Saturday 25 March - Vrooom #94: Mári Mákó, Derek Monypeny, Bergur Anderson

 

Vrooom #94

┆ 𝑴𝑨́𝑹𝑰 𝑴𝑨́𝑲𝑶́
┆ 𝑫𝑬𝑹𝑬𝑲 𝑴𝑶𝑵𝒀𝑷𝑬𝑵𝒀
┆ 𝑩𝑬𝑹𝑮𝑼𝑹 𝑨𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑶𝑵

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Hammerstraat 55, Rotterdam
[ please note: the usual entrance at Ruivenstraat 81 is temporarily closed, use the one on Hammerstraat 55 (just around the corner) instead ]
doors: 20:00 / start: 20:30 / end: 23:00
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RAAR (Rotterdam Art And Radio) teams up with Vrooom to present these three magical composers.
 

Mojave Desert resident Derek Monypeny describes his performances as expansions on the desert continuum, the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments. He will perform with the shahi baaja plus a few effects pedals.

 

Mári Mákó is a sound artist and composer who creates her own instruments to produce unique and unconventional sounds in her compositions. Her work has been described as avant-garde electronic and post-club. As part of the Vroom concert series, Mári will debut a new performance featuring her new stone sculpture, in addition to zither and processed voice.

 

Bergur Anderson is an Icelandic visual artist, composer and sound-maker based in Rotterdam — an electric troubadour playing with songs, poetry, stories and world-making.


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

Friday 24 February - Vrooom #93: Tes Damen and The Wet Elders, Harry Merry, Mono-Poly, Ash Kilmartin

 

Vrooom #93

┆ 𝑻𝑬𝑺 𝑫𝑨𝑴𝑬𝑵 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑬𝑻 𝑬𝑳𝑫𝑬𝑹𝑺
┆ 𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑹𝒀 𝑴𝑬𝑹𝑹𝒀
┆ 𝑴𝑶𝑵𝑶-𝑷𝑶𝑳𝒀
┆ 𝑨𝑺𝑯 𝑲𝑰𝑳𝑴𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑰𝑵

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Hammerstraat 55, Rotterdam
[ please note: the usual entrance at Ruivenstraat 81 is temporarily closed, use the one on Hammerstraat 55 (just around the corner) instead ]
doors: 20:00 / start: 20:30 / end: 23:00 / entrance: €10,- (pin or cash).
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┆ 𝑻𝑬𝑺 𝑫𝑨𝑴𝑬𝑵 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑬𝑻 𝑬𝑳𝑫𝑬𝑹𝑺 ┆
Tes Damen is Rotterdam’s most elusive debutant who curiously released two different albums (his debut "Rotterdam Sob" and its follow-up "Urn" on the same day in 2021. This year, Tes Damen has joined The Wet Elders, who have come to meet the moments of abrasive post-punk and jagged guitar sounds that pierce through its mellow membrane. The band's sound has never been more muckier. Expect surrealistic images, bleak narratives, sparse songs and drifting genres.
https://tes-damen.bandcamp.com

┆ 𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑹𝒀 𝑴𝑬𝑹𝑹𝒀 ┆
Rotterdam's king of harmonic pop dissonance returns to the stage. What is there to say about Harry Merry which isn't already considered common knowledge? Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer; Harry Merry's artistry is unique in its own right.
https://youtu.be/9MBAJ6rCDxQ

┆ 𝑴𝑶𝑵𝑶-𝑷𝑶𝑳𝒀 ┆
Rotterdam-based artist Mono-Poly (aka Dennis Verschoor) has made quite a name for himself as an expert in modular synths. In the past 15 years or so, he amassed a synth/electronica collection and often picks a few of these instruments/machines to perform with at live shows. Dennis is also known as the founder of the Noodlebar: an event series that represents a dedicated synth scene in the Netherlands. Mono-poly now focuses on making electronic music with test equipment (similar to the way they did in the big sound studio’s of the 50s and 60s).
mono-poly.bandcamp.com/ | facebook.com/noodlebar010

┆ 𝑨𝑺𝑯 𝑲𝑰𝑳𝑴𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑰𝑵 ┆
Ash Kilmartin is an artist from Aotearoa, New Zealand, currently based in Rotterdam. She works in sculpture and performance, with ongoing projects in sound, broadcast and publishing as modes of collaboration and distribution. Her recent work is concerned with the speaking voice as tool for finding and making public space. Her work addresses the way the voice operates the distinction between private and public; being the hinge between the physical material of the body, and the social fabric of language. She is interested in gendered characterisations of the speaking body; in non-linguistic vocalisations as communication; and in how the voice can be translated into orthography, texture, or space.
https://ashkilmartin.net

