SPELLTOWN #2
June 5 @ 20:00 – 23:00
Free Improvisation
w/ Marielle Groven, Donia Jourabchi, Marc Nukoop, New Emergences, Ramon Smit
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
music starts at 20:30–dinner from 18:00
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 / Dinner +€15* – available at the door & online
* dinner reservations are recommended. Please reserve by purchasing online or send an email to fani [at] newemergences [dot] com
Spelltown is a concert series initiated by New Emergences in collaboration with GROND: a gathering for experimentation and improvisation. In this series, the invited artists are encouraged to explore new musical expressions and/or form new collaborations. Each event closes with an improvisation set where artists and (some of) the NE members meet altogether on stage.
For this gathering, we invited the multi-instrumentalist and composer Marielle Groven, the electronic music performer Donia Jourabchi, and the sound & movement artist–and GROND member–Marc Nukoop. Together with them on stage, the NEs Dan Gibson, Anne Wellmer, Semay Wu, Mariette Groot, and Fani Konstantinidou.
The same evening, Ramon Smit is presenting a food installation and preparing special (vegetarian/vegan) dinner inspired by the music.
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About the Artists
New Emergences is a platform for advocating diversity within digital media culture, electronic & contemporary music, and sound art. The NE Foundation is based in the Netherlands and consists of a group of composers, improvisers, performers, and researchers working in the field electronic music. It is part of an engaged music and art community that acts on the notion of grassroots activism that desires the honest, the curious, and the provocative.
Members: Dan Gibson, Anne Wellmer, Semay Wu, Mariette Groot, and Fani Konstantinidou.
Marielle Groven, Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer, has been based in Amsterdam since 2019. She performs on violin, piano and pipe organ and composes for various ensembles.
Her composed music foregrounds the beauty and complexity of raw sound roughly hewn. Her scores are handmade, using a very personal style of notation with graphic elements.
For Spelltown, she brings her violin and solo improvising talents, inspired by Amsterdam’s international free improvised music scene. In this she has developed a personal approach embracing her musical roots in Atlantic Canada and her background in experimental music. Lately she is experimenting with amplification.
Donia Jourabchi is a sound artist whose work explores the relationship between body, space, and sound. She engages in sound art, experimental music, and listening practices, with a focus on spatial sound and site-specific projects. Through her sound explorations, she examines how listening shapes both spaces and communities.
Marc Nukoop is a sound & movement artist, composer, and improviser. Among others, he works as a theater-maker, choreographer, and as an independent music performer. He is member of GROND and one of the initiators of the GROND Improvisers Group where he brings joy and inspiration with his creative and energetic spirit.
