Opening Sonic Acts at Stedelijk
Thursday 26 February
19:00 - 22:00
Stedelijk Museum
This festive opening night of the Sonic Acts Festival at the Stedelijk Museum explores the real and the synthetic, and derails the senses. It features a monumental multi-sensory performance by Florian Hecker, a lecture by Reza Negarestani, a captivating new installation by Kurt Hentschläger, and dazzling and enchanting live sets by Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk, Espen Sommer Eide, and part wild horses mane on both sides.
Kurt Hentschläger: 'Measure'
Thursday 26 February
10:00 - 22:00
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.32
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.32
Fri 27 Feb - Sun 1 Mar
10:00 - 18:00
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.32
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.32
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.32
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.32
Kurt Hentschläger
Kurt Hentschläger’s Measure (2014) is a panoramic audiovisual installation that reflects on the concept of nature in the 21st century. As our experience of nature is filtered through digital communication channels, the boundaries between mediated and physical experience start to blur.
Bas van Koolwijk & Gert-Jan Prins: Delay Line Memory
Thursday 26 February
19:30 - 20:00
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.34
Thursday 26 February
20:45 - 21:15
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.34
A brand new live set in which the visualisation of the ‘delay line memory’ of audio data interacts with improvisations on drums and digital electronics.
Florian Hecker: 'A Script for Machine Synthesis'
Thursday 26 February
19:30 - 20:20
Stedelijk Museum, Auditorium
Thursday 26 February
21:00 - 21:50
Stedelijk Museum, Auditorium
Sat 28 Feb - Sun 1 Mar
16:00 - 17:00
Stedelijk Museum, Auditorium
Stedelijk Museum, Auditorium
Stedelijk Museum, Auditorium
Florian Hecker
A Script for Machine Synthesis is a sound piece, an experimental drama that recalls Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty, Beckett’s minimalist narratives and neo-imagist poetry.
Espen Sommer Eide: ‘A Tuned Chord is like a Scientific Instrument Probing the Universe’
Thursday 26 February
20:00 - 20:30
Stedelijk Museum, Room 0.1
Thursday 26 February
21:15 - 21:45
Stedelijk Museum, Room 0.1
For his performance at the Stedelijk, Espen Sommer Eide taps into his collection of musical tuning systems, both new and old
part wild horses mane on both sides: 'Kith, Schist; slowing down the time experience'
Thursday 26 February
20:15 - 20:45
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.28
Thursday 26 February
21:15 - 21:45
Stedelijk Museum, Room 1.28
part wild horses mane on both sides induce hermetic sonic states through ritualistic improvisation.
Reza Negarestani: 'Geophilosophy after the Copernican Abstract Machine'
Thursday 26 February
20:30 - 21:15
Stedelijk Museum, Entrance Hall
In his presentation Reza Negarestani attempts to identify and underline the tacit dimension of the Copernican Revolution and its ongoing reverberations in science and philosophy.