Thursday April 24 - Residence presentation Parker Hertzberger- 8:30 PM --- entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Vibrating Music Hammock
Feel music vibrations throughout your body We all love to relax with a little music! The Music Hammock is a special hammock that transforms its fabric into a speaker. Using special technology, it allows your body to resonate with the frequencies of the music. Essentially, you're lying inside a speaker.
The Music Hammock provides a unique, full-body listening experience. In our fast-paced society, our minds are often overactive, causing us to lose touch with our bodies. The Music Hammock offers a soothing escape, shifting your focus from mental chatter to bodily awareness. Let the music guide you on an internal journey, allowing you to listen with your whole self.
The Music Hammock also serves as a medium for musicians to add an extra sensory dimension to their performances. Designed for festivals and other events, it enhances any gathering by making music more immersive and engaging.
https://www.parkerhertzberger.nl
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/vibrating-music-hammock-tickets-1307124858639?aff=oddtdtcreator
Tuesday April 29 PONGA - 8:30 PM entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Ponga is a music group that thrives on the possibilities of free improvisation, which is at the core of everything they play. Their performances blend compositional forms, infectious grooves, and unconventional melodies, often originating from experimentation and free play. In Ponga, every member of the trio—violist Yanna Pelser, guitarist Timon Koomen, and drummer/percussionist Remco Menting—switches between percussive, melodic, and harmonic roles, resulting in eclectic performances that encompass a variety of musical styles, including soundscapes, rock, jazz, classical and global music.
Formed in 2023, with Yanna joining two former members of the acclaimed trio Kapok, Ponga is a relatively new group consisting of seasoned performers; With over 15 years of performance experience in the Dutch and international jazz and classical scenes, the members bring a wealth of expertise to the group.
Remco, rooted in improvised jazz and African drumming, is always on the lookout for new sounds and instruments in his already unusual percussion setup. Jazz guitarist
Timon would bring 10 guitars on stage if it was possible; if only it were to be able to subtly choose the right feeling for the music.
Yanna, mainly rooted in classical music, is challenged by the formation to find new creative ways on her viola.
The members also share a background in theatre, which contributes to their distinctive stage presence often marked by the change of multiple outfits. This visual diversity complements their contrasting musical pieces, promoting progressive change and critiquing conservatism.
PONGA – Waar Dans Ik Op?
PONGA – Nowhere Land
PONGA – Heksenjacht
PONGA – Live at BIMHUIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aX2WBflwow&pp=ygUVcG9uZ2EgbGl2ZSBhdCBiaW1odWlz
Saturday May 3 - Rara Avis trio - 8:30 PM -------- ------------- ________________________entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Albert van Veenendaal-piano, prepared piano
Tineke de Jong- violin
Jodi Gilbert-voice, little instruments, texts
Rara Avis was founded in 2017 and released the album “How Do I Listen” in april 2021. This album was named after a poem from the Soefi poet Hafez (1320-1390). The trio consists of Jodi Gilbert (voice and little instruments), Tineke de Jong (violin) and Albert van Veenendaal (piano) and finds inspiration in a wide variety of texts including the poems of the 18th-century poet Yosa Buson , a novel from F. Scott Fitzgerald, humorous modern newspaper headlines, and a Handbook of Roses.
Their improvisations are in total freestyle and lead to a wide variety of colours and atmospheres, amplified by Jodi’s wide and virtuosic vocal spectrum, Tineke’s classical background, and Albert’s ability to build cinematic musical structures on the (prepared) piano.
Eyal Haareuveni in Salt Peanuts over de cd How Do I Listen: "The intimate, subtle interplay of van Veenendaal and de Jong and their immediate rapport brilliantly serves the expressive, theatrical and acrobatic pathos of Gilbert making this meeting into a really rare one”.
Bad Alchemy 119 rbd: “Jodi Gilbert transforms the whole material into something like art pop, something quite different from artificially dumbed-down or tirillized art songs. Violin and piano are on the move in a modernist way, with enough know-how and esprit to shake the right thing out of their sleeves, from bittersweet and heartfelt tremolos and shimmery wisps to the finest details, with a thoughtfully applied hand, small hatchings on the pianowire or cross-keys to plonking grips or tonal preperation. Just great"
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/rara-avis-trio-tickets-1323530989819?aff=oddtdtcreator
Saturday May 10 - Tashi Dorji + De Vlaamse Primitieven - 8:30 PM---------------------------------entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
New explorations of the acoustic guitar by Tashi Dorji and a freely improvised set by De Vlaamse Primitieven.
This new collaboration between POM and Sound in Motion/Oorstof brings adventurous explorations of the acoustic guitar by Tashi Dorji and a freely improvised set by De Vlaamse Primitieven. Experience this first time meeting of some of todays most prolific champions of the acoustic guitar in the ideal acoustic setting of POM.
