Sounding Bodies
The ninth edition of the Seanaps Festival will take place on November 8 and 9, 2025 as a Micro Edition under the title Sounding Bodies at Westflügel Leipzig. Invited artists will reflect on the sonic relations between body, space, and materiality within experimental music, sound art, and culture. In focus are interpretations of resonant bodies and the body as a (sound)space of individual and collective listening experiences.
Concerts
8. & 9. November • Westflügel, 18:00 - 23:15
French artist AURÉLIE PERTUSOT opens the evening with her performance Singing Megaphone Orchestra, which sets movement, sound, and architectural context in dialogue. With a transformed megaphone, percussive gestures, and digitally processed image-sounds, she creates a dense, spatially expansive acoustic structure. Leipzig-based musician and sound artist TIBSLC then leads the audience into the body that is not in, a soundscape oscillating between emotional chaos, dream, and reality. Intimate field recordings, digital soundscapes, and fragile pop moments merge into a sonic world that is both dense and permeable. YOSA PEIT follows with her latest album Gut Buster, which unfolds a radical sonic independence in an explosive mix of intimacy, surrealism, and anti-capitalism. Closing the night, the band KULKU creates a collective moment from raw and organic sounds. With expressive vocals, polyrhythmic drums, and droning instruments, they conjure ecstatic atmospheres between rapture and immersion.
The second evening opens with a performance by Georgian musician NINO DAVA, where avant-garde electronics, choral-inspired vocal techniques, and noise experiments intertwine with political sharpness. Following this, SEA SAN, the improvisational duo of Hye Young Sin and Sebastian von der Heide, unfolds their drumming as an interplay between resonance and resistance, mechanical movement and tonal reflection, interwoven with relaxed and percussive playing. GAJEK then revives the forgotten archives of East German subcultures through his electronic compositions. His music moves between high-energy digital structures, atmospheric fragments, and lyrical condensation – oscillating between memory, presence, and speculative futures. To close the festival, the µ ENSEMBLE envelops the audience in a floating field of microtonal sound. With self-built bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, viola, trumpet, and sine waves, the quartet weaves a dense cloud of sound that fills the room like heavy air – a collective immersion in resonance and vibration.
There will be drinks and DJ sets in the Westflügel bar before and between the concerts.
