L.E.V. Festival marks its 20th edition in 2026 and announces the first audiovisual live performances that will form part of its programme in Gijón. Drawing on two decades of consolidation across contemporary audiovisual, sound-based and digital practices, the festival presents a programme grounded in live experience and artistic research.
With the support of the Gijón City Council and the Principality of Asturias, the festival will present four days of programming across different venues in the city, featuring a lineup of local, national, and international artists, in which concerts and audiovisual performances will once again take center stage
LEV Festival marks two decades as a cultural laboratory dedicated to contemporary audiovisual and digital creation. In its 20th edition, LEV Festival presents a first wave of programming marked by international premieres and audiovisual proposals conceived for the stage.
At Teatro de la Laboral, projects of high audiovisual integration focus on abstraction, technical precision and research into perception, synchrony and audiovisual structure.
Meanwhile, La Nave brings together live AV and sound performance proposals linked to post-club and experimental scenes, where the audiovisual dimension unfolds through rhythmic pulse and the physicality of sound.
The natural setting of the Jardín Botánico Atlántico will serve as the festival’s closing venue and a counterpoint to its industrial performance spaces, offering a programme focused on attentive listening and sonic immersion.
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20 YEARS OF FESTIVAL. A POINT FROM WHICH TO CONTINUE
LEV Festival marks twenty years as a consolidated cultural project with a distinct position within contemporary audiovisual and digital creation, shaped through sustained experimentation and a long-standing commitment to live practice.
Over the years, LEV has established lasting relationships with local, national and international creative communities, supporting projects that require time, research and the appropriate conditions in which to evolve.
Since its beginnings, the festival has prioritised live experience and the relationship between sound and image, operating as a space for experimentation and presentation within the wider creative ecosystem. This approach has enabled LEV to function both as a platform for exhibition and as an active environment for cultural thought and production.
The festival’s identity is shaped by live audiovisual performance. At LEV, digital creation unfolds in real time, in dialogue with light, music, space and shared listening. This live dimension turns each edition into a meeting point for disciplines, generations and artistic communities, where sound and image come together as a sensitive and collective experience.
Rather than a retrospective, the anniversary recognises a trajectory built on trust, long-term commitment and an evolving dialogue between sound, image, performance, technology and audiences.
TEATRO DE LA LABORAL
ALVA NOTO | RYOICHI KUROKAWA | MYRIAM BLEAU + PIERCE WARNECKE | TACIT GROUP | MEUKO MEUKO! & HSIANGFU CHEN | ABUL MOGARD | CORIN | NONTECH
Teatro de la Laboral will host the festival’s core stage programme on Friday, May 1st and Saturday, May 2nd. Featuring works conceived through a unified logic of sound, image and stage apparatus, the stage becomes a precise system integrating perception, time and space.
Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa returns to LEV with the world premiere of nD, the closing work of a trilogy initiated more than two decades ago, whose previous instalments were also presented at the festival. Conceived as an audiovisual diptych, the work explores extreme synchrony between sound and image.
From Germany, Alva Noto presents the world premiere of HYBR:ID PARA PARA, a new chapter in his HYbr:ID series, translating data-based processes into highly precise sonic and visual architectures.
The Taiwanese collective NonTech (created by the founder of NAXS Corp and NONEYE) presents the world premiere of Ignorance Online: ev0, a live cinema proposal constructed as speculative fiction around immersive entertainment and artificial intelligence.
The programme is completed by a constellation of performances that expand and nuance this conceptual axis. Myriam Bleau and Pierce Warnecke, from Canada and the United States respectively, present The End Product, examining everyday experience within digital environments and the dynamics of extraction in the attention economy.
Meuko! Meuko! & Hsiangfu Chen (Taiwan) present a proposal crossing experimental electronics and contemporary ritual, exploring the materiality of sound and its sensory dimension on stage. Tacit Group (South Korea) present an audiovisual performance in which machine-learning processes generate two artificial-intelligence performers interacting with the artist in real time.
Abul Mogard (Italy) presents a performance based on dense sonic architectures centred on resonance and deep listening. Corin (Australia / Philipines) and visual artist Tristan Jalleh (China / Malaysia / Australia) present an audiovisual live performance inspired by Filipino creation mythologies and ancestral symbolic narratives.
