Daniel Cross will be our first resident at Het Concreet. Together with Daniel we’re diving into the world of electro-acoustic experiments and a lot of mallets. All this in light of our very first Dock Zuid session. Daniel Cross is artistic director at the ‘never-a-dull-moment’ Rosa Ensemble. A little bit of ondes martenot, pedal steel guitar, no input drones, modulair synths, mallets and a lot of tape loops. After summer, Daniel will join us in our Het Concreet X IGTV livestream.

Tilburg Concrète is a compositional marathon: a 24-hour project that brings together 24 musicians on a 24-track audio tape – one every hour. From friday November 26, 8:00 PM to saturday November 27, 8:00 PM, Mathijs Leeuwis and Mathijn den Duijf will be locked up in their studio space Het Concreet. Once every hour, they open their doors for a musician who will join in the making of an improvised composition, which can be followed via live YouTube stream. After 24 hours, they share the result: a completely improvised piece of music that has formed in front of the viewer in 24 hours.

Participants of Tilburg Concrète are Aart Strootman, Jacqueline Hamelink, Dyane Donck, Daniel Cross, Aura Bouw, Marlon Penn, Sanne Rambags, Julian Edwardes, Bart de Vrees, Jeroen van Vliet, Jornt Duyx, Claire Adams, Orkun Agir, Theo Decloedt, VONK, Eduardo Gaspard Polo Baader, Pieter Jan van Rossum, Jornt Duyx, Nuno Silva, Poulson Sq, Mathijs Leeuwis and Mathijn den Duijf. 

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november 26-27, 20:00-20:00h
Het Concreet
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On October 7, we explore noise as a compositional tool during a new afternoon studio symposium. With noise lecturer Marcel Cobussen, composer and Het Concreet resident Cecilia Arditto, composer/performer Miss Milivolt and composer/performer Caeso, we dive into the world of noise: a compositional quest for buzz, scrape, hiss, boom, glitch, beep and feedback. Finding sonic spaces to linger in unexpected places.

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october 7, 15:00-18:00h
Het Concreet
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We are very excited to welcome composer Cecilia Arditto for a week-long residency in our studio. Her musical work explores the use of everyday objects and challenges our ideas of what a musical instrument is supposed to be. Can you write an overture for toasters? An oratorium for toothbrushes or a duet for crankshaft and pillow? In her project Musique Concrète she composed for tape and second-hand objects, mostly bought in the markets or rescued from the trash. During her residency, Cecilia will be our guide to tread the territory of utensils and we can’t wait to see where it will lead us. 

Klank&Komma is a six-day writing lab where cultural journalists, essayists, and creative writers, led by author and audio director Renée van Marissing, will search for their own writing voice in a critique of sound. Sound—not necessarily music—can take on colors, shapes, textures, ideas, and feelings. The experience of sound is deeply personal: sound doesn’t tell you what it’s about, what to think about, or what to feel. Anything is allowed. Sound demands nothing from the listener, but can become anything.

So how do you write about sound? In Klank&Komma, we explore this question by listening to diverse soundscapes during concerts and workshops, by listening, writing, and reading. Over six days, we will work towards personal essays that explore this uncharted territory. The results will be published in or on the contemporary music magazine Gonzo (circus).

Participants in 2022 were Miriam Rasch, Justin Scholtze, Arthur Kok, Christine Geense, Caspar Stalenhoef, Tanny Dobbelaar and Veerle Spronck.

Klank&Komma is a co-production with Domein voor Kunstkritiek and Gonzo(circus) and was created with the support of Kunstloc Brabant.

Renée van Trier is a transdisciplinary artist that mourns the loss of the comfort of disconnected life. Her work is deeply human, outspokenly clear while at the same time elusive and very comfortable with discomfort. Her practice can be defined as a mirror of our time and spans from music to performances, scenographies, choreographies, videos, paintings, drawings and sculptures.

Balinese musician & composer Krishna Sutedja is coming over for a three day residency at Het Concreet. Krishna is specialized in gamelan and has a singular mind when it comes to crossing cultural borders with his music. Packed with knowledge on traditional Indonesian arts and culture he sets out to find new contexts for his heritage. During his residency we’ll go on a communal search for new sonic landscapes where tape and gamelan meet. 