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

Friday 16 December - Vrooom #92: Thabiso Nkoana, Pule Kajanolitji, Lili Huston-Herterich, Ilya Ziblat Shay, Tisa N. Herlec

 

Vrooom #92

┆ 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑩𝑰𝑺𝑶 𝑵𝑲𝑶𝑨𝑵𝑨 & 𝑷𝑼𝑳𝑬 𝑲𝑨𝑱𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑳𝑰𝑻𝑱𝑰
┆ 𝑳𝑰𝑳𝑰 𝑯𝑼𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑵-𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑰𝑪𝑯 & 𝑷𝑼𝑳𝑬 𝑲𝑨𝑱𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑳𝑰𝑻𝑱𝑰
┆ 𝑰𝑳𝒀𝑨 𝒁𝑰𝑩𝑳𝑨𝑻 𝑺𝑯𝑨𝒀
┆ 𝑻𝑰𝑺𝑨 𝑵. 𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑳𝑬𝑪

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗮𝘁 𝟱𝟱, Rotterdam
doors: 20:00 / start: 20:30 / end: 23:00 / entrance: €10,- (pin or cash).
[ please note: the usual entrance at Ruivenstraat 81 is temporarily closed, use the one on Hammerstraat 55 (just around the corner) instead ]
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Curated by Tisa N. Herlec, Vrooom #92 is going to be a journey into the world of languages and their possible forms. Ceramic puppets living in a magical narrative, tongues twisting, cryptolects and poems, music from the depths of repatriated archives, softwares giving speeches.

┆ 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑩𝑰𝑺𝑶 𝑵𝑲𝑶𝑨𝑵𝑨 & 𝑷𝑼𝑳𝑬 𝑲𝑨𝑱𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑳𝑰𝑻𝑱𝑰 ┆
South African artists Thabiso Nkoana and Pule kaJanolitji come together for the month of December in a Pro Helvetica residence in Zürich to develop their shared practices in poetry, music and spoken word. During this time they will also visit Rotterdam to engage in a sound studio residency at WORM. At Vrooom they'll present a performed work-in-progress, as developed in their residencies.
• Thabiso Nkoana is a poet, music producer and musicologist. As a musicologist he focuses on the digital repatriation of African music from archives, for the benefit of communities of origin and African artists in general.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CP78YuWjrJW
• Pule kaJanolitji is a scholar of linguistics and a cultural historian of speech practices, promoting writing systems of the African continent, like the N'Ko or Ditema tsa Dinoko script. His MA research describes South African cryptolects, which are secret forms of speech. Here's a video of Pule Welch as a verbal artist:
https://youtu.be/rKiuSMQWK5s

┆ 𝑳𝑰𝑳𝑰 𝑯𝑼𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑵-𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑰𝑪𝑯 ┆
Rotterdam-based artist Lili Huston-Herterich will introduce some of the developing cast of ceramic puppets she has been producing this year, who will vent their qualms with their positions and the story they have been tasked to tell. The puppets are animated and voiced by their makers, in collaboration with Pule kaJanolintji.
http://lilihustonherterich.com

┆ 𝑰𝑳𝒀𝑨 𝒁𝑰𝑩𝑳𝑨𝑻 𝑺𝑯𝑨𝒀 ┆
Ilya Ziblat Shay is a NL-based composer, sound artist and a researcher. His work combines interactive computer systems and live performance, exploring sound and structure with an experimental approach and an understanding of music as a co-authored and a collective process. Searching for new means of expression that can reach beyond the purely musical, Ilya approaches current world issues with a critical view and tries to map technological, political, and ethical questions as augmented musical narratives.
https://ilyaziblatshay.com/ | https://ilyaziblat.bandcamp.com

┆ 𝑻𝑰𝑺𝑨 𝑵. 𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑳𝑬𝑪 ┆
Tisa N. Herlec vocalizes, communicates, organizes, writes, performs and creates imaginaries (with sound, voice, in texts and images). Her "Tongue-twisters and other linguistic anomalies" is a performance for language and its adjacent sounds, vocalized in an intuitive, and yet at times rigid tongue-twisting composition. This performance is a release of Tisa's newest piece supported by the Stichting Droom en Daad.
https://tisa.world/

