Friday September 12 - Janneke van der Putten - 8:30 pm entrance (minimum) €8 / 4 student
As experimental vocalist Janneke van der Putten is skilled in acoustic techniques and in situ listening. With a background training her voice through the North-Indian Dhrupad singing tradition, she specialises in extreme and extended vocal techniques. Using the space as a natural amplifier, she performs without electrical amplification and plays with the resonances and modulations produced by her surroundings. Using architecture as an instrument, her sounds, primal voices and minimal drones, merge in microtonal dynamics of transcendent and ancient singing. Her live performances create a spatial, physical felt-in-your-gut and immersive experience. Her vocal work crosses the fields of performance, sound art and music and is inspired by cyclic temporal frames, the cycles of the breath and those of the body and the earth – time scales that she further explores in her practice as visual artist.
Janneke released her debut album ‘JNNK’ on vinyl (label Aloardi, 2023), which was well received by the press with a.o. a feature in The Wire Magazine #475 by Abi Bliss and an article in Gonzo (Circus) Magazine #187 by René van Peer. Since 2013 Janneke has been collaborating extensively with mix-genre musician/composer Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta in their project ‘Invisible Architecture’, with a forthcoming album 'I.A. Water Reservoir' on vinyl to be published this Autumn. Other musicians/composers she worked with are a.o. Siavash Akhlaghi, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Werner Durand, Tesla Manaf, Philemon Mukarno, and Marcus Schmickler.
At Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek, Janneke will première her first explorations for voice and piano: 'Gestimmt' (working title).
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/janneke-van-der-putten-tickets-1566776293069?aff=oddtdtcreator
Friday September 19 - Johannes Westendorp - 8:30 PM............. entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Over two years ago, my band Zwerm and I started a project (Calling Songs) exploring ways to add our sound to live insect and frog choirs. Calling Songs is a seasonal performance that takes performers and audiences outdoors.
Swamp City is a spinoff of this project, in which I attempt to translate the richness of sound we hear outdoors in the summer into an indoor solo setup. I use modular synthesizers, electric guitar, a few transducers, and a speaker setup that attempts to emulate the wide, expansive soundscape of ponds and meadows.
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/johannes-westendorp-swamp-city-tickets-1566867977299?aff=oddtdtcreator
Saturday September 20 - Tiny Room Records Labelnight - 8:30 pm entrance (minimum) €8/4 student
wh^rl is the solo project of Groningen musician Jurgen Veenstra (Avery Plains, Moan, Moonlizards), a longtime figure in the Dutch underground scene who trades walls of noise for intimate, lo-fi soundscapes that carry a deep emotional weight. On his self-titled debut, the 60-year-old songwriter delivers 15 raw yet richly layered songs—touching on indie rock, folk, blues, and ambient—that reflect decades of musical experience and a lifetime of stories. Recorded on 4-track cassette and shaped collaboratively with members of Tiny Room Records’ circle, the album captures Veenstra at his most vulnerable and resonant. Performing as a duo in Eindhoven, wh^rl brings these stark and haunting songs to life in their purest form, while reintroducing some of the distortion along the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZN3blBMNE
Kristóf Hajós is an Amsterdam-based Hungarian queer singer and lyricist, whose third album, 6:00PM (released by Tiny Room Records and Bitterfly Music in February 2025), reflects on aging within the queer community. Blending 80s disco pop with contemporary lo-fi indie, the album navigates through nine eclectic tracks, from kalimba ballads to funky disco grooves. Produced by Dutch indie pop artist Stefan Breuer (The World of Dust, Combo Qazam), 6:00PM showcases Hajós’s reflective songwriting in a diverse and intimate setting - now brought to life in Eindhoven with a special semi-acoustic band setting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGkYmryfuTU
Lukas Dikker is a guitarist and recording artist/producer, known for his work with Bonne Aparte, Kim Janssen, Herrek, and Oliver Oat. Performing under the moniker LUIK, he crafts intimate, contemplative soundscapes through minimal, solo guitar improvisations, building on a deep-rooted connection to the Dutch indie and underground scene. His latest release, Outrar—a collection of delicate improvisations and sketches released a decade after its original recordings—follows his 2012 debut album Owls (Snowstar Records) and showcases a stripped-down, introspective evolution of the unmistakable LUIK sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9liALNFe28
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tiny-room-records-labelnight-tickets-1566812070079?aff=oddtdtcreator
Thursday September 25 - Gerri Jäger - 8:30 PM...................................................................entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Gerri Jäger Solo & guests – Argument with Reality
set 1) Argument with Reality is a new live set for drum-kit, electronics, and live visuals. It marks a clear evolution of the solo project, expanding its sonic and visual dimensions. The tryout presents an audiovisual work that combines self-made and collected video material with footage created in collaboration with filmmaker Alek Riquelme. The work explores themes such as addiction, (non)politics, parenthood and nature.
