Festival at IAC!

For the 2026 edition, we have shaped a curatorial framework that brings together our 15-years tradition of acousmonium practice and a focus on South and Central American sound scenes. This perspective unfolds through a dedicated talk and curated concerts, with music spatialized live on our 40+ speaker system.

The talk will feature Malmö-based podcast host Laura Balboa, an independent researcher on Latin American experimental sound artists, and Lílian Campesato – researcher, composer, and performer originally from Brazil and now based in Copenhagen. Their conversation will explore both historical and contemporary perspectives on experimental and female-driven sound practices from "Latin America".

This discourse will be complemented by concerts developed in direct connection with the label Other People, featuring selected works in co-curation with Laura Balboa. Through this collaboration, we aim to highlight lesser known but artistically significant composers from across America outside the Global North.

A glimpse of alternative ways of approaching the listening space will be showcased by Elide Sulsenti, in a performance with cello, speakers and headphones, with music by Charlie Sdraulig and a new piece by Matteo Tundo.

A special tribute will celebrate Annette Vande Gorne, a pioneering figure in acousmatic music, as she celebrates her 80th birthday in 2026. Founder of the Acousmonium at Espace Senghor and the international competition L’Espace du Son, Vande Gorne has played a decisive role in shaping contemporary practices in spatialized electroacoustic music.

PARTICIPANTS

Annette Vande Gorne / Lílian Campesato / Elide Sulsenti / Laura Balboa / Jakob Riis / Fabio Monni / Alessandro Perini / Kent Olofsson / Charlie Sdraulig / Matteo Tundo

FREE ADMISSION

PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

17:00
ELIDE SULSENTI: Music by Sdraulig/Tundo. Performance with cello, headphones and speakers. Read more and sign up for the concert here! Limited capacity. Please register if you want to secure a spot.
Location: Black Room

Thursday, 23 April 2026

18:00
TALK: Elide Sulsenti / Charlie Sdraulig / Matteo Tundo. Read more about the talk here!
Location: Black Room

20:00
ALESSANDRO PERINI plays Other People: Fronte Violeta by Carla Boregas & Anelena Toku. Read more about the concert here!
Location: Red Room

21:30
JAKOB RIIS. Estructura Propuesta Sonido. Music by Teresa Burga and Riis. Read more about the concert here!
Location: Red Room

Friday, 24 April 2026

18:00
TALK: Balboa/Campesato: Are we making too much noise? A conversation about sonic encounters. Read more about the talk here!
Location: Red Room

19:00
ELIDE SULSENTI: Music by Sdraulig/Tundo. Performance with cello, headphones and speakers. Read more and sign up for the concert here! Limited capacity. Please register if you want to secure a spot.
Location: Black Room

20:00
FABIO MONNI: Campesato, Justel, Hernández. Read more about the concert here!
Location: Red Room

21:30
ALESSANDRO PERINI plays Vande Gorne. Read more about the concert soon!
Location: Red Room

Saturday, 25 April 2026

18:00
TALK: Annette Vande Gorne. Read more about the talk here!
Location: Red Room

20:00
KENT OLOFSSON: Vande Gorne, Vaggione, Ferreyra. Read more about the concert here!
Location: Red Room

21:30
ANNETTE VANDE GORNE: Performance. Read more about the concert here!
Location: Red Room

Sunday, 26 April 2026

13:00–15:30
Open Seminar: Acousmonium basics with Alessandro Perini. Read more about the open seminar here!
Location: Red Room

15:30–18:30
OPEN MIXER. Showcase by Acousmonium workshop. Location: Red Room

Merve Erez – The Fractured Stillness
Pauline Hogstrand – Legera
Manos Dimogerontakis – much ado about nothing
Kristian Eliasson – Go Back To Where You Come From
Angelina Petrovic – 187.3 for Zenith
Helena Fernández-Cavada – There is no reference here, yet the stars could be known
Yasmine Elbaramawy, Limited Audacity

BIOGRAPHIES

Annette Vande Gorne (Charleroi, 1946) is a leading Belgian electroacoustic and acousmatic composer. After studies in Mons, Brussels, and Paris, she founded Musiques & Recherches and the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio, as well as the influential festival L’Espace du Son. She has been a major force in acousmatic pedagogy, teaching at several Belgian conservatories and establishing an independent electroacoustic department in Mons. Her music places spatial thinking at its core and draws on nature, physical phenomena, and the interplay between sound and meaning. Key works include the Tao cycle, Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est, Yawar Fiesta, and the long‑running Vox Alia series. She has received numerous awards and helped develop one of the world’s most significant electroacoustic documentation centers.

