The Sixth Sense Festival Brings Art, Music And Technology To Bengaluru From February 5-22

Explore Art, Sound, Technology And The Natural World

The Sixth Sense is a multidisciplinary immersive festival bringing together art, music, technology, and nature in a single programme. Scheduled to take place from February 5 to February 22, 2026, the festival has been developed over two years and is curated by Swordfish, the creative agency behind the circular music festival Echoes of Earth.

The festival will be hosted at Alembic City, Whitefield, Bengaluru, a former glass factory that integrates adaptive reuse, industrial design, sustainability, and heritage. Spanning more than 200,000 square feet, the programme will feature digital installations, spatial sound works, interactive environments, and participatory workshops. The experiences are developed through cross-disciplinary collaboration among artists, technologists, designers, and musicians, with an emphasis on environmental awareness and engagement.

Commenting on the upcoming edition, Roshan Netalkar, Founder & Director of Echoes of Earth and Swordfish, said, “For the first time in India, we are inviting a community of tech artists and designers into a space imagined as a home for experimentation, conversation, and collective discovery. It brings together creators we deeply admire, people who are sharing ideas and shaping how technology and art are experienced today. For us, The Sixth Sense represents a shift in how we engage and interact. As technology increasingly shapes our future, immersive experiences are becoming one of the most powerful ways to understand complex subjects through emotion, touch, and presence. This festival is our way of exploring experiences that are not just observed, but felt, questioned, and co-created.”

Udit Amin, Managing Director, Alembic Global Holdings SA, added, “The Sixth Sense Immersive Showcase represents a powerful intersection of art, technology, and human experience. At Alembic City, our vision has always been to cultivate environments that inspire connection, innovation, and cultural exchange. Hosting India’s first and largest multidisciplinary immersive showcase is a natural extension of that mission. This collaboration marks the beginning of a vibrant cultural movement at Alembic City, and we look forward to many more experiences that challenge perceptions and spark imagination.”

Headlining the showcase is a of global artists whose work including: 

Batavia Collective (BTVC)

Jakarta-based Batavia Collective (BTVC) will perform long-form, uninterrupted live electronic sets with no fixed setlist on February 13. Reading the room and responding instinctively, BTVC will build immersive dancefloor experiences rooted in broken rhythms, restrained techno, and deep bass pressure.

Niladri Kumar × Vieux Farka Touré

Performing together on February 15, this collaboration will bring together two deeply rooted yet boundary-pushing musical voices. Niladri Kumar will reimagine Indian classical music for contemporary audiences. Meanwhile, Vieux Farka Touré will carry forward the legacy of Malian desert blues while shaping a modern, global sound. 

Max Cooper

Headlining on February 21, electronic composer, multidisciplinary artist, and former scientist Max Cooper will deliver a live experience where intricate electronic composition meets immersive visual storytelling. K
Among the Artech immersive showcase, festival-goers can look forward to a series of installations and experiences that merge art, technology, and nature:

The programme includes a series of immersive installations by international artists working across media, sound, and technology. Adrift, by media artist Sasha Kojjio and creative producer Alisa Davydova of Barcelona-based Metanoeia Studio, is an audiovisual installation driven by a custom generative algorithm that simulates melting glaciers, creating a contemplative environment that reflects ecological fragility and human impact. 

The Banyan Tree, a commissioned work by production designer and new media artist Stephen Bontly, emerges from the Alembic City glass factory in Bengaluru and combines light, sound, and technology to examine humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Sounds of the Ocean, by ocean artist and composer Joshua Sam Miller with co-director Elise Lein, is an immersive experience integrating art, music, and mindfulness, placing audiences within an underwater soundscape shaped by whale and dolphin vocalisations.

Making its India premiere, Luxe by Japanese composer and sound and visual artist Tatsuru Arai explores light as energy and artistic medium through algorithmic visuals and generative sound, tracing a continuum from cosmic illumination to digital intelligence. Waterfall Whispers, the immersive debut by Paris-based visual and new media artist Nicolas Michel of Milkorva, transforms flowing water from France’s Cantal region into evolving digital forms using generative processes, light, and sound, presenting water as memory, movement, and ecological cycle. 

Signals, by new media collective Ephemereal Tomorrow, Riccardio Torresi, Asako Fujimoto, and Maxime Lethelier draws on bat echolocation by capturing ultrasonic bat calls in real time and translating them into audible sound and laser light, forming an evolving audiovisual composition that proposes an alternative perception of space. Superradiance, a multi-screen video and sound installation by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter, integrates film, performance, poetry, dance, and generative AI to explore embodiment, technology, and planetary awareness. 

The Sixth Sense will also mark a landmark collaboration with The NODE Institute (Germany), who will present India’s first-ever TouchDesigner sessions. Curated by The NODE Institute, the programme will feature beginner and advanced masterclasses, interactive panels, and sessions led by international experts, covering experience design, data visualisation, lighting, AI, and live visual performance. The workshops will run from February 5-11, leading into the TouchDesigner Sessions India on February 12 and February 13.