Improvised Music and Dance Laboratory-Pilot + food
2025-06-28 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Pilot — Improvisation Meets Storytelling ‘Marsh Marigold’

On June 28, Grond hosts the pilot edition of IMDL — a new interdisciplinary performance series exploring the theme of Relationality. Blending live improvisation, food, rituals, and personal storytelling, this event invites artists and audience into a shared sensory landscape where plants, memory, and embodied presence intertwine. Curated and performed by artists from the fields of dance, sound, and art-science, the pilot acts as a living score for future monthly editions launching this fall.
Performance: Iris van Peppen (dance), Wenchin Fu (music), Maria Mavridou (dance), Marc Nukoop (dance/music) and Miri Lee (dance) with Production coordinator Youn Choi.

Food by Mohamed Alnoor.

Date: June 28, 20:00-22:00, at GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1 1096 AP Amsterdam.

tickets € 10, discount € 7,50, with dinner + €15 (reservations required for dinner: Mahmmednoor954@gmail.com)
tickets available at the door or online

TEMPERATURA
2025-07-03 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Free Improvisation
w/ SpOp & Bruinsma (Dirk Bruinsma & Marit Shalem), Christian Smith, schoco mune, and Fred Marty
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door & online

TEMPERATURA is a new concert series initiated by the composers/performers Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou. The series is focused on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming at bringing together all its current expressions.

On Thursday 3 July, TEMPERATURA presents the trio Dirk Bruinsma, Marit Shalem, & Christian Smith, and the duo schoco mune & Fred Marty.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Tribolumina
Tribolumina is an ongoing audiovisual project by SpOp & Bruinsma in collaboration with percussionist Christian Smith . The metariality of played upon objects is a central topic for our audiovisual performance. While playing and projecting we are following the phenomenon of Triboluminiscence, in which light may appear while hitting, shaking, rubbing or scratching solid material.
The composition evolves as a live improvisation: a combination of percussion and a set of recorded samples in correlation with projected video. The duo percussionists achieve a unique in between meditative and extatic sound, with rhythms emerging out of found metal objects and fabricated instruments. Machinery pieces, chains, bells, plates, dishes and more. These are arranged as a sprawling landscape on surfaces as well as hanging mid-air. Added to that are drums, flexible plastic tubes and electronics manipulated by controllers and pedals.
The live visuals are projected on a single or double screens in a way which is either limited to a screen or scattered over the space. While a second projection might appear on a transparent theater screen partly overlapping the main screen. The images contain filmed and manipulated loops of the very played upon objects with glimpses on the musicians themselves, in combination with architectural designs, frozen or gleaming landscapes, light beams and textures in a bath of fluid to dusty substances.
Dirk Bruinsma works as a composer and musician in various settings, ranging from chamber music to soundtracks for film and dance, free improvisation and experimental rock music. He appears on well over a thirty CD productions, mostly of his own groups and worked with various artists for exhibitions or stage productions.
Marit Shalem, also active as SpOp, is a visual artist, creating experimental video works and projects. Her recent work Milk, a documentary installation has been exhibited at MU Hybrid Art House recently. Her projects often introduce multiple linearities while dealing with identity, communication and commercialism.
Christian Streit Smith is a percussionist living in The Hague. Before moving there in 2016, he received master’s degrees from the Basel School of Music and McGill University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in music from the Oberlin Conservatory. He is a core member of Oerknal (NL) and Gyre (CH), and has played for four years with the Rosa Ensemble and Opera Spanga.

