As we look forward to sharing this exciting program, and with our partner Korzo unveiling their spring season, we are happy to announce our first event of the upcoming year – our debut collaboration with Korzo Theatre.
Allan Gilbert Balon & Uta Guan Hey | Marc Baron | Nirantar Yakthumba.
For default#25, Allan Gilbert Balon (b. Guadeloupe), an artist and composer, working with sculpture, sound installation, & Uta Guan Hey (b. China), a writer, visual creator, and filmmaker, will present their duo performance for piano, objects, voices, and electronics. The performance comes after Balon’s LP ‘The Magnesia Suite’ (Recital, 2024) and a recording of Allan’s and Uta’s duo performance (released via Balon’s web page), both showcasing an intimate play with presence. Together they run the publishing house xyä édition, which publishes handmade books and audio. The Paris-based artist Marc Baron, who for almost 20 years has dedicated himself to the work of electroacoustic composition using tapes and analog processes, will be performing at default soon after his new solo album release ‘Soleil-Néon’ on Penultimate Press. His music encompasses not only the harsh but also the fragile aspects of the tools he uses, while capturing the contingencies arising from material processes that interweave acoustics, electronics, and magnetics. The complexity of sound’s qualities and their assembling is at the core of his music, posing our listening towards this specific tension between a semblance of realism and the desire for abstraction, making use of cuts and creating shifts with perspectives. Concluding our program, Nirantar Yakthumba (b. Nepal, currently based in The Hague), who in his work investigates the production and organization of tone, instrument building, and how variations in informational constraints – structure, redundancy, noise, (in)determinacy – are articulated with and within a work. He will be premiering a performance with a new instrument that he made in 2025.
As announced earlier, we are currently taking a break to better prepare for our future activities. Therefore this spring will remain quieter than the past two years. But we are very happy to invite you to this special program in the meantime.
default#25
Korzo Theatre, Prinsestraat 42,
Den Haag
doors: 19:30, first performance: 20:15
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default den haag is a non-profit curatorial initiative focused on the presentation of creative contemporary sound and performance in the Hague, curating and organizing their nomadic sound series with an international focus on experimental music and sound art performances since 2022, next to occasionally hosting accompanying talks and lectures.
defaultdenhaag.com/links
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