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SUMMARY:Improvised Music and Dance Laboratory-Pilot + food
DESCRIPTION:Pilot — Improvisation Meets Storytelling ‘Marsh Marigold’\n\nOn 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. \nPerformance: Iris van Peppen (dance)\, Wenchin Fu (music)\, Maria Mavridou (dance)\, Marc Nukoop (dance/music) and Miri Lee (dance) with Production coordinator Youn Choi. \n\n\nFood by Mohamed Alnoor. \n\n\nDate: June 28\, 20:00-22:00\, at GROND\nBijdorpstraat 1 1096 AP Amsterdam.\n\n\ntickets € 10\, discount € 7\,50\, with dinner + €15 (reservations required for dinner: Mahmmednoor954@gmail.com)\ntickets available at the door or online
URL:https://grond.community/event/improvised-music-and-dance-laboratory-pilot/
LOCATION:GROND\, Bijdorpstraat 1\, Amsterdam\, 1096AP\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:dance,Food,Music,performance
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SUMMARY:Inter Acts: Jonathan Reus\, Jaap Blonk\, Marije Baalman
DESCRIPTION:16:00–18:00 (doors 15:30)\nTickets: regular €10 (or more) | solidarity €7\,5 – available at the door & online \nOn June 8th\, Jonathan Reus will present his work Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk and Marije Baalman will present her works Composing an Interaction and The Machine is Learning. \nInter Acts is an afternoon with performances that deal with interactions between the human and the machine in different ways. The goal of the event is also to create a dialogue between audience and performers on these interactions\, and thus the event also gives space for a Q&A with the artists\, both for the visitors to learn more about the works\, as well as for the artist to get feedback on their work. \n______________________\nAbout the performances\nBla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk\nBLA BLAVATAR vs JAAP BLONK – an experimental collaboration between Jonathan Reus and the reknowned sound poet Jaap Blonk\, exploring voice dataset making as a laborious\, improvisational and absurdly banal performance form. \nThe performance is an absurdist take on the cultural obsession with generative AI avatars and the goldrush to capitalise on creative automation. Rather than focusing on the uncanny realism of voice clones\, the performance foregrounds the physical\, creative and mental effort of performing sound poetry precisely according to an AI-friendly score\, inspired by traditions of phonetically balanced reading scripts in speech research\, and artistic traditions of typographical musical scores in sound poetry. \nReus performs as BLA BLAVATAR\, using a custom real-time voice synthesis instrument called Tungnaa\, which is trained on previous dataset poem performances by Blonk. The dynamic between Blonk and Reus sways from moments of precise and controlled material to improvised duets between Blonk and his vocal avatar. During the performance all of Blonk’s vocalisations are recorded and added to a growing public dataset\, and will be used as training data for making BLA BLAVATAR a better public speaker. Together\, Blonk and Reus bring the vocal labor behind AI voice models to the stage\, as well as use datasets and dataset making as a vocal art form that is fundamentally creative and exploratory\, rather than a dehumanising means to an end. \n \nComposing an Interaction\nComposing an Interaction is a lecture-performance in which Marije Baalman explains how a modern artist might use her book in the creation process of an interactive art work\, in casu quo a sock puppet. \nComposing an Interaction was created for the launch of the book Composing Interactions \nMarije Baalman – Photo by Pieter Kers\, at Flipchart #5\, October 22nd\, 2022.\nThe Machine is Learning\nThe performance the machine is learning is a theatrical performance highlighting the process of training a machine with realtime gestures: the labour that is absent from most dialogues on   machine learning. In an attempt to livecode with gestures\, the performer finds herself directed by the machine to repetitively make gestures to generate time series data samples for the machine to learn from. \nMachine learning is both hailed as the solution to our current day problems\, as well as claimed as one of the most threatening things to life as we know it. The popular discussion on AI criticizes issues of privacy with regard to data collection and the use of this data to take decisions that affect the life of people in possibly negative ways. At the same time\, with the possibilities of AI further automating work\, jobs are at danger and the fear is that this will leave many without a job in the future. On the other hand\, the labour involved in making machine learning algorithms work\, is less prominent in the popular discussion. The labour involved in AI consists not only of designing and programming algorithms\, but also in generating and categorising these data samples. The working conditions of these tasks are generally not known. \nMarije Baalman