schoco mune x Fred Marty
The collaboration between schoco mune and Fred Marty started in 2022, at Multiversal summer retreat in Besançon, France. They release the first new CD “tempête de sable – 砂嵐” (Eng. Sandstorm) the end of June 2025. Carefully exploring the boundary and connection between two different instruments —acoustic double bass and electronic instrument— delivering a prickly sensation of the frequency on your skin, overwhelming soundscapes will make your senses numb, and you will feel absolute silence finally, like you are in a sandstorm
Fred Marty studied classical double bass at the La Roche-sur-Yon and Boulogne- Billancourt Conservatories, and jazz in Bordeaux. Moving to Paris in 2007, he delved into improvisation, developing a unique style that blends everyday sounds with experimental playing techniques. Since 2009, he has explored musique concrète, often incorporating recorded voice and sound materials that evolve slowly. A member of L’Onceim orchestra since 2012, Marty currently works on his solo project, composes for his quartet, and performs with Elizabeth Czerczuk’s company.
schoco mune is a sound performance project that delivers explosive, noisy, chaotic soundscapes with a strong focus on physicality and intuitive action. It started to liberate from all conventional musical approaches and traditional gender norms in 2020. Using sounds as a tool to embody human perception, pain, emotion, feeling, thoughts, and imagination, “schoco mune” explores its cognitive process, share its experience and sense unheard sounds and voices through its performance.

Double triple acoustic night: Packx & The Epic Elixir
2025-07-04 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Packx: Werner van de Vrede, Camilo Fernandez, Jussi Schmidt
The Epic Elixir: Paul Whittlesea, Frank van Schagen, Martin Kaffarnik

GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door & online

In reference to the very first Bajesdorp Festivals that were focussing on singer-songwriters in legendary unplugged living room concerts, this evening will unite 2 acoustic trios:
One of Bajesdorps mainstay homebands, „The Epic Elixir“ and „Packx“, a brand new venture of singer-songwriter Werner van de Vrede will share a variety of different tastes and recipes from the acoustic singer-songwriter kitchen.

Packx is the pact that singer/songwriter Werner van de Vrede closed with bassist Camilo Fernandez and trumpet player Jussi Schmidt. Dutch songs with pepper and honey. Passion and poetry. https://www.wernervrede.nl/blog/

The Epic Elixir is brought to you by Australian novelist, singer-songwriter, guitarist/ukulelist Paul Whittlesea and his companions Frank van Schagen (accordeon, piano, flutes and whistles) and Martin Kaffarnik (Cello). An eclectic tincture of acoustic indie, sweet folk pop, spicy jazz and crunchy rock.
pjwhittlesea.com/music/

Sport & Spel Club Balreep /🚴🪩🏓🎲⚽🏀🍕
2025-07-16 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
SSC Balreep is a weekly sports and game night at GROND.
TONIGHT:
🚴 Pot Belge Int. Koerscafé: TdF’25 (join our open Tour manager league on Scorito)
🪩 Petanque: Bring Your Own Jeux des Boules
🏓 HoodCup: Season II
🎲 Broken Dutch Summer Boardgames
⚽ /🎦 EURO: NOR vs ITA (21h)
🏀 Streetball /🛠️: Court setup pt. IX
🍕 BYOP
🚨 Cook/barkeep/helping hands wanted!
SSC Balreep refers to the local sporting club that was founded in 2013 out of Amsterdam squatting communities Op de Valreep and Bajesdorp. Bringing together the best of evergreen canteen life, the universal benefits of sports and community building from all times for all generations!
Bring your own game, join the running competitions or just pass by for a drink, bite and chat … while enjoying major and minor events on big(ger) screens.
The GROND VoKu will offer good meals at fair prices varying from canteen food art by selected chefs to BYOP (Bring Your Own Pizza or … ).
To make a reservation for the food, share your ideas or offer your help, please send a message to info@grond.community or contact us via the known signal-groups.

