Thursday 19 December - Vrooom #77

Thursday 19 December 2019

VROOOM #77

┆MAYA FELIXBRODT, NINA HITZ, REINIER VAN HOUT (RÄS)
┆LUCIJA GREGOV
┆LUL LUL ZEVEN (Jeroen Kuster)
┆HUIB EMMER
┆BROKEN PROMISES (DJ)

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Ruivenstraat 81, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 end: 23:30 / entrance: 7 euro [ CASH only! ]
https://www.facebook.com/events/2519927014790552/

Vrooom's end-of-the-year jamboree. A fine crew of local artists and friends will present a genre-defying program of different dynamics of sound using keys, strings, and electronica.

┆RÄS┆int'l
Trio consisting of Maya Felixbrodt, Nina Hitz, and Reinier van Houdt. They will be performing a unique graphic score that will form a type of symphony in 3 or 4 parts. The piece is being determined and rehearsed as we speak.
Amsterdam-based Maya Felixbrodt is a viola player who explores different styles, genres and disciplines. Reinier van Houdt is a renowned Dutch pianist whose work revolves around matters that escape notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, environment - points beyond composition, interpretation and improvisation. Nina Hitz is a Swiss-born cellist who plays baroque music, and is also involved in experimental and theatrical performances, and various avant rock bands.
www.pninax.com | www.reiniervanhoudt.nl

┆LUCIJA GREGOV┆roffa
Lucija Gregov is a cellist and improviser who uses analogue synthesizers and processed field recordings to creating her very own sonic language. Her visceral approach to improvisation proposes a radically different way of creating and performing beyond the current dynamics of sound.

┆LUL LUL ZEVEN (Jeroen Kuster)┆roffa
The culmination of a long-term project by Jeroen Kuster. In 1996, as a student at the Aki Enschede, he started recording all kinds of sounds with a voice recorder with the intention to make music with it one day. He kept doing this throughout the years; first on tape, then digitally, and he recently finally completed a work with the source material during a residency in Paris.
www.jeroenkuster.nl

┆HUIB EMMER┆roffa
Rotterdam-based veteran electronica composer who doesn't stick to just one genre. Influenced by 20th century avant-garde music and early techno, his gritty instrumental electronic pieces and A/V projects have been performed by many ensembles, soloists, and orchestras.   
http://huibemmer.com/

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This event is made possible with kind support of Popunie Rotterdam.

Saturday 14 December - Instruments Make Play 2019

SATURDAY 14 DECEMBER

INSTRUMENTS MAKE PLAY 2019

festival / fair for newly invented, self-built music instruments

location: WORM Rotterdam – Boomgaardsstraat 71
doors: 14:00 | start: 14:30 | end: 20:00 | entrance: 5 €

https://www.facebook.com/events/451858665488407/
https://worm.org/production/instruments-make-play/

Instruments Make Play is een platform voor de bouwers en bespelers van nieuw uitgevonden, zelfgebouwde, onconventionele muziekinstrumenten. Op zaterdag 14 december presenteert Instruments Make Play vanaf 2 uur 's middags tot 8 uur 's avonds een uitgebreid programma in WORM dat het midden houdt tussen een festival en een beurs voor zowel publiek als makers. Op elk moment van de dag zijn er performances te zien en te beluisteren, naast de vele te aanschouwen installaties en presentaties in de zalen van WORM. Iedere instrumentenbouwer geeft een korte showcase.

Instruments Make Play is a platform for the inventors and players of newly invented, unconventional musical instruments. On Saturday December 14, from 2 PM to 8 PM, Instruments Make Play presents an extensive program in WORM, which is basically 50/50 a festival and a fair, for both public and makers. Throughout the day there are continuous performances and showcases to see and listen to, in addition to the many installations that are on view. The fair is a meeting point for like-minded people that build their own musical instruments (which in some cases will be for sale) and audiences alike.


PARTICIPANTS / ARTISTS:

• ANDREAS OSKAR HIRSCH
• ANTON MOBIN
• ARTHUR BENNIS/SINNEB
• ARTHUR WAGENAAR
• BART KOPPE
• CHRIS MEIGHAN
• DANNY BOSTEN/DAS DING
• DATO
• DENNIS VERSCHOOR
• GERTJAN PRINS/BAS VAN KOOLWIJK
• JASNA VELICKOVIC
• JEAN-BAPTISTE LÉVÊQUE
• KAREL VAN DER EIJK
• KAREN GEYER
• KASPAR KONIG
• MAIKA GARNICA
• MARLOES VAN SON
• MINA KIM
• NEON & LANDA
• NIEK HILKMAN
• NORA MULDER
• PAUL TAS
• PETER ZEGVELD
• PIERS TITUS VAN DER TORREN
• RADBOUD MENS
• REVERSE LANDFILL
• ROALD VAN DILLEWIJN
• ROBIN SUTTCLIFF
• ROB HORDIJK
• SISTOR/SOMA (Laboratory presenting “ENNER” X Ekkoflok DIY Modular)
• SJOERD LEIJTEN/JO CAIMO
• SONIC RIDER
• UNDERBELLY
• VOF DUHO DUBACH
• WE LOVE TRASH
• WOODSTONE KUGELBLITZ
• YANN LEQUAY

