Concert / Performance, Event in Biel/Bienne, Talk, Workshop

La Fête à Bruit · Art & Politics of Improvisation

La Fête à Bruit is a festival dedicated to improvisation, combining artistic, theoretical, discursive and transdisciplinary perspectives. Using sound and listening as vectors, it creates a platform for the exchange of ideas and the development of new forms of artistic production between artists and with the public.

Workshops A Soundwalk Through Biel’s Sonic-Social Spaces, with Jason Kahn · Movement and Body Awareness, with Dafni Stefanou · MimiCry Choir, with Ute Wassermann · Ecosystems, with Gregory Stauffer · Fair Practices, with Nicolas Y Galeazzi

Artists Xavier Charles, Vanja Dabić ∞ Kumah, Philipp Eden, Jason Kahn, Eva-Maria Karbacher, Hans Koch, Ivar Roban Križić, Antoine Läng, Frantz Loriot, Jalalu Kalvert-Nelson, Lea Krebs, Natalie Peters, Antoine Rubin, Gregory Stauffer, Dafni Stefanou, Marina Tantanozi, Nora Vetter, HannaH Vyborg Walter, Ute Wassermann, Sara Zlanabitnig

Lectures Fragments from the History of Art Organisations in Yugoslavia · Intermittent Status in Switzerland? Yes, it Exists! · Sound Against All Authorities: 150 Years of Anarchist Music Culture · Why Anything Is Possible: How DIY Spaces Saved My Life · Poor Things: Curating Tiny Stuff · Composing the Scene: Critical Listening: A Personal Approach to Curating Experimental Music · Sustainable · Insights into Open Source Software Developing · Creative Processes: Using Permaculture Tools

All lectures are in English

Detailed programme

Biographies of the participants

Dates
August 29, 30, 31, September 1st,
every day from 12:00 on, Terrain Gurzelen, Biel/Bienne

Recommended Ticket Price
Evening or afternoon CHF 20.- / full day CHF 30.- / 4 days CHF 100.-. You can choose to pay more or less depending on your budget

Radio Partner
Lumpen station – Undisciplinary Radio Practices. Blablabliblabiu, daily live broadcast from 14:30 to 16:00 on lumpenstation.art

Support
City of Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern, Pro Helvetia, Stiftung Temporatio, Landis & Gyr, Fondation Oertli, Sudkulturfond, BVG, Ruth & Arthur Scherbarth Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, FSRC


Poster by Nayara Siler

More activities

Manoir Bruit, artist-in-residence Christian Müller
Residency
August 2 – 11 2024: Christian Müller as artist-in-residence at Manoir Bruit
Lise Barkas (picture by Alma Bucciali)
Concert / Performance, Event in Biel/Bienne
June 22 2024: A solo bagpipe concert and a master film
Šalter Ensemble
Tour
May 23-27 2024: International electroacoustic ensemble. Release tour New Album Tri dela, Concerts in Vienna, Slovenske Konjice, Belgrade, Novi Sad
Belorukov & Badrutt, Novi Sad 2023
Tour
April 22-28 2024: Concerts in Bilbao, Burgos, Santander, Porto, Lisbon and Madrid
Soirée Bruit, March 3 2024. Picture by Jonas Scheck
Concert / Performance, Event in Biel/Bienne
March 3 2024: Triple concert in Biel/Bienne
Félicie Bazelaire. Picture by Darek Szuster
Workshop, Event in Biel/Bienne
March 2 2024, Biel/Bienne: “From open composition to improvisation”

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