Farida Amadou (BE) + Ji Youn Kang (KR) + In Motion (SE)
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Göteborg Art Sounds Festival presents concerts with Farida Amadou (BE) and Ji Youn Kang (KR) at Folkteatern 24 September. Opening performance: In Motion - Voices from the Academy of Music and Drama.
A limited number of festival passes for Gothenburg concerts 22 - 26 September are now available, as well as single night tickets. Grab yours before they run out! You find the full festival program at www.gas-festival.com !
LINE UP (approximate times):
19.00: Opening Performance - In Motion (SE)
19.30: Farida Amadou (BE)
20.30: Ji Youn Kang (KR)
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Farida Amadou is a self-taught electric bassist and sound sculptor based in Brussels. Known for her raw, intuitive approach to improvisation, she has become a vital force in experimental music, collaborating with artists such as Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, and Moor Mother. Blending free jazz, noise, and deep rhythmic structure, Amadou creates immersive soundscapes that balance intensity with clarity. Amadou neither emulates the virtuosos of the electric bass, nor does she use the instrument as a pure sound generator that merely emits humming and feedback. She takes a completely independent and unique approach. This freedom enables her to create an overwhelming wall of sound, as well as simple, clear structures that are rhythmically concise yielding a wide associative space that lands somewhere between free jazz and noise.
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Ji Youn Kang is a Korean composer, performer and sound artist based in The Netherlands. Much of her work is informed by the rites of Korean Shamanism, and many of her pieces, written for Wave Field Synthesis systems, explore the relationship between sonic and physical space. As a solo performer, she combines three sound domains: acoustic instruments, analogue and digital audio, using DIY analogue synthesizers and live processing on a laptop. She currently teaches at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. Ji Youn Kang will present machi-nory, a performance that unfolds as a live construction of an unstable sonic machine built from circuits, metal plates and electromagnetic feedback where sound emerges from shifting relationships between materials, performer, signal and space.
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Opening performance: In Motion - Voices from the Academy of Music & Drama. Music performed and premiered by students from the Individual Musician Programme, specifically composed for the occasion and its overall context, drawing inspiration from the festival programme and the evening’s artists as well as the concert venue and its spatial qualities. Performing: Deya Boström Säfström, Lovisa Lindgren, Dante Lärka, Klara Wachtmeiste, Elias Wahlqvist Slättung, Maria Eriksson Andin.
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Göteborg Art Sounds Festival is an international festival for experimental contemporary music and sound in Sweden. The 2026 edition of the festival revolves around the theme "Shifting Spaces". 22 - 27 September we move through various venues in Gothenburg and the West of Sweden, exploring different spaces and their contexts through concerts, workshops and talks. Find the program at www.gas-festival.com
A limited number of festival passes for Gothenburg concerts 22 - 26 September are now available, as well as single night tickets. Grab yours before they run out! You find the full festival program at www.gas-festival.com !
LINE UP (approximate times):
19.00: Opening Performance - In Motion (SE)
19.30: Farida Amadou (BE)
20.30: Ji Youn Kang (KR)
:::
Farida Amadou is a self-taught electric bassist and sound sculptor based in Brussels. Known for her raw, intuitive approach to improvisation, she has become a vital force in experimental music, collaborating with artists such as Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, and Moor Mother. Blending free jazz, noise, and deep rhythmic structure, Amadou creates immersive soundscapes that balance intensity with clarity. Amadou neither emulates the virtuosos of the electric bass, nor does she use the instrument as a pure sound generator that merely emits humming and feedback. She takes a completely independent and unique approach. This freedom enables her to create an overwhelming wall of sound, as well as simple, clear structures that are rhythmically concise yielding a wide associative space that lands somewhere between free jazz and noise.
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Ji Youn Kang is a Korean composer, performer and sound artist based in The Netherlands. Much of her work is informed by the rites of Korean Shamanism, and many of her pieces, written for Wave Field Synthesis systems, explore the relationship between sonic and physical space. As a solo performer, she combines three sound domains: acoustic instruments, analogue and digital audio, using DIY analogue synthesizers and live processing on a laptop. She currently teaches at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. Ji Youn Kang will present machi-nory, a performance that unfolds as a live construction of an unstable sonic machine built from circuits, metal plates and electromagnetic feedback where sound emerges from shifting relationships between materials, performer, signal and space.
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Opening performance: In Motion - Voices from the Academy of Music & Drama. Music performed and premiered by students from the Individual Musician Programme, specifically composed for the occasion and its overall context, drawing inspiration from the festival programme and the evening’s artists as well as the concert venue and its spatial qualities. Performing: Deya Boström Säfström, Lovisa Lindgren, Dante Lärka, Klara Wachtmeiste, Elias Wahlqvist Slättung, Maria Eriksson Andin.
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Göteborg Art Sounds Festival is an international festival for experimental contemporary music and sound in Sweden. The 2026 edition of the festival revolves around the theme "Shifting Spaces". 22 - 27 September we move through various venues in Gothenburg and the West of Sweden, exploring different spaces and their contexts through concerts, workshops and talks. Find the program at www.gas-festival.com
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Where is it happening?
Olof Palmes plats 5, 413 30, Göteborg, Västsverige, Olof Palmes plats 5, SE-413 04 Göteborg, Sverige, Gothenburg, Sweden
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