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IKFKOS organises festival in Sweden




IKFKOS and Vision Forum organises the festival, Transformation IV in Sweden June 9-14, 2026. It takes a slightly different format than the previous iterations. The participating musicians focus on animism and shamanism and how contemporary music can learn form these practices and during their visit to Sweden, the musicians work together with a Sami shaman. They do so without letting go of the focus on biofeedback that has been the hallmark of the previous festivals.

Public events will take place on June 12 and at The Outpost and in a  Sami kåta (traditional Sami house) both outside Riddarhyttan in central Sweden. Workshops with local musicians will also be held in Stockholm.

Transformation IV is, as the name indicates, the fourth festival organised in different geographic locations. In spring 2019 Vision Forum organised the first Transformation festival. It investigated how naturally occurring nerve signals from muscle and brain can be used in musical composition and performance production. During the festival composers, musicians, technology developers and researchers met to investigate the aesthetic potential of biofeedback in music. The events and meetings led to a rich surge of reflections, development of new ideas, new research topics, new technological development, new collaborations and new artistic projects. During the lockdowns in spring 2020, Vision Forum organised the online festival Transformation II in collaboration with French online radio P-node. In 2024, Vision Forum organised the third festival in France and Belgium.

Participating artists:

Gaël Segalen

Sonja Tofik

Hardi Kurda

Anouk Azar

Atau Tanaka

Samon Takahashi

Jonas Engman och Per Hüttner

If you have not watched Fabien Guillermont’s wonderful film about the first Transformation festival in 2019, we warmly recommend that you do so now and here.


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