June 28 – 30, La Malterie, Lille
July 1 Roze Tanker, Amsterdam concert starts 20.00
July 2 Open rehearsal at Zaal 100 from 17:00
July 3 Oude Lutherse Kerk concert starts 15:00
For this first improvised and musical meeting of members of the Doek and Muzzix (Lille) collectives, six musicians will play 3 concerts in Lille, with different line-ups each evening. The 3 evenings of concerts in France will be followed by a return leg in the Netherlands.…
Bimhuis and Doek Present:
The Impro Train
June 11, 2021
3 Sets at 19.00, 20.30 and 22.00
Tickets
Passepartout
The Impro Train is back, baby!
Three sets by two ensembles. Go to one, go to them all, either way it’ll be a fabulous evening.
Fabulous!
Saxophone, piano and percussion form the sound of Hupata!, alongside a wonky, wobbly, rickety, going hog wild wagon filled with toys, which transform and take shapes of birds, elephants, camels, taking you for a journey.…
Doek composes for solo improvisers, a new and ongoing series on Doek RAW featuring original artwork by Lena Czerniawska.
TIMBRAL REFLECTION is a sound poem, a little excuse to arouse the reflection of the movement inside one sound.
Doek Composes
One of the main pillars of Doek is how improvising musicians deal with composed musical elements. When the world was struck by the corona virus and all of us were asked to isolate ourselves as much as possible, we thought: what can we do to perpetuate our music and still share it with our audience and each other?…
Doek Composes for solo improvisers, a new and ongoing series on Doek RAW featuring original artwork by Lena Czerniawska
The second publication in this series on Doek RAW is composed by pianist Kaja Draksler. She wrote a piece called Passage. When we asked her to write a short text to accompany her composition, she created a poem by combining definitions from the Cambridge dictionary.
Passage
A way of escape.
The passage of time- the process of time going past.…
Friday, November 6
The Bimhuis
19:00
Ada Rave solo
Oscar Jan Hoogland, Han Bennink Duo
20:30
John Dikeman solo
Oscar Jan Hoogland, Han Bennink Duo
22:00
Ab Baars solo
Oscar Jan Hoogland, Han Bennink Duo
With full speed ahead, Bennink, Hoogland, Rave, Dikeman and Baars take you on the first Impro Train.
The Impro Train
Three different shows from the same band in one night. Three shows where the musicians pull out all the stops.…
Doek Composes for solo improvisers, a new and ongoing series on Doek RAW featuring original artwork by Lena Czerniawska
The first publication in this series on our Bandcamp label Doek RAW is composed by cornettist Eric Boeren. He wrote a piece called Enkhuizen, which is a small town on the coast of the Ijsselmeer in the province of Noord-Holland in The Netherlands. Eric is, amongst many other things, an avid cyclist, and this is Eric’s explanation of how this composition came about:
“With my composition Enkhuizen I have tried to bring one of my theories into practice.…