Progressive adventurous concerts with a focus on jazz and improvised music in Amsterdam and beyond Music is alive!
SPACE IS THE PLACE is a jazz/impro concert serie in Café de Ruimte (Amsterdam-Noord). Musicians who have performed ao: Nate Wooley, Thomas Johansson, Gard Nilssen, Ola Høyer, Kristoffer Alberts, Nate Wooley, Jasper Stadhouders, Terrie Ex, Onno Govaert, Jim Black, Oscar Noriega, Trevor Dunn, Chris Speed, Ziv Taubenfeld, Boi Akih, Ab Baars, Frank Rosaly, Mars Williams, Wilbert deJoode, Martin van Duynhoven, Joris Roelofs, Honest John, DUOT ...
20/12/2024
A wonderful end of the year with a 3-days tour of Frank Rosaly's Ruidoscuro ft Marta Warelis, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Andy Moor in Belgium! Performing at Sojo Leuven, Rataplan Antwerp and KAAP Oostende. Also on stage were Farida Amadou, Joachim Badenhorst, Suzan Peeters, Ocean Eddie, Sofia Jernberg, Andreas Bral & John Dikeman.
A big thank you to the musicians & organisations involved - on to a happy 2025 with more exciting musical encounters!
An impression of the concert at KAAP by Yvan Mahieu.
12/12/2024
Lineup for the final Orbits x SITP fall series, next Tuesday!
LIDA BROUSKARI SOLO
Lida Brouskari graces us solo, on the keys. A skilled pianist who started at a very early age, Brouskari has been making waves in the local scene in various formations, including her band Nufaro, which blends avant-garde pop sensibilities with experimental and ’70s rock influences.
Lida Brouskari – keys
RUIDOSCURO
Frank Rosaly’s Ruidoscuro presents strict sequential patterns against improvisation to inhabit ritualistic musical movement. The music tells a dark, haunting story in a richly layered context of spinning polyrhythms, bi-tonal melodic material, and pivoting harmonic structures in a new music that defies centralization. Layered systems of repetition, trance-based cycles, and melodic motifs spin and bridge one another, creating space for the listener to become lost in the raw energy of this powerful quartet.
Marta Warelis – keys | Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – electronics | Andy Moor – guitar | Frank Rosaly – drums
HRISTO GOLEMINOV / SIEBREN SMINK
Hristo Goleminov is a saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist with a keen interest in free improvisation. For this event, he’s in full interplay with close friend and long-time collaborator Siebren Smink, a guitarist and composer who was steeped in psych rock as a kid. They will play new compositions by Goleminov, exploring baroque-inspired counterpoint, oddly singable melodies, and interwoven structures within the low confines of the baritone sax and guitar.
From 13–15 December Space is the Place tours Belgium in a new concept called Interlinie. This three-day celebration aims to connect and cross-pollinate the Dutch and Belgian landscapes of improvisation, experimentation, and jazz. This first edition brings together the explosive quartet of Ruidoscuro with like-minded Belgian musicians at each respective stage–with possible new formations popping up in the moment, who knows!
Frank Rosaly’s Ruidoscuro is a musical research project focusing on his native Puerto Rican roots in concert with his background as an improviser, composer, and jazz musician. Using electronics alongside acoustic instruments to create otherworldly reflections of pre-Columbus indigenous instruments and employing strict sequential patterns against improvisation to inhabit ritualistic musical movement, the music tells a dark, haunting story in a richly layered context of spinning polyrhythms, bi-tonal melodic material, and pivoting harmonic structures in a new music that defies centralization. Layered systems of repetition, trance-based cycles, and melodic motifs spin and bridge one another, creating space for the listener to become lost in the raw energy of this powerful quartet.
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – synthesizers & electronics | Marta Warelis – synthesizers | Andy Moor – electric guitar | Frank Rosaly – drums & electronics
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Interlinie is organized in cooperation with Sound in Motion, Klankhaven, KAAP, Rataplan & Sojo
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Next week! The Orbits X Space is the Place series concludes with a special evening featuring the young, upcoming experimental piano talent Lida Brouskari and the lyrical, unpredictable duo Hristo Goleminov and Siebren Smink. This evening closes with Frank Rosaly’s amazing Ruidoscuro quartet, in super shape after their Belgian tour organized by SITP, full of power, with transcendental raw energy.
