surprise me + at night + live music + listening sessions + only ambient
ADE picks
Sofia's Trip
A sound trip through Sofia Gubaidulina’s avant-garde world and Soheil Shayesteh’s trance-ambient work, with Lonelinoise and live electronics in the mix. Bowed strings, kamancheh, piano and processed texture move as one shifting body of sound.For fans of Asko|Schönberg, Fazıl Say, Ritual Ensemble
Crawler Presents: Your Death Is a Lullaby
The live premiere of Crawler's 'Your Death Is a Lullaby' at Muziekgebouw: Nkisi's rhythmic noise and ritual pressure, an Unsound-commissioned quartet's hazy ambient R&B, and Coil's foyer performance with a spring reverb moved through the room. Challenging, in the best way.For fans of A. G. Cook, Sound art performances, Rainy Miller
Sonic Journey: The History of Electronic Dance Music
House, Techno, Ambient with Derk Louwes, Nathan Kofi.For fans of Marcel Dettmann, DVS1, Theo Parrish
The Listening Room ADE
The Listening Room ADE is a concert at The Stargate, offering a space for ambient, electronic, and experimental music. Enjoy selections by vinyl DJs in an atmospheric setting.
Kara-Lis Coverdale & Lia Kohl
Kara-Lis Coverdale writes for piano, organ and electronics; Lia Kohl plays cello with field recordings and radios. ADE's opening concert in one of the world's great halls.
Interactive Workshop with Giulio Beja & Veronica Motta and Listening Session with Mark Knekelhuis
Giulio Beja and Veronica Motta ask whether safer nightlife is about fewer rules and more care, then Amsterdam label boss Mark Knekelhuis plays a listening set of rough, tactile club records. Free.
Dome Concerts presents: CATCHING FLIES - visuals Julius Horsthuis
Catching Flies and Julius Horsthuis bring soulful melodies, deep basslines and fractal dome visuals together in ARTIS Planetarium. Expect live-instrument feel, detailed rhythms and immersive animation that syncs electronic music with a planetarium setting.
Motie - Thursday (Opening Night)
Motie turns the Stopera, city hall and opera house on the Amstel, into a home for the city's night culture for three days. The opening has Young Marco's psychedelic, left-turn sets, Jonny Nash's slow-blooming guitar ambient and Oceanic's live minimal techno.