Are you a new music ambassador?

Join us for the full festival experience and bring a guest to opening night!

Your AMBASSADOR PASS includes a full access festival pass including a one year membership to Contemporary Calgary, a complimentary guest ticket to our opening night so you can welcome a new audience member to Realms of Influence, and provides you with a $100 charitable tax receipt.

Three days, nine distinct sets, one unforgettable experience for you +1!

Three days, nine distinct sets, one unforgettable experience!

This year's Sound Atlas Festival presents REALMS OF INFLUENCE bringing together the best of contemporary classical music and leading artists, ensembles, and composers in our fourth annual new music festival. Don't miss a single note with this AMBASSADOR PASS!

Influence is a resonance— sometimes audible, sometimes ghostlike—passing between bodies, disciplines, and ideas. In these realms, sound is a coalescence of past and present affected by who listens, who remembers, and who responds.

This season’s Sound Atlas Festival gathers sound as a living geography—charted not by borders, but by forces that shape how music is imagined, made, and shared. We are thrilled to present season IV Realms of Influence, with our ears fixed on the currents that move through contemporary creation: lineage and rupture, place and displacement, technology and touch. Across three days, the festival becomes a meeting ground where composers, performers, and listeners step into overlapping worlds, each shaped by distinct gravitational pulls and soundscapes rooted in modern composition, sound design, and inspiring performances of chamber music.

Check the concert descriptions on each event to learn more about the featured artists, composers, and programming and visit our website for full artist bios and programme. 

FESTIVAL: June 26-28

GENERAL SEATING

Please note: while children are encouraged to attend our festival, most of our sets are geared towards an adult audience. Please be advised that some acts will include sound amplification, electronics, strobe/flashing lights, and contemporary subject matters geared towards an adult audience. 

Tax receipts are provided after the festival.