URL:https://grond.community/event/inter-acts-jonathan-reus-jaap-blonk-marije-baalman/
CATEGORIES:performance
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SUMMARY:Harvest Festival
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nFrom the 30st of May till the 1st of June GROND will host part of the Harvest Festival organized in collaboration with damdam – an interconnected web of collectives emerging from de Appel’s Curatorial Programme\, the Lumbung Practice Temporary Master Programme at Sandberg Instituut and Gudskul’s Collective Study Programme in Indonesia. \nBuilding on the 25 years of Lumbung kindred experiments leading to lumbung – documenta fifteen\, for the first time this year we will gather with collectives to practice sustainable economies\, to think about our collective infrastructures\, shared practices\, common resources and values. One of our values is caring about the process\, rather than focusing on the production of artworks or exhibitions as isolated outputs. We turn toward each other and the relations that bind us. \nOur curatorial approach is embedded in the politics of friendship\, interdependence\, trust\, collective joy as well as engagement withAmsterdam and our localities. Alongside mapping our resources and needs in our ecosystem\, we build a common ground and think about potential seeds to plant. Out of this process\, several self-organised working groups emerged around common urgencies: community\, land\, economy\, printing\, publishing\, pedagogy\, documenting and archiving. In the Harvest Festival 2025 we share our understanding of lumbung practice and ongoing processes through nongkrongs (gatherings)\, workshops\, screenings\, discussions\, dinners and parties. What kind of future can we envision if we reorient our work around sharing\, communal rhythms\, and solidarity? \nThe program at GROND: \nFriday 30 May\, 10.00 – 17.00 \nMubadele\nWorkshop and Talk \nThrough the idea of Mubadele we aim to create a system where knowledge\, skills\, and materials circulate beyond the constraints of money. By mapping our existing resources\, and by organising discussions on funding\, this gathering is part of a longer-term vision: to develop strategies for economic resilience that are rooted in solidarity\, not scarcity. With Elke Uitentuis\, Colin Roustan and Alina Lupu. \nExhibition Opening – Everywhere is War\nFriday 30 May\, 17.00 – 21.00 \nThrough the making of stop motion animations the collectives Er Sell Reality and SSMG (Sudanese Stop Motion Group) gave shape to the feelings of guilt that they are facing because of leaving their beloved land and relationships behind. Everywhere is War is a process-oriented presentation that shows how both collectives have been experimenting with the animation techniques and exploring the battlefields under their skin. \nDuring the opening there will be dinner from 5 to 7pm cooked by Mohamed Alnoor\, \nand from 9pm a radio performance by Marc Nukoop\, Ivo Bol and Wytze Minne de Swart. \nThe exhibition is also open on 31 May and 1 June from 12 to 9pm. \n  \nSaturday 31 May\, 18.00 – 21.00 \nDon’t Stop Talking About Exile: The Voice of Women TV Show + Congo Solidarity Dinner\nScreening/discussion + Dinner convened by We Sell Reality & Parole de Femmes \nParole de Femmes TV Show (The Voice of Women TV Show) is a collaborative short-film led by women from the Emmaüs community. The screening will be followed by a talk with the creators of the film\, followed by a solidarity dinner for Congo. Guest speakers Eric Bimule and Aime Kabena will inform us about the situation DRC. \n  \nThe exhibition is also open on  1 June from 12 to 9pm. \nThrough the making of stop motion animations the collectives We Sell Reality and SSMG (Sudanese Stop Motion Group) gave shape to the feelings of guilt that they are facing because of leaving their beloved land and relationships behind. Everywhere is War is a process-oriented presentation that shows how both collectives have been experimenting with the animation techniques and exploring the battlefields under their skin. \n  \nImage: Work in progress – stop motion animation – We Sell Reality i.s.m Nina Karim van Oort
