The Philharmonie de Paris hosts Macrocosmos, a performance featuring composer and sound artist Ryoji Ikeda and Estonian conductor Tõnu Kaljuste with the ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg. The program offers a sonic and visual exploration of space and time, integrating contemporary music, avant-garde electronics, and percussion in an architectural context designed for immersive listening. In this context, the hall is not just a container but an active element of the experience, inviting the audience to perceive the sound wave as a physical and conceptual dimension. The event is part of the Philharmonie de Paris's 2025-2026 season and reflects the institution's commitment to supporting projects that push the boundaries of classical and contemporary music, pushing toward hybrid forms that unite composition, technology, and performance. The choice of a concert focused on sonic "macrocosms" indicates a desire to translate the abstraction and interconnectedness of the contemporary world into musical language. Macrocosmos offers an opportunity to experience music as a phenomenon that envelops and transforms the listening space, rather than simply a succession of pieces. It highlights the institution's ability to offer moments that challenge not only the ear but the spectator's physical presence, emphasizing the curvature of the acoustics, light, the body, and the shared energy in the room.
The Musée de l'Homme devotes the new edition of Automne tropical to palm trees. Inside the Grandes Serres of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, an immersive journey explores their morphology, habitats, history and uses. A voyage between nature and culture unveiling the secrets of a tropical icon.
On December 16 and 17, 2025 Paris’s Accor Arena hosts Lamomali, a musical project created by Matthieu Chedid with Malian artists including Fatoumata Diawara and Balla Diabaté. Blending kora, pop and rock, the collective merges African tradition with contemporary sounds while paying tribute to Toumani Diabaté.
The Musée d’Orsay presents an exhibition on Renoir as a draftsman, featuring around one hundred works on paper from international collections. From his academic training to his later years, the show reveals the central role of drawing and red chalk in the creative process of the Impressionist Master.
From October 15, 2025, to February 1, 2026, the Philharmonie de Paris explores Kandinsky’s bond with music. Paintings, watercolors, and documents interact with scores and sound installations. An immersive journey reveals how music inspired the birth of abstraction.