[ about: ] Instruments Make Play is an event and production platform for self invented musical instruments and its inventors / makers. It takes shape in the form of live concerts, exchange, workshops, exhibitions and residencies. The first events were launched in November and December 2017, in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Deventer. Instruments Make Play is Initiated, programmed and produced by Lukas Simonis, Julie Dassaud and Harco Rutgers.  

https://instrumentsmakeplay.nl

Saturday 30 November - Koffie & Ambacht x Vrooom goes to church

Saturday 30 November 2019

KOFFIE & AMBACHT X VROOOM GOES TO CHURCH

┆PICATRIX (Greetje Bijma, Mary Oliver, Nora Mulder)
┆JOACHIM BADENHORST
┆FATHER (Nanao Kobayashi)

location: Oude Kerk Rotterdam Charlois – Charloisse Kerksingel 35
doors: 20:00 end: 23:00 / entrance: 10 euro
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Anderhalf jaar geleden startte Koffie & Ambacht de reeks ‘Koffie & Ambacht Goes To Church’ in de Oude Kerk van Charlois. Een prachtige ruimte met een bijzondere akoestiek: geen bombastische gotiek waarin ieder geluid verzuipt in clichés van goddelijkheid, maar een aantrekkelijke galm die het gevoel van ruimtelijkheid voedt. Deze kerk is een actieve kerk met een vitaal en open karakter. Voor deze 9e editie slaat Koffie & Ambacht de handen ineen met Vrooom voor een gezamelijke aflevering. We creëren in dit programma een situatie waarin de muziek en de muzikanten het best tot hun recht komen. We besteden speciaal aandacht aan de thematiek, akoestiek en enscenering.

Eighteen months ago, Koffie & Ambacht started the ‘Koffie & Ambacht Goes To Church’ series in De Oude Kerk of Charlois; a beautiful space with special acoustics: no gothic bombast in which every sound drowns in cliches of divinity, but an attractive reverb that feeds the sensation of spaciousness. This old church is an active place with a vital and open character. In this collaborative program between Koffie & Ambacht and Vrooom the focus is on theme, accoustics and staging. With: Greetje Bijma, Mary Oliver, Nora Mulder, Joachim Badenhorst, and Nanao Kobayashi.
┆PICATRIX (Greetje Bijma, Mary Oliver, Nora Mulder)┆int'l
The concerts of Picatrix aka Greetje Bijma, Mary Oliver, and Nora Mulder are marvelous adventures. We hear light classical sounds coming from a piano, grating against the screeching eruptions of the viola, and jazz ballads shifting into dark throat singing. Piano and viola strings growl and snarl, vocal chords vibrate in the highest or the lowest register; all of this with an added sense of drama. This original trio, which made its debut at the Le Guess Who? festival in 2017, feels at home at many different stages. Nora Mulder is known for her performances of contemporary classical music, improvised music and absurdist sound installations. Mary Oliver has a repertoire in both composed and improvised music, and is a member of the Instant Composer Pool Orchestra. Greetje Bijma is one of the best-known vocalists in The Netherlands, and was the first woman to be awarded the major Dutch jazz award, the Boy Edgar Prize.
Mary Oliver – violin, viola, hardanger fiddle
Nora Mulder – piano
Greetje Bijma – vocal

┆JOACHIM BADENHORST┆be

 Joachim Badenhorst is a reed player from Antwerp who is active in many different groups and projects (including Carate Urio Orchestra, Mógil, Han Bennink trio, etc). Recently he has been working on an electronica project called Zero Years Kid with which he released the album 'Ongerijmde rijmen'. Next to that, Joachim also worked with Rutger Zuydervelt for one of the tracks of the Machinefabriek album 'With voices'.

