Echonance Festival #4

What happens when music escapes melody and rhythm, and sound itself becomes the center? From 6-8 February 2026, the fourth edition of the Echonance Festival will explore the spatial structure of sound at Orgelpark in Amsterdam.

Echonance celebrates striking musical concepts derived from developments of the avant-garde and serves as a meeting place for composers and musicians active within this musical movement worldwide. The theme for this edition, Aural Cartographies, is an invitation to explore the spatial dimension of sound: its interaction with space, and the ways it can transform and reshape our understanding of space itself. In this context, listening becomes an act of imagination, a process of mapping sound in space and space through sound.

The works presented at Echonance invite a different way of listening: attentive, physical, and spatial. Each piece is tailored specifically for their performances at Orgelpark.

Unfolding over the course of three days, the seven concerts feature works by forward thinking composers: Clara de Asís, Catherine Christer Hennix, Nirantar Yakthumba, Tom Johnson, Peter Ablinger, Clara Levy, Morton Feldman, Pip (Torstein Lavik Larsen & Fredrik Rasten), Jürg Frey and Christina Kubish. Amongst the works, there will be two world premieres – by Clara de Asís and the Pip duo. 

Echonance invites us to experience the layered nature of this music and to connect with the effects of sound – subtle or overwhelming, conscious or unconscious – on us. Explore the full programme on their website and get your tickets via Orgelpark.

Echonance has kindly offered a limited amount of free tickets for Subbacultcha members to the concert #3 and concert #4.