Composing is constructing layers, textures and spaces in sound and the level of nuances is endless. How ‘deep’ is a composer listening to these sounds in a creational process? Can we, as listeners, approach this depth of fields and if not, does it really matter? Or is each very act of listening a compositional tool in itself? We start off our studio symposium with a listening session to a tape piece from our studio resident Huba de Graaff. Her work celebrates the unheard: whether it’s the singing of monkeys, the moans of eroticism or the tired sighs of an officer after acts of genocide. For Huba de Graaff, who has studied sonology and tape composition with Gilius van Bergeyk and Dick Raaijmakers, creating music starts at listening to unheard sounds, voices and spaces next to us. Together with Het Concreet, Huba joins us for a week-long residency. This afternoon, we will listen to the results.

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april 7, 15:00-18:00h
Het Concreet
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The work of Huba de Graaff celebrates the unheard: whether it’s the singing of monkeys, the moans of eroticism or the tired sighs of an officer after acts of genocide. Huba has studied sonology and tape composition with Gilius van Bergeyk and Dick Raaijmakers, making her one of the original voices in Dutch electronic music.Her work always starts at listening to unheard sounds, voices and spaces next to us. Huba’s residency will be closed off with a studio symposium on Listening as a compositional tool. 

Timo Tuhkanen joins Het Concreet for a week long residency. Timo is a composer, artist and researcher, with a background in tabla and Indian classical music . They are the founder of the Microtonal Music studios in Helsinki. This centre provides a physical platform for the exploration of microtonal music from a post-national and decolonized perspective. There is no focus on any style, tradition or culture of music, which makes for a strong connection with our studio and our search for new sounds, contexts and possibilities within the analog environment. During this residency Timo will also bring in newly build ceramic instruments, which were made while working within the EKWC residency program. 

Radio Concrète explores radio as a field for experiment and play: a set of ideas and discoveries that incites us to broadcast ‘on air’. After its creation in 1895, radio rapidly became an institute but to this day remains open for DIY culture and accessible community creation. During a 12-hour marathon, hosted from experimental lab space Het Concreet, we celebrate radio as an arena for play. We reflect on & listen to historical and contemporary radio art performances, and listen to the sonic development of the live creation of a circuit.

With contributions from studio resident Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), artist/researcher Margherita Brillada, creative hacker Veerle Pennock, composer Marieke van de Ven, researcher Sharon Stewart, New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble, Bas van Druten and Nele Moeller.

Absolute electronic music virtuoso Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is coming over for a three day residency at Het Concreet. His work traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, his albums have been hailed by critic as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. It’s an honor to welcome this current day sonic homo universalis in Het Concreet. This residency will also be part of our radio marathon on November 18: Radio Concrète. 

Klank&Komma is a six-day writing lab where cultural journalists, essayists, and creative writers, led by author and audio director Leonieke Baerwaldt, will search for their own writing voice in a critique of sound. Sound—not necessarily music—can take on colors, shapes, textures, ideas, and feelings. The experience of sound is deeply personal: sound doesn’t tell you what it’s about, what to think about, or what to feel. Anything is allowed. Sound demands nothing from the listener, but can become anything.

So how do you write about sound? In Klank&Komma, we explore this question by listening to diverse soundscapes during concerts and workshops, by listening, writing, and reading. Over six days, we will work towards personal essays that explore this uncharted territory. The results will be published in or on the contemporary music magazine Gonzo (circus).

Participants in 2023 were Arthur Kok, Elisabeth Salverda, Martien van Agtmaal, Inge Janse, Liesbeth Vreeburg, Sandra de Jong and Anneroos Goosen.

Klank&Komma is a co-production with Domein voor Kunstkritiek and Gonzo(circus) and was created with the support of Kunstloc Brabant.

We kick off this year with an punky winterschool at RITCS in Bruxelles. A deep dive into noise, analog DIY broadcasting and communal explorations of analog sound sources, resulting in a genuine noise-orchestra, including noise-conductor. We closed off the week by riding the FM waves of Bruxelles.

During Tweedehands Het Festival, Pop-Up Cinema hosts a screening of the iconic film Sisters with Transistros at thrift shop Kringloop 013, curated and introduced by Het Concreet. The development of 20th century analogue sound techniques has created a level playing field for experimental composers, though not all of these sonic pioneers have been treated equally historically. Sisters with Transistors is a time document that tells the story of women who were far aheas of their time.

