10–19 September 2026

Festival Programme 2026

10–19 September 2026
10 September 2026
Festival opening: Magic Fantastic
Oslo-filharmonien · Øyvind Torvund · Kristine Tjøgersen
Concert
Orchestral
35% off for ultiMATEs
Oslo Konserthus
10–18 September 2026
Festival bar
Aapningstidene
11 September 2026
Music Norway I Export:Session
On electronic art in an international landscape
Seminar
Gratis
Electroacoustic
MUNCH
11–19 September 2026
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
Concert
House concerts
Private homes in Oslo
11–19 September 2026
The Secret Life of Objects
Sound art for old and young
Exhibition
Children and youth
Listen and play
Gratis
Kunsthall Oslo
11–19 September 2026
Moder Evgenia
Marte Gunnufsen
Video installation
Resonance
Gratis
Oslo Kunstforening
11–19 September 2026
A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow
Maritea Dæhlin
Solo exhibition
Gratis
Oslo Kunstforening
11–19 September 2026
Wonderful, Marvelous
Camille Norment
Sound installation
Resonance
Gratis
Atelier Nord
11 September 2026
Passage
Oslo kulturskole · Julian Sartorius · Alberto Bernal · FRAMES
Concert
Ensemble
Gratis
Voldsløkka Scene
11 September 2026
Ultima Thule: The Closest Possible Sound
Six concerts and a playroom
Minifestival
Event pass for 35% off for ultiMATEs
Sentralen
11 September 2026
Sound Switchers present crypt_
Yuri Umemoto · Oslo Sinfonietta · Ivar Furre Aam
Music theatre
Vocal
Ensemble
Children and youth
Black Box teater
11 September 2026
Cello Musique Concrete
Tanja Orning
Concert
Solo
Ultima Thule
World premiere
Sentralen
11 September 2026
Log Book
François Sarhan · Nina Guo · asamisimasa · Zafraan Ensemble
Performance
Listen and play
Ultima Thule
Gratis
World premiere
Sentralen
11 September 2026
Volta Feedback
Yann Leguay
Concert
Solo
Noise
Ultima Thule
Sentralen
11 September 2026
Lichtbogen
LEMUR
Concert
Ensemble
Electroacoustic
Ultima Thule
World premiere
Sentralen
11 September 2026
IN / OUT
Violeta García
Concert
Solo
Noise
Ultima Thule
Sentralen
11 September 2026
Slightly Bent
Miguel Ángel García Martín
Concert
Solo
Ultima Thule
Sentralen
12 September 2026
Listen-Up!
Composers in conversation
Artist talk
Gratis
TONO house
12 September 2026
Autumn Caravan
Adriana Hölszky · Gisle Kverndokk
Concert
Vocal
35% off for ultiMATEs
Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo
12–13 September 2026
And they call it present
Ícaro Zorbar
Performance
World premiere
Astrup Fearnley Museum
12–15 September 2026
Mini Noise
Fløff · Agnes Hvizdalek · Arvid Ingvarsson · Yaniv Cohen
Dance
Noise
Children and youth
Kloden Theatre
12–19 September 2026
Table Book
Create your own music
Workshop
Children and youth
Listen and play
Gratis
Kunsthall Oslo
12 September 2026
crypt_
Yuri Umemoto · Oslo Sinfonietta · Ivar Furre Aam
Music theatre
Vocal
Ensemble
40% off for ultiMATEs
Black Box teater
12 September 2026
Smalltown Supersound presents
Kjell Samkopf
Concert
Electroacoustic
Resonance
Album launch
World premiere
35% off for ultiMATEs
Nasjonalbiblioteket
12–13 September 2026
Trash This Temple
Lasse Marhaug 24 Hours
Concert
Solo
Noise
World premiere
35% off for ultiMATEs
NRK Store studio
12 September 2026
Historia
Glenn Kotche · Karl Ove Knausgaard
Performance
Reading
Film
Talk
35% off for ultiMATEs
MUNCH
12 September 2026
Let us all sense
Tine Surel Lange · AREPO
Performance
Ensemble
World premiere
35% off for ultiMATEs
Rom for Dans
12 September 2026
Classic Album Sundays
Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Classic Album Sundays
Talk
Listening session
35% discount for ultiMATEs
Becco
12 September 2026
Trapped
Henryk Górecki · Jonas Skaarud · François Couperin · Lars Henrik Johansen · Oslo String Quartet
Concert
Paulus kirke
13 September 2026
When I See You. I See a Garden (Collective Sound)
Maritea Dæhlin
Performance
Gratis
Oslo Kunstforening
13 September 2026
Untitled School and Other Strange Lessons
Torrence · Stene · Ugelvik · Yoshida
Concert
Ensemble
World premiere
35% off for ultiMATEs
Norges musikkhøgskole
13–15 September 2026
Sound Switchers present ØY
Janne Eraker · Kristoffer Lislegaard
Concert
Dance
Sentralen, Kulturhuset Veitvet
13 September 2026
HUSH
