What can you still characterise as composed music and what not? How far apart are experimental DJs and boundless ensembles? These questions are traditionally the focus of the Saturday night of Gaudeamus Festival. A showcase of experimentation in sound and stage experience. Forget everything you thought you knew about contemporary music and take the plunge!
Events
Timetable
Andrea Voets / Resonate Productions – FOR REAL
Theatrical radio show about the persistent intellectual undermining of women. Stories and live interviews with the audience, accompanied by musicians improvising live.
IEMA-Ensemble 2023/24
Ensemble Modern academists explore the reverberant acoustics of the Nicolaïkerk. New piece by Yixie Shen, 2024 Award nominee.
Aimée Theriot & Concepción Huerta
Sound artist Concepción Huerta and cellist Aimée Theriot use vintage analogue synthesizers and electronic instruments to explore the tension between analogue and digital music, ambient and noise, live electronics and tape recorders.
20 years of Nonclassical: Jasmine Morris
A colourful sound world, where orchestral sounds, feedback and noise meet; recontextualised through the media of synthesizers, a laptop, guitar effects and a cassette player.
ONCEIM + Genevieve Murphy + Christian Marclay
Orchestra of New Creations, Experiments and Improvised Music presents what its name stands for, with equally versatile makers Genevieve Murphy and Christian Marclay.
Joanna Bailie – A giant creeps out of a keyhole
Joanna Bailie, Award 2024 jury member, shows A giant creeps out of a keyhole; her film, which explores how paintings, photographs and field recordings have the power to transport us from one place to another.
Maya Fridman & Sietse van Berkel – Cello x BMX
Maya Fridman & Sietse van Berkel present a special encounter between a top athlete who elevates BMX'ing to art and an artist with unique physical strength.
Riot Ensemble
Exploration of the duality of hi- and lo-fi, and of water as giver and taker of life. Program including works by two 2024 Award nominees: Cem Güven and Beniamino Fiorini.
20 years of Nonclassical: Klavikon
Abstract electronic soundscapes made without loops, laptops or sequencers, but with a unique piano 'prepared' with objects, such as a robot dog.
Jlin & Florence To
New live A/V show with visuals by artist and director Florence To.
Joanna Bailie – A giant creeps out of a keyhole
Joanna Bailie, Award 2024 jury member, shows A giant creeps out of a keyhole; her film, which explores how paintings, photographs and field recordings have the power to transport us from one place to another.
20 years of Nonclassical: NikNak
NikNak seeks out and pushes boundaries: a solo DJ set with improvised elements, on the edge of ambient, glitch and experimental club music.
XTRO + Pelargos Quartet
Electronics, plastic bottles and phones in the works of Charles Baumstark and 2024 Award nominee Patrick Ellis.
No Plexus
Genre-queer electronic music steps out of the club and into nature, with synthetic birdsong and hyper-realistic acoustic instruments.