Interference Zone / Hyper-listening
Networked augmented perceptions
🗓 Festival: from 5 to 8 February 2026
📍 Nantes – Plateforme Intermédia & Ateliers de Bitche
💻 + online throughout the month of February
Presentation of the festival
Audioblast is an international festival dedicated to sound, radio and digital arts, organised by APO33. For more than a decade, it has been exploring emerging forms of sound creation through live performance, radio art, interactive installations and networked diffusion.
The 2026 edition, under the theme Interference Zone / Hyper-listening, examines augmented and shared perceptions of sound in hybrid spaces — between physical presence, waves, networks and digital environments.
The festival invites artists and collectives to experiment with the blurred zones of transmission: where listening becomes collective, delocalised, and where technologies open up new perceptual fields.
📍 Formats and programme 2026
- Collective exhibition
📅 from 5 February to 1 March 2026
📍 Plateforme Intermédia, Nantes
Opening on Thursday 5 February 2026
→ Installative and interactive works around sound, networks and augmented perception.
1 selected artist or collective will receive a 400 € production and diffusion grant. - Online live – “Networked Hyper-listening”
📅 Friday 6 February 2026
💻 Live performances via APO33’s streaming platform and in multistreams
→ An evening of connected performances bringing together around ten artists in experimental music, radio art, transmission art, noise and improvisation.
Fee: 50 €/artist for a minimum 1-hour performance. - Night of performances – “Interference Zone”
📅 Saturday 7 February 2026
📍 Ateliers de Bitche, Nantes
→ An evening dedicated to immersive and experimental performances in physical space, where sound becomes matter, architecture and vibration. - Online installations
📅 throughout the month of February 2026
💻 Works designed for the digital and streaming environment.
2 selected artists or collectives – 120 €/artist or collective.
💡 2026 Theme: Interference Zone / Hyper-listening
Between wave saturation, signal noise and the hybridisation of spaces, “Interference Zone” names a sensitive terrain where perceptions intersect, shift and intensify.
Hyper-listening seeks to go beyond the audible, to perceive sound through its technological, sensorial or social extensions: listening to frequencies, networks and flows.
Proposed projects may address these notions through:
- augmented listenings (technological, collaborative, artificial or extended)
- forms of interference (waves, data, transmissions, feedback, crossing of fluxes)
- the collective perception of sound in hybrid environments (real / virtual, local / distant)
- and metaphors of listening in contexts of saturation, attention and networked environments.
🧩 Conditions of participation
- The call is open to artists, collectives, musicians, performers, developers, radio artists and hybrid creators.
- Projects must be conceived for sound (and its visual, interactive or media extensions).
- Works may exist in physical space, online, or in a mixed format.
- Proposals may be new or adapted from existing work.
💰 Fees / production:
- Exhibition – 400 € (production + diffusion)
- Online performances – 50 € / artist
- Online installations – 120 € / artist or collective
📬 How to apply
Fill the form before 15 December 2025: https://apo33.frama.space/apps/forms/s/GdWfc6634JjbZcNm34Z83GZy
- a short project description (max. 1 page or 300 words)
- audio / video / website / documentation links
- bio / artistic statement (max. 10 lines)
- specify the desired format (exhibition, online performance, online installation)
📡 Organisation
Audioblast Festival 2026
Organised by APO33, centre for sound and digital creation
With the support of the City of Nantes et DRAC Pays de la Loire.