Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-06-11 18:30 - 23:00, 2025-06-04 18:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Sport & Spel Club Balreep is a weekly game night, It refers to the local football club that was founded in 2013 out of Op de Valreep and Vereniging Bajesdorp. Bring your own game, weerwolven etc.

Inter Acts: Jonathan Reus, Jaap Blonk, Marije Baalman
2025-06-08 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
16:00–18:00 (doors 15:30)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) | solidarity €7,5 – available at the door & online
On 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.
Inter 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.
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About the performances
Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk
BLA 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.
The 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.
Reus 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.

Composing an Interaction
Composing 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.
Composing an Interaction was created for the launch of the book Composing Interactions
Marije Baalman – Photo by Pieter Kers, at Flipchart #5, October 22nd, 2022.
The Machine is Learning
The 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.
Machine 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.
Marije Baalman

L.A.S. Collective, Dominique Chabot, Marcos Baggiani.
2025-06-07 20:30 - 22:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Improvised Music
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:30 – Doors open from 18:00*
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 / dinner €15 – available at the door & online
Dinner is served from 18:30. Reservations are recommended – RSVP by purchasing online.
with:
Piotr Damasiewicz – trumpet, organ, vocals
Krzysztof Kasprzyk – tenor & soprano saxophone, electronics, FX
Grzegorz Lesiak – guitar
Marcos Baggiani – drums
Dominique Chabot – bass

We are thrilled to announce that the L.A.S. (Listening and Sounding Foundation) project is coming to GROND!
The L.A.S. Collective members, Piotr Damasiewicz, Krzysztof Kasprzyk, and Grzegorz Lesiak, will join forces on stage with Amsterdam-based artists Dominique Chabot and Marcos Baggiani. Expect an extraordinary meeting of sound, energy, and creativity!
Together they aim at creating new collective music, while also fostering deeper international artistic collaboration, and encouraging exchange of knowledge, experience, and creative tools. This event is part of a larger mission project by the Foundation titled Strengthening European Artistic Bonds, during which the Polish artists will also visit Berlin and Brussels.
*our doors will be open from 18:00 with a listening session / discussion taking place before the concert. Join Mayke Haringhuizen & Daniel García and let them introduce you the artistry of attentive listening. Entry is free. more info
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About the Artists
The L.A.S. Collective is more than just a band presenting a specific musical style. It is a collective of artists associated with the L.A.S. Foundation (Listening and Sounding), which organically emerged during a concert tour promoting the L.A.S. Listening and Sounding label in Europe in 2024. The musicians continually propose new artistic combinations depending on where they are and in what constellation they create new art. They are characterised by complete openness, an awareness of creating new concepts, forms, sounds, conscious and deep listening, and coherence of expression regardless of any stylistic limitations.
Marcos Baggiani is a drummer, composer, and music producer based in Amsterdam. He counts numerous collaborations with artists and musicians from around the world.
Marcos Baggiani
Dominique Chabot is a versatile double bass player, active in classical, contemporary, and improvised music. She performs regularly with ensembles and orchestras in the Netherlands and abroad. The projects she enjoys most are the ones that collaborate with other disciplines.
Dominique Chabot

OPEN EAR: other than human
2025-06-07 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Listening Session | Discussion | Sound gathering
w/ Mayke Haringhuizen, Daniel García
18:30 (doors 18:00)**
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
Tickets: donation – Dinner: €15
Dinner is served from 18:30. Reservations are recommended – RSVP by purchasing online.

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On Saturday June 7, we are hosting our first attentive listening session. An event which is part of the OPEN EAR series, an enthusiastic endeavour aiming at increasing our listening awareness, initiated by the sound and radio artist Daniel García. Together with the sound artist Mayke Haringhuizen they have selected special works and they invite us to discover the artistry of attentive listening.
An informal gathering to chat and listen to the world from a new perspective.

OPEN EAR presents: Other-than-Human
Does Earth speak to us? A session dedicated to frequencies from non-human entities and geological forces that question our human nature and time scale. OPEN EAR is an evening for creative audio, radio art and experimental recordings. Close your eyes, open your ears and join us to listen together to a cherry-picked selection of short audio pieces.
*our doors will be open until late. For those interested in continuing their listening adventure, the listening session will be followed by an improvised music concert by the L.A.S. Collective, Dominique Chabot, & Marcos Baggiani. more info

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About the Artists
Daniel García is a filmmaker and sound artist, author of radio art pieces, installations, audiodocumentaries and podcasts. Based in Amsterdam since 2016, he has produced work for De Ambassade van deNoord Zee, Worm, Radiophrenia and Concertzender.
Daniel García
Mayke Haringhuizen is a Dutch artist based in Amsterdam. In her practice she explores the way people shape their own perception and reality through thought and wording. Fieldrecording, interviews and personal writing are her main tools. Projects include audiowalks, audio/video installation, sound composition and podcast

Mayke Haringhuizen

SPELLTOWN #2
2025-06-05 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
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 19:00
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, members of the NE electroacoustic music ensemble: 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

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.

