Sound or Not Festival

12 – 14 December 2025

Sound or Not is a festival organised and curated by Modelo62. Following the spirit from Mieko Shiomi’s text score piece “Boundary Music” (1963), this festival of three days features performances that test, blur, and playfully transgress the boundaries of what music can be.

Across these days you’ll encounter music-theater, works from the wide canon of experimental music, and interdisciplinary pieces resulting from our collaborations with diverse makers.

We will end the festival with a performance for children and families, where our youngest audience members will explore the universe of sounds and make music alongside the ensemble.

You are invited to the first edition of the festival, to spend these three days at the boundary with us, to explore the threshold between sound and non-sound, between music and everything else.

PROGRAM

→ Friday 12 December

Concert 1 | 19:30 – 20:30
∙ Reinier van Houdt (solo performance)
∙ Milana Zarić & Richard Barrett and Modelo62 — Grottesche (world premiere)

Concert 2 | 21:15 – 22:30
∙ Nahuel Cano and Modelo62 — Ways to Listen to a River

→ Saturday 13 December

Concert 3 | 16.00 – 17.00
∙ Scordatura Ensemble and Modelo62
∙ James Tenney – Voices
∙ Phil Niblock – Exploratory, Rhine version “Looking for Daniel”

Dinner | 17.30 – 19.00 (by pre-order)

Panel Talk – 19.00

Concert 4 | 20.00 – 21:30

Modelo62 —
∙Germaine Sijstermans — Lavendula
∙Peter Ablinger – Instruments and Phonographies

∙Ticking Shadows by Puck Wacki is presented throughout the festival on 12 December and 13 December

→ Sunday 14 December

Concert 5 | 14:30
∙Luz Lassizuk and Modelo62 — Sound Explorers (5+)