Experimental music project that brings musicians, composers and designers together to invent new physical instruments — and the music those instruments make possible. Playable artistic prototypes are built from touch, movement, mechanics, resonance or mixed acoustic/electronic principles, not as commercial products.

Instrument-building and composition run as one process. New pieces are written specifically for the prototypes, then presented in a public concert in Gothenburg. The question at the centre: what happens to music when you change the instrument it is made with?

November 2026 – October 2027. Case KUR 2026/6976.

A reciprocal music exchange between Swedish artists and UK-based East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) musicians, developed with ESEA Music in Britain. Two linked presentations: ESEA artists in Gothenburg, Swedish artists in London.

The project is meant to go beyond a showcase. Artists meet through shared sessions, rehearsals and collaborations — exchanging methods and building new artistic relationships between two independent music scenes that rarely work together in this way.

November 2026 – December 2027. Case KUR 2026/7001.

A new editorial culture and music programme for eclectic contemporary music: curated listening, live sessions, interviews, podcasts and conversation. Human curation instead of genre boxes and algorithms — electronic music can sit next to jazz, experimental, pop, folk or ambient.

Inspired by platforms such as KEXP, but from a Swedish perspective, with talk given equal weight to the music. Content is published digitally and supported by public sessions, using Jonsereds Bio and existing digital infrastructure. The funded period is a pilot for CULR as an independent platform.

November 2026 – December 2027. Case KUR 2026/7039.

A physical, interactive sound installation about how technological amplification changes relations between humans, machines and living systems. In nature, a signal’s reach is limited by body, energy and distance. Microphones and speakers can give a sound a territory its body could never hold.

Visitors enter a room of competing sound sources. Through a digital system they can boost or shift signals and hear range, masking and territory change — who gets to be heard when technology gives some actors more acoustic power. A first digital prototype already exists; the grant takes the work off the screen into a spatial installation for exhibition.

A larger artistic-renewal phase: new experimental instruments built with musicians, designers and technologists, then presented as one situation — object, composition and live performance together, rather than a concert with tools on the side.

The public format sits between exhibition, instrument laboratory and live set. Audiences first meet the instruments as physical, sound-making objects, then hear them activated through composition and performance. Intended collaborators include Andy Ramsay, Sam Eastgate (L.A. Priest) and Elektron. No other Swedish public co-funding is included, as Kulturbryggan requires.

June – October 2027.

A 12-month participatory environmental lab for children, young people and families in Partille. Participants go outdoors to investigate biodiversity, water, landscape change and land use — then photograph, map and document what they find, instead of only meeting climate issues in the classroom.

Observations are combined with environmental data into a public digital map of Partille. INTERPRT contributes investigation, geospatial analysis and visual communication. The pilot targets at least 200 participants and 10 expeditions/workshops, with an open method that other Swedish places could reuse. Primary SDG: 15 Life on Land.

February 2027 – January 2028.