Marielle Groven– photo by Aaron Lumley
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.
Donia Jourabchi
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.
Marc Nukoop
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.
As a music ensemble they perform in various settings and combinations: from scored compositions to free improvisation, they are keen on experimentation with their guests and new sound adventures.
The NE are:
Anne Wellmer (electronics, objects)
Semay Wu (cello & electronics)
Dan Gibson (DIY cello & electronics)
Fani Konstantinidou (electronics)
Mariette Groot (electronics)

Harvest Festival
2025-05-30 00:00 - 2025-06-01 23:59 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
From 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.
Building 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.
Our 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?
The program at GROND:
Friday 30 May, 10.00 – 17.00
Mubadele
Workshop and Talk
Through 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.
Exhibition Opening – Everywhere is War
Friday 30 May, 17.00 – 21.00
Through 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.
During the opening there will be dinner from 5 to 7pm cooked by Mohamed Alnoor,
and from 9pm a radio performance by Marc Nukoop, Ivo Bol and Wytze Minne de Swart.
The exhibition is also open on 31 May and 1 June from 12 to 9pm.

Saturday 31 May, 18.00 – 21.00
Don’t Stop Talking About Exile: The Voice of Women TV Show + Congo Solidarity Dinner
Screening/discussion + Dinner convened by We Sell Reality & Parole de Femmes
Parole 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.

The exhibition is also open on 1 June from 12 to 9pm.
Through 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.

Image: Work in progress – stop motion animation – We Sell Reality i.s.m Nina Karim van Oort

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-05-28 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-05-21 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-05-07 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-04-30 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Sport & Spel Club Balreep is our weekly game night.
It refers to the local football club that was founded in 2013 out of Op de Valreep and Vereniging Bajesdorp.
Bring your own game, weerwolven etc.
Food Reservations can be made by emailing: kantine [at] grond.community

OTO.3 | Dominique Chabot
2025-05-26 20:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Experimental music | Improvised music
w/ Maarten Visser, Robbert van Hulzen, Dominique Chabot
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:00 (doors 19:30)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online
oto.3
10 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.
Dominique Chabot

Nachtnetgat: postphoned to oct 5th
2025-05-24 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | 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.
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or online here.
Dinner: + €20 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online)
It is possible to get a ticket for just the performance without the diner.
Performers: Jasper Stadhouders, Julie Kurris, Ivo Bol, Olga Tsyganova, Nasim López-Palacios Navarro
Wearable sculpture artist: Daphne Karstens
Food by Judith Baten
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.
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.

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.
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Olga 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.

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
2025-05-23 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Experimental music | Live Electronics
w/TRUSTYOURT, Ctrl Freq, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Fani Konstantinidou, Mazen Al Ashkar
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online
Vegetarian Dinner form 19:00 hrs by Sudanese chef Mohamed Noor
diner + €15 RSVP required – Reservations: Mahmmednoor954@gmail.com
On 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.

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About the Artists
TRUSTYOURT (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.
TRUSTYOURT
Ctrl 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.
Sound 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.
Ctrl Freq
Kryptogen Rundfunk is an experimental sound project started in 2002 in St. Petersburg, Russia and
currently based in Amstelveen, The Netherlands. The project works with analogue electronics, radio
waves, electromagnetic interference and found sounds, creating sophisticated aural images, often
exploring extreme areas of the sonic spectrum. The purpose of these experiments is to temporarily
switch off listeners’ rational perception and immerse them into the direct experience of abstract sound.
During the 20 years of its activity, the project has recorded several studio albums released by European
and Russian labels, and performed numerous live gigs, both solo and in collaboration with many local and
international artists. Among the most well-known names to share the stage with were Einstürzende
Neubauten, Ben Frost, Bad Sector, Jacob Kirkegaard, Aube, Clock DVA, and Brighter Death Now.
Artem Ostapchuk, the man behind this project, is also the founder of the Zhelezobeton record label, which
became one of the biggest distributors of experimental music in Russia, but was closed in 2022 because
of relocation to The Netherlands. At present time, Artem operates Base Station label
and Fonodroom distribution.
Kryptogen Rundfunk
Mazen 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.
Mazen Al Ashkar
Fani 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.
Fani Konstantinidou

