DELAY II_DelayAble Soundfields

• September 21, 2026, at 8:00 PM LIVE IMMERSIVE SOUND PERFORMANCE Karmen Ponikvar (concept, field recordings, performed in the DodekaOTTO)

The work is derived from long-term field recordings of air, water, pressure, and the resonant space of an abandoned brick wall. The sound composition is housed within an aluminum dodecahedron and spatially distributed into a shifting sonic environment that adapts to the listener’s position and attention. Karmen Ponikvar is a Slovenian sound artist and researcher currently studying at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague; her work focuses on vulnerable presences and the intimacy of listening through analog synthesis, electroacoustic compositions, and sound walks. She recently released her debut album, Murni, on the Kamizdat label, and has presented her work at festivals such as Ars Electronica, Iannis Xenakis Festival, TO)pot, and GRM Acousmonium.

Duration: 60 min.

• September 22, 2026, at 8:00 PM EL SOL DE LOS MUERTOS (THE SUN OF THE DEAD) Concepción Huerta (composition, live tape processing, 3D audio performance)

Built on a subharmonic structure and the manipulation of magnetic tapes, the work moves between the genres of drone, musique concrète, and visceral textures, and will be performed for the first time in the DodekaOTTO spatial 3D audio system at Bastion. Conceptually, it evokes the image of the open veins of the Earth and Latin America—rivers of lava and rage beneath the surface—reflecting on the exploitation of natural resources, dispossession, and colonialism. Concepción Huerta is a renowned Mexican sound artist and electroacoustic composer who explores sound as a medium for recording memory and deep time. She has presented her work at prestigious venues and festivals such as CTM Festival, Rewire, Le Guess Who?, Mutek, Volksbühne, and Café OTO, and has released music on labels including Umor Rex, Elevator Bath, and SA Recordings.

Duration: 60 min.

• 19 June 2026, 20:00 DREAMSPACES Antonio Della Marina (saxophone, electronics) & Alessandra Zucchi (live video projections)

An audiovisual performance that combines spatial sound and live video projections into an immersive experience, where sound becomes volume and the image never finds a definitive point. Antonio Della Marina and Alessandra Zucchi, partners in life and art, have been running Spazioersetti — a gallery and laboratory in Udine — since 2011. Their works have been presented at Experimental Intermedia in New York, the Prague Quadrennial, the Logos Foundation in Ghent, and the Angelica Festival in Bologna.

Duration: 45–55 min.

• 23 June 2026, 20:00 UNDULATING WAVES Tilen Lebar (composition, saxophones, field recordings), Maria Nikolić (English horn, oboe) & Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio (live electronics)

The work stems from hydrophone recordings of the Adriatic Sea — captured beneath the sea surface in the Strunjan Landscape Park, at a fish/shellfish farm in Izola, and in the ports of Izola and Piran. Live, these recordings intertwine with saxophones, English horn, oboe, and electronics into a post-humanist sound experience that questions the relationship between humanity and the marine world. Tilen Lebar is one of the most prominent young Slovenian composers and saxophonists of international standing; his works have been performed at the ISCM World Music Days, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, and the World Saxophone Congress. Maria Nikolić is a Hungarian-Serbian oboist, winner of ten international awards and a former academician of the Vienna Philharmonic.

Duration: 60 min.

The second part of the music program will follow in September 2026. Programme to follow — with delay.

Sound waves take time to arrive. they bend and reflex around surfaces, accumulates in corners, returns changes. Delay it is the medium itself were where sound-objects become physical entities.

For this edition, the IZIS music programme turns its attention to spatial sound as a compositional territory in its own right. The concerts at Bastion in Koper bring together artists, composers and musicians to work around immersive audio — ambisonics, custom speaker arrays, spherical beamforming prototypes— and experiment it an extension their thinking, as a new controllable expressive dimension. 

Each artist arrives for a short residency before their concert, spending time inside the space, using and testing tools, so they become part of the work. Bastion listens back.

The IZIS XIV Festival is supported by: PiNA, HEKA, Stran22, Mestna občina Koper, Zavod za mladino, kulturo in turizem Koper, Ministrstvo za kulturo, JSKD, Obalne galerije Piran, Skupnost Italijanov “Santorio Santorio” Koper – Comunità degli Italiani “Santorio Santorio” di Capodistria, Univerza na Primorskem (Pedagoška fakulteta – Vizualne umetnosti in oblikovanje), and Pro Helvetia.