The collaboration between INTONAL and IAC is renewed this year, once again hosting IAC’s Acousmonium in the Red Room. First set up fifteen years ago, this unique sound system, now comprising more than 40 speakers, has been continuously refined and improved year after year thanks to the artists who have used it, experimented with it, and proposed innovations to expand its possibilities. 

Among them, Sophie Delafontaine stands out in particular. A former student of the legendary composer and Acousmonium performer Annette Vande Gorne, Delafontaine returns to our festival after four years to present two new compositions. This edition will also feature a special focus on Trevor Wishart, a pioneer in the manipulation of the human voice in acousmatic music. Wishart is also a coder who has developed his own software tools, such as Composer's Desktop Project, a software he developed to transform sound in many different ways, especially tailored to working with vocal sounds. 

Another key focus is the use of the Acousmonium for music coming from the non-classical tradition, featuring works by artists such as Ryoji Ikeda and Pan Sonic. The latter have also influenced the world of classical music; for example, the Italian composer Fausto Romitelli (1963–2004) sampled sounds and, according to his notes, was inspired by sounds he found in the recordings of Pan Sonic.