Temperatura: Looking for Life vol.1
2025-05-21 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London)
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.
With Ege Şahin, Domenika Georgiou, and Oscar van Leest.
Curated by Kristijonas Groblys.
food by Judith Baten
The 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.
Shaping 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.
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:00 (doors: 19:30)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online
Dinner: + €15 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online)
About the Artists
Ege Şahin – Mirror Angel
Ege 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.
Ege 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.

Oscar van Leest – Untitled
Oscar 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.
Oscar will perform a texture-focused live set, built around a modular synthesizer setup.

Domenika Georgiou – 𝑀𝑒𝒸𝒽𝒶𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒞𝑜𝓇𝑒
Domenika 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.
𝑀𝑒𝒸𝒽𝒶𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒞𝑜𝓇𝑒 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

TEMPERATURA
2025-05-17 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Free Improvisation
w/Giuseppe Doronzo, Katerina Orfanoudaki, Nina Hitz, Jasna Veličković, Fani Konstantinidou, + food by Judith Baten
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:30 – Dinner from 18:30
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 / +Dinner p.p. €15* – available at the door or online
*Reservation is recommended – please reserve by purchasing online.

On 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.
The same evening, Judith Baten is improvising in the kitchen and preparing vegan/vegetarian dinner!

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About the Artists
Katerina 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.
Her 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.
Her 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.
Katerina Orfanoudaki – photo: Thomas Huisman
Nina 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.
Her 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.
Nina Hitz
Giuseppe 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.
In 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.
Giuseppe Doronzo – photo: Yiğit Demircioğlu
Jasna 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.
Jasna Veličković
Fani 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.
Fani Konstantinidou

Eiwerk Electronic Music Night
2025-05-15 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Free entrance
Live Beats, DJ’s, Soundscapes, VJ’s made by musicians and artists from Eiwerk.

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-05-14 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Sport & Spel Club Balreep is a weekly game night, It refers to the local football club that was founded in 2013 out of Op de Valreep and Vereniging Bajesdorp. bring your own game, weerwolven etc.
reserve for food by emailing kantine [at] grond.community

Apapacho Day
2025-05-03 11:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Every year, mainly after the intensity of 8M and other feminist and social justice mobilizations, many of us find ourselves exhausted, drained, and on the verge of burning out. We give our energy to the struggle, to organizing, to holding space for others, but how often do we extend that same care to ourselves and to our community?
The Náhuatl word ‘apapacho’ carries deep meaning. According to linguistic studies, it comes from the verb papatzoa or patzoa, meaning “to press or squeeze”, which evolved into the idea of bodies coming together in an embrace, a physical gesture of warmth and comfort. Additionally, some scholars connect it to pachoa, meaning “to cover or shelter, like a hen incubating her eggs”, a beautiful metaphor for care as a protective and nurturing act.
Apapacho, then, is not just affection, it is a profound act of care that holds, soothes, and strengthens. As feminists, we constantly speak about care, healing, and collective well-being, so why not take this moment to actually put that into practice, together?
✨ What to expect?
🌿 Bodywork and relaxation sessions
☕ Nourishing drinks and comforting food
🎶 Soothing music and collective reflection
💜 A space to unwind, recconnect, and nurture resilience
This is a moment just for you, a pause to breathe, to feel held, and to restore strength for the struggles ahead. Come as you are, and let’s hold each other in radical care and solidarity.
📍 Grond
Register to feministasenholanda@gmail.com
Because rest is resistance. Because care is revolutionary. Because we deserve an apapacho.

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-04-23 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-04-16 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-04-09 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Sport & Spel Club Balreep is the name a weekly game night, It refers to the local football club that was founded in 2013 out of Op de Valreep an Vereniging Bajesdorp. bring your own game, weerwolven etc.
reserve for food by emailing kantine [at] grond.community

Benefit for Congo
2025-04-18 17:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
gathering for Congolese people in need
with speakers Aime Kabena and Eric Bimule
food, music, drinks
donations welcome

GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam

Cilice Orchestra
2025-04-16 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Music starts at 20:00 – Canteen is open for food from 18:30 hrs
Tickets here regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 –
Dinner: + €12,5 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online)
ABOUT the Artists
Theo Holsheimer is a man with a penchant for maximum madness on stage. His band Cilice is notorious for stretching the boundaries of heavy music like silly putty – a hard-hitting juggernaut that’s somehow also crazy nimble in its dazzling virtousity. In GROND we will get a semi-acoustic version of the new incarnation of his band Cilice.
Theo Holsheimer: gitaar, sampler
Philipp Moser: drums
Gijs Levelt: trompet
Oene van Geel: viool
Joao Driessen: sax
Vinkepeezer: Electronics

The performance of Rick & Rudie is cancelled.