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

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Saturday 26 November - Vrooom #91: Disturbo F., Piyojo, Marwan Ai Anaki

 

Vrooom #91

┆ DISTURBO FRESCO PUTTANESCO SOLARI
┆ PIYOJO
┆ MARWAN AI ANAKI

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Ruivenstraat 81, Rotterdam
doors: 20:00 / start: 20:30 / end: 23:00 / €10
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Vrooom #91 features the improbable assemblage of Disturbo F. - the "last chance music/cut wave" band from Oostende, the electronic miniatures of Piyojo, and the audiovisual Marwan Ai Anaki show. Curated by Sandwich Island / S. Roth.

┆ DISTURBO FRESCO PUTTANESCO SOLARI ┆ (BE)
We've recently watched this band slowly self-combust over the course of their live performance. The almost constant taunting between two band members and the improbability of the band's music made for a tense and bewildering experience; something that has been sorely missing in recent years. Their "last chance music/cut wave" description fits the bill quite nicely.

┆ PIYOJO ┆ (NL)
Rik Möhlmann makes electronic music as Piyojo. The Dutch artist uses his eccentric and inquisitive approach to music to make songs that don't necessarily behave in a narrative way. Instead, his tracks expose themselves like little paintings.
https://soundcloud.com/piyojo

┆ MARWAN AI ANAKI ┆ (R'dam)
Born in Baghdad, raised in Bucharest and blossoming in Rotterdam. Loves truncating images, smearing virtual paint in latent spaces, building cheerful game machines and refreshing media salads. At Vrooom #91, Marwan will present "3 X 3"; an audio performance, exploring sound and visuals through the lenses of 3 participants + a collection of sounds & images that are trained via an algorithm.
https://www.instagram.com/etto.pacoste

Saturday 22 October - Vrooom #90: Kleefstra Bros & Michał Jacaszek, Zea + Oscar Jan Hoogland, Lucija Gregov & Pietro Figrato

 

Vrooom #90

┆ KLEEFSTRA BROS & MICHAŁ JACASZEK
┆ LUCIJA GREGOV & PIETRO FIGRATO
┆ ZEA + OSCAR JAN HOOGLAND

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Ruivenstraat 81, Rotterdam
doors: 20:00 / start: 20:30 / end: 23:00 / €10
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Vrooom #90: sounds from the forests. Cello, guitar, keys, and violin playing. Poetry, improvisation, electroacoustic, and indie. Three live sets with eight different artists performing together in various iterations. Curated by Lukas Simonis. 

┆ KLEEFSTRA BROS & MICHAŁ JACASZEK ┆ (NL/PL) – 'IT DEEL I', with special guests Anne Bakker & Nina Hitz
This live show presents the 'IT DEEL I' project initiated by The Kleefstra brothers, in collaboration with Popfabryk in Leeuwarden, a culmination of a multi-day residency with electroacoustic music composer, producer and sound artist Michał Jacaszek from Gdansk, Poland. The Kleefstra Brothers are poet Jan and guitarist Romke, who are also known for their involvement in e.g. Piiptsjilling, The Alvaret Ensemble, CMKK, and Tsjinlûd. Using poetry, music and film, they want to create awareness of the universal connection between man and nature. They reflect on the theme of environmental degradation, in particular with regard to the Frisian landscape and the Oranjewoud. The Kleefstra Bros: “Trees are pre-eminently the example of life forms that are predestinated to a fixed place. This spot is where they have to survive. For tens, to hundreds of years they are bound to this specific spot, surrender to it. With untouchable patience, many of the trees in Oranjewoud (an old forest in Friesland) have seen many generations of people pass by. But still we claim as if we can decide over their lives and let them suffer with all our interventions in their environment."
https://itdeel.bandcamp.com/album/it-deel-i | jacaszek.com

┆ PIETRO FIGRATO & LUCIJA GREGOV ┆ (HR/IT)
Pietro Frigato is a guitarist, composer, improviser and teacher from Italy, currently based in Rotterdam. He focuses on the concept of borders in music, the edge of perceptions, and the distortion and compression of the signal as a poetic, aesthetic and conceptual tool. Since 2018, he has been the artistic director of the Cataclisma Improvisation Festival.
Lucija Gregov is a Rotterdam-based cellist, improviser and sound artist from Croatia. She has been developing projects in the field of classical, electroacoustic and experimental music, as well as noise, improvisation, radio/sound art, and community art. Through interdisciplinary collaborations, she seeks to push the boundaries of traditional cello playing.
pietrofrigato.com | lugregov.com

