DECEMBER

December 8-15

KLANKENBOS

Stichting Musica, Domein Dommelhof (Pelt, Belgium)

restoration of Springtime in a Small Town

 

 

The first version of Spring in a Small Town was built in 2006, one of KLANKENBOS’s first works. The electronics have held up quite well over the years, but the wooden crates need replacing every 10 years due to Belgium’s damp climate. The third version was born after a week of tinkering with the support of several people, coordinated by Louis Burrows. Former versions of the work at https://www.boschsimons.com/en/springtime-in-a-small-town-2006/

 

OCTOBER

October 24, until January 6, 2026
INT3RMIT3NCIAS
E_CA museum (Riba-Roja, Spain)
organized by @cisma.art

Último Esfuerzo Rural II

 

 

Bosch & Simons’ pieces are living machines, assemblages where motors, materials, and everyday objects become agents of sound. Far from a futuristic or technological aesthetic in the conventional sense, their works embrace the mechanical as a poetic gesture: vibrations, accidents, tension, and resonances are transformed into soundscapes that transcend the material.
In each of their installations, there is a dialogue between order and chaos, between the programmed and the unpredictable. The devices are never completely stable: they tremble, groan, collapse, and reassemble themselves, revealing the fragility of the machine and its proximity to organic rhythms.
From a text in Spanish by Toni Calderón

INT3RMIT3NCIAS seeks to generate spaces for dialogue between art, technology, and community. More about the work at https://www.boschsimons.com/ultimo-esfuerzo-rural-ll/

 

SEPTEMBER

September 3-14:

KLANGMOORSCHOPFE (Gais, Switzerland)

 

 

 

Last Effort in the Countryside

“The work they are showing at Museum Gais is a further development of their series «Último Esfuerzo Rural». These are room-filling kinetic sound installations for which they use everyday objects found on site − in the case of Gais: metal containers ranging from milking buckets to watering cans. They arrange these found objects into whimsical ensembles, set them into vibration and create a surprising sound collage. They thus continue the series of works in which they transform the characteristics and history of objects that are characteristic of a region into a sculptural sound image.”

Text from the festival website

Former versions of Último esfuerzo Rural III-… at https://www.boschsimons.com/en/ultimo-esfuerzo-rural-iii-2017/

 

 

AUGUST

 

 

August 29, 8 PM

la Noche de las Hachas 2025

Plaza de la Villa (Castielfabib, Spain)

Concert with Acuática

 

 

La Noche de las Hachas (“The Night of the Torches”) is a gathering of artists from different disciplines, and regional folklore. During this event the village of Castielfabib with less than 300 inhabitants easily triples its population. This year, the main theme is water.

 

August 17–24

 

 

 

 

MAY

May 17

CISMA (Valencia, Spain)
Concert with Acuática

A vibrant, subtle, living sound installation that turned CISMA into an organism of water, air and resonance.

With full capacity, attendees experienced a unique aquatic concert, where sound was mixed live using hydrophones and air valves in a choreography of bubbles and vibrations.
Thanks to everyone who made it possible, and to Bosch & Simons for sharing their work, their sound, and their generosity.
Text from IG post  by @cisma.art

 

 

pictures by Claudia Tittel

Former versions of Acuática at

https://www.boschsimons.com/en/acuatica-2019/

 

 

May 11

Carob tree field (Bétera, Spain)

Onsite version of Bang Spring Time

Organised by CISMA

Here we built a new, manually operated, version of Bang Spring Time, designed for this unique site. Two wooden huts serve as resonance chambers for the sounds produced by long metal springs. On the other side of the springs, “El Modulito,” a glass cube, already present in the field, was used as a sound and viewing chamber. Inside the cube, the audience could listen to sounds captured with contact microphones, in addition to those audible in the space.

 

Pictures by Andrés Moriel Alcaide

Impression of the building-up by cisma on Instagram

Former versions of Bang Spring Time at https://www.boschsimons.com/en/bang-spring-time/

 

APRIL

April 19-28

Espacio Esparto (Chelva, Spain)

Mirlitones

At “Trenzar con arte en la periferia”

Exhibition with

Margreet Hajee: sculptures
@trendzadesign: compostable bags (an anthology)

filmed by Salvador Oltra

Former versions of Mirlitones at
https://www.boschsimons.com/mirlitones-2012-2013/

 

April 25

 

Entrevista en el canal de youtube Culturas Sonoras,

por José Iges 

 

April 4

EACC (Castellón, Spain)

Workshop
LABORATORIO DEL MUNDO VIBRANTE

(“LABORATORY OF THE VIBRANT WORLD”)

 

Participants in this workshop could intuitively explore the world of vibration and resonance by modifying and controlling robots/creatures mounted on metal springs that generate surprising movements and rhythms. The workshop ended with a small concert realised by the participants.