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Deep Seeing Currents
Thu 22 · 09:00 · ARTIS Aquarium · Aquarium · Amsterdam
As you approach Deep Seeing Currents by Olafur Eliasson , you are slowly enveloped by darkness and the sounds of life underwater. Layers of oceanic cacophony – whale songs, rumbling of hydrothermal vents, and human-made noises, among others – surround you, while the vibrations can be felt throughout your entire body, emulating the experience of pressure in the deep sea. Above and around you, lights flash and seem to descend like the hypnotic circulation of marine snow, the organic and inorganic particles essential to life in the deep sea. The immersive sound of Deep seeing currents is brought to life by 4DSOUND . The exhibition is located inside the ARTIS Aquarium and can be visited with a valid ARTIS Park ticket. Tickets are available through the ARTIS website. Opening hours: Wed - Sun, 09:00 - 18.00
Yin + Cacao + Ambient Sound
Thu 22 · 09:15 · When Nature Calls Biohacking Center · Amsterdam
Begin the day by slowing down and coming back to yourself. This gentle yin practice combines restorative, floor-based movement with the grounding ritual of cacao, creating space to settle the body, quiet the mind and cultivate presence. Through long, supported stretches, mindful breathing and moments of stillness, you’ll be invited to release tension and start the day feeling calm, centred and connected. A soft reset before stepping back into the energy of ADE. Led by Maria Arnaoutaki Maria is a dedicated wellness practitioner with a passion for creating meaningful and transformative experiences through movement, sound, and ceremony. Her offerings combine Yoga, Sound Healing, Cacao Rituals, and Shamanic Practices to support healing, embodiment, and deeper self-connection.With over 700 hours of yoga training and 8 years of experience hosting workshops, retreats, and community events across Europe, Maria brings a grounded and heart-centered approach to holistic well-being.At the heart of everything Maria does is a love for bringing people together: creating spaces where community, authenticity, and joy can naturally unfold.
RESONANCE: Listening to the Future
Thu 22 · 09:45 · The Stargate · Amsterdam
Venue information: This event was originally scheduled to take place at the Embassy of the Free Mind, but has been relocated to The Stargate. The Sanctuary Earth Foundation presents: Resonance - Listening to the Future. One conversation, five perspectives. The future we are trying to protect. The ritual of gathering around sound is as old as the species. It has survived war, plague, empire and prohibition. It has never survived being turned into a product. Are we the last stewards of what makes it work? Can the cities, technologies and spaces we build next protect it rather than consume it? 09:45 - 10:45 | Arriving Through Breath: 108 AUM, €15 A gentle guided meditation set to a specially curated Sonic Spheres composition. Before the first beat, we begin with the breath. Bianka Duka opens the day with breathwork and meditation, inviting visitors to leave the noise behind and arrive fully in their bodies, the space, and the moment. 12:30 - 13:30 & 13:30 - 14:30 | The Sanctuary Sessions: Empowerment, €15 Monica van der Meulen and Lasse Mosegard lead visitors through the Sonic Spheres, an immersive sound experience exploring whether sound can help us slow down, recalibrate, and reconnect. Each session begins with a short introduction, followed by the session using spatial audio and curated frequencies designed to support nervous system regulation and a sense of calm. Visitors experiencing sound as something felt throughout the body, not only heard. 14:30 - 15:30 | Resonance: Listening to the Future (indepth session), €35 Five distinctive voices from different disciplines share their knowledge, practice and vision, followed by an open conversation with the audience. How does sound shape consciousness, and how might emerging technologies extend the ways we listen, feel and experience the world? This session explores sound as a medium for investigating perception, memory and altered states. What is the therapeutic potential of psychoacoustics and archaeoacoustics? Connecting artistic practice with critical enquiry, the session asks whether sound can support enduring changes in attention, perception and behaviour: a movement from altered states towards altered traits. Speakers: Carl Hayden Smith (Museum of Consciousness), Natasha Stark, DJ Isis (Isis van der Wel), Pieter Smits van Waesberghe (Dragonfly Water Solutions), Carina Kornfeind. Explore more ADE Arts & Culture events at The Stargate here .
