Saturday August 16 - Bart van Dongen & The Electric Grand - 8:30 PM-----------------------------entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
On August 21, 2021, the Electric Grand premiered at "November Music on Tour" during the Theaterfestival Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch. Now, many concerts later, it was time to further develop the instrument. The electronics needed to be more compact, reliable, and user-friendly, and they succeeded. Edwin van den Oetelaar (Fontys InnovationLab) and Kristiyan Angelov have truly accomplished a feat! Now each individual speaker of the Electric Grand has a volume knob. And that's 72, as each key/tone of the Yamaha CP70 has its own speaker.
Electric Grand is a project by visual artist Antoon Versteegde and pianist Bart van Dongen in which they amplify the piano sound by giving each note its own speaker. Versteegde always creates a spatial design that fits the surroundings. Now, the speakers hang from the ceiling of the Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek. The constant is that the speakers are arranged in a random order, and Van Dongen, through his improvisations, lets them sound through the (prepared) grand piano. Ever leaned your head into a piano or played under it as a child while your mother played? No? Now's your chance! www.electricgrand.nl
The try-out will be on August 16th in Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek Eindhoven and afterwards Electric Grand will be at Summer Bummer – August 28th, 29th and 30th in Antwerp.
Thursday August 21 - Jürgen Dahmen & Bart van Dongen - 8:30 PM--------------------------------entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Pianists Jürgen Dahmen and Bart van Dongen met through a mutual friend and colleague. During a walk, the idea arose to record together. Jürgen and Bart have been doing just that over the past few days at POM. Tonight, they'll be presenting the results of this multi-day recording session.
Jürgen Dahmen: pianist, drummer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and composer for over 40 years as a musician. Productions and/or tours with Temptations, Nighthawks, Trancegroove, Tan, Propaganda, Georg Danzer, Udo Lindenberg, and more. Over the years: completely improvised piano solo concerts. He accompanied the Harald Schmidt Show (a German late-night show) for 10 years, including a year and a half as musical director, for many singers. For example: Brian Ferry, Grace Jones, Nina Hagen, Willie Deville, Meat Loaf, and more. He was also the MD of the TV casting show "Popstars" – season "Bands On Stage" (2007). Concerts and/or radio productions with Albert Mangelsdorf, Sam Rivers, Emil Mangelsdorf, Michal Urbaniak, "Big" Fletchit Campbell, and more. Dahmen has composed numerous film and television scores. https://www.juergendahmen.com
Bart van Dongen (1959), composer, musician, and conceptual artist, won the biennial Brouwerij Cultuurprijs (Brewery Culture Prize) for the city of 's-Hertogenbosch in 2007. From the jury report: "A constant in his work is that composition, improvisation, and concept always form a trinity. [...] The on-site action therefore forms an important part of his art." From 2022 to 2024, Van Dongen was the city's composer.
Van Dongen is the initiator of various projects, all of which have one thing in common: a search for new music, or at least new sounds. He excludes nothing and rejects nothing; he manages to connect and encourage seemingly contradictory forces. Van Dongen also manages to connect the professional and amateur music worlds in his own unique way.
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/jurgen-dahmen-bart-van-dongen-tickets-1566498131079?aff=oddtdtcreator
Thursday August 28 - FRANTX - 8:30 PM-------------------------------------------------Entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
FRANTX is a glit noise band based in Paris, bringing together two young improvisers of French origin and two of Italian origin. Animated by the noise-punk ghost of the '90s and immersed in post-internet sonic drifts, FRANTX writes songs in Piedmontese and improvises electro-acoustic collages between a TikTok chain and musique concrète. FRANTX creates a dimension of hyper-speed where the four instrumentalists find themselves blurred together in a grumble that cries out for love and sweets, shouted through a vocoder.
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/frantx-tickets-1566527779759?aff=oddtdtcreatorr
Sunday August 31 - NO FILL3R ft. JASPER BLOM - 8:30 PM.................... entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Jasper Blom - tenor saxophone
Sun-Mi Hong - drums
Zack Lober - double bass
Suzan Veneman - trumpet
Following the critically acclaimed reception of Zack Lober’s debut album NO FILL3R, hailed by the Jazz press as “quietly adventurous” (Downbeat Magazine) and “deceptively intense and seductive” (All About Jazz), the trio featuring Dutch wave-makers Sun-Mi Hong (drums) and Suzan Veneman (trumpet) returns with brand new music and the addition of a special guest, Dutch tenor saxophone legend Jasper Blom. In the spirit of the group’s original concept, the music celebrates the perfect marriage of catchy, singable songs with fierce moments of spontaneous collective improvisation. A must see show for any Jazz fan.
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/jasper-blom-no-fill3r-tickets-1566553376319?aff=oddtdtcreator
Friday September 5 - Jasha Eliane............................................. entrance (minimum) € 8/4 student
Jasha Eliane is an artist who navigates the intersection of drama and playfulness, daring to express herself in all facets of her identity. With her Dutch-language dance-pop, you're invited to join her in a world of absurdism, pain, and self-confidence. Her alter ego is playful, mysterious, and sexy, always ready to challenge and entertain the audience with a wink. With a passion for fashion and performance, Jasha aims to create a visual identity that enhances her performance. Her clothes are an extension of who she is, from dramatic dresses to striking outfits that tell her story without words. Jasha's music reflects the multifaceted nature of human emotions. Her songs touch on themes such as homesickness, love, loss, and the fear of vulnerability. Above all, she doesn't just want to make her listeners think; she also wants them to dance and let loose.
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.
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 June 29 - European Music Collective - 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.»
Lineup:
Håvard Nordberg Funderud - guitar
Lauritz Skeidsvoll - saxophone
Karl Erik Horndalsveen - bass
Martin Heggli Mellem - drums