The Norwegian Soloist’s Choir · Jane Scroccaro · Samir Odeh-Tamimi · Camille Norment
Concert
Vocal
Resonance
World premiere
35% off for ultiMATEs
Sentralen
14 September 2026
Against Hard Matter
Øyvind Mæland · Anna Gaïotti
Concert
Dance
Noise
World premiere
35 % off for ultiMATEs
Kulturkirken Jakob
15 September 2026
Lost Signals Weave a Trance
Lukas De Clerck · Marcin Pietruszewski · Thov Wetterhus
Concert
Resonance
35% off for ultiMATEs
Riksscena
15 September 2026
Når stemmen bærer hjem
Det Norske Kammerorkester · Mahsa Vahdat
Concert
Orchestral
Vocal
35% off for ultiMATEs
Universitetets aula
16 September 2026
Terrarium
Cecilie Ore · Oslo Sinfonietta
Concert
Ensemble
World premiere
35% off for ultiMATEs
Sentralen
16 September 2026
Nati Infiniti
Alessandro Cortini · OkHeiða
Concert
Solo
Electroacoustic
35% off for ultiMATEs
Rockefeller
16 September 2026
Blodveien [Blood Road]
Knut Olaf Sunde
Film
Electroacoustic
World premiere
35% off with ultiMATE
Vega Scene
17 September 2026
Once we sang of Ice and Fire
Climate Talks meets Art
Concert
Reading
Film
Talk
Art and climate
Gratis
Deichman Bjørvika
17 September 2026
Brilliant Suns
Lene Grenager · Ellen Reid · Susanna Wallumrød · Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Concert
Orchestral
Vocal
35% off for ultiMATEs
NRK Store studio
17–19 September 2026
Unchained Melody
Carte Blanche · Mette Ingvartsen
Dance
35% off for ultiMATEs
Dansens Hus
17 September 2026
Where Never
Beatrice Dillon · Explore Ensemble
Concert
Ensemble
Electroacoustic
35% off for ultiMATEs
MUNCH
18 September 2026
Sonic Citizenship
A day on listening as counterweight
Talk
Exhibition
Book launch
Gratis
Nobel Peace Center
18 September 2026
Arne Nordheim Composer Prize
NMH Sinfonietta
Concert
Ensemble
35% off with ultiMATE
Norges musikkhøgskole
18 September 2026
And Now, the Weather
Cikada · IEMA · Saariaho · Torvund · Hartman · Køppe · Bång
Concert
Ensemble
World premiere
35% off for ultiMATEs
Kulturkirken Jakob
18 September 2026
Tokyo Noise
Kristian Petri · Jan Röed · Johan Söderberg
Film
Noise
Gratis
MUNCH
18–19 September 2026
Hi sida
Pinquins · Kjersti Alm Eriksen
Music theatre
World premiere
40% off for ultiMATEs
Black Box teater
18 September 2026
Merzbow
Solo Noise
Concert
Noise
35% off for ultiMATEs
MUNCH
18 September 2026
Saddled With
Natasha Barrett · Kelman Duran
Concert
Solo
Electroacoustic
35% off for ultiMATEs
Trekanten
19 September 2026
PIANO ACTIONS
Grand pianos, spiders and a museum set in motion by Nils Henrik Asheim
Concert
Dance
Sound installation
Listen and play
Children and youth
World premiere
20% off for ultiMATEs
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
19 September 2026
The Instrument and the Atmosphere
Carmen Villain · Svetlana Maraš
Concert
Solo
Electroacoustic
35% off for ultiMATEs
Kunsthall Oslo
Thursday 10/09
19:00 Oslo Konserthus
Festival opening: Magic Fantastic
Oslo-filharmonien · Øyvind Torvund · Kristine Tjøgersen
21:00 Aapningstidene
Festival bar
Friday 11/09
11:00 MUNCH
Music Norway I Export:Session
On electronic art in an international landscape
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow
Maritea Dæhlin
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Moder Evgenia
Marte Gunnufsen
12:00 Kunsthall Oslo
The Secret Life of Objects
Sound art for old and young
12:00 Private homes in Oslo
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
15:00 Atelier Nord
Wonderful, Marvelous
Camille Norment
16:00 Voldsløkka Scene
Passage
Oslo kulturskole · Julian Sartorius · Alberto Bernal · FRAMES
18:00 Sentralen
Log Book
François Sarhan · Nina Guo · asamisimasa · Zafraan Ensemble
World premiere
18:00 Sentralen
Cello Musique Concrete
Tanja Orning
World premiere
18:00 Black Box teater
Sound Switchers present crypt_
Yuri Umemoto · Oslo Sinfonietta · Ivar Furre Aam
18:00 Sentralen
Ultima Thule: The Closest Possible Sound
Six concerts and a playroom
18:00 Aapningstidene
Festival bar
19:30 Sentralen
Volta Feedback
Yann Leguay
20:30 Sentralen
Lichtbogen
LEMUR
World premiere
21:30 Sentralen
IN / OUT
Violeta García
22:30 Sentralen
Slightly Bent
Miguel Ángel García Martín
23:30 Sentralen
Volta Feedback
Yann Leguay
Saturday 12/09
11:00 TONO house
Listen-Up!
