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
A newly formed trio consisting of a virtuosic pianist who loves the simplicity of the struck chord and the sustaining note, but does not shy away from a driving rhythmic pulse,
a classically trained violinist venturing into a world of open sounds and feelings of improvisation; the sensitive response from moment to moment, and a vocalist who is known for imaginative expressive acrobatics as well as pure melodic association with the ability to express through sound and text.
After inspiring and fruitful meetings of musical minds and sounds in a back garden studio texts were found, written, plucked from the air, and some notes were set on paper to weave gracefully here and there amongst the intuitive and often surprising moments of improvisation. Like the name implies, a rare and wonderfully strange world of transparent sounds and universally poetic texts that fly like a bird through the soundscape. A colorful tribute to the potential to move and touch the listener through melody, through harmony, through text and especially through the subtle interplay of NOW. Improvised and slightly-composed music that will tug at the heartstrings.
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