URL:https://grond.community/event/harvest-festival/
LOCATION:GROND\, Bijdorpstraat 1\, Amsterdam\, 1096AP\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:activism,Food,Music,performance,Solidarity,Symposium,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250526T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250526T223000
DTSTAMP:20250606T070254Z
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SUMMARY:OTO.3 | Dominique Chabot
DESCRIPTION:Experimental music | Improvised music\nw/ Maarten Visser\, Robbert van Hulzen\, Dominique Chabot\nGROND Bijdorpstraat 1\, 1096AP\, Amsterdam\n20:00 (doors 19:30)\nTickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online \noto.3\n10 years after their last concert\, oto.3 (Maarten Visser & Robbert van Hulzen) came back together in April 2025 to play a new composition – The Danish Suite. The premiere took place\, in Chennai\, India\, with original bass player Holger Jetter. For the Amsterdam iteration of this work\, oto.3 joins forces with double bass player Dominique Chabot. \nDominique Chabot 
URL:https://grond.community/event/temperatura-3/
CATEGORIES:Music,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250524T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250524T230000
DTSTAMP:20250827T061850Z
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SUMMARY:Nachtnetgat: postphoned to oct 5th
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or online here. \nDinner: + €20 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online) \nIt is possible to get a ticket for just the performance without the diner.\nPerformers: Jasper Stadhouders\, Julie Kurris\, Ivo Bol\, Olga Tsyganova\, Nasim López-Palacios Navarro\nWearable sculpture artist: Daphne Karstens\nFood by Judith Baten\nThe 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. \nJulie 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. \n \nDaphne 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. \n \nJasper 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. \nScreenshot\nOlga Tsyganova was born in St.Petersburg\, Russia and grew up in the U.S. Seeking out what brings joy and gives challenges\, she found teachers in storytelling and listening\, dance\, theater. Her studies in psychology and her passion of dance brought her to the desire to do physical theater. She studied at the Mime school in Amsterdam and works on combining poetry\, dreams\, reality and music in her work. \n\nNasim 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. \n\nFor 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. \n \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://grond.community/event/nachtnetgat/
LOCATION:GROND\, Bijdorpstraat 1\, Amsterdam\, 1096AP\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Food,Music,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250523T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250523T230000
DTSTAMP:20250606T070600Z
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SUMMARY:TEMPERATURA
DESCRIPTION:Experimental music | Live Electronics\nw/TRUSTYOURT\, Ctrl Freq\, Kryptogen Rundfunk\, Fani Konstantinidou\, Mazen Al Ashkar\nGROND Bijdorpstraat 1\, 1096AP\, Amsterdam\n20:30 (doors: 20:00)\nTickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online \nVegetarian Dinner form 19:00 hrs by Sudanese chef Mohamed Noor \ndiner + €15 RSVP required – Reservations: Mahmmednoor954@gmail.com \nOn Friday 23 May\, we are hosting an experimental-electronic music evening with performances by TRUSTYOURT\, Ctrl Freq\, Kryptogen Rundfunk\, and the GROND members Mazen Al Ashkar and Fani Konstantinidou. The five artists bring their live-electronics solo sets.  Among others\, expect performances with modular synthesisers\, DIY musical instruments\, and light sensors. \n\n______________________\nAbout the Artists\nTRUSTYOURT  (Kristina Vodorezova) is a modular enthusiast and a minimalist at heart\, trustyourt navigates listeners through intricate sonic realms where chance and intention dance as one. Embracing the beauty of chaos and the spontaneity of improvisation\, she weaves delicate drone compositions that invite deep\, collective listening. Her performances shift between the intimacy of a single wearable DIY instrument and the expansive presence of a sprawling modular suitcase. With a love for blending the raw resonance of acoustic instruments – like zither and kalimba – with the unpredictable pulse of modular synthesis\, trustyourt blurs the boundaries between the organic and the electric\, offering meditative portals into unknown soundscapes. \nTRUSTYOURT\nCtrl Freq a.k.a Kacper Ziemianin has a background in classical music and a lot of adventures in modern sound and music. