Audible Festival

The Audible Festival: Sound Avant-Garde in Montreuil

Born in 2011 from the collaboration between Les Instants Chavirés — a reference concert venue in Montreuil — and composer and improviser Jérôme Noetinger, the Audible Festival has become one of the most unique events for experimental music in the Île-de-France region. This multidisciplinary festival has created a unique space for listening and meeting at the crossroads of electroacoustic music, free improvisation, sound art, and experimental cinema.

Les Instants Chavirés: A Musical Laboratory Since 1991

Founded in 1991, Les Instants Chavirés is one of the most important venues in Europe for improvised, experimental, and noise music. Conceived from the outset as a musical laboratory, it has hosted the most important figures of the global avant-garde scene over the decades, from Derek Bailey to Merzbow, including Keiji Haino and Otomo Yoshihide. It is in this context of high standards and openness that the Audible Festival has emerged and established itself.

A Festival That Shines Across Multiple Venues

One of the characteristics of the Audible Festival is its presence in several complementary venues in eastern Paris. While Les Instants Chavirés (7 rue Richard Lenoir, Montreuil) is the heart of the festival, it also extends to the Théâtre de l'Échangeur and the Lutherie Urbaine (LULL) in Bagnolet, creating an artistic journey that crosses municipal boundaries and invites the public to move between spaces.

A Demanding and Surprising Program

The Audible Festival stands out for the quality and diversity of its programming. Each edition offers a skillful blend of electroacoustic music concerts, acousmonium listening sessions — a system of multiple loudspeakers allowing for sound spatialization — sound installations displayed in the galleries and corridors of partner venues, live performances at the border between music and visual arts, and experimental film screenings related to sound creation.

Artists from the International Experimental Scene

Throughout its editions, the Audible Festival has hosted leading composers and performers from the global experimental scene: Bernard Fort, Jérôme Noetinger, Florian Hecker, and many other representatives of the most innovative currents in contemporary sound creation. This international openness is accompanied by constant attention to local creators and emerging young artists.