Club De Clubavond No.1
2025-09-20 17:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Er is een clubje opgericht, CLUB DE CLUB is de naam, aangenaam.
Zaterdag 20 september is de allereerste Club de Clubavond vanaf 17:00.
Wat kan je verwachten? We gaan sjoelen, ping-pongen, eten, drinken, de Balreep-reep proeven, een film kiezen en daar doorheen praten, nog meer lekkers eten, radio maken en dansen op de heerlijke muziek van Thiago.
Alle zotte ideeën, input, dromen en wensen zijn van harte welkom!
#Sjoelbak #PingPong #Eten&Drinken #Balreep-reep #Flats #Dakradio #Flats #Wunschfilm #SmakenVanMijnHerinnering

TEMPERATURA
2025-09-26 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
w/ DECONSTRUCTED MELODIES
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door & online

TEMPERATURA opens this concert season with DECONSTRUCTED MELODIES, a quartet consisting of the musicians Peter van Bergen, Jeroen Kimman, Koen Nutters, and Gert-Jan Prins.

An all-star band of four Dutch musical personalities who, between them, have done everything imaginable in the field of music. Organising and improvising inside of every layer of the music business, curating concerts, series and venues, leading bands and ensembles, playing with the greats, travelling the world. Coming from different generations and directions of noisemaking, here, in this quartet setting, they share their love of melodic improvisation in a floaty memory game of pieces played and pieces heard. Deftly moving around each other, leaving space to create, each on their own, layers of tempo, punctuation, melody, and lyricism. Playing their own compositions alongside classic pieces from Dutch colleagues (Mengelberg, Altena) and American originators such as Sun Ra, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, and more to blend in. Trying to find a tone, an expression, playing contemplative noise-jazz melodies in an airy space of contemplation, together alone, alone together, creating balance between space, time, and culture, with a logic of the post-modern and a sensitivity of the cultural here and now.
Peter van Bergen – tenor sax
Jeroen Kimman – electric guitar
Koen Nutters – electro-acoustic bass guitar
Gert-Jan Prins – percussion, electronics
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TEMPERATURA is a concert series initiated by composers/performers and GROND members Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions. By promoting the wide spectrum of contemporary musical stimuli, TEMPERATURA seeks to bridge the gap between musicians, composers, and performers from different musical backgrounds. Through these temporary crossings, we aim to create an environment—a playful space for experimentation and open ears—that fosters performing, creating, and experiencing music together. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and to spread today’s artistic practices.

Grond Sunday Session #1
2025-09-28 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week. Session #1 features Marc Nukoop playing an eclectic DJ set, and David Mitchell playing a live set on electric and acoustic guitar. We serve food and drinks, and provide materials to get creative too. Bring your kids, neighbours and friends!

Nachtnetgat
2025-10-05 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
The rule is clear: we play.  There is a beginning and an end.  We meet.  We are.  Together.  What happens in between surprises. No rules, no judgement.  All different.  Stepping in the unknown.  Where the schedule stopped running. We Play.
Performances start at 18:00, so everyone has time to go the Gaza Demo! Bar is open at 16:00 hrs.
Tickets
performance + dinner (vega / vegan) € 25 (RSVP required – reserve by purchasing online)
performance without dinner suggested price € 10 or € 15 – available at the door or online here
Performers: Jasper Stadhouders, Matilde Squillante,Julie Kurris, Ivo Bol, Goda Žukauskaitė, Nasim López-Palacios Navarro
Wearable sculpture artist: Daphne Karstens
Food by Judith Baten
Bass player Matilde Squillante is joining us!

Julie Kurris is a theatrical performer and transdisciplinary Scientist who is always looking to dialogue with other performers and artists. She loves to play and create spaces that were unthinkable.

Daphne Karstens combines sculpture and costume to create experimental wearable sculptures, costumes, performances and installations. Her work focuses on experimentation with materials, shape and structure on and around the body. She often works with unconventional materials and combines the individual qualities of materials with shapes and structures.

Goda Žukauskaitė is a Lithuanian performer and maker based in Amsterdam, NL. As a dancer/performer, she is working with companies Schweigman& (Boukje Schweigman) (NL), Kalpanarts (NL) and collaborating with independent artists around the Netherlands, Lithuania, Belgium and France. Goda is creating her own work mostly focused on durational, endurance and site-specific performances which challenges the physical limits of the body. As an artist, she often focuses on a single object, seemingly simple at first glance, unfolds into complex and layered narratives that intrigue and inspire.
picture by Bowie Verschuuren
Jasper Stadhouders’ playing showcases a completely natural musicality. One has the sense that he is so connected with his instrument he can play whatever he imagines. His ability to perform difficult compositions, with an assured sense of rhythm and harmony, combined with his extremely physical and dynamic approach to improvising, has led him being one of the most sought after guitarists around.