EINDER by Boris Acket
Thu 22 · 10:00 · Centrale Markthal · Amsterdam
Between 22-25 October, you can walk beneath the art installation EINDER by Boris Acket and experience it up close as it continuously transforms, flowing to the rhythm of day and night. Ready to step into the art and leave time behind? During the EINDER exhibition, you decide how your experience unfolds and how long it lasts. Walk, sit, stand still, and watch EINDER continuously transform to the rhythm of day and night. Always moving. Never the same twice. All we need to know is when you’ll arrive. From that moment on, the space is yours. Special time-slots with performances of Kianí del Valle On Friday 23 and Saturday 24 October at 9PM, Kianí del Valle takes over with a unique performance, reshaping the installation’s movements through her dynamic choreography. Every moment of the day has its own unique effect on EINDER. It’s up to you to choose your favourite time slot(s) As the sun rises and sets, shining its light through the sky panels onto the installation. Enjoy the soft morning light, the brightness of day, the shifting colours of sunset, or the dark skies at night. You decide how you experience EINDER. Explore more ADE Arts & Culture events at Centrale Markthal here .
For Love and Health of House
Thu 22 · 10:00 · A Lab · Amsterdam
THE ROOM IS THE LINE-UP Two days at ADE. Artists, DJs, producers, founders, promoters, managers, crew, coaches, care workers and people who simply love this scene, all in the same room. Different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. One thing in common: a life in electronic music, and things worth talking about. And you never quite know who you'll end up having them with. For Love and Health of House brings people together around mental health, substance use, addiction, pressure, relationships, recovery and the realities of a life built around music. Come because a panel catches your attention. Join a workshop. Meet someone whose work you've followed for years. Find someone working on exactly the thing you've been thinking about. Hear an opinion you completely disagree with. Have a conversation you didn't expect. Have a laugh. Or simply grab a coffee and see who's in the room. You don't have to share your story. And you definitely don't need to have everything figured out. You just need to be curious enough to walk in. This is the fifth edition of For Love and Health of House, part of the official ADE programme. WHAT'S HAPPENING THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER 10:15–11:15 | Tai Chi by Izzy Naud Wellbeing 11:30–13:00 | Panel: Where Is My Off Switch?Burnout, anxiety, exhaustion and why so many of us keep going. Where does our own part end, and where does the industry's begin? 13:00–13:45 | Lunch breakFood and drinks are available at De Schelp, the lunchroom at A Lab. 13:45–15:00 | Panel: When the Music Industry Comes Home With YouA life in music gives a lot and asks a lot, at home too. What does that mean for partners, for children, for you? And when, and how, do you talk to your kids about nightlife and drugs? 15:15–16:15 | Frequency Sculptures An Audio Reactive Journey Through Sound and Visual Matter by Evenaris. 15:15–16:15 | Mindful Connections, Networking but different.Hosted by AFEM Health Group, led by co-chairs Leda Curti and Izzy Naud. 16:45–18:30 | Panel: Is It a Matter of Substance?Alcohol, drugs, porn... When is it fun, a habit and when has it become harmful or an addiction? And what helps you change when it has? 18:30–19:00 | Closing Throughout the day a variety of other activities will take place, to be announced soon. FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 10:00–11:30 | Panel: 40+ Years In: The Pressures in Electronic MusicAn underground scene became a billion-dollar industry, with social media and AI on top. What did that growth give us, what did it cost, and what can change? WHO'S IN THE ROOM • Angie Linder, co-founder Detroit Techno Militia • Hilit Kolet, DJ and producer • Izzy Naud, founder Izzy Naud Wellbeing • Milly on Air, DJ and podcaster • Paulisme, DJ and musician • Paul Nolan, DJ and coach • Paul Sparkes, DJ and producer • Radio Slave, DJ and producer • Rosaline Tóth, coach, founder It's Not All Roses • Ryan O'Shaughnessy, founder Medtronica • Sally Freeman, founder Sleep, Eat, Rave, Repeat • Shirley van Dam, DJ, founder Yotecha • Susanne Alt, DJ and producer • Theo Nasa, DJ and producer • Véronique de Leon, coach, founder Solsync More to be announced. And the people on the programme are only part of it. The room is the line-up. That includes you. WHEN AND WHERE Thursday 22 October, 10:00–19:00Friday 23 October, 09:00–12:00A LabOverhoeksplein 