The 27th edition brings nearly 120 artists to the city for six days of electronic music, audiovisual performance, and immersive digital art.
MUTEK Montréal is once again opening a portal into the future of sound. Returning for its 27th edition from August 25 to 30, 2026, the international festival of digital creativity and electronic music will take over the Quartier des spectacles with six days and nights of live electronic music, audiovisual performance, immersive works, and open-air programming.
This year’s lineup features nearly 120 artists from 28 countries across 18 programmes, with most performances making their Montréal premiere.
The 2026 edition expands MUTEK’s footprint across some of the city’s most distinctive venues, including the Society for Arts and Technology, MTELUS, Maison symphonique, esplanade Tranquille, and, for the first time, Les Grands Ballets’ Studio-Theatre. According to MUTEK artistic director Alain Mongeau, the festival’s return to Maison symphonique marks a meaningful full-circle moment after its 2013 takeover with Nils Frahm and Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory.
As always, MUTEK is less about chasing a traditional festival headliner moment than stepping into a living circuit board of sound, movement, and image. The Nocturne series at SAT brings together late-night electronic experimentation with spatial sound and immersive cinema, featuring names like A Guy Called Gerald, Barker, Debit, Matthew Herbert, Poirier, Purelink with Mika Oki, and Violent Magic Orchestra. At Maison symphonique, the X/Visions series leans into the room’s acoustic precision with performances from Kali Malone, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Fennesz & Lillevan, Tristan Perich & James McVinnie, and Voices From The Lake.
For those looking to sweat it out, Métropolis returns to MTELUS with two all-night sessions built for collective immersion, including Ben UFO, Jeff Mills, JakoJako, Polygonia, Rival Consoles, and more. Meanwhile, the revived Play series brings audiovisual performance into the afternoon at Les Grands Ballets’ Studio-Theatre, spotlighting projects where image, sound, technology, and staging all carry equal weight.
The free Expérience series also returns to esplanade Tranquille every evening from 5 p.m., turning the outdoor stage into a public gathering space for discovery, collaboration, and late-summer Montréal energy.
Individual tickets, day passes, weekend passes, festival passes, and forum passes are on sale now through MUTEK.