┆FATHER┆jp

Father is the elusive solo project of Nanao Kobayashi from Tokyo. More info soon.
https://soundcloud.com/father-tokyo 

http://www.nanaokobayashi.com

Tuesday 5 November - Los Siquicos Litoraleños (live & film) + La Bruja de Texcoco

Tuesday 5 November 2019

Vrooom x Pantropical x WORM Rotterdam presents:

┆LOS SIQUICOS LITORALEÑOS ­– live
┆LA BRUJA DE TEXCOCO – live
┆+ docufilm 'DAZZLE LIGHTS: 'A Psychotropic journey with Los Síquicos Litoraleños'

location: WORM - Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 end: 00:00 / entrance: 7,50
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Extraordinary double bill featuring the gaucho psychics los siquicos litoraleños from Argentina, and the witch of Texcoco - La Bruja De Texcoco from Mexico. La Bruja De Texcoco is a music performance born out of a rejection of masculinity in Mexican music, taking traditional Mexican music down a feminine path, into a fabulous world of baroque extravagance. We'll start of the night with the docufilm "Encandilan Luces, viaje psicotrópico con Los Síquicos Litoraleños" about Los Siquicos.

┆LOS SIQUICOS LITORALEÑOS┆AR
Los Siquicos Litoraleños (The psychics of el Litoral) is a unique band formed in 2004 who are originally from the outland countryside around the small city Curuzú Cuatiá in the province of Corrientes, northeast of Argentina. It's an area known as 'el Litoral', where the locals are called Litoraleños. The band plays a highly original style using acoustic / electric guitars and drums, adding toy keyboards, shortwave radios and all sorts of domestic machinery (i.e. washing machines and freezers). Stuffed with a vast array of sound effects, they craft otherworldly tunes which cover tropicalia genres such as cumbia, chamamé (popular folk music of Corrientes and other regions), chicha, and a variety of non-rock rhythms. Los Siquicos' first European tour in 2009 was organised by the then still unnamed Pantropical, and Worm.
youtu.be/bPktkg4KPWQ | annihayarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonido-chipadelico

┆LA BRUJA DE TEXCOCO┆MX 
La Bruja de Texcoco (The Witch of Texcoco) from Mexico City, has been dedicated to music for twenty years. A lover of transfeminity and Mexican tradition, La Bruja was born in Texcoco, into a world of rituals, armadillo shells and the depth of the night. “I did not find La Bruja, she found me ...”I stand firm and proud, wearing my huipil (traditional Mexican indigenous garment) that has a thousand colors and speaks to the wind." La Bruja De Texcoco is a music performance project born out of a rejection of masculinity in Mexican music. La Bruja takes traditional Mexican music down a feminine path, into a fabulous world full of extravagance, sequins, masks and huipiles.
youtu.be/p3Fa7DqwJbE | labrujadetexcoco.bandcamp.com

┆DAZZLE LIGHTS: A Psychotropic Journey with Los Síquicos Litoraleños
"𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘝𝘪𝘢𝘫𝘦 𝘗𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘳𝘰́𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘴 𝘚𝘪́𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯̃𝘰𝘴" | 80 𝘮𝘪𝘯, 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴]
From the Curuzú Cuatiá in the rural heart of the Argentine Northeast and, a group of quirky musicians invent a new sound: psychedelic chamamé folk. They are Los Siquicos Litoraleños, also lovingly dubbed as "The Pink Floyd of the Poor". "Dazzle Lights" is a docufilm that follows the band and their surroundings. They are inadvertently the instigators of a fresh take on things in the music scene before deciding to step out of it, showing more interest in cultural debates about chamamé, UFOs and mushrooms instead.
facebook.com/encandilanluces | teaser: https://vimeo.com/300580206

Thursday 14 November - Vrooom #76

Thursday 14 November 2019

VROOOM #76

┆ORQUESTA DEL TIEMPO PERDIDO
┆MARK MORGAN (ex- SIGHTINGS)   
┆GAUTE GRANLI

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Ruivenstraat 81, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 end: 23:00 / entrance: 7 euro
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This night we're hosting the seven-piece (!) band of Jeroen Kimman. They will play a unique live concert that owes more to Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, and the experimentalism of early studio pioneers such as The Three Suns, Les Baxter and Martin Denny, than to other contemporary attempts at eclecticism. Next to that there's engaging solo sets by ex- Sightings Mark Morgan, and Gaute Granli. Another edition chock-full of idiosyncratic, GREAT music!

┆ORQUESTA DEL TIEMPO PERDIDO┆int'l
Orquesta Del Tiempo Perdido is the brainchild of musician and composer Jeroen Kimman. The music of this ambitious project is an eclectic, ‘post- everything’ amalgam, taking on aspects of contemporary classical music, jazz, experimental electro-acoustic, math-rock, pop, non-Western folklore, exotica and vaudeville. The points of reference are deftly approached on their own terms, and recontextualised in impossible composites. While playing most of the instruments of the Orquesta on the acclaimed "Stille" release on Shhpuma, Kinman rounded up some of Netherland’s most creative musicians, not only for the album but also for this unique live show at Vrooom!
• Onno Govaert – timbales & glockenspiel
• Salvoandrea Lucifora ­– sousafoon & trombone
• Mark Morse – lapsteel & field recordings
• Floris van Bergeijk – synth
• Tristan Renfrow: – drums
• Jasper Stadhouders – bass & guitar
• Jeroen Kimman – guitar
shhpuma.bandcamp.com/album/orquesta-del-tiempo-perdido-stille