2Amsterdam-Noord10 minutes from Amsterdam Centraal Come for one session. Stay for several. Come back on Friday. One ticket covers both days. TICKETS Full access, both days: €20 Pay it forward: €20Buy a ticket for someone who would love to be here but can't afford it. DonationAny amount, to support the work we do. ADE Pro Pass holders get in free, subject to capacity. AND ON FRIDAY MORNING: UNWASTED Detroit techno at 9am. Coffee hot. Pyjamas encouraged. ClinkNOORD, 09:00 to 12:00, with T. Linder and Neil V. of Detroit Techno Militia on the decks. Sober, wide awake and dancing. Want pancakes first? Only 30 Pancake Breakfast tickets available! UNWASTED Tickets and info With thanks to our partners A Lab, AFEM, Clink Hostels, Detroit Techno Militia and Medtronica. Created and produced by Connect2Progress See you in the room. Instagram Website
Minimal Collective x Oude Kerk: Post-Space - Audiovisual Installation
Thu 22 · 10:00 · Oude Kerk Amsterdam · Amsterdam
From Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 October 2026, during Amsterdam Dance Event, Minimal Collective presents the second edition of its ongoing site-oriented listening series, Post-Space, in collaboration with Oude Kerk and ADE Arts & Culture. Across three days, sound and visual art enter into dialogue with the distinctive architecture and acoustics of Amsterdam’s oldest building. On Friday , October 23rd and Saturday , October 24th, Post-Space presents two distinct evening programmes of live performances and DJ sets, featuring an audiovisual world premiere and several debut collaborations. For its second edition, Post-Space expands its format with Hieropixel , a new audiovisual installation by Tharim Cornelisse . Using images and sound recordings from the Oude Kerk as source material, the work transforms elements of the building into an evolving audiovisual composition. In addition to being presented during the church’s daytime opening hours from Thursday through Saturday, Hieropixel also accompanies the live programmes on Friday and Saturday night in an adapted form. The work marks the first iteration of an evolving visual method within Post-Space, responding to the spatial character of each location. The installation and live performances come together within a wider listening environment developed specifically for the Oude Kerk. Building on research conducted during last year’s edition, Kantarion Sound returns with a custom sound system that responds to the building’s distinctive acoustics, while seating by côte&ciel introduces a physical dimension to the act of listening. Through art, sound and editorial storytelling, Post-Space enters into dialogue with the church, exploring memory, histories and embodied deep listening.
SUSPENDED - Music Hammocks
Thu 22 · 11:00 · The Stargate · Amsterdam
What if you could listen with your whole body? During ADE, The Stargate invites you into SUSPENDED : an immersive sound experience centred around Parker Hertzberger 's vibrating Music Hammocks , where sound becomes physical and the body becomes part of the listening experience. Parker Hertzberger's work explores the physical and spatial dimensions of sound. His vibrating hammocks translate music into tactile vibration, allowing you to experience frequencies through your entire body rather than through the ears alone. Alongside standalone sessions where you can drop in, lie back and experience the hammocks, SUSPENDED will feature a series of live performances by artists working directly with the technology; creating music that can be heard, felt and experienced physically in real time. A different kind of listening experience for ADE: less about standing in front of the sound, and more about being inside it. Drop-in experiences + immersive live performances Full programme to be announced Explore more ADE Arts & Culture events at The Stargate here .
Waitin' Here (United Identities) - EP Listening Session with Scalio
Thu 22 · 12:00 · Radio Radio · The Listening Bar · Amsterdam
Speaker: Scalio (Artist) For this intimate listening session, Scalio takes us into the musical world behind her new EP, Waitin’ Here. Guiding the session herself, she’ll share the tracks, sounds and influences that shaped the record, from the restless momentum of drum & bass and the bounce of UK garage to the tension, intimacy and release of the dancefloor. Released on United Identities, the label founded by DJ and producer CARISTA, Waitin' Here reflects the label's openness to adventurous sounds and distinctive artistic voices. Through music and conversation, Scalio will trace the inspirations behind Waitin’ Here and share how they found their way into her own production and creative process.
Free, register first.