Music 20:00. Dinner available, 18:30–19:30: winter soul-warming stew of pumpkin and beetroots, with rice and a kale-tarragon pesto (vegan)
Raw improv, avant-garde electronics, a myriad of stages by SITP x KIM at de Nijverheid in Utrecht. Line-up below and find more info via the website.
Alesya Dobysh
Amir Torangan
Andy Moor
Angelo Antic
Anthony Girgis
Camille Maria
Derozan
Elsa van der Linden
Gabriel de Oliveira
Gaetha
Gropina
Henry Weekes
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti
Jacob-Maskell-Key
Jake Mehew
Jochem van Tol
Korshid Dadbeh
Loma Doom
Luke Cohlen
Mangruv
Max Frimout
Pittori Locali
RRRADIANT
Sanem Kalfa
tala drum corps
Terrie Ex
Thomas Hell
Underbelly Soundart Media
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Meer dan 20 optredens-waarvan vele premières of unieke combinaties-dreunen door het CFX geluidssysteem in de grote zaal en verspreid over meerdere podia op het terrein van De Nijverheid. Verwacht avant-garde elektronica en folk zoals je gewend bent van de Keep it Moving crew gemixt met de improvise...
19/11/2024
Tonight! Get your 🎫 for Orbits x Space is the Place fall series #2 starting at 20:00
Includes optional dinner from 18:30 onward — Vietnamese herbal Pho with season vegetables like Chinese cabbage, winter carrot and mushrooms (vegan)
Two special guests tonight to perform with the international music scene of Amsterdam; one of the front runners of the Scandinavian impro/jazz scene Gard Nilssen and Chicago based saxophonist Ken Vandermark. Drummer Gard Nilssen, saxophonist Aviv Noam and bassist Omer Govreen will play together for the first time, Ken Vandermark and Terrie Ex have a long history together, also with The Ex and Lean Left. Bassist Omer Govreen will play with his own quartet, consisting of the finest jazz musicians in town.
LINE-UP:
AVIV NOAM / OMER GOVREEN / GARD NILSSEN | KEN VANDERMARK / TERRIE EX | OMER GOVREEN QUARTET
NOVEMBER 19, 18:30 – 23:30
DOKZAAL, AMSTERDAM
TICKETS € 10 / € 12 / € 15 (pay what you can) | DINNER (18:30 – 19:30) € 8,-
13/11/2024
DECEMBER ANNOUNCEMENT · A new Intergalactic Night, as always on a Monday in BIMHUIS. An evening of co-presented performances at Amsterdam's renowned venue, this time across genres and disciplines from the worlds of jazz, spoken word, and avant-garde music. Expect musical encounters and artistic crossovers that take you from African roots via percussion and expressive poetry to the intricate sound of Chicago.
Hunter Diamond, saxophone, flute & Mike Reed drums
Daniëlle Zawadi, spoken word
Dudù, percussion & Ziv, bass clarinet
Michael Moore, DJ
· Tickets via bimhuis.nl/en/calendar/an-intergalactic-night-mike-reed-hunter-diamond-danielle-zawadi-ziv-taubenfeldz-dudu-kouate/
· More information via spaceistheplace.eu
· Design by eltoneerkens.com�
Intergalactic night with Space is the Place: A whirlwind of performances from improvisation to expressive poetry.
07/11/2024
TIMETABLE FOR FAQ X SITP SATURDAY
Our collab wit FAQ Festival coming up! Four hours of full-throttle improv by nine stalwarts of the scene, connecting the SITP community with kindred spirits from around the globe. Featuring special guests scratch-artist DJ Sniff (former STEIM director) and experimental jazz trumpeter Aquiles Navarro (Irreversible Entanglements), alongside our close knit of familiar musical stars Mola Sylla, Jacob Maskell-Key (Nihiloxica), Farida Amadou, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Oscar Jan Hoogland, and Raphael Vanoli & Richard van Kruysdijk (also known as Wolf Soup).