┆MARK MORGAN┆us
Mark Morgan is mostly known as the guitarist and singer of Sightings, the New York City based avant rockers that existed from 1998 to 2013. This trio was described as a band exploring the outer reaches of sound by The Wire, Village Voice and Pitchfork among others. They released 10 full-length albums on Load, Ecstatic Peace, Fusetron and Dais, in addition to a few 7" singles. They extensively toured the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Morgan also collaborated with No Neck Blues Band member Pat Murano in Key of Shame which released two separate albums on Italian labels Planam and Holidays. Morgan’s most recent release is his first solo guitar record Department of Heraldry released on Bill Nace’s Open Mouth.
Sightings | markcharlesmorgan.bandcamp.com

┆GAUTE GRANLI┆no
Gaute Granli’s solo project has been his main musical output for the past five years where he explores a range of abstract and bizarre territories. He combines chanting, guitar, a range of effects with analog sampling and creates a dark and industrial sound. The music is freely improvised as well as composed. He's got two cassette albums out on Skussmaal: "Velkommen til Forus" and "Ingen Potetsekk Whatsoever". His third solo album is an LP/CD called "Animalskt", released in 2017 on Drid Machine Records and Unhinged. Drid Machine Records has also released a split vinyl with Gaute Granli and Clifford Torus.
soundcloud.com/verletzte-kreature

Saturday 5 October - Vrooom #75

Saturday 5 October 2019

Vrooom #75: Instruments Make Play on tour

┆JASNA VELIČKOVIĆ & ANTON MOBIN
┆CALUM STERLING
┆CHRIS MEIGHAN

location: Wijnbar Koffie & Ambacht – Ebenhaëzerstraat 52A, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 end: 23:00 / entrance: 7 euro
https://www.facebook.com/events/512135522938581/

Tonight's Vrooom event is an Instruments Make Play (see for more info below) festival spin-off with mindblowing performances from Jasna Veličković, Anton Mobin, Calum Stirling, and Chris Meighan. These performances are part of a small tour which also includes shows in Amsterdam (Oct 4 @ De Fabriek Volkskamer) and Deventer (Oct 6 @ Kunstenlab).

┆JASNA VELIČKOVIĆ & ANTON MOBIN┆rs/fr
Jasna and Anton first met at WORM last December during the Instruments Make Play festival, where they demonstrated their own creations; Jasna’s Velicon and Anton’s Prepared Chamber. Since then, it obviously made sense for them to start working together as a duo, as their approach to the instruments seemed complementary and the aesthetics they each develop in their music could offer an innovative new musical form.
http://jasnavelickovic.com | http://antonmobin.blogspot.com

┆CALUM STIRLING┆sct
Calum Stirling's multidisciplinary art practice includes sculpture, sound, moving image and architectural intervention. He will be bringing his own developed, self-built Remote Village aka The Frolicsome Engines with him. This 64-channel electromechanical sound orchestra is part drum machine, part lo-fi sequencer that plays compositions with magnetic pedals on re-used musical instruments, children's toys and workplace waste. From angular staccato to loose swing, Calum's machine plays beats that are infected by the mechanical peculiarities and limitations of the unique construction of this machine. It's like a bastardization of a traditional fairground organ that tries to replicate the sound of an 808 drum machine, but ends up sounding like the rhythmic bump & grind of a regional British train as it bangs, squeaks and rattles.
http://www.calumstirling.com

┆CHRIS MEIGHAN┆sct / nl
Chris Meighan makes danceable electro with his 'Koffersynth' (suitcase synth), an all-in-one synthesizer, sequencer and drum computer built into an 80s Samsonite briefcase. He has been working on it for four years. The Koffersynth also provides video images. This creates a comprehensive multimedia experience.
http://www.chrismeighan.com/ | https://instrumentsmakeplay.nl/album/chris-meighan

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About Instruments Make Play:
Instruments Make Play is an event and production platform for self invented musical instruments and its inventors / makers. It takes shape in the form of live concerts, exchange, workshops, exhibitions and residencies. The first events were launched in November and December 2017, in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Deventer. Instruments Make Play is Initiated, programmed and produced by Lukas Simonis, Julie Dassaud and Harco Rutgers.
https://instrumentsmakeplay.nl

Thursday 3 October - Europalia Romania

Thursday 3 October 2019

Vrooom x Europalia Romania:

┆RAZE DE SOARE
┆DJ’S DRAGOȘ RUSU & BOGMAN
┆ETTO BUBU – visuals

location: V11 – Wijnhaven t/o 101, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 / start: 21:00 end: 02:00 / presale: 8€
https://www.facebook.com/events/338144233735902/
tickets (LIMITED CAPACITY!): https://pantropical.stager.nl/web/tickets/371476

This night we will be taking a deep dive into Romania's captivating music scene. Together with co-hosts Sandwich Island, we proudly present lush Maneletronic pop, eclectic DJ sets and visuals. This event is co-organised in close collaboration with Europalia Arts Festival Romania. Take note: this is the first Vrooom-related event to take place on the V11 ship!

