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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU-bn1ZCzus] The 40-minute composition Ob-literate by Zeno van den Broek and Gagi Petrovic premiered during the New Music Festival in the Nicolaïkerk, commissioned by Gaudeamus Muziekweek. It was written for five voices, three cubes, and one organ. The sounds are truly innovative. The combination of these specific instruments in a spatial speaker setup offers […]

Martijn Comes his composition Interrogation Of The Crystaline Sublime will be performed live by Martijn Comes with Victor Trescoli & Isabel Latorre. Interrogation Of The Crystalline Sublime by Martijn Comes

EANN  Thursday 19:15 - 19:30 12-Hour Drone artist Martijn Comes composition 'Eann' will be performed by Malgosia Fiebig on the Dom church carillon. He wrote it for his son,exploring themes like family, roots, saying goodbye, a tragic loss, and returning. For Martijn, it was a complete new experience to perform for a whole city: "I had to write not […]

Martijn Comes and Orphax are both part of the 12 Hour Drone Fest during Le Guess Who Festival in November 2017. Martijn Comes (22:05- 22:50) Dutch musician/composer Martijn Comes specializes in new media, sound design and electronic-acoustic compositions. Some of his harmonies sound as if they’re being exhumed from the dregs of harsh noise, while other tracks […]

ORPHAX MUSIC PROJECT BY SIETSE VAN ERVE Orphax is a musical project with the focus on minimal ambient and drone music. In the music there is a development towards microtonal sounds, where time and spatiality are important factors. In this form of working, the eventual result can be a static form of sound where development in the music becomes […]

Haarvöl will be part of the Family Film Project, a film festival in Porto, Portugal. HAARVÖL - THE OBLIVION'S WORDLESS KNOT FILM-CONCERT (teaser) The media times of our self-absorved present seek instantaneity. A time that cancels time. Times that affirm forgetfulness as the necessary matrix for the perpetuation of the present. A present time that makes […]

The initiative to the Groundshakes Festival was born out of the need for a platform for ambient-drone-noise-sounds - nothing more, nothing less. The intention is to establish an annual small-scaled festival and to keep it small-scaled. A mix of local, national and international acts, pioneers, newcomers and late bloomers will show up and let the […]