Timetable Clubzaal
20:00 – 20:25 | Raphael Vanoli / Richard van Kruysdijk
20:30 – 20:50 | DJ Sniff
20:55 – 21:20 | Oscar Jan Hoogland / Mola Sylla
21:25 – 21:55 | Farida Amadou / Aquiles Navarro
22:10 – 22:35 | Oscar Jan Hoogland / Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti / Aquiles Navarro
22:40 – 23:00 | DJ Sniff & Jacob Maskell-Key
23:10 – 23:35 | Farida Amadou / Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti / Raphael Vanoli
23:40 – 00:00 | Jacob Maskell-Key
FAQ is een meerdaags festival voor elektronische muziek dat plaatsvindt op diverse locaties in 's-Hertogenbosch. Tijdens FAQ hoor je de veelzijdigheid van elektronische muziek, variërend van elektro-akoestisch tot de meer club georiënteerde genres. M...
07/11/2024
KEEP.SPACE.FEST
12 hours of raw experiment and improv coming up on December 7
Over 20 performances—of which many are premiering concepts or unique combinations—pulse through the local heavyweight CFX soundsystem in the main hall and across multiple stages throughout the terrain of De Nijverheid. Expect avant-garde electronics and folk via the KIM crew mixed with the improvisational flair and jazz-infused sounds of Space is the Place. Alongside the extended lineup of musicians listed below, find delicious food, screen-printed shirts by KIM, books from Underbelly Soundart Media, and more.
Alesya Dobysh
Amir Torangan
Andy Moor
Angelo Antic
Anthony Girgis
Camille Maria
Derozan
Elsa van der Linden
Gabriel de Oliveira
Gaetha
Gropina
Henry Weekes
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti
Jacob-Maskell-Key
Jake Mehew
Jochem van Tol
Korshid Dadbeh
Loma Doom
Luke Cohlen
Mangruv
Max Frimout
Pittori Locali
RRRADIANT
Sanem Kalfa
tala drum corps
Terrie Ex
Thomas Hell
Underbelly Soundart Media
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Translocale fantastique Keep it Moving, a crew devoted to the finer aspects of music through a non-ego-driven approach that encompasses community radio, performance nights, club gigs, handcrafted stage designs, visual arts, fundraising, and more, on the intersection where warm grooves and ice-cold electronics meet.
Together with Space is the Place—an Amsterdam-based institution that actively cultivates the edges of jazz and improvisation, creating a dynamic breeding ground that supports its locally rooted, internationally oriented improv scene, always keen on crossing genres and disciplines as well as challenging artists to perform in new formations.
31/10/2024
Wonderful night last Sunday for 50 years BIMHUIS. A dream, welcoming Sun Ra Arkestra at SITP, alongside stunning performances by Moor Mother with Luke Stewart, Lukas Koenig, Aquiles Navarro; Farida Amadoui with Jasper Stadhouders; and the Fuuturejazz crew. Thank you thank you thank you!
31/10/2024
2nd evening in the adventurous Orbits x Space is the Place fall series in the basement of the Dokzaal! In two weeks-
Two special guests tonight to perform with the international music scene of Amsterdam; one of the front runners of the Scandinavian impro/jazz scene Gard Nilssen and Chicago based saxophonist Ken Vandermark. Drummer Gard Nilssen, saxophonist Aviv Noam and bassist Omer Govreen will play together for the first time, Ken Vandermark and Terrie Ex have a long history together, also with The Ex and Lean Left. Bassist Omer Govreen will play with his own quartet, consisting of some of the finest jazz musicians in town.
Dinner: Vietnamese herbal Pho with season vegetables like Chinese cabbage, winter carrot and mushrooms (vegan)
22/10/2024
Anddd the final duo completing Sunday’s (sold out!) event at are FARIDA AMADOU & JASPER STADHOUDERS 🎸
From noise punk to improv jazz: has mastered it all. The bass guitarist has collaborated with the likes of Linda Sharrock, Ken Vandermark and Thurston Moore. Now she forms a duo with Jasper Stadhouders, guitarist in band like Cactus Truck and Spinifex, where he’s known for his unbridled and unconventional improvisations.
Hope to see you as the cosmic jazz big band walking in the footsteps of legend Sun Ra finally joins us! Full lineup:
BIMHUIS X SPACE IS THE PLACE: SUN RA ARKESTRA | MOOR MOTHER & LUKAS KOENIG | FARIDA AMADOU & JASPER STADHOUDERS | FUUTURE JAZZ
17/10/2024
Coming up in November! As part of FAQ's Saturday program on November 9th, which includes Xiu Xiu, Faust, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and more, Space is the Place presents a special constellation of improvising forces:
Farida Amadou (bass), Jacob Maskell-Key (from Nihiloxica) (drums), Raphael Vanoli (guitar), Richard van Kruysdijk (guitar), Aquiles Navarro 'Irreversible Entanglements' (trumpet), Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti (synths & voice), DJ Sniff 'Takura Mizuta Lippit' (turntables), Mola Sylla (percussion) and Oscar Jan Hoogland (electric chavichord & synths).
