Sonica Glasgow, Cryptic’s flagship biennale festival, returns for 2026. Showcasing over 170 artists and musicians from 21 countries across the globe in 11 days of cutting-edge audiovisual art, visionary performances, installations and immersive experiences across iconic Glasgow venues. At the heart of Sonica 2026 is The Listening House at Pollok House, a new festival-within-a-festival taking over the grand 18th-century mansion, prior to its reopening following major restoration works since 2023. In another first for Sonica Festival, installations will take over spaces in the city centre’s Buchanan Galleries shopping centre with four artworks that will take shoppers out of their expected reality.
From a new show of audiovisual works from Young British Artist wunderkind Dinos Chapman to a history-making Scottish debut performance from Buchla synthesiser legend Suzanne Ciani, the ninth edition of the biennial festival for curious minds and adventurous spirits promises to ravish the senses.
This year’s festival also includes Sonica’s first-ever commissioned works: Rachel Maclean’s They’ve Got Your Eyes, co-commissioned by FACT Liverpool, and Martin Green’s Folding Songs, co-produced by Cryptic and Perth Theatre and Concert Hall.
Sonica Passes
Get the most out of your Sonica experience with a Sonica Pass. These passes give you 25% off Tramway events and access to free tickets for all other performances, including unlimited access to BLIESBRO’s Ceci Est Mon Coeur (This is My Heart).
Book your Sonica Pass today to save upwards of £100.
A Sonica Pass for Weekend One gives you:
Free tickets for:
- THALASSA – SHHE | The Listening House – Pollok House
- 8Men: A Sonic Variation – Isa Gordon | The Listening House – Pollok House
- Scottish Ensemble at Sonica with Ava Rasti and Alex Smoke | Rutherglen Old Parish Church
- Svetlana Spajic | The Hunterian Art Gallery
- The Tcherepnin Series – Thomas Ankersmit | The Listening House – Pollok House
- Alliyah Enyo – When All is Dust | The Listening House – Pollok House
- Raivo Sloan // The Dark Mirror – Moira Salt, Tommy Perman & Andrew Wasylyk // sonic_{imprints}° – Jett Ilagan | The Glad Café
- Ceci Est Mon Coeur (This is My Heart) – BLIESBRO | Offline Glasgow (go as many times as you like from Thu 24 – Sun 27 Sep)
25% off tickets for:
- Dinos Chapman
- Double Shuffle – stravsky & pelè // I Want to Lose My Mind and Never Find It – JOON & Veronica Petukhov
- Folding Songs – Martin Green & Svetlana Spajić
- BLCK SUN – AMIANGELIKA & 1100 // Non Square
- XFRMR – Robbie Thomson
- Caïn و Muchi & Malo Lacroix // Grey Line – SPIME.IM // aya x MFO
- Falling Sweets / Afternoon Membranophone – ASUNA
- Hand To Mouth To – Keeley Forsyth
A Sonica Pass for Weekend Two gives you:
Free tickets for:
- Sonica Club – Loma Doom / DEBONAIR | EXIT Glasgow
- Crescent – Sonia Killmann | The Listening House – Pollok House
- Lara Jones | The Listening House – Pollok House
- NYX Live | Govanhill Baths
- Luka Liluashvili | The Listening House – Pollok House
- The Past Imperfect – Mark Vernon | The Listening House – Pollok House
- Ceci Est Mon Coeur (This is My Heart) – BLIESBRO | Offline Glasgow (go as many times as you like from Wed 30 Sep – Sun 4 Oct)
25% off tickets for:
- The Bowie Symphony (No.4) by Philip Glass – RSNO & Tatsuru Arai
- Underwater – An-Ting & Ian Gallagher // PanOrama – Dali de Saint Paul, Lia Mazzari & Kathy Hinde
- AIR – Roberto Maqueda & Structurals
- LES EMPIRES – Guillaume Coutu Dumont & Line Katcho // Hymnal – Alif Hilal (fka Lyra Pramuk)
- Music for 18 Musicians – Paraorchestra with Charles Hazlewood
- FISHER PRICE PIPES – AV – Harry Górski-Brown // Broken Vinyl – Mieko Suzuki & Claudia Rohrmoser
- Improvisation on Four Sequences – Suzanne Ciani
- I Dreamt of Fire – Marie Delprat & Tom Lane
A Full Sonica Pass gives you all of the above.
Individual tickets are also available for all events.