Composers in conversation
12:00 Atelier Nord
Wonderful, Marvelous
Camille Norment
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow
Maritea Dæhlin
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Moder Evgenia
Marte Gunnufsen
12:00 Kunsthall Oslo
The Secret Life of Objects
Sound art for old and young
12:00 Private homes in Oslo
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
13:00 Kunsthall Oslo
Table Book
Create your own music
13:00 Kloden Theatre
Mini Noise
Fløff · Agnes Hvizdalek · Arvid Ingvarsson · Yaniv Cohen
13:00 Astrup Fearnley Museum
And they call it present
Ícaro Zorbar
World premiere
13:00 Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo
Autumn Caravan
Adriana Hölszky · Gisle Kverndokk
Sold out
14:30 Kloden Theatre
Mini Noise
Fløff · Agnes Hvizdalek · Arvid Ingvarsson · Yaniv Cohen
15:00 Nasjonalbiblioteket
Smalltown Supersound presents
Kjell Samkopf
World premiere
15:00 Black Box teater
crypt_
Yuri Umemoto · Oslo Sinfonietta · Ivar Furre Aam
16:00 NRK Store studio
Trash This Temple
Lasse Marhaug 24 Hours
World premiere
16:00 Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo
Autumn Caravan
Adriana Hölszky · Gisle Kverndokk
Sold out
17:00 MUNCH
Historia
Glenn Kotche · Karl Ove Knausgaard
Sold out
17:30 Rom for Dans
Let us all sense
Tine Surel Lange · AREPO
World premiere
Sold out
18:00 Becco
Classic Album Sundays
Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
18:00 Aapningstidene
Festival bar
19:00 Black Box teater
crypt_
Yuri Umemoto · Oslo Sinfonietta · Ivar Furre Aam
20:00 MUNCH
Historia
Glenn Kotche · Karl Ove Knausgaard
22:00 Paulus kirke
Trapped
Henryk Górecki · Jonas Skaarud · François Couperin · Lars Henrik Johansen · Oslo String Quartet
00:00 NRK Store studio
Trash This Temple
Lasse Marhaug 24 Hours
World premiere
Sunday 13/09
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
When I See You. I See a Garden (Collective Sound)
Maritea Dæhlin
12:00 Atelier Nord
Wonderful, Marvelous
Camille Norment
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow
Maritea Dæhlin
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Moder Evgenia
Marte Gunnufsen
12:00 Kunsthall Oslo
The Secret Life of Objects
Sound art for old and young
12:00 Private homes in Oslo
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
13:00 Kunsthall Oslo
Table Book
Create your own music
13:00 Kloden Theatre
Mini Noise
Fløff · Agnes Hvizdalek · Arvid Ingvarsson · Yaniv Cohen
13:00 Astrup Fearnley Museum
And they call it present
Ícaro Zorbar
14:30 Kloden Theatre
Mini Noise
Fløff · Agnes Hvizdalek · Arvid Ingvarsson · Yaniv Cohen
15:00 Norges musikkhøgskole
Untitled School and Other Strange Lessons
Torrence · Stene · Ugelvik · Yoshida
World premiere
17:00 Sentralen, Kulturhuset Veitvet
Sound Switchers present ØY
Janne Eraker · Kristoffer Lislegaard
18:00 Aapningstidene
Festival bar
19:00 Sentralen
HUSH
The Norwegian Soloist’s Choir · Jane Scroccaro · Samir Odeh-Tamimi · Camille Norment
World premiere
Sold out
Monday 14/09
12:00 Kloden Theatre
Mini Noise
Fløff · Agnes Hvizdalek · Arvid Ingvarsson · Yaniv Cohen
12:00 Private homes in Oslo
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
18:00 Aapningstidene
Festival bar
19:00 Kulturkirken Jakob
Against Hard Matter
Øyvind Mæland · Anna Gaïotti
World premiere
Tuesday 15/09
12:00 Kloden Theatre
Mini Noise
Fløff · Agnes Hvizdalek · Arvid Ingvarsson · Yaniv Cohen
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow
Maritea Dæhlin
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Moder Evgenia
Marte Gunnufsen
12:00 Private homes in Oslo
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
17:30 Sentralen, Kulturhuset Veitvet
Sound Switchers present ØY
Janne Eraker · Kristoffer Lislegaard
18:00 Aapningstidene
Festival bar
19:00 Universitetets aula
Når stemmen bærer hjem
Det Norske Kammerorkester · Mahsa Vahdat