FAQ is a multi-day electronic music festival that takes place at various locations in 's-Hertogenbosch. During FAQ you will hear the versatility of electronic music, ranging from electro-acoustic to the more club-oriented genres. Since 2021, FAQ Festival and November Music have joined hands.
More info and tickets via novembermusic.net/programma/faq-2024-saturday
11/10/2024
Tuesday! The first Orbits x SITP with NOVELO VAGO | ELDER ONES + KAREN NG | JULIEN DESPREZ
An amazing first highly international night of the Orbits X Space is the Place series! The NY based activist musician Amirtha Kidambi comes to the Netherlands -after playing in ao Rewire and the Bimhuis earlier this year- with her Elder Ones, this time joined by improvisational saxophonist Karen Ng. The explosive French guitarist Julien Desprez (Lukas Koenig, Audrey Chen, Nate Wooley, Farida Amadou) will perform a fully engaging solo. And the Amsterdam based Novelo Vago will play their characteristic mix of playful, experimental music.
TICKETS € 10 / € 12 / € 15 (pay what you can) | DINNER € 8,- Dinner 18:30 – 19:30 | Music starts 20:00 Menu: Lemon bulgur with roasted aubergine, za’atar, cumin-tomato sauce, fresh herbs & almonds
30/09/2024
Artist details for the first Orbits x SITP in two weeks! Three acts on a Tuesday, dinner available. With the thrilling Amirtha Kidambi coming to NL with her Elder Ones joined by Karen NG, Novelo Vago’s playful experiments, and Julien Desprez’s instrumental frenzies. Ticket link in bio. NOVELO VAGO
Novelo Vago is a contemporary music garage band characterized by an unconventional approach. Playful, experimental, sharp, and sometimes witty: the trio uses a mix of toy instruments, small percussion instruments, piccolo, s*x toys, whatnot! The band’s formation is rooted in a decade-long friendship, valuing fun and togetherness as key, above traditional rehearsal practices.
Vera Morais – voice, toy instruments | Teresa Costa – flute, piccolo, toy instruments | Inês Lopes – toy piano, melodica, toy instruments
ELDER ONES + KAREN NG
Elder Ones is an experimental free jazz ensemble led by composer and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi featuring saxophonists Matt Nelson and Alfredo Colon, bassist Lester St. Louis, and drummer Jason Nazary. Kidambi’s voice weaves through intricate instrumentation with her characteristic syllabic, frenzied, and powerful utterances. Their music confronts themes like colonialism, capitalism, and violence, channeling ancestral energy and resistance to systemic oppression through their performances. They are joined on stage by improvisational musician and sax-wizard Karen Ng.
Amirtha Kidambi – vocals | Matt Nelson, Alfredo Colon, Karen Ng – saxophone | Lester St. Louis – bass | Jason Nazary – drums
JULIEN DESPREZ
Performing solo with only his guitar and effects pedals, Julien Desprez engages all the senses, placing the body and its movements at the heart of his practice. Here, he presents Agora, a twofold performance that plays with several points of view. A soft, explosive, and joyful trance merges polyrhythmics, high-voltage electricity, guitar, and body until their rupture and reconciliation. With playfulness and frenzy, a multiple world is negotiated through your listening.
