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DNK Amsterdam invites you to a participatory performance on Beursplein. The Social Music Club plays To Cast A Net… by Koen Nutters: a group piece for sine tones in the public space.

To Cast A Net… is a piece that asks performers to gather and create an electronic net, cast over the auditory reality of everyday life, by simply playing one electronic tone of a particular height on each on their phones, and thereby augmenting and highlighting the public space we are occupying. 

The tones will create subtle beatings with each other and with sounds in the environment while performers slowly switch places, and form a moment and place for intensified listening to the world while abiding in the open city for a performative pause, a moment to reflect on the use and function of public space, society as a whole, and our place in it, as people, artists, and sounding entities.

Please sign up in advance if you want to participate. Please send an email to koennutters@gmail.com
Bring an umbrella in case of rain

Start performance — 15:00
Location — Beursplein

The Social Music Club is a loose collective of musicians and non-musicians who regularly come together to listen, make sound, talk about interaction, and try different types of text scores and exercises from the book Search & Reflect: A Music Workshop Handbook, compiled by students of the late percussionist, improviser, and teacher John Stevens.

DNK Agenda

In the context of the DNK is DONE… residency DNK Amsterdam presents a concert night with two sets of cutting edge and quite classical experimental music by a quartet of young musicians based in The Hague and an ensemble of ragtag experimentalists, professionals and hobbyists alike, from the Amsterdam region aka The Social Music Club.

Programme
Saturday 22 November
Montoriol, Eckhardt, McGuire, & De Gendt — Simultaneous / Synchronous (Song)
The Social Music Club — Stones (Christian Wolff) and The Great Learning – Paragraph 7 (Cornelius Cardew)
Afterwards music by the DNK DJ team

Roc Montoriol, Jacob Eckhardt, Lawrence McGuire, Cis De Gendt are a The Hague-based quartet, sharing an interest in perception and attention in relation to presentation formats, playback media, volumes and space-time. Their work currently utilizes amplification, sound recordings, electro-acoustic devices, objects, and voice. 

For this performance at W139, they reimagine DNK ensemble’s 2017 performance: Simultaneous / Synchronous (Song) with (synthetic) voice and non-pitched sound materials layered across a range of playback devices. They take inspiration from its forming of relations, the structural repetition of re-starting and re-shifting, and the masking that occurs.

Watch a version of the original performance here.

The Social Music Club is a loose collective of musicians and non-musicians who regularly come together to listen, make sound, and talk about interaction. They try different types of text scores and exercises from the book Search & Reflect: A Music Workshop Handbook, compiled by students of the late percussionist, improviser, and teacher John Stevens.

They will perform a simultaneous performance of Christian Wolff’s Stones and Cornelius Cardew’s The Great Learning – Paragraph 7.

DNK Agenda

In the context of the Para-siting project DNK is DONE… DNK Amsterdam presents a concert night with two solo sets of cutting edge electronic music by two of the Netherland’s finest performer-composers.

Programme
Anne La Berge — Flute and electronics
Gert-Jan Prins — Electronics and percussion

Doors — 19:30
First set — 20:00

Entrance by donation

Anne La Berge’s passion for the extremes in both composed and improvised music has led her to the fringes of storytelling and sound art as her sources of musical inspiration. She performs as a multimedia soloist and in projects both live and online and is one of the composer/performers in the Amsterdam based ensemble MAZE.

In 1999, together with Steve Heather and Cor Fuhler, she founded Kraakgeluiden, an improvisation series based in Amsterdam, exploring combinations of acoustic and electronic instruments using real-time interactive performance systems. Many of the resulting musical collaborations have taken on a life beyond the Kraakgeluiden series, which ceased in 2006.

La Berge will perform Third Nature, a performance with storytelling, processed flute, synthesized and sampled audio, sirens, improvisations and other stuff. It includes parts of her compositions from 2005 to ones that are currently works-in-progress.

Gert-Jan Prins (b. 1961 in IJmuiden) focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and percussion, and investigates their relationship with the visual. While he started his career as a drummer, his works now include performances, sound installations, compositions, electronic circuits, and numerous collaborations with other musicians, visual artists, composers, and dancers.

DNK Agenda

The Social Music Club is an initiative by Aimée Theriot and Koen Nutters. In just a few words: it is a musical improvisation session without dogmas, where the emphasis lies on meeting, and getting to know each other, while also discussing, bringing into practice, and stretching the understanding of what exactly music is, and can be. For musicians, non-musicians, amateurs, and professionals alike. 

