Open|Forms Festival 2
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The second annual installment of our super friendly super weird all dayer at the wonderful Boot122. Free entry, amazing performances, great beer, come join us! <3
Digitonal
Digitonal have been writing and performing their brand of cinematic, downbeat instrumental music for over 20 years. Part of the 2nd wave of UK ambient electronica, the project sits in a multi-influence groove charting a course from neoclassical minimalism to 90s coffee shop jazz, with a glitchy, electronica heartbeat in the mix with human musicianship and expression.
With producer and clarinettist Andrew Dobson at the project's core, Digitonal has been a collaborative project, notably including violinist Samy Bishai, producer Dom Graveson, harpist Kat Arney and cellist Jo Quail.
They have released four studio albums, a series of EPs and compilation appearances for a diverse range of grassroots labels, and been on remix and producer duties for artists including classical stalwart Max Richter, longtime labelmates Marconi Union, groundbreaking singers Kirsty Hawkshaw and Kelli Ali and UK techno pioneers B12.
Now living in his adopted Suffolk home, Andrew continues to write and perform, both as Digitonal and also as classic IDM throwback project, Alphabox and his own reflection on organic ambient music, Of the Night Sky.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDigitonal
https://digitonal.bandcamp.com/
https://www.digitonal.com/
Kypski
Kypski started out as a sixfold Dutch scratching champion and dj, but eventually followed his heart, and entered the realms of sound design, composition, beat making and music production. The turntable is his main musical instrument, on which his thirst for innovation is expressed. Then, he toured the world with his now inactive group C-Mon & Kypski. Now, Kypski has built his ‘Syntablism’ system wich enables him to turntable scratch any parameter of the modular synth, and he improvises new musical works on the spot while doing so. He releases these works on the Wic Recordings music label. Heavily influenced by the likes of turntable pioneers Q-bert, D-styles and Sircut, he now has reached a level in wich he can actually create new sounds and music with his turntable, instead of just manipulating existing sounds. He has finally found his own voice of true artistic expression. This voice he uses in his two current main musical projects being ‘KROON’, an electronic trio consisting of Kypski, Kubus and Hajo Krijger: they make Mondrianic, Genrefluid Bass music – as released on Vision Recordings. And the other being his solo Syntablism works, as released on Wic Recordings and Kypski Music.
https://kypski.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.kypski.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kypski/
Lena C
Lena C. is a Taiwanese sound artist based in Enschede, Netherlands. She explores sound and interdisciplinary art through artistic research as well as live performance and free improvisation in electronic music, composition for visual art and installations. Her research interests revolve around themes of relationality between individuals and natural phenomena, posthumanism, and the influence of technology and media on human experience. In terms of tools, she uses modular synthesizers, field recording samples and Max/MSP to create ambient and experimental sound with unique textures, ranging from gentle immersion to intensive dynamic.
https://soundcloud.com/lena-wh-c/lena-c-live-electronic-performance-at-vca-paradiso-5jan2025
https://linktr.ee/lenac.wh
Rossi
Ross de Baas is half of pop duo Oxilogue (Netherlands/Italy), making housey song-based synth-pop with hints of modular exploration and jangly guitar / bass-guitar. He has also collaborated with US singer / songwriter Bittersweet Machines. As Rossi, he has released solo tracks within the realms of ‘house’, but pivoting between electronic sub-genres and eras. The Open|Forms performance will be based around prepared vocal samples by Leonardo (a.k.a. Big Leo) from Oxilogue. Ross continues to provide video art projections for Open|Forms.
https://www.youtube.com/@rossidb562
https://www.instagram.com/oxilogue/
https://www.instagram.com/rossdebaas/
Trustyourt
https://soundcloud.com/c6330y5xggtr
Interactive Music Machines
Marco and Martijn (Cinema Perdu amongst others) joined forces to create an interactive music machine.
With this machine the audience can create (acoustic) music themselves with all kinds of interaction possibilities.
https://interactivemusic.net/
Cinema Perdu
Cinema Perdu (Martijn Pieck) wants to musically (re)create the feeling of a place at a certain time, sometimes its more factual, sometimes its more storytelling.
Live-perfomances are for the most part improvisations in which sounds and structures are used from past and upcomming releases.
Besides projects shown below Martijn makes music for film, theater and performance art and work on an interactive music machine.
https://cinemaperdu.bandcamp.com/
https://www.cinemaperdu.net/
The [Law-Rah] Collective
Expect the unexpected, and even then you're way off ...
