SOUND HIKE 2026

The Sound Hike — one of the festival’s most distinctive formats — weaves concert, landscape, and movement into an experience that reveals itself only on foot. In 2026, the route follows the Vomperbach to its hydroelectric power station, among other places: a site where natural environment and energy infrastructure interlock. What usually stays hidden becomes audible: the rush of water, the drone of machinery, the breath of the wind. Sound installations along the route make energy perceptible as a sensory phenomenon — wind, water, and sound become protagonists of a path that sharpens the act of listening. The artist duo Siedl/Cao, for instance, set their wind-played “Drone & Drone” flutes singing across the landscape, while hydrophones amplify the voice of the Vomperbach, opening an acoustic view into its depths. Musical interventions appear in unexpected places between the installations: musicians from the Riot Ensemble and Ensemble Proton, together with singer Ty Bouque, set poetic counterpoints — on an alpine meadow, inside a chapel, in the engine room of the power station. The Sound Walk doesn’t communicate energy in the abstract; it makes it immediately audible — as motion, as natural force, as sound.

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CLOSING CONCERT: SOUND HIKE 2026

Love is Louder, new program featuring Persian music, world premiere

Sepideh Raissadat, vocals
Yasamin Shahhosseini, oud
Sepidar Ensemble:
Siavash Imani, tar; Pedram Khavarzamini, tombak; Sina Danesh, kamancheh; Houshmand Ebadi, ney; Aria Mohafez, santur

War rages in Tehran — and the Sepidar Ensemble rehearses. This contrast between outer destruction and inner creative power shapes the closing concert of the 2026 Sound Hike. Sepideh Raissadat, the first woman permitted to sing on Iranian television after the 1979 revolution, oud virtuoso Yasamin Shahhosseini, and the Sepidar Ensemble are stewards of an art form that requires no written score: the Persian Radif. The Radif is the musical memory of Iran. It is a collection of melodies and motifs that has grown over centuries, not recorded in musical notation but passed down exclusively from person to person. It serves as a living foundation for improvisation and requires a lifelong dedication. This tradition survives despite the political circumstances, thanks to the determination of artists like Sepideh Raissadat and Yasamin Shahhosseini. In their program, developed especially for the festival, the motto “Love is Louder” becomes an audible testimony of resilience and cultural continuity.

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