As part of the Sonic Acts Biennial Melted for Love, Sonic Acts and Hartwig Art Foundation present the Spatial Sound Concerts, at Paradiso on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 February 2026. Across two evenings, thirteen live performances and diffusions unfold on the world-famous Acousmonium – an orchestra of around sixty loudspeakers designed to envelop listeners, brought to Amsterdam by INA GRM. Experience spatial sound in its most immersive form: listening as heightened attention, as a full-body encounter carried across a field of sound.
Friday 27 Feb.
Across this first five-hour night, audiences experience some of the most groundbreaking figures in experimental spatial sound, with seminal works by Bernard Parmegiani and new compositions by legends like Jim O’Rourke and Mark Fell & Rian Treanor. The Friday programme also features Jana Winderen, Sarah Davachi, and Sam Dunscombe who will perform or personally diffuse their new works.
Saturday 28 Feb.
During this second five-hour night, audiences experience newly commissioned spatial sound works by BJ Nilsen and KMRU & Aho Ssan, compositions by Éliane Radigue and Beatriz Ferreyra, and bold performances by avant-gardists Leila Bordreuil & Drew McDowall, Martyna Basta, and Mariam Gviniashvili & Hilde Marie Holsen.