Alongside his ongoing drive to reinvent himself as a composer, producer and performer, Gerri remains grounded in his own expressive language: mixing genres to create a dynamic and unpredictable experience that shifts between fragility, minimalism, chaos, and rapture.
Set 2)
Special guests Beatrice Sberna (vocals) and Stijn van Beek (uilleann pipes & ewi) will join Gerri for a semi-improvised set as a trio.
Beatrice Sberna is a singer, performer, and improviser from Brescia (IT), currently based in Amsterdam. A compelling voice in the emerging European experimental scene, she blends a jazz background with a strong theatrical presence, creating raw and emotionally engaging performances. Her approach moves freely across genres, guided by a sharp sense of irony and a desire to shape a sound that is deeply personal and ever-evolving. She believes in the beauty hidden within ugliness, and in irony as a tool not just for lightness, but for depth.
Stijn van Beek is an innovative uilleann piper who instills a unique and cutting edge eclecticism to any musical line-up. He was drawn to the sound of the pipes at a young age. After mastering this challenging instrument on his own he studied music at University College Cork for two years. Stijn regularly performs in an eclectic range of bands such as contemporary folk group Hot Griselda. Apart from ensemble projects Stijn also performs as a soloist, playing traditional folk music in an acoustic setting (Interkeltisches Folkfestival, Hofheim 2024) or newly composed electro acoustic music on a spatial sound system. (Stone Nest, London 2023)
Saturday September 27 - Modulab - with an afternoon and an evening program!
Afternoon doors open: 14:00 | Start: 15:00
Between Afternoon program and evening performances some vegan food.
Evening performances start at 20:30
The NerdSeq sequences based on a “tracker” for a modular set up with endless possibilities. This event some of those possibilities (workshop and live) + you can have a try.
Afternoon demo/workshop: Modlub dude Jurgen (basic demo) + Gijs van Ouwerkerk (videosynthese) + a set up so you can use the NerdSeq.
Evening line up
(tickets minimum €8/4 student):
– Acheface
– LoCisco
– Sven van der Heiden
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/modulab-nerdseq-tickets-1566857004479?aff=oddtdtcreator
Sunday September 28 - Master Oogway - 8:30 PM....................................................entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Master Oogway could be the elderly turtle from the Kung Fu Panda Movies, but in this case it’s a Norwegian band. After the band’s beginning in 2015 they have released four albums and toured Scandinavia, Europe and Japan with their highly energetic, psychedelic, free jazz-punk-noise-whatever-music. Their latest album A Lot of Music About Everything (Nice Things Records, 2023) is their most gnarly album so far. JazzWise wrote the following about it: "Master Oogway feels like a wild workout, challenging each other with crazy turns designed to end in a crash.»
Spotify profile: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ldRjfLplsE2jA7KuNvoOO?si=62cbEvhfR_aaOLsGrwxvtg
Håvard Nordberg Funderud - guitar
Lauritz Skeidsvoll - saxophone
Karl Erik Horndalsveen - bass
Martin Heggli Mellem - drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fnvSirUNA4 - live video from Victoria in Oslo
Friday, October 3rd - POPRONDE - Joram Feitsma - M.J.H. Thompson + Volksorkest.............Admission is free!
