Music & Performance

Fri 12/05 | Noordwaards

The music & performance programme offers audiovisual sets, DJ and live sets. Submerge yourself in an international selection of experimental live performances and DJ sets at Noordwaards on the 12th of May. The programme will evolve from ambient to harder sounds and beyond. Explore a space in which image and sound fragment and mutate.

Opening Concert

Thu 11/05 | Concertgebouw

On Thursday 11 May, Entrée and FIBER Festival present an evening concert with adventurous crossovers between the world of classical sounds and spherical electronic music. The Concertgebouw's Recital Hall will be the stage for three female composers and performers. The focus of the evening is on their interdisciplinary compositions in which they merge arrangements and enrichments of acoustic instruments or vocals with technological expression.

Symposium

Sat 13/05 & Sun 14/05 | De Brakke Grond

The two-day symposium is the heart of the festival and offers a dynamic range of performative lectures, interviews, listening sessions and conversations. It will take place at De Brakke Grond, in the city centre of Amsterdam. Get to know the work of leading and emerging artists, designers, musicians and researchers. In what ways do they relate their practice and performances to innovative technological developments and pressing environmental, social and cultural issues?

Club Night

Sat 13/05 | Garage Noord

FIBER and Garage Noord join forces again for the annual club night. Garage Noord is an intimate space where you can dance from Friday to Monday, enjoy some Roti in between sets, or just pop by for a game of chess. Overcoming all challenges of the pandemic, Garage Noord has once again shown us to be one of the most important clubs in Amsterdam to burn your energy at the end of the week. Join us for a mesmerising night, after which you pop outside anew in the early morning rays.

Exhibition: Fragments

Wed 10/05 - Sun 14/05 | Door Open Space

The exhibition Fragments brings together a wide selection of works exploring our rapidly transforming world through multi-sensory ways. Fragments invites you to reassemble a new understanding of our surroundings and identities, using different acts of listening, music, sound, sonic speculation and magical world building as inspiring and critical media.

Audiovisual Art Assembly

Fri 12/05 | Oedipus Brewing

The second iteration of the Audiovisual Art Assembly (AAA) happens Friday May 12 at Oedipus Brewing. This one-day event functions as a platform for a wide variety of artistic makers and thinkers to exchange making processes and research methodologies in the fields of media art, electronic music, sound art, design and research. At the same time, possible relationships and ways of collaborating between the arts and (academic) research will also be examined. This includes the relationships between art practices and technological, ecological and social topics. The event closes with an afternoon of networking accompanied by drinks and music.