┆RAZE DE SOARE┆
The music of this illustrious duo epitomizes much of Future Nuggets' trademark "Maneletronics", a style that incorporates Manele (or more specifically "proto-manele") which is a form of folk pop from Romania with influences from all over the Balkan. Proto-Manele was the soundtrack to the wedding parties in Romania during the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Raze de Soare's "Albatros" EP on Future Nuggets is a spirited tribute to one of the most locally famous proto-manele bands, the eponymous Albatros. Raze de Soare mixes dope bass and lush synth melodies into a chilled psychedelic ‘80s sound to dance to.
https://soundcloud.com/future-nuggets/sets/raze-de-soare-albatros

┆DRAGOȘ RUSU┆
Dragoş Rusu has been a prominent presence in Bucharest’s alternative music scene for over a decade. A DJ, journalist and music adventurer, he is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Attic Magazine; an online music platform that covers a wide variety of music and promotes Romanian artists and music culture worldwide. Rusu's DJ sets know no boundaries, he can be spotted playing textural Techno or Acid House as well as intriguing outernational oddities; African, Greek, Turkish, Arabic rhythms, and occasionally contemporary gypsy music. Since 2016, Dragoş has been the artistic director and curator of the acclaimed Outernational Days, a festival of music and related arts that digs deep into various subcultures positioned at the periphery of the international sphere.
https://soundcloud.com/dragos_rusu | http://the-attic.net

┆BOGMAN ┆
Bogman is one of Bucharest's most versatile DJs. In the early ‘90s, he started a HipHop show for Radio Nova 22, the first independent radio station in Bucharest, and initiated the first Romanian HipHop parties. Later on he set up a series of social events together with DJ Vasile that turned a small games house into the The Web Club; a legendary place that every cool kid in town hung out at. In 2001, Bogman jumped the fence to New York, where he worked at the Turntable Lab store and became a resident DJ for Apt, and Nublu. Nowadays he is one of the programmers at the Control Club, one of the most important alternative music clubs in Bucharest.

┆ETTO BUBU┆– visuals
Computer games & interactive human things, devised by a human being, living and working in R'dam.
https://www.instagram.com/etto.bubu

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* About EUROPALIA:

Since 1969, EUROPALIA has been organising arts biennales, each focusing on a different guest country. Its four-month multidisciplinary programme comprises hundreds of events throughout Belgium and in other European countries. EUROPALIA enthralls a broad European audience not only with exhibitions, but also with performing arts, music, literature, conferences and film. Heritage plays a significant part, but the contemporary scene is also generously covered; new creations and interaction between artists from the guest country and from Europe receive particular attention. EUROPALIA provides insights that avoid Eurocentrism. It stimulates open dialogue between cultures in an atmosphere of trust.

Wednesday 11 September - Vrooom #73

Wednesday 11 September 2019

VROOOM #73

┆YOTO
┆VIC BANG
┆GÖRKEM ARIKAN

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Ruivenstraat 81, Rotterdam
doors: 20:00 end: 23:00 / entrance: 7 eurohttps://www.facebook.com/events/511101216362290/

First Vrooom after the summer. Our probes have scanned the peripheral music scene of Argentina and found Vic Bang's cheerful micro tunes And Yoto's dadaesque electroclash. Görkem Arıkan will present his impressive “ARMonic” performance, utilizing a self-made gesture-based system. Music performances to liven up your otherwise presumably boring Wednesday evening.

