Known internationally as one of the best electronic music and digital art festivals in Portugal, the Semibreve Festival returns to Braga this month (Oct) for four days of concerts, installations, sound pieces, talks, and workshops.

The much-anticipated music programme for the 14th edition includes names such as Kalia Vandever, Chris Watson & Izabela Dłużyk, Christina Vantzou, PYUR, Nídia, Rrose, Giovanni Di Domenico, Shida Shahabi, Kevin Richard Marti, Iceboy Violet & Nueen, Van Der, Ziúr, Saya, Carmen Villain, Saint Abdullah, Eomac & Rebecca Salvadori and Moritz von Oswald, who perform in some of the city's most emblematic venues, such as the Basílica do Bom Jesus do Monte, Theatro Circo, gnration - which hosts concerts in two venues -, Capela Imaculada do Seminário Menor, and Basílica dos Congregados.

The programme also includes a vocal improvisation workshop led by Kalia Vandever, at the Conservatório de Música Caloust Gulbenkian in Braga, and a workshop focused on the emotional power of sound, with Christina Vantzou, at Museu Nogueira da Silva.

In the conference programme, Claire Biddles moderates a conversation with Mohammad Mehrabani-Yeganeh and Saya Mohamed on sound, migration, borders, and social identities. Curator and researcher Margarida Mendes also joins the programme with a talk on listening to the acoustic space of rivers.

Two sound pieces will be on show at Casa Rolão: ‘The Stone Tape’ by American musician Jim O'Rourke, and ‘Malört’ by composer and performer Keith Fullerton Whitman.

The duo Myriam Bleau and Lucas Paris (Hidden Edges) - winner of the Edigma Semibreve Award 2024 -, and the artists Tobias Gaede, Jéssica Pereira Gaspar, Susana Brochado + Ana Medeiros, and Eva Barbosa - highlights of the Edigma Semibreve Scholar - fill out the festival's exhibition programme.

All the information about the programme, venues, and tickets is available at www.festivalsemibreve.com.