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sonic Arts from Middlsex University\, London and Master’s degree in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague\, the Netherlands. \nSound designer\, circuit bender\, vagabond\, improviser\, producer\, audio-hacker\, instrument designer\, nomad\, radio presenter\, workshop leader\, squatter\, soon-to-be a published writer. His audio works have been shown and played in many places around and outside of Europe. Currently based in The Hague\, NL working as a freelance instrument designer and performer as well as teacher of DIY electronics. His latest endeavor\, the ‘LightSeq’ has received funding from Stimuleringsfonds NL and won an award at an international electronic music festival ‘Radical dB’ in Zaragoza\, Spain. \nCtrl Freq\nKryptogen Rundfunk is an experimental sound project started in 2002 in St. Petersburg\, Russia and\ncurrently based in Amstelveen\, The Netherlands. The project works with analogue electronics\, radio\nwaves\, electromagnetic interference and found sounds\, creating sophisticated aural images\, often\nexploring extreme areas of the sonic spectrum. The purpose of these experiments is to temporarily\nswitch off listeners’ rational perception and immerse them into the direct experience of abstract sound.\nDuring the 20 years of its activity\, the project has recorded several studio albums released by European\nand Russian labels\, and performed numerous live gigs\, both solo and in collaboration with many local and\ninternational artists. Among the most well-known names to share the stage with were Einstürzende\nNeubauten\, Ben Frost\, Bad Sector\, Jacob Kirkegaard\, Aube\, Clock DVA\, and Brighter Death Now.\nArtem Ostapchuk\, the man behind this project\, is also the founder of the Zhelezobeton record label\, which\nbecame one of the biggest distributors of experimental music in Russia\, but was closed in 2022 because\nof relocation to The Netherlands. At present time\, Artem operates Base Station label\nand Fonodroom distribution. \nKryptogen Rundfunk\nMazen Al Ashkar is a mixed media artist creating interactive objects\, images\, videos\, and installations\, who plays with words as well as musical and nonmusical forms of sounds. He is interested in looking at the functions given to natural and constructed elements in relation to metaphysical narratives within structures such as idealism and materialism. \nMazen Al Ashkar\nFani Konstantinidou is a composer\, performer\, and music researcher based in Amsterdam. She expresses her musical ideas in various formats such as site-specific and multichannel compositions\, improvisation\, and through collaborative projects with artists of various disciplines. Within these contexts\, she performs live-electronics and composes music for solo instruments and small ensembles. \nFani Konstantinidou
URL:https://grond.community/event/temperatura-2/
LOCATION:GROND\, Bijdorpstraat 1\, Amsterdam\, 1096AP\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Music,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250521T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250521T220000
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SUMMARY:Temperatura: Looking for Life vol.1
DESCRIPTION:Looking for Life vol. 1 presents three sound performances on the evening of the 21st of May at GROND\, Amsterdam. Part of the Temperatura experimental music series.\nWith Ege Şahin\, Domenika Georgiou\, and Oscar van Leest.\nCurated by Kristijonas Groblys. \nfood by Judith Baten \nThe act of looking for life is rooted in the search for vital\, necessary action — the wish to be affected\, the openness to experience. Three artists will weave around the theme of sound-making and its connection to the act of living.