19:00 Riksscena
Lost Signals Weave a Trance
Lukas De Clerck · Marcin Pietruszewski · Thov Wetterhus
Wednesday 16/09
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow
Maritea Dæhlin
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Moder Evgenia
Marte Gunnufsen
12:00 Kunsthall Oslo
The Secret Life of Objects
Sound art for old and young
12:00 Private homes in Oslo
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
18:00 Sentralen
Terrarium
Cecilie Ore · Oslo Sinfonietta
World premiere
18:00 Aapningstidene
Festival bar
19:45 Rockefeller
Nati Infiniti
Alessandro Cortini · OkHeiða
20:00 Vega Scene
Blodveien [Blood Road]
Knut Olaf Sunde
World premiere
Thursday 17/09
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow
Maritea Dæhlin
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Moder Evgenia
Marte Gunnufsen
12:00 Kunsthall Oslo
The Secret Life of Objects
Sound art for old and young
12:00 Private homes in Oslo
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
13:00 Deichman Bjørvika
Once we sang of Ice and Fire
Climate Talks meets Art
15:00 Atelier Nord
Wonderful, Marvelous
Camille Norment
18:00 Aapningstidene
Festival bar
19:00 Dansens Hus
Unchained Melody
Carte Blanche · Mette Ingvartsen
19:00 NRK Store studio
Brilliant Suns
Lene Grenager · Ellen Reid · Susanna Wallumrød · Norwegian Radio Orchestra
21:00 MUNCH
Where Never
Beatrice Dillon · Explore Ensemble
Friday 18/09
11:00 Nobel Peace Center
Sonic Citizenship
A day on listening as counterweight
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow
Maritea Dæhlin
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Moder Evgenia
Marte Gunnufsen
12:00 Kunsthall Oslo
The Secret Life of Objects
Sound art for old and young
12:00 Private homes in Oslo
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
15:00 Atelier Nord
Wonderful, Marvelous
Camille Norment
16:00 Norges musikkhøgskole
Arne Nordheim Composer Prize
NMH Sinfonietta
18:00 MUNCH
Tokyo Noise
Kristian Petri · Jan Röed · Johan Söderberg
18:00 Kulturkirken Jakob
And Now, the Weather
Cikada · IEMA · Saariaho · Torvund · Hartman · Køppe · Bång
World premiere
18:00 Aapningstidene
Festival bar
19:00 Dansens Hus
Unchained Melody
Carte Blanche · Mette Ingvartsen
20:00 MUNCH
Merzbow
Solo Noise
Few tickets left
20:00 Black Box teater
Hi sida
Pinquins · Kjersti Alm Eriksen
World premiere
22:00 Trekanten
Saddled With
Natasha Barrett · Kelman Duran
Saturday 19/09
11:00 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
PIANO ACTIONS
Grand pianos, spiders and a museum set in motion by Nils Henrik Asheim
World premiere
12:00 Atelier Nord
Wonderful, Marvelous
Camille Norment
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow
Maritea Dæhlin
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Moder Evgenia
Marte Gunnufsen
12:00 Kunsthall Oslo
The Secret Life of Objects
Sound art for old and young
12:00 Private homes in Oslo
Music at Yours
House concerts in and around Oslo
13:00 Kunsthall Oslo
Table Book
Create your own music
17:00 Dansens Hus
Unchained Melody
Carte Blanche · Mette Ingvartsen
18:00 Black Box teater
Hi sida
Pinquins · Kjersti Alm Eriksen
21:00 Kunsthall Oslo
The Instrument and the Atmosphere
Carmen Villain · Svetlana Maraš
Aapningstidene
Astrup Fearnley Museum
Atelier Nord
Becco
Black Box teater
Dansens Hus
Deichman Bjørvika
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Kloden Theatre
Kulturhuset Veitvet
Kulturkirken Jakob
Kunsthall Oslo
Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo
MUNCH
NRK Store studio
Nasjonalbiblioteket
Nobel Peace Center
Norges musikkhøgskole
Oslo Konserthus
Oslo Kunstforening
Paulus kirke
Private homes in Oslo
Riksscena
Rockefeller
Rom for Dans
Sentralen
TONO house
Trekanten
Universitetets aula
Vega Scene
Voldsløkka Scene

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