The 15th edition of Semibreve returns to Braga from 23-26 October.
Renowned for its curatorial quality, Semibreve’s 2025 programme returns to Portugal, bringing together a selection of multidisciplinary artists performing debut collaborations, album showcases, and audiovisual live shows. Taking place throughout the city of Braga, electronic music, workshops, installations, and talks will transform the city into a hub of sound and vision, inhabiting iconic venues Theatro Circo, gnration, and Capela Imaculada Chapel.
Originally commissioned by Sónar and The Barbican in London, Actress and American composer Suzanne Ciani return to Semibreve, this time to present their collaborative project Concrète Waves, a boundary-pushing live performance combining the artist’s unique sonic signatures.
Commissioned for Semibreve as part of the Re-Imagine Europe programme, composer, pianist, and bassist Ava Rasti presents her new album The River. Performed live with a string quartet, the album focuses on the intersection between ambient, modern classical, and drone.
Bringing to life the music of Hildegard von Bingen through the practices of Ukrainian vocal tradition and modular synthesis, Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko and Heinali present Гільдеґарда (Hildegard). Co-curated by Sónar, the live performance looks to serve as a mirror, reflecting and processing the wartime experience and exploring the raw spirituality emerging from it.
Commissioned by Semibreve, CTM (Berlin), DE SINGEL (Antwerp) and FIBER (Amsterdam), Not A Word From Me is the new live show by cellist and electronic producer Lucy Railton, filmmaker Rebecca Salvadori, and visual artist Charlie Hope. Combining music, video, and light design, the live performance looks to create an experience of sensorial exploration by immersing the listener in visceral and psychoacoustic states.
Other highlights include Hyperdub’s Aya performing her new album Hexed! As well as a live performance of Dissever, the new album by James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas’ Emptyset. Semibreve will also return its annual Edigma Semibreve Award, the prize celebrates the creation of works that explore interactivity, sound, and image through the use of digital technologies, with the winner being exhibited during the festival.
Tickets are on sale now via the Semibreve website, with more acts to be announced soon.