SPSound, Splendor and Hard//Hoofd present

The Shortest Night

With Knalpot, Mattijs van de Woerd and 7090, Henry Vega, Bart de Vrees, Han Buhrs, Trolleybus, Daan Doesborgh and Boris de Jong, Sleep Gunner, Michael Jahoda  & Heather Ware, Frans Zwartjes, Paul and Menno De Nooijer, Ivo Bol, David Dramm, Eric de Clercq, The Arie Biemond Singers & Orchestra, Marijn Korff de Gidts and Ramon Lormans, F* and solstice, Pumporgan, Musicians from the Concertgebouworkest, Raphael Vanoli, Anne LaBerge, Oscar-Jan Hoogland and many, many others.

Thursday 21 June | Start: 22.04 hrs | End: 05.20 hrs | € 9,00
Reservations: reservations@smartprojectspace.net

Experience a Midsummer Night from sunset to sunrise in the entire SMART Project Space: an explosion of music, dance, poetry, video, interactive installations, avant-garde rituals, a 30-second Grand Opera and Dutch experimental film classics in a real time remix room and a hard//hoofd chamber.

- Knalpot: "A motorbike race between Radiohead, Clark and Squarepusher"
Raphaël Vanoli, electric guitar en Gerri Jäger, drums

- Singer Mattijs van de Woerd and 7090 (Koen Kaptijn, Nora Mulder, Bas Wiegers) accompany you through a 19th century nocturnal vision of full moons and dark dreams.

- Digital artist Henry Vega (Wormsongs) plays with percussionist Bart de Vrees.
Vocal artist/singer/performer Han Buhrs  appears with free improv trio Trolleybus (Yedo Gibson, Renato Ferreira, Nora Mulder).

- Slam poets Daan Doesborgh and Boris de Jong (Winterjong) entertain and manipulate their public with their own brand of poetic-chaotic antics.

- Sleep Gunner: this duo of Amsterdam drinking buddies (Jeroen Kimman and Mark Morse) play Cubistic electro-country.

- Michael Jahoda (The Phillip Project) & Heather Ware (LeineRoebana): two eloquent dancers cross swords in dialogue.

- Moskwood Media presents short films of Dutch experimental film makers such as Frans Zwartjes and father/son team De Nooijer. A mélange of electronic sound artists (including Ivo Bol) are on board to create unique live soundtracks.

- Composer David Dramm makes a rare appearance as singer/songwriter, with a collection of songs about dogs and breakfast foods.

- Eric de Clercq wrote Crépuscule, a Grand Opera with prologue, four acts and six characters. Duration: 30 seconds. The elaborate preparation is an act in itself.

- The Arie Biemond Singers & Orchestra: An “one-time only” formation of three gentlemen that know each other perhaps too well.  Jan Willem Baljet, Mattijs van de Woerd and guitarist Paul van Utrecht sing evergreens from artists such as Johnny & Jones, Franz Schubert and The Mills Brothers.

- Okho from Xenakis: music at its most brutally violent, for percussion trio. With Bart de Vrees, Marijn Korff de Gidts and Ramon Lormans.

- F* and solstice: the dripping bass lines and sparkling keyboard work of Bulsink and the razor tight percussion and explosive beats of De Vrees meet the melancholic sweet & sour world of De Backere's poetry.

- Pumporgan: a grooving quintet with Hammond organ plays psycho jive: brain warping dance music. With Dirk Bruinsma, Christian Ferlaino, Jeroen Kimman, Nout Ingen-Housz and Wilbert Bulsink

- Musicians from the Concertgebouworkest perform one of Debussy's last works, the poetic Sonata for flute (Kersten McCall), viola (Michael Gieler) and harp (Petra v.d. Heide).

- Guitar wizard Raphael Vanoli (Knalpot) plays an ultra-soft solo set through an array of spatially positioned guitar amplifiers.

- The inimitable flutist and electronic music pionier Anne LaBerge plays in duo with renegade virtuoso Oscar-Jan Hoogland on electric clavichord.

Knalpot

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Curators of De Kortste Nacht:
Wilbert Bulsink, Nora Mulder, Marieke Nooren, Bart de Vrees, Mattijs v/d Woerd (Splendor), Hard//Hoofd and Roland Spekle (SMART Project Space)

Splendor Amsterdam is a collective of composers, musicians and stage artists of established renown and entrepreneurial spirit. In 2013, they will transform an old bathhouse at Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 116 into a sparkling cultural mecca. www.splendoramsterdam.com

Hard//Hoofd is a daily magazine for art and journalism. hard//hoofd presents a program in their very own dormitory. www.hardhoofd.com

SMART Project Space brings a groundbreaking programme on the edge of visual art, performance and music with special attention to art in which the interaction between work and public plays a central role. www.smartprojectspace.net

And don’t forget the Last Long Night (de Laatste Langste Nacht) on Saturday, December 21 2012. Forget the mystic mountain of Bugarach, you’ll only be safe in SMART Project Space!

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