\nShaping sound physically\, Ege Şahin will intervene in acoustic space with feedback baritone guitar. The improvised poetry of towering and complex tone structures emerges in the modular synthesis of Oscar van Leest. Domenika Georgiou blends human and machine life in her performance for Nintendo 3DS and mechanical armour. \nGROND Bijdorpstraat 1\, 1096AP\, Amsterdam\n20:00 (doors: 19:30)\nTickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online \nDinner: + €15 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online) \nAbout the Artists\nEge Şahin – Mirror Angel\nEge Şahin’s Mirror Angel emerges from an improvisation practice to explore sound’s vibratory potential in the space between a human performer\, electric guitar\, and amplifier(s). There will be a rationally tuned baritone feedback guitar\, transducers\, electromagnetic mics and exciters\, and a performer in relationship with them through feedback\, metal objects\, and his body. \nEge Şahin works in sound and music near the free-improvisation and electro-acoustic spheres with care for materiality in composition and spirituality in performance. On the more academic side\, he has been researching the relationship between different cultures’ metaphysics and their sound culture as part of his Master’s at the Institute of Sonology\, in the Hague\, where he is now based. \n \nOscar van Leest – Untitled \nOscar van Leest (1994) is an Amsterdam-based sound artist\, musician and sound designer. In his practice\, he explores the entangled relationships between sound and spatial context and how they are experienced across a wide range of technical tools; from software and to electro-acoustic devices and modular synthesis. The same tools shape his musical projects where they are applied in a genre-defying sonic framework of experimental electronics that emphasizes improvisation\, indeterminacy and generativity. \nOscar will perform a texture-focused live set\, built around a modular synthesizer setup.  \n \nDomenika Georgiou – 𝑀𝑒𝒸𝒽𝒶𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒞𝑜𝓇𝑒 \nDomenika Georgiou is a multidisciplinary artist based in The Hague. Currently pursuing an MA in ArtScience at KABK and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Her work spans performance\, immersive installations\, sound\, digital media\, and custom-built machinery—including wearable cyber prostheses and autonomous devices. With a deep interest in paradox\, transformation\, and post-dualistic states\, Domenika explores the thresholds of identity and perception through symbolic\, metaphorical and cybernetic frameworks. Her work has been shown and performed across Europe in venues such as Kupfer Gallery (London)\, Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan)\, Bim Milano. \n𝑀𝑒𝒸𝒽𝒶𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒞𝑜𝓇𝑒 is a powered armor machine with a built-in heart mechanism\, designed to protect the wearer from external threats while fulfilling the human desire to mechanize nature in the pursuit of new life through technology. The soundscape unfolds through glitchy Nintendo textures moving between ambient sweetness and distortion. It shifts from a comforting softness to chaos\, from delicacy to decay—beating a rhythm of memory transforming into new life\, and exploring the tension between fragility and artificial foreverness \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://grond.community/event/looking-for-life-vol-1/
CATEGORIES:Food,Music,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250517T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250517T230000
DTSTAMP:20250606T070553Z
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SUMMARY:TEMPERATURA
DESCRIPTION:Free Improvisation\nw/Giuseppe Doronzo\, Katerina Orfanoudaki\, Nina Hitz\, Jasna Veličković\, Fani Konstantinidou\, + food by Judith Baten\nGROND Bijdorpstraat 1\, 1096AP\, Amsterdam\n20:30 – Dinner from 18:30\nTickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 / +Dinner p.p. €15* – available at the door or online\n*Reservation is recommended – please reserve by purchasing online.\n \nOn Saturday 17 May\, come to GROND for our first Temperatura music event. The GROND members and live electronics performers Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou improvise with the harpsichord player Katerina Orfanoudaki\, the cello player Nina Hitz\, and the baritone saxophone player Giuseppe Doronzo. A free improvisation evening where the five artists are coming together for the first time.