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march 22, 20:00h
Kringloop 013
tickets via Pop-Up Cinema

Janneke van der Putten is an artist based in Rotterdam. Her practice involves experiences of listening, performance, sound and video, textile and painting, workshops, music projects and creating platforms for cultural exchange. Her voice is her main tool, guiding her through physical explorations in different landscapes and architectures.

Whereas previously we always worked with 1 guest per residency, we have now chosen to see what happens when we bring several people with different backgrounds together. Ishtar Bakhtali, Claire Adams and Julian Edwardes will be our guests at Het Concreet for three days this week. Together, we explore sound beyond predetermined goals. All three of these musicians come from completely different corners of music.

The second in a series of group residencies in which we focus on enlarging the communal aspect of our residency programme. Angela de Weijer, Eduardo Gaspar Polo Baader and Göksel Yilmaz will be our guests at Het Concreet. Each of these composers and musicians come from complete different areas of expertise. Turkish and Arab tradition will collide with deep electronic drones and Baroque approaches to microtonality.

We invite composer/performer and author Nic Collins for a tape head hacking workshop. Having worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor and many others, Nic is now professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent. He wrote ‘DIY bible’ Handmade Electronic Music, which is a practical and engaging introduction of making – as well as cannibalizing – electronic circuits for artistic purposes. During the 3-hour workshop, we will break down tape recorders to extract the tape heads so we can create handheld tape devices in a DIY circuit.

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december 14, 13:00-16:00h
Gifgrond
€20, tickets via Eventbrite

After a year of collaborating, experimenting and meeting new people, we were left in our studio with a huge amount of tape loops, reels of sessions and a lot of new ideas. To bring all these musical moments together, we fuse composers, spaces and musicians who had never met before on one mixtape, which we’ll be playing out loud on high quality equipment in our studio.

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december 12, 20:00h
Het Concreet
free entrance, r.s.v.p.

Luca Soudant is a PhD researcher funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They are a cultural studies scholar, artist, DJ (ADIË) and critical practice educator at Maastricht Institute of Arts. Luca holds a research master’s degree in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam and a master’s degree in Critical Studies from the Sandberg Institute. From 2023 to 2024, they were a participant at the post-academic Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Luca’s research combines academic scholarship with artistic practice and is situated at the intersection of gender studies, posthumanist feminism and sound studies. In their practice, they study how gender is culturally (per)formed through sound in-between humans and objects (think of tapping high heels and growling motor engines). Beyond researching binary gender dynamics, they inquire the possibilities of sound to set matter in motion as a way to trouble traditional perspectives on matter, meaning and, most importantly, their entanglements.

Dalton Harris is a trombonist, educator and researcher and an exceptional creature in the landscape of music. The list of his investigative collaborations is extensive, having premiered over 50 works by composers coming from all corners of the world. Dalton is also present as a strong voice for equality and representation in the experimental chamber scene through his function as co-director of New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble.

Lukas De Clerck is a musician and sound-artist from Belgium. His artistic practice is centered around the aulos, an ancient Greco-Roman, double-reeded double pipe, that got extinct more than a millennium ago. After several years of delving deep in the practice of aulos reed making and playing replicas of ancient instruments, he opens up his inevitably auto-didact artistic output. Following the desire to strip the instrument from its enigmatic past, De Clerck created a new, contemporary aulos: the telescopic aulos of atlas. This instrument formed the foundation for his three day long residencies in Het Concreet in April 2025. The deep sonority of the instrument proved to be a match made in heaven with our tape manipulations. 

On September 13 and 14, Het Concreet will give two performances in the former Paduakerk in Tilburg, now the Hagemeier glass studio, as part of Open Monument Day. Both concerts start at 3 p.m. and are free of charge. 

Wouter Jaspers is an electro-acoustic sound artist, composer, and (electronic) instrument designer known for his dark, immersive music and innovative instrument designs. Utilizing a vast archive of field recordings and (radio)noise, accumulated during his extensive touring life, Jaspers creates compelling sonic narratives. His work transcends genre boundaries, operating fluidly across diverse musical scenes, from experimental noise to structured composition and he collaborates with a multitude of artists, orchestras and ensembles like Ensemble KNM, Bendik Giske, Hainbach, Frans de Waard.

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october 3-5, performances at 16:00h and 20:00h
pop-up-store Tilburg centre
Tickets via Murf/Murw