Doek @ Zaal 100
Sunday 25 January
20:00 – free entry!
Ingrid Laubrock – duos and interview
The wonderful tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock is in town. She will also be part of the 10 strong Tri-Centric ensemble who will be mixing it up with 10 Doek musicians at next June’s Doek Festival: Doek Meets Tri-Centric. …
27 & 28 January @ Theater Kikker Utrecht.
(in Dutch)
So It Goes is a theatre piece based on Kurt Vonnegut’s cult novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Freek Vielen will do a powerful reading of his text. The Ambush Party will play a concert of improvised music and a composition by Harald Austbø. Your human brain will combine the two. File under: theater.…
Friday 15 January
Bimhuis 20.30hr
€18/€15
As part of its 40th anniversary the Bimhuis gives has given carte blanche to the wonderful sax player Tobias Delius, in an adventurous exchange between musicians from Berlin and Amsterdam, featuring drummer Christian Lillinger.
Tenor sax and clarinet player Tobias Delius moved to Amsterdam 25 years ago putting his stamp on the local improv scene as a member of ICP Orchestra and many other bands. With his own bands he has also performed regularly at the Bimhuis.…
In 2015 Doek musicians will continue to play at Eye cinema. They will provide a live accompaniment to a selection of Jean Desmet’s films. Each night a curator makes a special selection from Desmet’s work.
January 8
19.15 hr: Between insanity & scholarship: lecture by Diederik Jekel
Self-declared nerd Diederik Jekel is fascinated by the years when Desmet released his films: it is the same era which saw the rise of modern physics. With live music by Yedo Gibson and Kaja Drakzler.…
Thursday 18 December
19.15 hr
Tonight Doek musician Oscar Jan Hoogland will play with Thijs Elzinga at EYE. They will provide a live accompaniment to a selection of films by Jean Desmet.
Jelle Brandt Corstius made a selection from the work of Jean Desmet. Jean Desmet was a pioneer of Dutch cinema during the years 1907–1916. He progressed from fairground operator to become one of the most important cinema operators and film distributors in the Netherlands.
Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory. The Adventurous Years of Film (1907-1916) is an exhibition about his work, currently to see at Eye.…
Cactus Truck and guests including Ava Mendoza, Chris Corsano, Joe McPhee and William Parker, are almost half way through their USA tour. Tonight they will play at the Conundrum Music Hall in West Columbia and in a few days they will be heading for NYC.
They’ve got their brand new cd ‘Seizures Palace’ on the Not Two label with them. They hope to also have a re-release of their already out of print ‘Live in USA’ cd as a limited edition tape on the Astral Spirits label.…