Nasim López-Palacios Navarro is an artist who works with music and computers. As a drummer, improviser, and composer, and a beginner in programming, he uses these tools to create art, and as a source of inspiration.

For Ivo Bol all sounds are special: the hum of the fridge, or the noise of the record just before the song starts. He performs his music using his body and mind to manipulate these sounds with light sensors, touch, gesture or brainwaves.

TEMPERATURA
2025-10-11 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
w/ Danya Pilchen, Nirantar Yakthumba
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door & online
On Saturday 11 October, TEMPERATURA brings you two special works by the KALI ensemble. Join us to experience two performances by Danya Pilchen and Nirantar Yakthumba!

KALI is a contemporary music collective based in The Hague. Their artistic vision is to foster close and long-term relationships between composers and musicians, and to develop unique artistic practices together. They have produced, premiered, and performed a variety of works in The Hague at Studio LOOS, Korzo, and Amare; at het Orgelpark, and Splendor in Amsterdam; at Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf; and at Humboldt University and KM28, in Berlin.
At TEMPERATURA, composers, performers, and KALI members Danya Pilchen and Nirantar Yakthumba will be presenting:

EVIL GAZE – D. Pilchen
for harmonium and live electronics
Kamalā {2376, 2592, 2673, 2816, 2904, 3168, 3456, 3564, 3872, 3888, 4224, 4356} – N. Yakthumba
for harmonium, fretless electric bass, and live electronics

Danya Pilchen – photo: Yinquan Chen

Nirantar Yakthumba – photo: Sander Foederer

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TEMPERATURA is a concert series initiated by composers/performers and GROND members Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions. By promoting the wide spectrum of contemporary musical stimuli, TEMPERATURA seeks to bridge the gap between musicians, composers, and performers from different musical backgrounds. Through these temporary crossings, we aim to create an environment—a playful space for experimentation and open ears—that fosters performing, creating, and experiencing music together. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and to spread today’s artistic practices.

Eiwerk Electronic Music Night
2025-10-23 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Join us for DJ’s, VJ’s and live electronic music from Eiwerk musicians, free entrance.

Improvised Music and Dance Laboratory #1
2025-10-24 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
IMDL is a monthly performance series where artists from Amsterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht—each rooted in different disciplines—meet for the first time in small, local theaters. Together, they create performances through real-time composition and shared experimentation. Every process is digitally archived. IMDL is a space for innovation, deepening, and connection.

For the first edition in October, Marc Nukoop of Grond curates an evening that explores sound, movement in which compositions emerge in the moment.
Line-up:
Hugo Ariëns (guitar), Ivo Bol (electronics), Maria Mavridou (dance), Iris van Peppen (dance), Goda Žukauskaitė (dance), Miri Lee (dance) & Marc Nukoop (dance, objects/electronics),

Entrance: 10/7 Euro sliding scale; reservation
We begin with curiosity and care — see you at Grond.

Supported by Grond, Organised by Collectief Imprography
We also started a Crowdfunding campaign with VoordeKunst

Upcoming performances:

October: October 24, Grond, Amsterdam
November: November 15, Splendor, Amsterdam
December: December 14, Tempel, Amsterdam

More information, including the program, will be available from mid-October on our website: imdl.info

TEMPERATURA
2025-11-08 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
w/Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn, Siamak Anvari, Leslee Smucker, Anne La Berge, Fani Konstantinidou
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5

