For their Dutch debut, Berlin-based collective ASNAM أصنام is organizing a two-part event across Amsterdam and The Hague on the weekend of 15–16 May. Following a night at Bar40 on Friday, they will touch down in The Hague on Saturday to take over our space for an evening of exciting and innovative sounds.
The thoughtfully curated programme features live sets including BURIDAN’S SNARES, a sonic and dance performance by French artist Ha Kyoon, Brussels-based Carrageenan performing a live set from his latest release Dry Signal (Nose Job Records), and SERENA, who will present a delicate journey into harsh noise. Experimental and narrative DJ and hybrid sets will be delivered by locals Isadora Chadeaux and Swamp trax.
SWAMP TRAX
Swamp trax invites you to slowly sink or dance. Working as an multidisciplinary artist in Amsterdam, in their sets they move organically between drone, experimental, and noise with a focus on music as a spatial and ritual practice.
SERENA
Amsterdam-based selector, music producer and curator SERENA forges immersive soundscapes that merge aggressive noise with atmospheric textures, dubby loops, distorted guitars, and guttural vocals. She is the founder of SUBURBIA, an event launched in 2022 that fuses experimental music and visual arts and media, showcasing a wide range of both local and international emergent artists.
ISADORA CHADEAUX
Isadora Chadeaux moves through weathered electronic noises, slapping together a patchwork of acoustic and novel samples to pose a scene. Their selection is a black box of chance encounters, putting tempo and tone in swinging tension. In built up dense layers, Isadora works to expose delicate sounds slipping through in diffuse, shifting ranges.
HA KYOON
Ha Kyoon is a protean artist born in South Korea, raised in France and based in Paris. With a circus, dance & acting background, he collaborates as a performer with different artists in the performing arts fields since 2009. In music Ha KYOON is on tour with a punk electronique live act, with machines, a triggered snare, synths and a voice.
CARRAGEENAN
Carrageenan is Brussels based midnight lurker Matthieu Levet’s solo project. He’s a hardened live performer, boss of the Cold Moss label and in diverse bands like Carcass Identity, Pizza Noise Mafia and Orphids. His live performance often turns a venue into a black hole where analog percussion, heavy distorted bass, dub techniques and raw minimalism meet, bubbling, scraping, drowning the audience in a splurge of electronic tonal and atonal dribble.
Berlin-based ASNAM أصنام is an agency supporting independent artists with management, booking, promotion, and event production, as well as a collective organising experimental music events.
Telegram: @asnamagency