┆YOTO┆ar
Yoto is the off-the-wall solo project of Ignacio Sandoval; an artist born in Córdoba, Argentina. After being a singer, drummer and guitarist in multiple bands, he began working with SunVox (a modular synthesizer with a pattern-based sequencer) in 2017. Ignacio samples his own voice, various instruments and the sounds of all kinds of objects, resulting in a noisy collage of fractured but danceable rhythms. This all builds up to a rather explosive live performance. Next to his releases on Abyss, and Agva he also self-released seven other albums.
https://yoto.bandcamp.com

┆VIC BANG┆ar
Victoria Barca is a self-taught musician​ who performs solo as Vic Bang. Like Yoto, she is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She creates joyful micro songs using samples, guitar loops, cute melodies and stuttering rhythms. She has been part of a wide variety of music projects since 2006 and recently performed at MUTEK festival. Her latest recordings were released by Abyss; currently one of the most exciting electronica labels in Argentina.
https://soundcloud.com/abyssjuke/sets/vic-bang-blop

┆GÖRKEM ARIKAN┆tr
Görkem Arıkan is an interdisciplinary artist who creates gesture-based audiovisual performance systems, embracing the aesthetics of failure. He is the co-founder of A.I.D (Art Is Dead) which is non-profit collective that organises experimental music and performance events in Turkey. Görkem recently graduated from the Institute of Sonology and STEIM masters, where he built "ARMonic", which aims for an intimate relationship between the computer and body.
https://www.gorkemarikan.com

Wednesday 10 July - Vrooom #72

Wednesday 10 July 2019

VROOOM #72

┆YANNIS KYRIAKIDES & ANDY MOOR
┆LUCIE NEZRI
┆ELVIS HOMAN & STEFAN LIEVESTRO

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Ruivenstraat 81, Rotterdam
doors: 20:00 end: 23:00 / entrance: 7 euro
https://www.facebook.com/events/457210251704838/

Vrooom skipped June but is back in full (d)ef(f)ect at Klooster Oude Noorden this month. On the program: the Rotterdam premiere of a brand new piece by Andy Moor (THE EX) and Yannis Kyriakides, a solo set by Lucie Nezri, and a duo set by Elvis Homan and Stefan Lievestro. An evening of celestial turkeys, sonological exploration, the soundtracking of dream texts, and more.

┆YANNIS KYRIAKIDES & ANDY MOOR┆int'l┆– Sleep Talk
Sleep Talk is a new project by Yannis Kyriakides and Andy Moor (The Ex). Using dreams as source material, an algorithm generates sound based on the texts that are fed into it. The sounds originate from a three-day recording session in Venice during the Biennale, at the French Pavilion in October 2018. In concert Andy and Yannis add their performance and improvisation skills to create an intense, full soundtrack to the dream texts which are projected on a screen. The recorded voices of Scottish composer Genevieve Murphy and Italian comtemporary dancer Valentina Campora are added in English and Italian, retelling the dream and adding another layer to the this rich dense world of sound, words and image.
Andy Moor (The Ex) – guitar | Yannis Kyriakides – electronics
https://www.kyriakides.com | @andymoortheexpage

┆LUCIE NEZRI┆fr
Lucie Nezri is a composer, performer, and DJ from France, currently studying at the Institute of Sonology. in her eclectic artistic practice, Nezri is drawn towards the use of probabilities, deviations and subjectivism. The more she carries on her explorations, the more she feels the need to get back to words and play with language as a compositional starting point.
https://soundcloud.com/lucienzri

┆ELVIS HOMAN & STEFAN LIEVESTRO┆r'dam
Rotterdam-based duo who traverse the realm that stretches from ethereal beauty and bliss to mayhem and destruction. Stefan Lievestro has recorded with a wide variety of artists and performed with jazz artists like Freddie Hubbard, Pat Metheny, Gregory Porter, and Dee Dee Bridgewater. Next to that he leads two bands of his own and is the founder of Mainland Records. Elvis Homan is a Slovenian drummer and composer, who graduated at Codarts in 2017. He is a regular member and band leader of Quartzite 4tet.
Elvis Homan – drums, electronics, compositions | Stefan Lievestro – bass, pedal steel, electronics, compositions


This event is made possible with kind support of Popunie.

Thursday 9 May - Vrooom #71

Thursday 9 May 2019

VROOOM #71

┆20 GUILDERS (Acid Mothers Temple, Miminokoto)
┆SAM GAS CAN
┆GIGALDI GRATT & RICHIE HERBST

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Ruivenstraat 81, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 end: 23:55 / entrance: 7 euro
https://www.facebook.com/events/286915798868317/

Vrooom is checking in at Klooster Oude Noorden for an evening of catchy songs and playful sound. 20 Guilders is the Tokyo-Based duo of Suzuki Junzo and Mitsuru Tabata, who play dreamy acid-folk songs. Tabata is a founding member of the Hanatarash and Boredoms, and is also known for his involvement in Acid Mothers Temple and Zeni Geva. Suzuki Junzo usually plays solo guitar noise sets and is a member of Miminokoto. Sam Gas Can indulges in meta-pop-art. Gigaldi Gratt will play the Flügelhorn alongside Richie Herbst's analog modular synthesizer explorations.