On Saturday 08 November, TEMPERATURA presents two improvisation sets by the trio Alternating Lunes and the duo La Berge–Konstantinidou.
Alternating Lunes are Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn, Siamak Anvari, and Leslee Smucker. All three artists involved in this project work with non-traditional approaches to instruments and sound. Leslee Smucker has developed a series of metal resonators for prepared violin; Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn designs and performs with hybrid acoustic instruments built from metal, wood, and strings; and Siamak Anvari composes electroacoustic works that frequently incorporate broken or recuperated instruments. Through this performance, we bring these distinct practices into direct dialogue—creating a collaborative framework where our methods intersect, collide, and evolve together. The title Alternating Lunes is based on a poem by American poet and artist Bernadette Mayer, whose work often challenges poetic conventions through formal experimentation and collaborative authorship.
can you hear sunrays?
see trumpet calls?
taste the shape of words?
– excerpt from “Alternating Lunes”
by Bernadette Mayer and Philip Good
*Alternating Lunes is supported by Netherlands America Foundation.

Leslee Smucker

Siamak Anvari

Anne La Berge & Fani Konstantinidou have shared the stage several times in the past, though it’s been about three years since their last meeting. After all this time apart they have a lot to share: new sounds, ideas, experiments, nuances, and provocations.
The flutist, improviser, and composer Anne La Berge is well known to the audiences in Amsterdam and beyond. Her passion for the extremes in both composed and improvised music has led her to the fringes of storytelling and sound art as her sources of musical inspiration. Fani Konstantinidou, composer and live-electronics performer, is inspired by the sonic imprints of cultural and social identities and curious about the scapes of everyday life. Most of all, she is fascinated by (subtle) changes.

Anne La Berge

Fani Konstantinidou

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TEMPERATURA is a concert series initiated by composers/performers and GROND members Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions. By promoting the wide spectrum of contemporary musical stimuli, TEMPERATURA seeks to bridge the gap between musicians, composers, and performers from different musical backgrounds. Through these temporary crossings, we aim to create an environment—a playful space for experimentation and open ears—that fosters performing, creating, and experiencing music together. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and to spread today’s artistic practices.

⚠️GROND is CLOSED⚠️(9-15 Nov)
2025-11-09 00:00 - 2025-11-15 23:59 (Europe/Amsterdam)
From Sunday November 9th till Sunday November 15th GROND is closed due to construction works. There will be NO public activities in this period.
Coming public events:
Nov 16: Winter Warm-Up: Song, Music & a story from As-Sweida (17h–20h)
Nov 19: SSC Balreep (19-23h)
Nov 21: Falafel Friday (11-15h)
Nov 21: TEMPERATURA (20-23h)
Nov 23: Sunday Sessions #5 (15-19h)

Winter Warm-Up
2025-11-16 17:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Hakoura Collective invites you to an evening of music, food, solidarity, and collective action to raise vital funds for local community networks working on the ground in the southern Syrian city of As-Sweida.
In the aftermath of the attack on As-Sweida in July 2025, the city has faced its largest wave of displacement. Entire villages were destroyed, leaving many families without homes and with limited access to scarce basic supplies. Today, over 187,000 people remain displaced within As-Sweida city and its surrounding areas.
At this Winter Warm-Up Solidarity Event, we come together to honour and support the resilience of the people of As-Sweida; a community that continues to show us what it means to stand with one another, even when left alone in times of crisis.
All funds raised will go directly to trusted local community networks on the ground in As-Sweida who are working tirelessly to provide displaced families in hospitality centres with essential supplies and care.
Together, we can help sustain their efforts through this challenging season. Every contribution, no matter how small, makes a real difference.
Program:
•⁠ ⁠Outlining the situation in As-Sweida & how your contribution will make an impact
•⁠ ⁠Storytelling performance by Marwa Mezher and Nadeem Kotrob
•⁠ ⁠Live Music by Belal Abu Fakher, Rebal Kurkmaz, and Talal Fayad
•⁠ ⁠A warm, home-cooked dinner by Miramea Kitchen (registration needed via this link)
📅 Sunday 16/11/2025
⏰ from 17:00 to 20:00
Doors open: 16:30
📍 GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096 AP Amsterdam
Free entry. Donations are warmly welcomed throughout the evening (Click here to donate).

