Friday March 19th for World Sleep Day, Sebastian Mullaert and Johanna Knutsson invite you for a virtual collective dream experience. The 8hour ambient album will be premiering on YouTube Friday night 23h-07h CET. We hope you can tune in at the same time, and travel with the music through different states of consciousness.
We are thrilled to be hosting a Masterclass at ADE 2019. Come and join us at one of Amsterdam’s most unique venues, Compagnietheater, where Johanna Knutsson and Neel will be joining Sebastian Mullaert on stage for a discussion on collaboration, improvisation, creativity and the technical side of our live jams.
Please bear in mind that ADE Sound Lab tickets receive priority access. In case there are still a few seats available ten minutes before the session, we will open the doors for ADE Card holders.
We are thrilled to be hosting a Masterclass at ADE 2019. Come and join us at one of Amsterdam’s most unique venues, Compagnietheater, where Johanna Knutsson and Neel will be joining Sebastian Mullaert on stage for a discussion on collaboration, improvisation, creativity and the technical side of our live jams.
Please bear in mind that ADE Sound Lab tickets receive priority access. In case there are still a few seats available ten minutes before the session, we will open the doors for ADE Card holders.
We are thrilled to present a new chapter in the evolution of our project: “In Dreams” sleeping concert series. The intention behind these all-night, improvised, live ambient performances is to explore the full range of mind states occurring between sleep and consciousness, in the context of a shared collective experience.
The first In Dreams event will occur in collaboration with Amsterdam promoter Breakfast Club. Taking place in the spectacular 15th century, architectural marvel that is De Waalse Kerk church, Johanna Knutsson and Sebastian Mullaert will guide the audience through their dreams for 8 hours during regular sleeping times. De Waalse Kerk will be transformed into the ADE Zen Space for the week, and the concert will be staged within a lightscape installation and on a stage designed by Studio Koen Steger. Starting at 23:00 onwards on Thursday October 17th, the event will conclude with a breakfast at 7:00AM and provide a chance for everyone to reflect on and exchange stories from their experiences during a night of mutual dreaming.
By the means of live improvisation, Johanna and Sebastian will try to use the misty borderland between sleep and consciousness to their advantage, through sparse expansive ambient soundscapes. Can dreams be gently manipulated by a musical excursion through the unconscious landscape within? Can dreams be experienced collectively through a controlled collective experience? Will you float in a state of mind wondering whilst awake or enter a full on lucid dream? Or will you simply sleep like a baby? There’s only one way to find out, but this is a strictly limited event so don’t sleep on it (pun intended)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Please be ready to enter the venue a minimum of 30 minutes prior to the beginning of the concert. For the purpose of minimising disturbance of the collective experience, no entry will be allowed past the 23:00 starting point.
We will not provide your sleeping arrangements, so please bring your own pillow, cover or sleeping bag, bedroll, camping mattress etc. Or perhaps borrow from your hotel! Due to the limited space we will not allow big ol’ electrical inflatable beds or bulky mattresses. Use your common sense and get cozy!
Fruit and water will be readily available during the night. You’re allowed to bring some light refreshments but keep it simple. And more importantly quiet. Alcoholic beverages are absolutely forbidden.
Breakfast is included in the ticket price and we will serve vegetarian / vegan options.
For some, this will be a night filled with musical wonder. Others will perhaps fall asleep at 23:05, with dreams heavily infused by Knutsson & Mullaert. Either way, mutual respect and consideration are key words. There will be a host available at all times, at your service.
We reserve the right to exclude anyone not observing these requirements. But of course you will. It will be fantastic.
We are delighted to announce that our stage at Waking Life Festival this year will be graced by one last minute addition to the roster of performing artists. Nikita Goile is a different kind of artist than the ones we usually work with. She expresses through movement rather than sound.
Two words which describe her work are timeless and organic. She uses improvisation to open up and escape restrictive habits and existing patterns, allowing mind and body to be genuine and drift off. The subtle journey between opposite qualities is at the core of her work, as well as the notion of control and its loss which generate, and regenerate, a perpetual evolution.
Nikita will join our concert for the festival opening ceremony alongside Johanna Knutsson, Leafar Legov, Sebastian Mullaert and Matt Karmil. This will also be the first appearance by Erased Tapes Records very own vibraphone magician Masayoshi Fujita. A totally new constellation and so much to look forward to!
Led by founder Sebastian Mullaert, this masterclass reflects all the values of improvised creation at the heart of the project’s various manifestations—from concerts, studio sessions, workshops and other activities. It aims to inspire and invite participants to pursue their own realizations around improvisation and the ways it connects not just to music, but the everyday.
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