Open|Forms Festival

September 7th

At Boot122, Nijverheidskade 12, Utrecht

With:

  • Mahu
  • Dyade
  • M4
  • Speelgoed Bende
  • Allert Aalders

Mahu Sonic Storytelling

Will technological advancements ultimately swallow mankind?

Are we losing the connection to (our) nature?

Can you stand still amidst complete chaos? Or even embrace it?

The MAHU Book of Stories will be opened, 7th of September. Bringing soundscapes together with A.I. generated images, diverse chapters are performed.

Sonic poetry for the couragious mind.


Dyade

Dyade is the dark IDM project of Henk Hop and Dom Graveson. Henk is better known as Microloop and has released a number of experimental recordings.

Dom has past collaborations with Digitonal and CERN across a variety of genres, and more recently as The Invisibles. His latest project ‘Pansemic’ can be found here https://pansemic.bandcamp.com/

Expect precision beats, dark textures, and a journey touching on many influences and shades across their collective experiences.


M4

Marco and Martijn (Cinema Perdu amongst others) joined forces to create an interactive music machine.

With this machine the audience can create (acoustic) music themselves with all kinds of interaction possibilities.

This time it is Marco and Martijn themselves who will create the music, half modular, half music machine.

https://interactivemusic.net


Speelgoed Bende

Speelgoed Bende (aka Veerle Pennock) really wants to emphasise sounds from toys and circuit bend casio keyboards, speak and spell’s and similar things can make for great musical instruments when used correctly, and instead of what theyre used for commonly wich is very harsh and distrorted also make them sound insanely good when fed into a modular system.


Allert Aalders

Allert is hard to miss if you are into synths and in The Netherlands. He is part of the Modulation and Dutch modular fest teams and he plays various electronic music events now and then (Voltage Control Amsterdam, Electric Cafe Arnhem, Noodlebar Rotterdam, Superbooth etc).

It’s also possible that he taught you about synths and if you use plugin instruments by Arturia, Native Instruments, Steinberg, Kilohearts and or Fabfilter you’ve probably used a preset he made.

Allert improvises with voltages, generated or found sounds and effects (Granular! Reverb!) and creates a patch to play on the event itself.