The Institute of Sonology and the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris (GRM) are among the few institutes whose history extends in an uninterrupted line back to the early years of electronic music and musique concrète. Despite the initially large differences in theoretical and aesthetic principles, mutual respect has always been strong. On the initiative of then GRM director Daniel Teruggi, a partnership with the Institute of Sonology was established in 2009 that has led to cooperation in organising concerts and symposia on several occasions.
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and to celebrate that the Institute of Sonology has been part of the Royal Conservatoire for 40 years, GRM will visit The Hague with its Acousmonium from 5 to 7 March 2026. In a series of concerts in the Conservatoriumzaal, works by teachers, students and alumni of the Institute of Sonology, as well as classics from the GRM repertoire, will be spatially performed on this extensive loudspeaker system.
Programme
Gottfried Michael Koenig, Klangfiguren II (1955–56)
Pierre Schaeffer, Étude aux objets (parts 1, 2 and 5, 1959)
Viktoria Arvayova, No One’s Song (2025)
Lawrence Mc Guire, Veirt le Blaungk (2026)
Liza Kuzyakova, L1-fold 13042702 (2026)
Bjarni Gunnarsson, Ora (2026)
Bernard Parmegiani, Points contre champs (from De Natura Sonorum, 1975)
Shawn Wong, Contingent Relations (2024)
Ji Youn Kang, Vosim Variation II (2025)
Farzaneh Nouri, Simorgh (2026)
François J. Bonnet, Banshee (2024)
Axel Kolb, Limites répercutées (2026)
François Bayle, Trois rêves d’oiseau (1963, 1971, 1971)
Karmen Ponikvar, Murni (2025)
Siamak Anvari, Yekhasht (2026)
Kees Tazelaar, Serenade (2016–17)
Richard Barrett, luminous (2019)
Ivo Malec, Turpituda (from Triola, 1978)
Isul Kim, Form and collapse (2026)
Yannis Patoukas, renditions I: syllabisms (2026)
Eve Aboulkheir, 22/12/2017 Guilin Synthetic Daydream (2020)
Justin Bennett, Wrengill Resonances (2026)
Beatriz Ferreyra, Senderos abismales (from Senderos de luz y sombras, 2016–20)
Gabriel Paiuk, Degrees of Transparency (2015–26)
Éliane Radigue, Arthesis (1973)