Tashi Dorji (BT/US)
Bhutanese guitar player Tashi Dorji is without any doubt one of the most original improvisors of the moment. His first appearance in the Oorstof series in 2015 – also his first European concert ever – and the following European tour as guest and support of Godspeed You! Black Emperor was a real triumph. In 2021, Dorji and his fellow improvisors Dave Rempis and Tyler Damon unleashed Kuzu upon the POM and SiM/Oorstof crowd followed by a magical solo acoustic set at Summer Bummer in 2022 and one of the best and most intense sets ever at Summer Bummer in 2023 in a duo with Susie Ibarra.
Dorji took in free improvised music for the first time while studying in the U.S., where he still resides. It’s there that Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) discovered his exceptional talent as guitar player and improvisor. Chasny started the Hermit Hut label in 2014 in order to release Dorji’s Debut album. Though often compared to legends like John Fahey or Derek Bailey, Dorji remains very modest.
In the mean time Dorji started a series of very successful collaborations with artists like Mette Rasmussen, Tyler Damon, Dave Rempis, C. Spencer Yeh, Michael Zerang, Susie Ibarra, Aki Onda and released solo works on fine labels like VDSQ and Drag City. We will be wherever the fires are lit, his most recent release for Drag City, is a sort of sequel to Stateless. Dorji takes the torch and storms forward, with ten improvised acoustic guitar anthems. These musical thoughts are torn from the fabric of his life and music. “Strumming in opposition to the towers” (as he puts it) is part of an existence that is always political, even in its most abstract iterations — a truth laid bare in these deep, raw performances.
https://tashidorji.bandcamp.com/
De Vlaamse Primitieven (BE)
De Vlaamse Primitieven is the alter ego of Antwerp-based guitar players Jan Boudart and Freek Vreys. After they studied jazz guitar, they discovered a common love for 60's psychedelia, ethnic-drones, minimalism and the music of American primitive guitar players like John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Glenn Jones and the likes. They studied these masters and developed an obsession to not only keep this beautiful tradition of guitar playing alive, but also to mix the 'American primitivism' with British folk, jazz, drones and other genres.
Boudart and Vreys shared the stage and collaborated with mainstays like Glenn Jones, Jon Collin, Chris Rainier, Hellvete, Gwenifer Raymond, Dennis Tyfus, Pat Murano, Nina Garcia and Tashi Dorji, toured with Liam Grant & Kadunnot Manner, and curate their own concert series at Antwerps Café Multatuli. In March 2025 they presented the critically acclaimed debut album Lucht van een Andere Planeet recorded by Venediktos Tempelboom on Pang Pang Records/Carbon Records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLE3af4_j4
https://carbon-records.bandcamp.com/album/lucht-van-een-andere-planeet
https://devlaamseprimitieven.bandcamp.com
Wednesday May 14 - The Sea Entirely - 8:30 PM -----------------------------------------------------------entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
The Sea Entirely, a unique interplay of poetry, sound and improvisation. Monica Akihary and Niels Brouwer play together with pianist Nora Mulder and electronics wizard Ruben Kieftenbelt. Together, these four musicians explore the possibilities of sound, with plenty of room for improvisation. The Sea Entirely
Monica Akihary: vocals,
Niels Brouwer: guitars,
Ruben Kieftenbelt: modular synthesizer
Nora Mulder: piano, pipe organ - analogue synthesizer
BOI AKIH is more than music, it is a movement of sound and feeling. Formed around award-winning vocalist and lyricist Monica Akihary (Boy Edgar Prize 2023) and guitarist/composer Niels Brouwer, this duo creates a unique musical language.
Their energetic music transcends genres and cultures and is characterized by a deep connection with both jazz and European and Moluccan music traditions.
It is an adventurous entanglement of contemporary sounds and age-old traditions. Poetic vocals, sometimes raw and intuitive, dance together with layered guitar compositions. Together they form a dialogue between worlds in English and Haruku (a Moluccan language) in which personal stories and universal emotions come together.
From the North Sea Jazz Festival and Jazzfest Berlin to the Freedom Concert on Ambon for 20,000 people. Their work can be heard all over the world. Renowned international media, such as BBC Radio, VPRO Vrije Geluiden and Radio France, also play their work.
For anyone who dares to look further: BOI AKIH is an imaginary world journey. One where improvisation and identity merge. Music that takes you along, touches you and makes you think.
BOI AKIH: The voice is a beautiful instrument and the guitar has a beautiful voice.
