Ever since its establishment in 1962, Musiques Nouvelles has been developing, highlighting and promoting contemporary music in all its formal, geographic and cultural diversity, and has, over the years, vastly increased its commissions and productions in Belgium and worldwide. The ensemble reinvents itself constantly around atypical projects and often multidisciplinary artistic encounters, involving music, dance, cinema, opera, theatre, poetry, spirituality and plastic arts. Since 2015, Musiques Nouvelles is artist-in-residence at listening house Arsonic, which is part of the performing arts centre Mars in Mons.