An evening and night of transcendent and ecstatic sensory experiences celebrating the noise of being. On Saturday we present audiovisual performances by fiercely independent, singular navigators of acoustic and electronic soundworlds. With an AV performance by Matthew Biederman and Pierce Warnecke; Kara-Lis Coverdale, who experiments with the building blocks of musical beauty, performs with MFO; abstract ambient-classical music by Christina Vantzou; and field recordings by BJ Nilsen & Karl Lemieux. An installation by Peter Burr dives deep into the intricacies of human perception. After midnight the programme continues in the Bimhuis with futuristic sounds by MSHR, Yeah You, Asher Levitas, AZAADI, Kuedo + Werkflow and Pure. A selection of Robert Russett's animated films on 16mm will be presented throughout the evening, curated by Mark Toscano. Robert Russett (1935–2015) was an artist, educator and filmmaker, and an authority on animation.
ARTISTS/SPEAKERS
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Asher Levitas is perhaps best known as part of Old Apparatus, the acclaimed and enigmatic London experimental outfit. Over the last few years he has featured on releases for labels including Deep Medi...
Asher Levitas
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
AZAADI is the duo of Ewa Justka and Poulomi Desai.
AZAADI
Thu 23 Feb
Paradiso
BJ Nilsen is a Swedish composer and sound artist based in Amsterdam. His work primarily focuses on the sounds of nature and how they affect humans.
BJ Nilsen
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Christina Vantzou is a composer and visual artist based in Brussels, Belgium. She has composed and released three albums of ambient-classical music and has developed a form of graphic musical notation...
Christina Vantzou
Wed 1 Feb - Sun 26 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Jana Winderen researches the hidden depths with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of ...
Jana Winderen
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Heralded as “one of the most exciting young composers in North America” by the Guardian and a “unique navigator of the electronic world” by NPR, Kara-Lis Coverdale is a fiercely independent vo...
Kara-Lis Coverdale
Thu 23 Feb
Paradiso
Karl Lemieux’s films, installations, and performances have screened internationally in museums, galleries, music venues and film festivals. He is more commonly known as the ninth member of Godspeed ...
Karl Lemieux
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Kuedo is the alias of Jamie Teasdale, formerly one half of Vex’d, whose 2005 album Degenerate re-wrote the UK bass rulebook. His most recent album Slow Knife is a deep, undulating dive into immersiv...
Kuedo
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Matthew Biederman works across media and milieus, architectures and systems, communities and continents since 1990. He creates works where light, space and sound reflect on the intricacies of percepti...
Matthew Biederman
Thu 23 Feb
Paradiso
Marcel Weber is a visual artist who works with imagery, light and space. He has been creating and directing audiovisual performances, installations and video works since 2001 both under his own name a...
MFO
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
MSHR is the art collective of Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy. The duo builds and explores systems to reveal pathways toward ecstatic sensory experience.
MSHR
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Peter Burr is an artist from Brooklyn, NY specialising in animation and installation. His recent work explores the concept of an endlessly mutating death labyrinth.
Peter Burr
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Pierce Warnecke is a sound and video artist from the US, based in Europe for over a decade. He works equally in the sonic and visual domains via performances, installations and compositions.
Pierce Warnecke
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Pure sculpts abstract sonic stories from evolving textures, pulsating repetitions and feedbacks over slow, distorted, broken beats.
Pure
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Robert J. Russett (May 22 1935 - March 26 2015) was a media artist, educator and writer whose animated films and installations were exhibited internationally.
Robert Russett
Sat 25 Feb
Muziekgebouw & Bimhuis
Yeah You are Elvin Brandhi (vocals & electronics) and MYKL JAXN (electronics & vocals). They started making new music every day early in 2013.