8:00 PM Joram Feitsma - Neoclassical with a Dark Edge
Joram Feitsma plays and composes neoclassical piano works: introverted, meditative, melancholic pieces with a sometimes dark, abrasive undertone. Joram is based in Utrecht and has performed in his home city, including the Janskerk and the Dom Church, and internationally in Berlin, Paris, and Brussels. He has released music with Bigamo Musik, Anjunadeep Reflections, and 7K!, among others. His seventh album, "Welle," was released on January 31, 2025. Slow, piercing works for the harmonium that reveal the neoclassical genre's raw and mystical side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP6gxymnHCQ&ab_channel=XJAZZ%21
Bandcamp: https://joramfeitsma.bandcamp.com/
9:45 PM - M.J.H. Thompson + Volksorkest
M.J.H. Thompson + Volksorkest is a group that infectiously plays with the rules of traditional music-making. Together they perform the songs of M.J.H. Thompson. The music is so diverse that it defies easy categorization, always defined by a unique, sincere, and experimental approach.
https://youtu.be/HXKifzs8Rwo?feature=shared
Bandcamp: https://mjhthompson.bandcamp.com/
Sunday, October 5 - Anne Veinberg (toy piano/piano) and Wilma Pistorius (cello) - 8:30 PM - entrance (minimum) €8 / 4 student
'Secret Compartment' is an intimate, artistic space created out of curiosity and creativity, and inspired by Zen aesthetics, John Cage, and the astronomical objects of Charles Messier. Together with the audience, we create a space where the boundaries between creator and viewer blur. The instruments serve as our secret compartment from which magical sounds emerge, always with an element of chance and idiosyncratic imperfections. The program is based on Wilma Pistorius's 'Secret Compartment' (2022)—an interactive and semi-theatrical work for toy pianos and a music box. Interwoven with the composed notes are improvisations and elements of chance.
Program
Pistorius – Secret Compartment (toy piano & music box) (approx. 10')
Pistorius – 'Fantasia & Improvisatio' from 'A.D.A.' (cello solo) (approx. 4')
Takemitsu – Orion (cello & piano) (approx. 10')
Veinberg – Untitled (toy piano solo) (approx. 5') J
ohn Cage – Etudes Boreales (between 5' and 15')
Pistorius – Sakura (cello, toy piano, music box) (approx. 6')
Wilma Pistorius was born in South Africa, began playing the cello at the age of four, and has been guided by a vibrant musical imagination throughout her life. Her musical passion moved with her to the Netherlands in 2004, where she later studied Bachelor of Composition with Wim Henderickx and Jorrit Tamminga at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, graduating in 2013. Simultaneously, she studied Bachelor of Cello with Jeroen den Herder at the Conservatory of Rotterdam, graduating with honors in 2014. She currently lives in Amsterdam, where she works, performs, and teaches. Pistorius describes her music as "serious, yet with a wink." For her, it's the most direct way to express herself and subtly challenge both musicians and audiences. Her works are often inspired by her personal (sensory) experience of the world, and she enjoys the synesthetic play of translating this into timbres and textures. For Pistorius, music is something playful and magical. It is a means of relating to the world, herself, and others, connecting them through vibrations in the air.
Anne Veinberg is a concert pianist passionate about music of and for today. She regularly collaborates with composers and other artists from diverse backgrounds to develop new works and musical experiences. Recently, she has also begun improvising and composing for performance projects. Together with Felipe Ignacio Noriega, Veinberg co-founded CodeKlavier: a project that explores how live coding with the piano can be experienced as an artistic event. Veinberg performs regularly both nationally and internationally. She has appeared at many important contemporary music festivals, including Gaudeamus Music, Rewire, La Escucha Errante, and Sonorities. Anne also enjoys taking music beyond the concert hall and completed a tour with CodeKlaviers, ARquatic with Felipe Ignacio Noriega at the Botanical Gardens of the Netherlands. ARquatic was awarded the Joke 't Hart Prize in 2022.