\nThe same evening\, Judith Baten is improvising in the kitchen and preparing vegan/vegetarian dinner! \n\n______________________\nAbout the Artists\nKaterina Orfanoudaki is a harpsichordist and performer whose work bridges early music traditions with contemporary and experimental practices. She studied Harpsichord Performance at the Ionian University under Katerina Michopoulou and continued her specialization in Contemporary Harpsichord at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Goska Isphording\, Menno van Delft\, and Kris Verhelst. She has also pursued studies in Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam. \nHer projects often explore unconventional instrumentations and transdisciplinary collaborations. She is a founding member of ensembles including Duo Suzanne (with flutist Teresa Costa)\, Sine Sole Sileo (with vocalist Irene Soroźabal Moreno)\, and experimental duos combining harpsichord with saxophonist Nicki Kokolakis\, double bassist Ignacio Pintó\, and electronics. \nHer artistic work includes original compositions and performative soundscape interventions\, as seen in projects like “Formed by the Gaze\, Twisted by the Beast”\, “Galatea” co-created together with Vera Morais and “Relocations: Polyphony and Identity.” With a deep interest in historically informed performance\, new music\, free improvisation and cross-genre creation\, Katerina continually seeks to expand the expressive possibilities of the harpsichord in today’s musical landscape. \nKaterina Orfanoudaki – photo: Thomas Huisman\nNina Hitz is a cellist living in the Netherlands\, originally trained in early music but drawn to the fringes of sound. A former member of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation\, she has collaborated with dancers\, actors\, musicians\, and performance artists in both the Netherlands and Switzerland\, creating works that ranged from tightly structured compositions to more fluid\, atmospheric\, and unpredictable forms. \nHer work explores sound as a parallel to life — layered\, unstable\, and full of contradiction. She is fascinated by inconsistency\, embracing the imperfect and the ephemeral. Whether through structured improvisation or intuitive noise\, she seeks resonance in all forms\, sizes\, and silences. \nNina Hitz\nGiuseppe Doronzo is an Italian multi-reed player\, composer and performer based in Amsterdam. He focuses his research on the baritone saxophone\, where he expands a vocabulary at the intersection of contemporary music\, jazz improvisation and non-western music. His musical quest merges composed and improvised music with ancient Mediterranean cultures and rituals. In his recent performances\, he introduces instruments discovered during his travels\, like the ney-anban (Iranian bagpipe)\, hulusi (Chinese gourd reed instrument)\, longari (Albanian double flute)\, and mizmar (Egyptian reed instrument)\, that made a profound emotional and sonic impact on him. He also collaborates with choreographers and film makers. \nIn 2022 has received the BUMA Award for his film music and in 2024 the Musician of the Year Award from Polish Jazz Press Magazine. He leads AVA Trio and has worked with creative artists covering various fields of the national and international art including: Michael Moore\, Joe Lovano\, Mariem Hassan\, Han Bennink\, NDR Big Band\, João Bosco\, Taylor Ho Bynum\, Irene Aebi Lacy\, Jim Black\, Matt Wilson. \nGiuseppe Doronzo – photo: Yiğit Demircioğlu\nJasna Veličković is a Belgrade-born composer and performer based in Amsterdam. Her artistic output has been developed through an interaction between a life-long fascination with the sound\, an enduring interest in an intricate encounter between music and technology\, and an inclination toward experimentation. \nJasna Veličković\nFani Konstantinidou is a composer\, performer\, and music researcher based in Amsterdam. She expresses her musical ideas in various formats such as site-specific and multichannel compositions\, improvisation\, and through collaborative projects with artists of various disciplines. Within these contexts\, she performs live-electronics and composes music for solo instruments and small ensembles. \nFani Konstantinidou
URL:https://grond.community/event/temperatura/
LOCATION:GROND\, Bijdorpstraat 1\, Amsterdam\, 1096AP\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Music,performance
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SUMMARY:Eiwerk Electronic Music Night
DESCRIPTION:Free entrance \nLive Beats\, DJ’s\, Soundscapes\, VJ’s made by musicians and artists from Eiwerk.
