site.btaBulgarian, German, Dutch, French, Czech Artists to Perform at Sofia Experimental Festival

More than 20 artists from Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and the Czechia will take part in the third edition of the Sofia Experimental festival. In a series of concerts, lectures, presentations, and music workshops, the audience will have the opportunity to experience and learn about original developments in musical interfaces and unconventional, innovative musical practices, the organizers announced. 

The festival opens on November 5 with a demonstration and concert by Korhan Erel. Born in 1973 in Istanbul, Erel is a non-binary artist working in the fields of electronic music, improvisation, and sound design. They perform on instruments they design on a computer or on other electronic instruments, using various controllers. Since 2014, Erel has been based in Berlin. In Sofia, they will demonstrate their setup, talk about their “do-it-yourself” instruments, solo and collaborative projects with other artists, and the Berlin underground scene. The evening will continue with an improvisational ensemble experiment between Korhan Erel and members of the Sofia-based Improwise Ensemble.

On November 6, the music of Particules will be presented — a collaboration between Viktor Prodanov (live electronics) and Tsvetan Momchilov, who plays French horn, piano, percussion, voice, and meditative acoustic instruments, processing the sounds in real time. 

Among the program’s highlights are a mixed-media concert (instruments and electronics) dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer André Boucourechliev (1925–1997); presentations and artistic actions by Ricardo Marogna and Darina Zhurova, lecturers from the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague; and a music workshop on vocal free improvisation led by Zhenya Petrova.

Sofia Experimental will take place from November 5 to 9, 2025. The festival venues include the Goethe-Institut, the RockSchool music academy, the National Music Academy, the Bobina cultural space, and Atelieto Club.