Friday, October 10 - The Vocal Room #2 with Vera Morais and Rianne Wilbers - 8:30 PM ----Admission (minimum) €8/4 student
The Vocal Room #2 - A living laboratory for the voice
The Vocal Room is not a concert, but a performative research space for the voice. A place where vocal expression is explored, challenged, and reinvented. In each edition, vocalist Rianne Wilbers (also known as Rhiannin, and resident at POM) invites a different vocal artist to embark on an adventurous experiment together. No repetition, no script—just the here and now.
In The Vocal Room #2, Rianne enters the space with Portuguese singer, improviser, and composer Vera Morais. Her practice operates on the boundary between composition and improvisation, exploring the many sonic and expressive dimensions of the voice. She is the co-founder of several interdisciplinary projects, including the collective LIÇO, which connects traditional Portuguese song and wool processing with performance, in collaboration with harpsichordist Katerina Orfanoudaki. She is also the conductor of the Queer Choir Amsterdam and co-founder of the collective Orbits, which is committed to developing the jazz and improvisation scene in Amsterdam.
With her versatile voice and intuitive approach, Vera creates soundscapes in which space, body, and environment resonate. In 2024, she was awarded the “Emerging Artist of the Year” prize by RTP/Festa do Jazz in Portugal for her work.
Rianne Wilbers - Rhiannin - moves effortlessly between classical, avant-garde, and free improvisation. With her versatile voice, she continually seeks new forms of expression, in which control and surrender go hand in hand. The Vocal Room is her artistic platform at POM, for deepening, research, and collaboration—a place where voices converge and something substantial can emerge. Come listen, feel, and discover how two voices meet, challenge each other, and bring something new to life together.
https://verapmorais.bandcamp.com/
www.riannewilbers.nl and www.rhiannin.com
Friday, October 17 - Tony Overwater (bass), Michael Moore (reeds), Atzko Kohashi (piano) - 8:30 PM - €8/4 student
"Art is not simply an act of creation, but a journey of discovery." This idea, though its origins remain unclear, is often associated with the philosophies of Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky. It reflects the belief that art is not an act of creating something new out of nothing, but rather a process of discovering something that already exists—in yourself, in the material, or in the world. Art, in that sense, is a journey of discovery. This idea resonates with our approach to this album. It is about finding new beauty in something already familiar. Just as painters repeatedly depict the same subject from different perspectives, we revisited a beloved piece of music, examining it from multiple angles to discover new surprises. This journey of rediscovery formed the basis of this album.
At the heart of this project is "I Loves You, Porgy," a timeless composition from George Gershwin's 1935 folk opera Porgy and Bess. Its melody, constructed from just five simple notes, is unforgettable—a testament to Gershwin's genius. Inspired by its charm, we decided to center our album around this piece. While "I Loves You, Porgy" has been a staple for countless jazz musicians, our approach wasn't simply to improvise on it. Instead, we sought to create "variants"—transformative interpretations that drew from this iconic piece. It's a unique exploration, inspired by George Gershwin. Gershwin himself immersed himself in the vernacular music of Charleston, South Carolina, where the story is set, when composing Porgy and Bess. We, too, immersed ourselves in his original score and were struck by its simplicity and ingenuity. Using that simplicity as a foundation, we reinterpreted the melody, harmonic structure, tonality, and rhythm, weaving our own ideas into it. Each resulting piece has its own character, yet is intrinsically linked to "I Loves You, Porgy." After years of performing primarily as a piano-bass duo—at national and international jazz festivals, tours internationally, and the release of two acclaimed albums, Crescent (2022) and A Drum Thing (2023)—we felt it was time to add other voices to our sound.
For this recording, we were fortunate to have two exceptional musicians with us: Michael Moore, an acclaimed reed player, and Sebastiaan Kaptein, an excellent drummer. Their contributions brought a new freedom and vibrancy to the music, allowing Porgy to resonate with a rich palette of colors and textures. Just as people reveal different facets from different perspectives, so too does music. With this album, we hope listeners will encounter many "Porgys," each with their own unique voice and emotion. https://
www.tonyoverwater.com - https://www.atzkokohashi.com - https://youtu.be/nErUMTKXWYo?feature=shared