URL:https://grond.community/event/eiwerk-electronic-music-night/
LOCATION:GROND\, Bijdorpstraat 1\, Amsterdam\, 1096AP\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Music,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250411T190000
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SUMMARY:Dinner–Music–Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Food & Music\nby The String Octet\, Mazen Al Ashkar\, Judith Baten \nGROND Bijdorpstraat 1\, 1096AP\, Amsterdam\nDinner–Music–Dialogue 19:00–21:00 (doors 18:30)\nTickets (inc. food & concert): regular €25 (or more) / discount €20 available at the door or online here.\n▶︎ Reservation required ◀︎ Please RSVP by booking your tickets online \nFREE ENTRY after 20:30 with live music by the Brazilian band Arte Feiticeira\, and uplifting music until late! \n\nABOUT the event \nFood and music go well together\, but the challenge is to present it in such a way that it reinforces each other! That is exactly what this evening is. Musically\, a time journey is made that starts in romanticism and extends to high-modern improvisation. The dishes will be inspired by the atmosphere created by the music. A unique experience! \nThe String Octet:\nAfter coming together as a group last year in this unique composition\, this is already the second project of this octet. These eight string players have been playing together for years\, but this composition has proven to be a great success. They have already rehearsed a wonderful program and will play it with great dedication. This octet likes to experiment. They look for concert formats where the music can be achieved even better. Music is experienced together with the sensations of food. We look forward to the experiences of all visitors! \n\nJudith Baten: Food\nMax Bruch: Octet for strings\nD.S.: Two pieces for sting octet\nBram Faber: Strands\nMazen Al Ashkar – An improvisation on two sequences exploring microtonality in modular setup.
URL:https://grond.community/event/octet-diner/
LOCATION:GROND\, Bijdorpstraat 1\, Amsterdam\, 1096AP\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Food,Music,performance
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SUMMARY:SNCKBAR: NOMIII trio
DESCRIPTION:Music by NOMIII trio & Mark Nieuwenhuis\n+\nSnacks (or full dinner) at the bar before and during the concert!\nGROND Bijdorpstraat 1\, 1096AP\, Amsterdam\nMusic starts at 20:00 – our SNCKBAR is open from 17:00\nTickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or online here.\nFull Dinner: + €17\,5  – option to order individual plates at the bar.\nfor full dinner\, please RSVP by purchasing online. All plates are vegetarian/vegan* \n  \nABOUT the Artists \nNOMIII is an Amsterdam trio consisting of Bernt Nellen (drums)\, Yrjana Rankka (contrabass)\, and Sebastian Janusz (piano). Special Guest that evenuing: Mark Nieuwenhuis (trumpet/flugelhorn). \nNOMIII played in Bajesdorp in the old Muiterij several times before\, this is the first time they come to GROND. \nCheck their music here \n  \n*SNCKBAR Menu 🌶️\nby Judith Baten & Ramon Smit \nSoup\nginger / carrot / orange soup \nSalad\nlima beans and green beans with jasmine-yoghurt dressing \nSnacks\ncauliflower pie / polenta muffin with Brussels sprouts / leak pancake \nDessert\nCitrus poppyseed cake
URL:https://grond.community/event/concert-trio-nomiii/
LOCATION:GROND\, Bijdorpstraat 1\, Amsterdam\, 1096AP\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Food,Music,performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T230000
DTSTAMP:20250223T192811Z
CREATED:20250219T201647Z
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SUMMARY:F. Konstantinidou & I. Pavlopoulos・GROND Improvisers Group
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary music / Electronic music / Improvisation\nUNDERTONES by F. Konstantinidou & I. Pavlopoulos・GROND Improvisers Group\nw/F. Konstantinidou\, I. Pavlopoulos\, M. Al Ashkar\, M. Nukoop\, M. Baalman and more t.b.a.\nGROND Bijdorpstraat 1\, 1096AP\, Amsterdam\n20:30 (doors: 20:00)\nTickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online \n  \nOn Thursday 27 February\, you are cordially invited to the premiere of Fani Konstantinidou‘s new work\, UNDERTONES: a four channel composition for percussion (metal idiophones)\, electronics\, and variable field recordings. Together with her on stage\, the percussionist Iakovos Pavlopoulos. \nThe same evening\, members of our GROND Improvisers Group will present their versatile performances in spontaneous collaborations. Expect contributions by Mazen Al Ashkar\, Marc Nukoop\, Marije Baalman\, and more. \nF. Konstantinidou – I. Pavlopoulos\n  \nMazen Al Ashkar\n 
URL:https://grond.community/event/concert-undertones/
LOCATION:GROND\, Bijdorpstraat 1\, Amsterdam\, 1096AP\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Music,performance
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