┆ ZEA + OSCAR JAN HOOGLAND ┆ (NL)
Zea (the solo project of singer/guitarist Arnold de Boer; see also: The Ex) plays together with improvising electric clavichord wizard Oscar Jan Hoogland. Oscar is adding (or opposing, if you will) a unique sound to Zea’s signature songwriting, which makes their music as a duo tense, erratic, bold and high-spirited. Their recently released collaboration album "Summing" is the result of a series of back-and-forth invitations, between indie and impro.
http://www.zea.dds.nl/ojh/



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

Sunday 4 September - Gerard Scholten Tuinconcert ┆ a Vrooom Special

 

Sunday 4 September - Gerard Scholten Tuinconcert ┆ a Vrooom Special

During the covid-affected years Lukas Simonis initiated a garden concert series as open-air type of events obviously proved to be the pragmatic solution to the ban on indoor-shows.
This will be this year's only edition taking place at Gerard Scholtenstraat 92 in Rotterdam, featuring music from all over the world, including but not limited to: Brazilian Choro, Swedish Tango, Rock 'n' Roll, and “Dutch Mouses and Slovenian Rabbits”.

The performing musicians:

● Elisabeth Fadel
● Nina Hitz
● Tisa Neža Herlec
● Mia Andresen
● Lukas Simonis
● Floor Polder

Join us and listen to fine music, have a drink and say goodbye to the summer and hello to the next cultural season that -we hope- won't be interrupted with lockdowns and other bad stuff...

Entrance: free but a donation is encouraged
Please note: make a reservation!
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either send a mail to: klangendum[at]xs4all[dot]nl or PM the Vrooom page.

Thanks to: Popunie Rotterdam

Thursday 22 September - Vrooom #89: Lucy Adlington, Giulio Aldinucci, Nicoleta Chatzopoulou, Martijn Comes

Vrooom #89

┆ LUCY ADLINGTON
┆ GIULIO ALDINUCCI
┆ NICOLETA CHATZOPOULOU
┆ MARTIJN COMES

location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Ruivenstraat 81, Rotterdam
doors: 20:00 / start: 20:30 / end: 23:00 / €10
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Curated by Martijn Comes, Vrooom #89 centers around both The Crystal Cabinet and Karlrecords labels and its affiliates. A night of beautiful deep listening music.

┆ LUCY ADLINGTON ┆ (UK)
Lucy Adlington is a guitarist from North East England who creates music with droning spheres, textural melodies and rather delicate noise. She has been active as a solo artist and as collaborator throughout the UK and beyond, and is the founder of the Crystal Cabinet record label.
http://lucyadlington.bandcamp.com | https://thecrystalcabinet.bandcamp.com/album/mercury

┆ GIULIO ALDINUCCI ┆ (IT)
Giulio Aldinucci is a composer from Siena, Italy, who is active in the field of experimental electroacoustic music. In addition to his prolific discography (among which the critically acclaimed "Disappearing In A Mirror" (2018) and "Borders And Ruins" (2017) on Karlrecords), he has made contributions to a variety of collective works and wrote music for theatre, video art and cinema.
https://www.giulioaldinucci.com | https://aldinucci.bandcamp.com

┆ NICOLETA CHATZOPOULOU ┆ (GR)
Nicoleta Chatzopoulou is an Athens-based composer, performer, researcher and curator. She focuses on organised sound as well as external musical sources. Her work includes acoustic pieces for solo instruments and diverse chamber music ensembles, electroacoustic pieces, chamber operas, algorithmic and site-specific compositions. Her artistic output as viola da gamba player ranges from e.g. early and contemporary music to improvised and pop.
http://nicoletachatzopoulou.com | http://ngalleryathens.com

┆ MARTIJN COMES ┆ (NL)
Martijn Comes is a Dutch composer with a keen interest in the character of sound found within various musical traditions. Most of his work gravitates towards electroacoustic composition, with some of his harmonies described sounding as if they were exhumed from the dregs of harsh noise, and others having an almost extraterrestrial quality.
https://martijncomes.bandcamp.com/