┆20 GUILDERS┆jp - Tabata Mitsuru & Suzuki Junzo
Famed Tokyo troublemakers Tabata Mitsuru and Suzuki Junzo got together to create dreamy psych-folk as the duo 20 Guilders. With lots of experience between them as (ex-) members of Acid Mothers Temple, Zeni Geva, Miminokoto, Overhang Party, etc, they incorporate influences from around the globe in their refined repertoire of catchy psych songs. Based on the straightforward, gentle guitarwork of Junzo and the heartfelt singing of Tabata, their songs are often peaceful, but also contain occasional bursts of fuzz.
20guilders.bandcamp.com | http://suzukijunzo.org

┆SAM GAS CAN)┆us
Sam Gaskin has been playing and recording music for more than ten years under the moniker of Sam Gas Can, with which has released a wide variety of releases. He played various instruments in free-form bands like Sunburned Hand of the Man, and Egg, Eggs [sic]. His unique vision of DIY self-expression salutes the original cassette culture generation with a precise use of pop song structures and with a sparkling sense of humour. He is very much of the Jad Fair school of thought; put something in his hands and he will be able to play, and play it "well". Think also of R. Stevie Moore, early Beck or Vyto B.
https://samgascan.bandcamp.com

┆GIGALDI GRATT & RICHIE HERBST┆at
These guys are key players in the Austrian experimental music scene. Richie Herbst is a musician and sound activist based in Graz, often credited simply as Herbst. Beside performing solo, Herbst is part of FS Massaker and the Regolith band, and has collaborated with ZS, Tumido (with Gratt), Armin Steiner (of Thilges3), Christof Kurzmann, Fred Frith, and many others. He is also the cofounder of the label Interstellar Records. Christian Gratt is a renowned Austrian guitarist, bassist, trumpeter and composer, who plays solo shows, composes musical scores, and collaborates in many different musical settings.
https://herbst.klingt.org | http://www.gigigratt.at

Friday 5 April - Vrooom #70

Friday 5 April 2019

VROOOM #70

┆YEAH YOU
┆DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE & ROEL MEELKOP
┆eerieear

location: Pink Pank – Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam
doors: 21:00 end: 00:30 / entrance: 7 euroFB:
https://www.facebook.com/events/828682074139812/

Whoops, it's our seventieth, how did that happen, will someone do an eulogy for us? On the program: A father/daughter dada-leaning duo whose improvised musical and geographical excursions will leave your head spinning like a well rubbered doughnut in a car park. A special occasion live collab between Guido Hübner (Das Synthetische Mischgewebe) and Rotterdam-based expert knob twiddler Roel Meelkop, and, last but not least: a live coding set by eerieear.


┆YEAH YOU┆uk
Yeah You is daughter/father duo Elvin Brandhi and Gustav Thomas. Their project grew from a desire to make something during every spare moment, using compact recording gear to turn banal everyday family drives to into spontaneous recording sessions in the car. Thomas’s distorted and alluringly jarred synthesisations act as a jagged platform for Brandhi to writhe improvised stream of consciousness lyrical trips. Their latest LP 'KRUTCH' is a burst of poisonous, weaponised pop spat out on the roam, and captures the exhilaration of driving with your eyes closed. Recorded mainly in a Renault Clio in The Netherlands and Germany throughout early 2017, it is the duo at a freshly terrifying apex, funneling desperation through an unerring noise pop lens.
https://vimeo.com/226068048 / https://slipimprint.bandcamp.com/album/krutch

┆DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE & ROEL MEELKOP┆de/nl
Guido Hübner (DSM) & Roel Meelkop have been involved in experimental music for decades. DSM initially formed as a group in Berlin in the early 1980s and quickly became part of the early international industrial cassette scene. Composing for light installations with open-reel machines, cassette recorders, microphone and guitar fuzz boxes, they created a type of electroacoustic anti-music. With unusual concerts in the underground network as well as in high art institutions and museums (Centre Pompidou, etc.), the group toured with changing casts for many years. Hübner remained as the fixed core. Meelkop has similar origins in projects such as THU20, Kapotte Muziek and GOEM. Together the duo will perform for this particular occasion. Their duo performance will be characterized by the use of modular sets on stage: an acoustic one (DSM) and an electronic one (RM).
http://www.chronoglide.com/Equation_band_dsm.html / http://r0m.nl/

┆eerieear┆ar
eeriear from Buenos Aires has been meticulously tuning up his scripts for his live-coding set at Vrooom. Live coding or 'on-the-fly programming' is an integral part of the running program in question. As a performing art form it is a creativity technique centred upon the writing of source code and the use of interactive programming in an improvised way. Live coding is often used to create sound and image based digital media, as well as light systems, improvised dance and poetry, though is particularly prevalent in computer music.
https://t.co/jkP0lKAJkO / https://soundcloud.com/eerieear