Double Trouble: Duets at Grond
2025-11-20 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
A new series of duet performances by some of Amsterdam’s best musicians. Curated by Grond member David Mitchell, the new series will put together pairs of musicians for new and unexpected encounters, showing different approaches to the same instrument or unusual combinations of instruments, all with a common aim: to take musicians out of their comfort zone. For the first edition we put together two electric guitarists with very different approaches: Theo Holsheimer has previously performed at Grond with Cilice Orchestra, his project that puts together the power of metal with intricate arrangements for jazz and classical musicians; David Mitchell has a background in modern jazz and the classical traditions of Central Asia, and works with long form loops to create complex layered improvisations. Thursday 20 November at 8pm, tickets 10Euros/7 Euros (concessions).

TEMPERATURA
2025-11-21 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
w/ Joana Guerra, Maria do Mar, Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra, and Orphax
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5

Friday 21 November, TEMPERATURA presents the latest edition of the Kleefstra brothers’ poetry-and-music project, IT DEEL IV. In this edition, Romke and Jan Kleefstra collaborate with the cello player Joana Guerra, and the violin player Maria do Mar. The same evening, a solo live-electronics performance by Orphax, aka Sietse van Erve.

• IT DEEL IV | Joana Guerra, Maria do Mar, Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra •
Poetry and music in an annually changing Frisian-international ensemble — that’s IT DEEL, a residency project by the Kleefstra brothers. Last summer, the Kleefstras invited cellist Joana Guerra and violinist Maria do Mar for a week-long creative residency at a special location: the Thomas Church in Katlijk. IT DEEL IV is out on vinyl LP on Moving Furniture Records. As part of their Dutch concert tour, they will make a stop at GROND to present their album in the Amsterdam audience.
The central theme running through all IT DEEL collaborations: the relationship between humans and nature, in all its beauty and complexity. It’s not a light topic, but one that is universal and deeply connecting. Each year, it’s remarkable to witness what has emerged from the Fryske grûn (Frisian soil) in the dialogue between the Kleefstras and their European guest musicians. Missed earlier editions? This is your last chance: IT DEEL IV is the final instalment of the project. Already a long-time follower? Excellent—we’ll see you there!
• Orphax •
Amsterdam based musician and trained drummer Sietse van Erve (Orphax) was introduced to electronic music in the early nineties. After playing around with tracker software for a couple of years, he eventually recorded his first more serious attempts of music with beats and melodies in 1998, though soon lost interest in both these.
He started researching new sounds and new ways of working – always with an organic touch, often incorporating sounds that would be regarded by others as errors or mistakes. Considering life isn’t without errors either. During this search, he found his way into drone and microtonal music. As a result in his most recent work, time and spatiality become more important factors. The goal of the music is for the listener to lose the sense of time and place.
Live, this is combined with room for improvisation. This way of working results often in an organic form of drone and minimal music.
Orphax – photo by Harold Zijp
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TEMPERATURA is a contemporary music concert series, improvisation hub, and everything in between, initiated by composers/performers J. Veličković and F. Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions. By promoting the wide spectrum of contemporary musical stimuli, TEMPERATURA seeks to bridge the gap between musicians, composers, and performers from different musical backgrounds. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and spread today’s artistic practices.
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*If you wish to attend but can’t afford our entry fee, please let us know–we ll make sure you can join us.