The Social Music Club concentrates on methods for group improvisation by John Stevens and text scores from various contemporary and historical sources to play music together in a thoughtful and attentive environment.

Bring instruments, objects, words, voices, bodies. With a drink afterwards in a bar nearby.

Doors — 20:00
Start programme — 20:10

Free entrance and full participation

Organized and facilitated by Aimée Theriot and Koen Nutters.

DNK Agenda

In the context of the Para-siting project DNK is DONE… DNK Amsterdam presents a concert night with two solo sets of cutting edge electronic music by two of the Netherland’s finest performer-composers.

Programme
Danya Pilchen — Feedback systems
Rubén Patiño — Repetitive synthetic patterns

Doors — 19:30
First set — 20:00

Entrance by donation

Danya Pilchen is a composer based in The Hague. His main interest lies in the human experience of time and music’s ability to shed light on it. He has composed for a wide range of settings, including solo, ensemble, and orchestra, as well as theatre productions. A significant part of his practice involves creating immersive sound installations that incorporate instrumental performances.

Danya’s music is closely intertwined with his research into collective experiences of time in musical practices. Understanding time as an emerging property of consciousness affected by social interactions necessitates increased attention to the relationships between musicians and audiences in Danya’s pieces. To facilitate these interactions, he employs various compositional strategies and listening techniques engaging the materiality of sound.

Rubén Patiño is an artist who explores sound generated by electronic means and its potential to transform the perception of space. His practice often challenges standardized formats of presentation, blending the boundaries between concert, public event, and installation. Solo or in collaboration, Patiño’s works have been presented in museums, clubs, festivals, and galleries across Europe, America, Asia, Africa, Russia, and Australia. He has published on labels such as Anòmia, Haunter Records, Diagonal Records, The Trilogy Tapes, Where To Now?, The Death of Rave, and Gang of Ducks.

DNK Agenda

Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices is a space for contemplation and investigation into the desert as both a physical landscape, an abstract concept, and a site for speculation. Through a cluster of activities, including performative reading, public events, and mapping and diagramming workshops, Sequential Practices aims to navigate and discuss multiple performative practices approaching to the desert’s complexity.

Fourth Sequence
Performance lecture A History of Air Wars In The Ghibli Wind by Tewa Barnosa — 19:00
Open rehearsal Tempodesert — 20:00

A History of Air Wars In The Ghibli Wind is the first chapter of an ongoing film trilogy examining intersections between the gaming and military industries. As part of the Para-siting program with Tempodesert, Tewa Barnosa performs a lecture rehearsal investigating overlooked histories of fascist imperialism in Africa, from Italy’s 1911 first aerial bombing in history to 1980s America’s early War on Terror propaganda and 2011 Nato’s intervention in Libya. The Saharan Ghibli wind carries generational memories across temporalities, revealed through recontested archives, video games, oral poetry, and testimonies, interrogating colonial technologies of desert domination and land extraction.

In this open rehearsal-performance, Tempodesert will share a text and a soundtrack developed during the Para-siting programme at W139. The work unfolds as an ongoing negotiation with and through the desert as a rehearsal of thought, sound, and presence. Through this process, they explore ways of speaking about and with the desert: a site of absence and abundance, of stillness and persistence. The performance traces their methodology of working through speculation, a practice of listening, writing, and reconfiguring, where the desert becomes both a landscape and a method of relation.

Tewa Barnosa is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural practitioner living and working between Tripoli and Amsterdam. Her practice spans visual arts, time-based media, performance, and curatorial collaborations. In her work, she investigates historical and contemporary warfare tactics and theatrics in relation to ecological ecosystems, and exploitation of people, land, and resources. An inquiry into language, technology, visual and digital culture as anti-colonial modes of communication. Through working with video, sound, games and objects, she explores absent archives, Bedouin and Amazigh oral literature and music, fiction and political propaganda. Often to interweave narratives in resistance to systems of alienation while centering generational knowledge.

Tempodesert is a performance-based collaboration between Fay Aldhukair and Mohamed Abdelkarim, with occasional contributions from others. It emerged after experiencing the world “after 8/8,” a term coined when Fay and Abdelkarim watched The Draw of the Desert 8/8 Seminar by Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani on March 15, 2024.

They operate as a performative lab, poetically exploring the holistic and layered temporalities of the desert, geological, ephemeral, eternal, and mythological. Through various mediums such as performances, plays, texts, songs, films, publications, workshops, and walks, Tempodesert seeks to investigate, reclaim, and liberate the desert from colonial narratives and imposed perceptions.

Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices was made possible by Ettijahat and CBK Rotterdam.