surprise me + only thursday + art & exhibitions + at night + only idm & experimental + only free
Nothing matched only thursday and only free together, so I dropped that and kept the rest.
ADE picks
Striptopia
Pole dance, drag, stripping and performance
Dome Concerts presents: THYLACINE - visuals by Julius Horsthuis
Thylacine plays long, cinematic pieces that mix acoustic detail with clean synths, while Julius Horsthuis projects fractal animation around you at Fabrique des Lumières. Sit back and look up.
Swan Lake Remixed for ADE
Dutch National Ballet, ISH Dance Collective and Junior Company reframe Swan Lake with hip-hop dance, electronic music and digital art. The staged work ties desire, freedom and the tension between light and darkness to the present day.
Doka Culture x Live Coding Sessions
MYNA builds dark, percussion-heavy patterns in real time while the code is projected; Hellocatfood and Deaxmachina code the visuals. A basement under Volkshotel, and the most nerdy-fun night of the week.
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest x EINDER by Boris Acket
Boris Acket’s EINDER meets the Concertgebouworkest’s Beethoven Fifth inside Amsterdam’s Centrale Markthal, with 70 musicians under a monumental light-and-motion installation. It’s orchestral weight, spatial sound and moving fabric in one large-scale art-and-music setup.
Melting Image
Melting Image is Romina Koopman’s slow-moving light-and-projection installation: silkscreen on transparent layers is heat-formed into sculptural shapes, so the gallery window turns into a screen and the image only comes through with time and attention.
Charged by Jaco Schilp
Charged by Jaco Schilp is a sensor-driven light environment where your body sets the pace: clouds of light gather, repel and fold together as people move through the space. TouchDesigner and YOLO shape the reactive glow around presence and collision.
Dreaming Babies: illi by Yoon Chung Han
Dreaming Babies: illi by Yoon Chung Han centers 23 hybrid human babies in virtual incubators, with audience mic input and a ChatGPT layer feeding the audiovisual piece. It links AI, genetics and speculative birth into a realtime installation about perfecting bodies.