NAVE DE LABORAL CENTRO DE ARTE
µ-ZIQ & ID MORA | CATNAPP | NOVA MATERIA | NIKNAK
The Saturday night program on May 2nd will take place at the Nave of LABoral Centro de Arte, a space that has become a key meeting point for the festival, dedicated to the audiovisual club scene and post-club practices. In this context, it hosts live creation proposals that place rhythm and the physical dimension of sound at the center of the experience. The relationship between music, visuals, and the audience is essential in shaping the space, generating an immersive environment in which participation and collective perception take on a leading role.
The collaboration between µ-Ziq y ID:Mora (United Kingdom/ Czech Republic), brings together two key trajectories in contemporary electronic music, engaging through rhythmic experimentation and real-time audiovisual manipulation. Alongside them Catnapp (Argentina) presents a live performance combining club energy, vocal performance and stage presence, while Nova Materia (France / Chile) deploy a hybrid proposal articulating electronics, gesture and sonic matter through a physical, performative logic.
British artist NikNak presents a new live AV performance built around turntablism, positioning sound manipulation as a performative act and expanding club language into territories of sonic and audiovisual research.
Jardín Botánico Atlántico
SARA MUÑIZ | JULEK PLOSKI
The program at Jardín Botánico Atlántico will be the grand finale of L.E.V. Festival 2026 on Sunday, May 3rd offering an attentive listening experience in a singular natural environment. The day will feature live concerts transmitted through a wireless headphone system.This format enables a respectful relationship with the site while allowing audiences to move freely through the garden as they listen to the concerts in real time.
In this context, Julek Ploski (Poland) presents a live performance moving between digital excess and introspection, combining melodic lyricism and post-internet soundscapes.
The other work concluding the program is by Gijón- based composer and musicologist Sara Muñiz, who will present Numen a project exploring the sound of territory through piano, viola and processes of repetition and drone, constructing a sonic habitat in dialogue with its surroundings.
In line with its ongoing commitment to research into new formats of digital creation and expanded realities, LEV Festival will announce further additions to the programme. These will include audiovisual installations, extended-reality experiences and new activations across urban locations in Gijón. The daytime programme at the Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies (MPA) is also TBA.
L.E.V. Festival 2026
30 April – 3 May | Gijón
www.levfestival.com
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An iniciative by L.E.V. (Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual)
Supported by Ayuntamiento de Gijón y Principado de Asturias
Partners: Divertia, Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, Ayuntamiento de Gijón (Innovación; Concejalía de Cultura, Museos e Industrias Creativas y Concejalía de Relaciones Institucionales y Juventud), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Ministerio de Cultura de Taiwán, Oficina Económica y Cultural de Taipéi en España, Centro Cultural Coreano en España, Fundación Japón Madrid, Insituto Polaco de Cultura, Goethe Institut Madrid, Arenas Movedizas, Conseyu de Mocedá de Xixón, Radio 3, OCIMAG, CLOT Magazine, Metal Magazine.
Venues:Teatro de la Laboral, LABoral Centro de Arte, Jardín Botánico Atlántico.
Graphic design: Pasajero37 / Motion design: Lateralideas
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENTS_
ABUL MOGARD Quiet Pieces _JP
ALVA NOTO HYBR:ID PARA PARA _DE (World Premiere)
CATNAPP _AR
CORIN Diwa _AU/PH
JULEK PLOSKI _PL
MEUKO! MEUKO! & HSIANGFU CHEN 遞 嬗 (Di Shàn)_TW (World Premiere)
MYRIAM BLEAY & PIERCE WARNECKE The End Product_CA/QC US/FR
µ-ZIQ & ID:MORA_UK/CZ [Planet Mu]
NIKNAK _UK
NONTECH Ignorance Online: ev0_TW (World Premiere)
NOVA MATERIA _FR/CL
RYOICHI KUROKAWA nD_JP (World Premiere)
SARA MUÑIZ Numen_ES
TACIT GROUP FrankenTacit _KR (World Premiere)