Dinner–Music–Dialogue
2025-04-11 19:00 - 23:30 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Food & Music
by The String Octet, Mazen Al Ashkar, Judith Baten
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
Dinner–Music–Dialogue 19:00–21:00 (doors 18:30)
Tickets (inc. food & concert): regular €25 (or more) / discount €20 available at the door or online here.
▶︎ Reservation required ◀︎ Please RSVP by booking your tickets online
FREE ENTRY after 20:30 with live music by the Brazilian band Arte Feiticeira, and uplifting music until late!

ABOUT the event
Food 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!
The String Octet:
After 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!

Judith Baten: Food
Max Bruch: Octet for strings
D.S.: Two pieces for sting octet
Bram Faber: Strands
Mazen Al Ashkar – An improvisation on two sequences exploring microtonality in modular setup.

Vrije Ruimte Festival
2025-04-05 14:00 - 23:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
14:00 – 23:30
€ FREE – donations welcome
Artists: Andrea Elera, Dominique Chabot, Ivo Bol, Jasna Veličković, Judith Baten, Marc Nukoop, Mazen Al Ashkar, Nicolás Conde, Quartier Mustache, Ramon Smit, Wytze Minne de Swart, Seijiro Murayama (guest), Roger Fähndrich (guest), Pau Sola (guest)
GROND is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Amsterdam Alternative, and taking part in the Vrije Ruimte Festival: a multidisciplinary, bilingual, experimental yet accessible festival for young and old, that will take place in ten different locations on ten different dates between March and September 2025.
At GROND, we invite you to reconnect with the pulse of nature and community as we welcome the Spring. The programme brings together different ways of resilience, rebirth, and collectiveness through performances, installations, and workshops. Dive into a dynamic program where image, food, sound, and movement blur boundaries, bringing us together in organic, ever-evolving experiences. Join us as we celebrate alternative ways of being and creating, nurturing the seeds of tomorrow – together.
We start with a workshop for children that combines storytelling, performance and drawing and we finish with a collective performance and closing party. In between there will be a range of experiences happening. Feel free to spend a full afternoon and evening with us or just pop in for an hour.

Sport & Spel Club Balreep
2025-04-02 18:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)

Sudanese Eid Benefit Party
2025-03-30 14:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Sunday 30 or Monday 31 March 14:00-22:00
check instagram/wesellreality for the date
Celebrating the end of the fasting period of Ramadan.
With DJ Fox
Free event, and donations are welcome!
Food, drinks, Music

SNCKBAR #2
2025-03-29 17:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Snacks at the bar before and during the concert!
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
Doors open at 17:00
Tickets: €17,5 (or more) – available at the door or online here.

Solidarity Iftar #4 with We Sell Reality
2025-03-28 17:30 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1096AP, Netherlands
Four Iftars, fast-breaking evening meals, in March 2025
During Ramadan 2025 the artist collective We Sell Reality organizes so-called Solidarity Iftars at four Friday evenings in a row. Every Solidarity Iftar will have a focus on a certain area of conflict that is not much in the news. Together we want to break the fasting and stand still with these conflicts and developments and learn about them. We will focus on four countries: Sudan, Haiti, Congo and Syria. We will invite speakers who can tell us the ins and outs of what is going on in these countries.
The Iftars will be prepared by We Sell Reality. In return of a donation of €15 you can eat and drink. 1/3 of the sum you lay in will go to a grassroots organization in one of these four countries. Together we pray/wish/hope for a better future for all people in need.
When will the Iftars be?
The Iftars will be at Friday the 7th of March, Friday the 14th of March, Friday the 21st of March and Friday the 28th of March from 17:30 till 23:00 at GROND.
Who is We Sell Reality?
We Sell Reality is an artistic collective that makes the struggles of refugees visible through art and organizing gatherings.

Photo by Farouk Ebaiss for the Symposium Suns and Stars
