Long live inventors and builders of musical instruments! Long live the players! Long live the ludic and the lucid! This wonderful happening spans 3 cities and several weeks. I will pop up in WORM, Rotterdam on the 2 December, and Amsterdam (Nieuwe Muziekgebouw and De Nieuwe Ruimte) on the 3rd. All info here.
Saturday 4 November. Finally, a new edition of the wonderful Progress Bar in Amsterdam’s Tolhuistuin. With, for instance, the amazing BbyMutha (that’s her here)! Plus a book launch: The Noise Of Being by Sonic Acts. Plus ME. All details here.
Popping up at : Back To The Future in WORM, Rotterdam. A unique 2-day festival for moving images and optical sound; a celebration of the analogue film with an international programme of audio-visual performances, films, presentations, lectures and installations. I’ll be in the WORM foyer on Sunday (the second day) from noon till 11 PM. […]
A fascinating soundworld is the world of Cusp Editions, a new imprint from Manchester, run by Sam Weaver. He champions experimental music from the hinterlands. Each of his releases aims to forage new sonic territories in electronics, improvisation and beyond. See the full list here.
Hook on to the the world-wide Cassette Store Day – a nice idea from WORM’s Pirate Bay. WORM Rotterdam, 14 October. I’ll dig up all my tape and tape-related items, like soaps in the shape of cassettes, or tape jewelry…
Looking forward again to the next emergence, in The Hague during Todays Art. I’ll be in the lobby of Theater Aan Het Spui from around noon to around 11 pm. Click here for links. On the 22nd, at 4 pm, there will be an interesting panel discussion organised by New Emergences about gender diversity in […]
The most important festival for contemporary music in The Netherlands is the Gaudeamus Muziekweek. I’m really happy to be invited again to participate and offer some decent context in the form of books, magazines, records and sound objects. Also the participating composers and musicians are offering their publications via Underbelly! Find me in the Festival […]
Closely related to modular synth engineer Bastl Instruments, Nona releases a great variety of experimental music, not even all by modular synth fanatics, but mainly electronic anyway. Their cover design is also quite remarkable. Four of their releases can be found here.
Finally Underbelly will travel overseas: on June 23 and 24 I’m joining WORM from Rotterdam while they’re setting up camp in Hull, UK. The wonderful Humber Street Gallery in the city’s docklands invited WORM in the framework of the Hull UK Cultural Capital 2017 programme. Read all about it here.
A well-kept secret (to me) until now.. I saw AWOTT play recently and they were amazing. So I bought all their albums. The LPs are already gone but the tapes sound great too! Here they are for those who missed them.