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Saturday 23 March - Vrooom #69

Saturday 23 March 2019

VROOOM #69

┆GJ PRINS & BAS VAN KOOLWIJK
┆ANDREAS OSKAR HIRSCH
┆RYOSUKE KIYASU
┆NIKOLA VIDAKOVIĆ

location: Pink Pank – Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam
doors: 21:00 end: 23:55 / entrance: 7
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/267597540803475/

Vrooom #69 offers stark contrast between the savage drum excorcism of Kiyasu Ryosuke (of Fushitsusha / Sete Star Sept fame) and the sophisticated sound construct of instrument builder Andreas Oskar Hirsch. Additionally, we have the Dutch electronica veterans Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk, who experiment with both image and sound using a self-developed range of electronics. Your DJ of the night: Nikola Vidaković.

┆RYOSUKE KIYASU┆jp
Ryosuke Kiyasu has been playing drums in a variety of bands since 1995. In the world of extreme hardcore punk and grindcore he is mainly known as the drummer of Sete Star Sept, but was also involved with the Canadian powerviolence outfit The Endless Blockade. In the experimental music scene he is renowned for his work with the legendary Japanese avant-rock group Fushitsusha, which also features Keiji Haino. Kiyasu's solo drum performances are visceral, hairy, and split audiences.
http://www.kiyasu.com

┆ANDREAS OSKAR HIRSCH┆de
Andreas Hirsch is a Cologne-based musician, visual artist and inventor of electroacoustic instruments. He performs with the self-built 'Electric Palm Leaf' or the 'Carbophone'. The latter can be described as a kind of complex "super" kalimba. Both lend themselves for warm downbeat rhythms and odd tonalities. Hirsch creates a space somewhere between playful leftfield electronics and freestyle gamelan. Together with Patricia Koellges he runs Makiphon - a label for experimental music which also features his latest album 'Early Carbophonics'. 
http://hirschonhirsch.com • www.makiphon.de

┆GERT-JAN PRINS & BAS VAN KOOLWIJK┆nl
The Dutch multimedia duo Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk explore the possibilities of analogue and digital equipment commonly used to generate pictures by feeding them something different than just "proper" video signals. With their 'Synchronator' project they explore the very technical structure of the hardware, and generate pictures that expose and reflect the true nature of machines behind the commonly known TV image. The artists also experiment with the visual representation of sound by direct implementation of audio signal to special, self-made picture generating systems.
www.synchronator.com • www.gjp.info • http://basvankoolwijk.com

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Friday 15 February - Vrooom #68

Friday 15 february 2019

VROOOM #68

┆YADER
┆GERRI JÄGER
┆CTRL FREQ

location: Pink Pank – Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 end: 23:55 / entrance: 7 euro
FB event

First round of the year! Another vibrant three-way mix of different performances, featuring: the award-winning "LSe" (a selfbuilt instrument made by Kacper Ziemianin), a solo set by Knalpot's Gerri Jäger, and "sonic brain goo" electronica project Yader aka Bear Bones, Lay Low + Jooklo Duo.

GERRI JÄGER ┆ at/nlGerri Jäger is best known for the duo Knalpot with Raphael Vanoli, who have been infiltrating the Amsterdam underground as well as the European clubs and festivals with their combination of raw electronics, wild improvistation and danceable dub. Following his studies at the concervatory of Amsterdam, the Austrian-born drummer immersed himself in the realm of experimental music, combining his drums with the kind of gear mostly associated with DJ’s.
https://gerrijaeger.com

YADER ┆ ve/it [ bear bones, lay low / jooklo duo ] "Spaced out jumbles from three cyclonic backstreet hypno-freaks" is one apt way to describe the music of Yader - the improv electronica outfit comprised of Ernesto González (Bear Bones, Lay Low) and David Vanzan & Virginia Genta (Jooklo Duo). This trio just released a cassette on the Bear Town Records imprint containing music for meditation or the act of mapping the inside of a pyramid. It's the stuff for purposes beyond explanations.https://soundcloud.com/beartown_records/nothing-is-real-yader
https://jookloduo.bandcamp.com

CTRL FREQ ┆ pl
Ctrl Freq is Kacper Ziemianin; a sound designer, circuit bender, improviser, audio hacker, and instrument designer. The "LSe" is his self-built, award-winning musical instrument for live electronic music. It allows users to program sequences of light which are translated into sounds; a combination that opens up lots of possibilities for controlling, structuring and interacting with sound. This instrument addresses the ‚liveness‘ of electronic music performances; how does the audience know if the performance is really live? How can we relate to the onstage actions of the musicians? Ctrl Freq's 'LSe' creates a direct link between the visual and sonic realm.
https://ctrlfreq.wordpress.com

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