Laura Balboa is a Binnizá (Zapotec) autonomous researcher, radio producer, and artist based in Malmö, Sweden, who created a community radio platform called Bulla. This platform utilizes an oral technological framework for activist documentation, focusing on conversation, listening, sound, and experimental music by non-binary gender and non-conforming producers/artists of Mexican heritage or those who have worked in Mexican territory. Balboa's research has a socio-technological interest based on engaging with situated cultural production and community interactions. She has participated in different groups and projects ranging from female marginalized prison populations to open-source hw+sw and live coding communities.

Visit Laura Balboa's artist page - laurabalboa.com

Lílian Campesato is a Brazilian artist, researcher, and curator whose work connects sound, listening, art, and performance. She holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of São Paulo and has developed her career through multiple research scholarships, including three postdocs. Her Master’s dissertation on sound art remains an important reference in Brazil and was shortlisted for the CAPES Thesis Award (2012). Her research focuses on the politics of listening, with emphasis on gender, subjectivity, and critical perspectives on experimental music and sound art. She co-founded Sonora: musics and feminisms (2015) and, with Valéria Bonafé, leads Microfonias (2017–), a project exploring feminist and experimental listening methodologies. Since 2015, she has been an active member of the Research Centre on Sonology (NuSom). From 2025 to 2027, she holds a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen, developing a project on how shared listening can reveal inaudible layers of sonic experience.

Visit Lílian Campesato's artist page – liliancampesato.net

Elide Sulsenti is a cellist and performer passionate about experimentation and innovation. Her classical training, which includes studies at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Enrico Dindo’s class and the Hochschule of Lucerne, along with experiences at institutions such as the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest, has led her to focus on contemporary music and the exploration of new sonic potentials. With an interdisciplinary approach, Elide integrates technology, augmented instruments, and performative practices in unconventional contexts. Her performances, ranging from classical to contemporary music, have been recognized with distinctions such as the Fritz Gerber Award (2023) and the Valentino Bucchi Prize (2024). Combining artistic research and experimentation, she enhances the interaction between space, sound, and audience, a theme that is currently central to her doctoral project at the Conservatorio di Ferrara.

Visit Elide Sulsenti's artist page – elide.it

Jakob Riis is a Danish/Swedish laptop musician and composer of electroacoustic music. Improvisation is a central part of Jakob Riis’ view of music as he creates possible soundscapes which are carefully explored together with the audience. His work and discography reveal collaborations with a wide range of different artists in several formats. In recent years, there has been an increased focus on working with spatial music, in electroacoustic compositions for various settings.

Visit Jakob Riis’s artist page – sonicescape.net

Fabio Monni's artistic practice focuses on found objects as sound sources and how these can be integrated together with electronics within instrumental performances. He has a particular fascination with architectural spaces and their acoustic properties, frequently exploring the spatialisation of sound throughout space. His work as a musician exists in parallel with his professional career as a graphic illustrator and his position as a church musician in Lund, creating a multifaceted artistic identity.

Visit Fabio Monni’s artist page – fabiomonni.com

Kent Olofsson is a composer with an extensive artistic output of over 220 works that span a broad field of genres, ensemble types and contexts, including music for orchestra, chamber music, electroacoustic music, music theatre, rock music, and works for dance performances and installations. In the last decade, his artistic work and research have been particularly focused on exploring musical composition in experimental theatre performances, where particularly his work with Teatr Weimar and with artist Nina Jeppsson has been widely acclaimed. From 2021 to 2025 he was a professor of performing arts at Stockholm University of the Arts; from 2026 he is a professor at the Malmö Academy of Music.

Visit Kent Olofsson’s artist page – kentolofsson.com

Alessandro Perini is a composer and sound artist exploring how bodies, spaces, and sound interact through custom-built instruments and experimental electroacoustic devices. His background in composition and electronic music shapes a practice grounded in material processes, mechanics, and physical performance, often using electromechanical systems, custom-built machines, or 3D‑printed prosthetic devices. His work has been presented internationally and is documented on the KAIROS portrait album The Expanded Body. Alessandro also teaches composition and electronic music, co‑founded the Malmö-based collective Hertzbreakerz, and curates the academic programme of the Intonal Festival at IAC while working between Italy and Sweden.

Visit Alessandro Perini’s artist page – alessandroperini.com

Intonal is an annual festival for experimental and electronic music that has been held in Malmö, Sweden since 2015. The festival is held at and by Inkonst. The focus of the festival is to offer an international programme of experimental and electronic music covering a wide range of genres, subgenres, and unique expressions. Besides established artists within the electronic avant garde and acts bordering towards sound art, a hefty club-oriented programme also presents DJs acting within innovative scenes for dance music. Parallel to this, there are also a number of installations, exhibitions, and artist talks. In addition to our ticketed programme, a handful of events are free of charge and open to the public.

See the entire Intonal programme here – intonalfestival.com