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/the-sea-entirely-tickets-1324041817719?aff=oddtdtcreator
Thursday May 22 - Plan Kruutntoone - 8:30 PM-------------------------------------------------------Entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
“Niet alles wat afwijkt is weerloos” is like the Bad Seeds meeting wit Ornette Coleman’s double quartets under the strict eye of Galina Ustvolskaja, before a grey and red Marc Rothko sky. Tilted. Passing the age of 33, (when Jesus died…)
Plan Kruutntoone decided to use our extra time to collaborate with AhuraMazda 3000 on a (anti -)gospel record: to stop handing over fear through generations and make some noise: Soviet bass and double bass, guitars and baritone, three (3!) drummers, three vocalists, three winds, piano, organ, accordion and bekreepi, plus Krabbetjeh, Most and Hleb inspired Hansko s lyrics on Marinus van der Lubbe and Ingrid Jonker On Fear, Young Grebes and Outboard Motors. Fish, and Mental Institutions. Lost parts, that, after all, appeared not to to be so indispensable.
All material was recorded in three weeks at Vache a Louer, Hautroche, by our Deacon Dolf Koeienverhuur, and mastered by Zlaya at Loud. It will be out at Escrec. And In the free day, we recorded Trio for Galina at the Chateaux and at the end we added two “covers” to the existing circus: God (Lennon /Ono, co composed and in Lithuanian) and Walking in the opposite direction (Adrian Borland), that we turned into a duet without words.
Austeja Zvirblyte; vocals, lyrics, trumpet- Gabija Bartulyte; vocals and reeds – Eduardo Doreste; bass clarinet – Ruggero di Luisi; drums, hleb, piano, soviet bass, – Reinier van Houdt; piano –Rick Potma; original drummer – Chris Muller; actual drummer and percussion – Dolf Planteydt recording, editing and mixing additional guitar – Bas Alblas; fretless and double bass – Hansko Visser; guitars, most, accordeon, bekreepi, lyrics, vocals.
Friday 23 May - lunch concert!! - Storioni Festival - 12.30 pm
tickets: https://storionifestival.nl/voorstelling/paviljoen-ongehoorde-muziek-lunchpauzeconcert/
The Paddington Trio, winner of the StorioniConcours 2024, and the Storioni Trio take the audience on a journey of discovery to the music of today. This concert offers a refreshing look at new compositions, in which the boundaries of classical music are pushed. The program opens with Freak Show (2016) by Sam Perkins, a work that finds its origins in the unconventional structures and theatrical elements of modern music. The Paddington Trio brings this piece to life with a dynamic that is both playful and penetrating. https://storionifestival.nl/musicus/paddington-trio
The Storioni Trio will then play Misericorda (2024) by Karmit Fadael. This work, composed especially for the Storioni Trio, is an intense meditation on compassion and human emotions, in which Fadael fully develops her personal voice as a composer. The work plays with contrasts of silence and sound, harmony and chaos, and reflects the richness of the contemporary musical landscape. https://storionifestival.nl/musicus/storioni-trio/
Thursday May 29 - The Big Kiss - 8:30 PM...............................................................................Entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
The Big Kiss: Hypnotic, Bouncy, Energetic - https://youtu.be/cv6akP-I1wQ?feature=shared
Thomas Jaspers drums
Dodó Kis recorder, EWI synth, vocals
Bart van Dongen Wurlitzer piano, Moog Prodigy, Synthon Syrinx, vocals
The world is on fire. War, genocide, populists, Big Tech, climate crisis: it's enough to make you desperate. But through all the misery, an unexpected sound can be heard. Sounds that make the suffocating smoke clear for a moment. Music that, even if it's just for one fleeting moment, lifts your distraught soul from the ashes.
'The Big Kiss' stands for ecstatic dancing, enchanted listening, silence and falling into a trance. Wild improvisations and deep grooves come together in this trio. Together we dream, for a moment the world better.
Saturday May 31 - Bridge Around Town - free guitar festival - https://mge.nl/agenda/bridge-around-town-saturday/
7:30 - 8:00 PM: Arto van Roey
Arto is an adventurous guitarist and composer who constantly explores the boundaries of sound and form. From jazz and contemporary classical to theatre and audiovisual art: his work is a mix of styles and disciplines. Solo or in collaboration, always driven by experiment and a fascination for layered, hypnotic guitar structures.
https://artov-an-roey.bandcamp.com/album/bower
8:45 - 9:30 PM: Vitja Pauwels
Guitarist Vitja Pauwels is one of Belgium's most versatile and tirelessly curious musicians. Characteristic is his versatile guitar playing in which jazz, pop and experimental sounds merge. With live electronics, cinematic atmospheres and influences from Ry Cooder to Ennio Morricone he creates a dreamy but exciting sound. https://youtu.be/WIWhjtj8nb4