The last tix are flying for the 27th of October in BIMHUIS! Next to Sun Ra Arkestra multiple amazing artists are performing, among them the contemporary legend Moor Mother with Lukas Koenig and the fresh FUUTUREJAZZ crew. 20:15-20:55 Moor Mother & Lukas Koenig
Through her work, vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother illuminates the principles of her multidisciplinary collaborative practice Black Quantum Futurism, a theoretical framework informed by historical Black ontologies. Multi-instrumentalist Lukas Koenig, who plays drums in Moor Mother’s band, has previously collaborated with the likes of David Murray, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Steven Bernstein. DJ collective FUUTUREJAZZ – After the concert
Enter the sonic playground of FUUTUREJAZZ, an experimental electronic crew guided by the eternal spirit of jazz. Jazz, not strictly in the sense of swung drums and elaborate horn solo’s, but in it’s broader essence of taking conventions, bending and breaking them, of improvisation and playfulnes, of coming together and building something new. With them throwing parties Garage Noord and through their Echobox Radio residency, expect an end of the eve in style. 🎶 BIMHUIS X SPACE IS THE PLACE: SUN RA ARKESTRA | MOOR MOTHER & LUKAS KOENIG | FARIDA AMADOU & JASPER STADHOUDERS | FUUTURE JAZZ 27 October @ 19:30 – 28 October @ 01:00 BIMHUIS 50 YEARS
25/09/2024
Some glimpses from our sweaty end of summer session earlier this month! Photos by Adriana Melo (.musicarte)
Thanks to the Cinetol and the artists:
Lia Kohl (Chicago)
Cactus Truck
UKEMI + Giulia Principe
Knalpot ft. Ghaeth Almaghoot
Daroni Trio
The Zebra Street Band
Jonathan Bäckström Quartet (FI)
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Since 2015 Space is the Place organizes a progressive and adventurous concert series. With De Ruimte (Amsterdam) as a home base, Space is the Place curated over 600 concerts with a focus on jazz and improvised music. We initiate concert evenings and at the same time try to form a creative breeding ground stimulating the scene, also by crossing genres and disciplines.
In 2017 Foundation Space is the Place was born. The official goal according the statutes: organizing improvised music based concerts in which sounds the necessity and pleasure of adventurous music.
ARTISTS
Over 1000 musicians and other artists played in the Space is the Place series, also in cooperation with the multidisciplinary series ditdit-dada-ditdit. Some of the musicians who have performed (in random order): Nate Wooley, Thomas Johansson, Gard Nilssen, Kristoffer Alberts, Jasper Stadhouders, Terrie Ex, Onno Govaert, Jim Black, Oscar Noriega, Trevor Dunn, Chris Speed, Ziv Taubenfeld, Boi Akih, Ab Baars, Frank Rosaly, Mars Williams, Wilbert de Joode, Peter Evans, John Butcher, The Ex, Han Bennink, Chris Pitsiokos, Martin van Duynhoven, Joris Roelofs, Honest John, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Wolter Wierbos, Ches Smith, Mary Halvorson, John Dikeman, Simon Toldam, Joachim Badenhorst, Reinier Baas, Harmen Fraanje, Raphael Vanoli, Anton Goudsmit, Jaap Blonk, Marta Warelis, Guus Janssen, Kaja Draksler, Luc Ex, Bobby Few, Teun Verbruggen, Jozef Dumoulin, Sannety, DJ Marcelle, Michiel Braam, Bo van de Graaf, Oscar-Jan Hoogland, Salvoandre Lucifora, Jonas Cambien, Felicity Provan, Ada Rave, Michael Moore, Michael Vatcher, Flin van Hemmen, Niels Broos, Wolfert Brederode, Ferry Heijne, Xavi Torres, Bruno Calvo Anillo, Dario Trapani, Bjork Nielsdottir, Laura Paulence, Morris Kliphuis, Gerri Jäger, Wim T. Schippers, Peter van Bergen, Julie Kurris, Dodó Kis, Jesse van Ruller, Aaron Lumley, Raoul van de Weide, Michiel Scheen, Jan Klare, Bram Stadhouders, Joost Buis, Mary Oliver, Nora Mulder, Miguel Petruccelli, Guy Salamon, Marcelo dos Reis, Talibam!, Tobias Klein, Ken Vandermark, Ben van Gelder, De Beren Gieren, Knalpot, Ernst Reijseger, Ernst Glerum, Christian Wallumrod, Ruben Machtelinckx, Thomas Jillings, Dirk Serries, Conjunto Papa Upa, Bacchanalia, LAB Trio, How Town, Allistair Payne, Matteo Myderwyk, Diamanda Dramm, Mark Morse, Keiko Shichijo, Saartje van Camp, Gideon van Gelder, Peter Zegveld, Kenzo Kusuda, Felix Strategier, Jochem van Tol, Yannis Kyriakides, Ig Henneman, Mark Haanstra, Oene van Geel and the list goes on and on...
