SPACE is the PLACE

27/03/2025

Some of the faces you'll see during our first event next week! Two generations of Amsterdam’s creative energy, coming together—an example of what Space is the Place truly means. Not just music, but improvisation and the ways artists approach their craft.
A gathering of artists who push beyond jazz, both culturally and artistically.

Seen through the celebratory yet critiquing lens of Mestizx (Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly, joined by James McClure, Ben Boye, and Uldis Vitols) and reflected in the collaborative, international approach of Beatrice Sberna, Gabriel de Oliveira, and friends (Federico Calcagno, Alessandro Fongaro, and Michael Vatcher). A spirit further echoed in Keep It Moving’s translocal, community-driven ethos—bringing together a wide range of creatives: edós & RRRADIANT, Remembering Love, DJ Andy Ex, Shiru, and c00.
The latter are figures also embedded in the more electronic scenes, a space that the Aquarius Zen Garden project embodies—a second act by Ibelisse on the night, featuring Jochem van Tol and Jacob Maskell-Key.

So, mark your calendars for a new instalment of the always pleasantly disturbing An Interplanetary Night. The first in our spring series—come join!

https://spaceistheplace.eu/event/an-interplanetary-night-3/

20/03/2025

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First one of the year! April 5th with a whirlwind of performances, this edition with Latin American undertones and expanding friends groups!

IBELISSE GUARDIA FERRAGUTTI & FRANK ROSALY – MESTIZX
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti is a singer and performance artist from Bolivia. Frank Rosaly grew up in a Puerto Rican family and made name as a drummer in Chicago. Mestizx , their new album for the American label Nonesuch and International Anthem is a propulsive, intercultural and anti-colonial mix of avant-jazz, punk, cumbia, electronics and more.

BEATRICE SBERNA & GABRIEL DE OLIVEIRA
From the sinister lullaby ‘Satan

10/03/2025

New season, new graphic identity ✍️

Space is the Place: Music in the Moment

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12.4 x SITP Spring Fest: .garcia.mariachi, ’s Ingoma Yesintu choir, Carta Pesto, , Foon ( / Kieftenbeld), QVENTURE TIME ( / )

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03/03/2025

As Spring is awaiting, SITP and Cinetol join forces again! The sound of crashing guitars and angelic harmonies collide at this Spring Fest, bringing together a new generation of artists and standout acts from near and far.

AVA, Ingoma Yesintu, Carta Pesto, Foon, Nina Garcia, QVENTURE TIME

Nina Garcia is a Parisian guitarist and sound artist who reimagines noise and improvisation through the electric guitar in her singular style. Since 2015, she has been fusing a minimalist approach with a maximalist effect–raw, instant soundscapes that explore the connection between body and instrument.

Ingoma Yesintu—meaning Song of Humanity or Folk Song in isiZulu—is led by bassist-composer Zenzele Mthembu-Salter, who writes and arranges the music of this acapella ensemble with a firm focus on voices. With: Inês Martínez, Júlia Cortés Pons, Jaehyung Choi, Divakar Nambiath, Sara Guildolin, Eber Gonzales, Dane Paris.

Carta Pesto channels garage-style energy, fusing playful electronics with skillful instrument play. All well-known faces in the Amsterdam scene, they bring a DIY flair, embracing the spontaneity and chaos of this occasional combo while staying true to the spirit of improvisation. Marco Luparia, Beatrice Sberna, Chaerin Im.

AVA Trio blends rhythm, noise, and melody, weaving folk traditions with improvisation. Giuseppe Doronzo, Esat Ekincioglu, and Pino Basile turn rhythm into noise, noise into melody, and melody into rhythm.

Foon is a duo by Andrius Dereviancenko and Ruben Kieftenbeld that initiates their intricate music with simple, repetition-based structures that gradually build up, incorporating new layers until they create beautiful, complex pieces.