NOMIII
2025-11-22 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
NOMIII is an Amsterdam trio of Bernt Nellen (drums), Yrjana Rankka (contrabass), Sebastian Janusz (piano) making music like this: https://vimeo.com/208023420
open: 20h00
begin: 20h30

Sunday Sessions
2025-11-23 15:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-07 15:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-28 15:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-04 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
Check website
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too! open from 3pm.
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

TEMPERATURA
2025-11-25 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
w/ Leah Asher, Maya Bennardo, Christian Streit Smith
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5*

Tuesday 25 November, TEMPERATURA presents an acoustic popup event with selected compositions and improvisation sets by Leah Asher, Maya Bennardo, and Christian Streit Smith.
Violinist/violist, composer, and visual artist Leah Asher is an avid performer of contemporary music and creator of new artistic works. Leah is the executive director and violinist of The Rhythm Method string quartet and co-creator of performance art duo Meaningless Work with Nicolee Kuester. Leah regularly performs with New York-based ensembles such as International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, and S.E.M. Ensemble. She formerly served as solo violist of NOSO Sinfoniettaen and co-principal viola of the Arctic Philharmonic. As a composer, Leah has been commissioned by ensembles including andPlay, Chartreuse, Periapsis, NorthArc Percussion Group, The Great Learning Orchestra, and Ensemble Hybrid. She serves on faculty at Lake George Composer’s Institute, the Composers Conference, and the Lucerne Festival Academy, and has conducted many residencies at universities including NYU, Columbia University, Berklee College of Music, Hunter College, and BGSU. Recent releases include Leah’s solo album ‘Retreat into Afters’ on SCRIPTS records, The Rhythm Method’s ‘Pastorale’ on New Focus Recordings, and The Rhythm Method’s ‘Seaglass’ on Gold Bolus Recordings. Leah joined the faculty of Manhattan School of Music in 2022.
Maya Bennardo is an active performer and composer living in Stockholm, Sweden. Maya is interested in opening the dialogue and blurring the boundaries between composers and performers, and is devoted to performing music of the present. She is a founding member of the violin/viola duo andPlay, described by I Care If You Listen as “enthusiastic champions for new music and collaboration.” She performs new and traditional repertoire for violin and piano with pianist Karl Larson in their Bennardo-Larson Duo and is a former member of the internationally renowned Mivos Quartet. Maya’s compositions are characterized by slow, unfolding timbral movements–exploring the co-existence of pitch and noise. Her compositions have grown naturally out of her improvisational practice on the violin, and the two continue to inform each other.
Christian Streit Smith (USA/NL) is a percussionist based in The Hague. He performs experimental music (composed and improvised), in many different constellations from solo to large ensemble to theater. In addition to his work as a musician, he works part time as a landscaper.

Program
‘Discrete Species’ by Douglas Farrand and Christian Streit Smith
‘silver birch vignettes’ by Maya Bennardo
‘Upon the Wheel’ by Leah Asher
Solo improvisation – Leah Asher
Trio improvisation – Leah Asher, Maya Bennardo, and Christian Smith
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TEMPERATURA is a contemporary music concert series, improvisation hub, and everything in between, initiated by composers/performers J. Veličković and F. Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions. By promoting the wide spectrum of contemporary musical stimuli, TEMPERATURA seeks to bridge the gap between musicians, composers, and performers from different musical backgrounds. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and spread today’s artistic practices.
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*If you wish to attend but can’t afford our entry fee, please let us know–we ll make sure you can join us.

Sunday Sessions
2025-11-30 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
Poet Andrew Gebhardt is reading some of his work, we will play some (live) music.
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too! open from 3pm.
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

TEMPERATURA
2025-12-13 18:30 - 23:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Stage and Bar will be open from 18:30
FREE ENTRY – Donations welcome: support GROND by making a donation online here.

On Saturday, December 13, TEMPERATURA celebrates its first 10 editions and the end of 2025 with a special event!

We’ll start the evening with a non-stop free improv jam session, open to anyone who would like to participate.*The stage opens at 18:30 and runs until everyone is exhausted. Bring your sounds, or simply join us for drinks and snacks at any time!After that, we’ll keep the party going with DJ sets until late.

