{"id":77834,"date":"2026-02-07T19:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/?p=77834"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:24:49","slug":"sonic-acts-2026","status":"archived","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/sonic-acts-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Acts Festival: Interdisciplinary arts festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sonic Acts is one of those festivals that you don't \"just grab\" as a single night, because it behaves like a layer over the city. From February 5 to March 29, 2026<\/strong> pops up in more than fifteen to twenty places, with concerts, listening sessions, exhibitions, films, workshops, clubs and conversations. The scale is large (80+ events), but the experience is often actually intimate: works that force you to dwell on sound, space and how you feel welcome (or not) somewhere.<\/h2>\n

Sonic Acts once began in 1994<\/strong> and grew into a biennial where art, technology and research do not \"touch,\" but intertwine. It remains a festival that prefers to open questions rather than glue answers shut, and you notice this in the choice of venues and formats: one minute you're in a performance, the next you're in a talk or at a film block that makes your ears do as much as your eyes.<\/p>\n

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The 2026 edition bears the title Melted for Love<\/strong> and starts from the idea of \"home\" - not as a cozy word, but as something to be made, lost, shared, guarded, or reinvented. Sonic Acts itself writes about technologies of welcome, friendship and proximity, and about the world as a network of human and non-human life intertwined.<\/p>\n

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From Feb. 5 to March 29, the city will be a \"field of listening,\" with 200+ makers in 20+ locations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you want to pinpoint one moment: the program mentions a intensive festival weekend from Feb. 26 to March 1, 2026<\/strong>, with extra many performances and readings close together. That's the weekend when you feel Sonic Acts most strongly as a festival, rather than a scattered itinerary.<\/p>\n

The main exhibition Melted for Love<\/em> lands in several anchorages at once: W139, Arti et Amicitiae and Rose Street<\/strong>, supplemented by satellites and collaborations, including a program at The Documentary Pavilion \/ IDFA Institute<\/strong> and a special collaboration with Framer Framed<\/strong>. That \"multiple orbits\" idea fits Sonic Acts exactly: you don't get a single venue that sums everything up, but a set of spots that together build the story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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