The [law-rah] collective is a (mostly) utrecht-based collective of artists working with words, sounds, rhythm, structure, chaos and anything they can get our hands on.
in the field of electronic music active since 2001, but the first seeds were planted in 1993.
http://www.darkambient.net/
https://darkambient.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/darkambient/
Digitonal
Digitonal have been writing and performing their brand of cinematic, downbeat instrumental music for over 20 years. Part of the 2nd wave of UK ambient electronica, the project sits in a multi-influence groove charting a course from neoclassical minimalism to 90s coffee shop jazz, with a glitchy, electronica heartbeat in the mix with human musicianship and expression.
With producer and clarinettist Andrew Dobson at the project's core, Digitonal has been a collaborative project, notably including violinist Samy Bishai, producer Dom Graveson, harpist Kat Arney and cellist Jo Quail.
They have released four studio albums, a series of EPs and compilation appearances for a diverse range of grassroots labels, and been on remix and producer duties for artists including classical stalwart Max Richter, longtime labelmates Marconi Union, groundbreaking singers Kirsty Hawkshaw and Kelli Ali and UK techno pioneers B12.
Now living in his adopted Suffolk home, Andrew continues to write and perform, both as Digitonal and also as classic IDM throwback project, Alphabox and his own reflection on organic ambient music, Of the Night Sky.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDigitonal
https://digitonal.bandcamp.com/
https://www.digitonal.com/
Kypski
Kypski started out as a sixfold Dutch scratching champion and dj, but eventually followed his heart, and entered the realms of sound design, composition, beat making and music production. The turntable is his main musical instrument, on which his thirst for innovation is expressed. Then, he toured the world with his now inactive group C-Mon & Kypski. Now, Kypski has built his ‘Syntablism’ system wich enables him to turntable scratch any parameter of the modular synth, and he improvises new musical works on the spot while doing so. He releases these works on the Wic Recordings music label. Heavily influenced by the likes of turntable pioneers Q-bert, D-styles and Sircut, he now has reached a level in wich he can actually create new sounds and music with his turntable, instead of just manipulating existing sounds. He has finally found his own voice of true artistic expression. This voice he uses in his two current main musical projects being ‘KROON’, an electronic trio consisting of Kypski, Kubus and Hajo Krijger: they make Mondrianic, Genrefluid Bass music – as released on Vision Recordings. And the other being his solo Syntablism works, as released on Wic Recordings and Kypski Music.
https://kypski.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.kypski.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kypski/
Lena C
Lena C. is a Taiwanese sound artist based in Enschede, Netherlands. She explores sound and interdisciplinary art through artistic research as well as live performance and free improvisation in electronic music, composition for visual art and installations. Her research interests revolve around themes of relationality between individuals and natural phenomena, posthumanism, and the influence of technology and media on human experience. In terms of tools, she uses modular synthesizers, field recording samples and Max/MSP to create ambient and experimental sound with unique textures, ranging from gentle immersion to intensive dynamic.
https://soundcloud.com/lena-wh-c/lena-c-live-electronic-performance-at-vca-paradiso-5jan2025
https://linktr.ee/lenac.wh
Rossi
Ross de Baas is half of pop duo Oxilogue (Netherlands/Italy), making housey song-based synth-pop with hints of modular exploration and jangly guitar / bass-guitar. He has also collaborated with US singer / songwriter Bittersweet Machines. As Rossi, he has released solo tracks within the realms of ‘house’, but pivoting between electronic sub-genres and eras. The Open|Forms performance will be based around prepared vocal samples by Leonardo (a.k.a. Big Leo) from Oxilogue. Ross continues to provide video art projections for Open|Forms.
https://www.youtube.com/@rossidb562
https://www.instagram.com/oxilogue/
https://www.instagram.com/rossdebaas/
Trustyourt
https://soundcloud.com/c6330y5xggtr
Interactive Music Machines
Marco and Martijn (Cinema Perdu amongst others) joined forces to create an interactive music machine.
With this machine the audience can create (acoustic) music themselves with all kinds of interaction possibilities.
https://interactivemusic.net/
Cinema Perdu
Cinema Perdu (Martijn Pieck) wants to musically (re)create the feeling of a place at a certain time, sometimes its more factual, sometimes its more storytelling.
Live-perfomances are for the most part improvisations in which sounds and structures are used from past and upcomming releases.
Besides projects shown below Martijn makes music for film, theater and performance art and work on an interactive music machine.
https://cinemaperdu.bandcamp.com/
https://www.cinemaperdu.net/
The [Law-Rah] Collective
Expect the unexpected, and even then you're way off ...
The [law-rah] collective is a (mostly) utrecht-based collective of artists working with words, sounds, rhythm, structure, chaos and anything they can get our hands on.
in the field of electronic music active since 2001, but the first seeds were planted in 1993.
http://www.darkambient.net/
https://darkambient.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/darkambient/
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