The Only Connect festival in Stavanger transformed the city into a landscape of noise, poetry and bodily vibrations.

Katsuko Tsujimura sought to dissolve the body in postwar Japan. Now, new voices are gently piecing it back together.

The MOMENTUM biennial in Moss, Norway lets sound art speak, guiding the audience into the borderlands of the senses – where even a toilet resonates like an echo chamber.

This year’s edition of Copenhagen’s festival for new music embraced sonic rituals, cultural encounters, and performances with loops, bodies, and cassette tapes – and featured French musicians playing as if sound itself could change the world.

At the Bergen International Festival, William Kentridge and Ryoji Ikeda let art capture what can no longer be said – only felt.

At Geneva’s Archipel Festival, lost instruments and occult soundscapes are brought to life in a journey through speculative rituals and experimental music.