* If you’d like to participate, you can jump in at any time with no commitment. We’ll have several mics and guitar amps ready for those who need electronic equipment. Keep it simple and make sure you can blend in smoothly (no soundcheck provided!).
If you have any questions, send us an email to temperatura.amsterdam (at) gmail (dot) com

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TEMPERATURA is a contemporary music concert series, improvisation hub, and everything in between, initiated by composers/performers J. Veličković and F. Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions. By promoting the wide spectrum of contemporary musical stimuli, TEMPERATURA seeks to bridge the gap between musicians, composers, and performers from different musical backgrounds. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and spread today’s artistic practices.

Sunday Sessions LATE EDITION
2025-12-14 17:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
For this edition we will open after the Sudanese solidarity event with dance and food also at GROND
Check website
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too!
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

Sunday Sessions
2025-12-21 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
ON THE 21st OF DECEMBER WE HOST A SPECIAL EDITION; SUNDAY SESSIONS AT THE MOVIES, CLASSIC FILMS @ GROND!
We make a shortlist of 3 movies to choose from; whoever is there votes, and….. the magic starts at 4pm
You can also just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too!
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

New Marshall Plan
2026-01-10 20:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
The world is full of noise. On Saturday 10 January, New Marshall Plan turns the knob toward hope.
With 80s synths, 90s guitars, and lyrics about politics, love, and life, the band brews catchy indie pop that heals, lifts, and sticks in your head: musical vitamins for those who want to feel again.
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5 (sliding scale)

About
New Marshall Plan is a Dutch indie band creating music rooted in the rich traditions of synthpop, rock, and new wave. They were formed more than 20 years ago out of a shared love for bands like Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Radiohead, Interpol, and The Whitest Boy Alive—but for a long time, the songs stayed close to home. In June 2023 they recorded the album “Escalate” at Mailmen Studio with Martijn Groeneveld, known for his work with Blaudzun and Klangstof. The first single dropped in October 2023, and the full album was released on April 4, 2024. Each of the 10 tracks is accompanied by a music video—many of them made using AI, pushing the boundaries of what indie can look like as well as sound like. Lyrically, they don’t shy away from anything. These songs cover themes like corporate greed, war, inequality, misinformation, and the messy reality of human relationships. But there’s also hope in the noise—because for them, making music is an act of rebuilding. The band’s name, New Marshall Plan, reflects that—a nod to Europe’s post-war reconstruction and a metaphor for picking up the pieces in your own life. In 2025, they also released “Bermuda,” a self-recorded album from 2007 that they never properly put out back then. It’s a raw snapshot of who they were, and releasing it now bridges their early ideas with what they are creating today. It’s not as polished as “Escalate”—but it’s real, and it completes their story until now.
New Marshall Plan are Rogier Werschkull, Roeland van der Put, David van Putten, and Bart Koopman.

Sunday Sessions JAM
2026-01-11 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Sunday Sessions is cancelled this week due to extremely slippery roads and paths in the area.
Take care everyone, and we’ll see you next week.

Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
TODAY WE WILL HAVE A JAMSESSION WITH MARC, DAVID AND MAZEN
Check website
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too! open from 3pm.
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

Sunday Sessions on SATURDAY 17th
2026-01-17 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Because Sunday the 18th GROND is fully booked for a rental, this weekend’s Session is on SATURDAY 17TH of January.
ALSO: GARAGE SALE@GROND! MORE INFO
TODAY: JAM WITH US IN OUR BLACK BOX
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program.
Check website
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too! open from 3pm.
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam

Sunday Sessions 25 Januari
2026-01-25 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Come to GROND, hang out with us and wrap up your weekend with a family and hangover friendly session including live music, DJs, performance, storytelling and anything else we can think of to ease you into next week.
Every edition of the Sunday Sessions we open the bar, mellow sounds will permeate the space and each time we will have a varying program
You can just chill or read your favourite poem for us; drawing, painting and crafts table available; mini-pancakes too! open from 3pm.
Hope to see you there!
GROND
Bijdorpstraat 1
1096AP
Amsterdam
