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City Sonic 2026
In 2026, City Sonic will unfold across three cities in three phases. The first rendezvous will take place in spring, with the inaugural City Sonic Seoul edition.
Following several co-produced projects—including “Unit Academia” and “Planned Accidents”—as well as Belgium–Korea reciprocal residencies in 2024 and 2025, City Sonic will in turn set up in the Korean capital for an international programme featuring, among others, several Belgian artists.
The festival will then return with a Belgian edition in autumn, followed by a Lithuanan edition at the end of the year.
More information about this first Seoul edition will be announced very soon. Stay tuned.
In the Summer 2003, Transcultures launched the international sound arts festival City Sonic in Mons, which quickly became a benchmark in these expanding fields.
It has since traveled to other cities throughout the Federation Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Charleroi/Hainaut, Louvain-La-Neuve/Walloon Brabant, Brussels, etc.) and has presented internationally numerous artists supported (France, Spain, Romania, Lithuania, Canada, Tunisia, Morocco, Taiwan…).
In total, to date, more than 1,200 projects – for the most part creations – have been presented in this pioneering event, which became biennial in 2019, which continues both to support young talents and to recall the contribution of the pioneers of the sound arts, in their great diversity.
In 2023, to mark its twentieth anniversary, the City Sonic festival rolled out an expanded programme conceived as a “sound constellation.” Branded “CitySonic 20Years,” it unfolded across several cities in the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and was complemented by a stronger international presence (France, Lithuania, South Korea, Italy, Spain, etc.), developed in collaboration with numerous partners.