QBAE is the performing core of collective-label KB_: a rotating ensemble hosted by Gabriel de Oliveira and Niels Luteijn. For a set of exclusively punk-leaning Adventure Time songs and relentless noise impro, they invite special guest Winnie Conradi and become QVENTURE TIME.

+ impro jams between the performing artists all night in the second room!

Design by Maria Olivera and Jack Beattie

spaceistheplace.eu | cinetol.nl

Supported by SENA and AFK
April 12, 2025 | 18:00–01:00

24/02/2025

As we are slowly returning from hibernation, we want to wholeheartedly thank our graphic designer Elton Eerkens for his massive amounts of work, providing us with many unmistakably SITP designs over the last years 🖊️❤️

With this seasonal shift, SITP will shed its skin and return with a brand new graphic identity by a new designer duo. More information on that soon—as well our first events (check our bio for an idea on the where and when..) ⏰

So for now, once again a big thank you to Elton for his magic. It’s not a goodbye, but a change. Dive into our archives (and Facebook!) to get a glimpse of all he’s done for us—from gigs in De Ruimte and the first Bimhuis nights to our Cinetol series and more.

The limited SITP compilation CD Elton designed is up on our Bandcamp (https://spaceistheplace.bandcamp.com/album/an-interplanetary-compilation) and the Red/Green graphic shirts (second slide) are for sale at our events. Plus, the improv slogan poster as seen on the image starring Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti.

Follow Elton and his work via https://eltoneerkens.com/

23/01/2025

Recap from the third and final Orbits x SITP night at Dokzaal, concluding our 2024 program. With stunning live performances by Ruidoscuro (Frank Rosaly, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Marta Warelis, Andy Moor), Lida Brouskari, Hristo Goleminov / Siebren Smink.

Photos by Moritz Müller.

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.

Hristo Goleminov – saxophone | Siebren Smink – guitar

11/12/2024

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!

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Friday December 13 – Sojo Leuven
INTERLINIE: Ruidoscuro | Farida Amadou solo
Tickets > https://apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/30cc/flow/tickets?event=652909945205&l=nl #!/addtickets

Saturday December 14 – Rataplan Antwerpen
INTERLINIE: Ruidoscuro ft Joachim Badenhorst | Ocean Eddie ft Sofia Jernberg | Suzan Peeters
Tickets > https://apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/de_roma/flow/rataplan?event=184172314048&l=nl #!/addtickets

Sunday December 15 – KAAP Oostende
INTERLINIE: Ruidoscuro | John Dikeman & Andreas Bral
Tickets > https://apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/kaap/flow/kaap?event=597623717630&l=nl #!/addtickets

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About Ruidoscuro:

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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Design by Elton Eerkens

10/12/2024

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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)

ORBITS X SPACE IS THE PLACE FALL SERIES #3

LINE-UP: LIDA BROUSKARI | HRISTO GOLEMINOV / SIEBREN SMINK | RUIDOSCURO

TICKETS € 10 / € 12 / € 15 (pay what you can) | DINNER € 8,-

02/12/2024

Mike Reed and Hunter Diamond as part of their tour on the bill tonight in Amsterdam! An Intergalactic Night by Space is the Place at BIMHUIS

20:30 Mike Reed/Hunter Diamond
21:25 Danielle Zawadi
22:00 Dudù Kouate/Ziv Taubenfeld
DJ: Michael Moore

Footage from the Summer Solstice concert by the duo captured live at the Earnest Earth farm in Chicago on June 21st, 2019.

26/11/2024

Next week Saturday – KEEP.SPACE.FEST – 3 PM to 3 AM

https://www.denijverheid.org/agenda/4866-keep-space-fest

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

Nijverheidskade 15, 3534 AZ Utrecht
14:30 doors open / 15:00 music starts
Sliding scale (pay what you can): €12,50 / €16,50 / €20,50
Tickets via https://space-is-the-place.weticket.com/keepspacefest

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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https://spaceistheplace.eu/event/keep-space-fest/

KEEP.SPACE.FEST is organized by:

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.