Performances by sound artists from the Netherlands and Belgium

After a long Saturday night, Sunday offers the perfect opportunity to wind down and listen carefully. Now in its third year, this programme is entirely dedicated to four experimental performances by Belgian and Netherlands-based sound artists. From bespoke kinetic instruments to playable installations: an adventurous selection is on the menu in de Grote zaal of de Brakke Grond.

One And Many Flutes is a performance presented by Hannah Todt that uses steel tubes to form a polyphonic flute for collective performances. The work investigates the close connection between breath and sound, between tone and melody, and between individual and collective.

Joris Strijbos will present Composition for Kinetic Sound: a modular system of rotating speakers in which sound and movement are intrinsically intertwined. During the performance, horns and bullet speakers are activated as a mechanical ensemble, actively engaging with the acoustics of the space.

During Amber Meulenijzer’s Holding Shadows, you will experience an audiovisual performance in which she uses eight gas-discharge lamps to make the inner workings audible through electromagnetic microphones. Flickers of light translate directly into sound, while transformers and power flows generate deep, resonant tones.

Closing the day is the performance What holds of the living by Anaïs Lossouarn. By interacting with stones through touch, Anaïs draws sound from their edges as if playing a crystal glass. Visitors can sense the faint rhythms of the stones through direct interaction with the mineral bodies, creating a tactile connection between the human and the organic pulse of life.

More about the artists
Hannah Todt is a visual artist and musician based between Vienna and Brussels, working at the intersection of sound, performance, and sculpture. Her practice explores the porous boundaries between bodies, focusing on the entanglement of human and non-human forms.

Joris Strijbos is a Rotterdam-based artist working at the intersection of sound, light, and moving image. Through kinetic installations and expanded cinema performances, he develops immersive environments in which audiovisual elements operate as interconnected systems rather than separate media.

Amber Meulenijzer is a sound artist from Belgium. Working across sound and visual art, Meulenijzer explores the expressive potential of materials and their thresholds. Her practice brings together intuition and technical inquiry, resulting in installations and performances that unfold with a cinematic and quietly theatrical sensibility.

Anaïs Lossouarn creates spaces that invite slow attention and a gentle encounter with the unfamiliar. Her practice explores resonance and the relationships between matter and the living: how vibrations travel through bodies and materials, and how listening can become a shared, relational experience.

This event is linked to Neighbouring Frequencies – a new platform that supports the presentation and exchange of sound art between the Netherlands and Belgium. Curated in collaboration with Gilles Helsen (STUK) and with support from de Brakke Grond.

More about the works

Joris Strijbos presents Composition for Kinetic Sound (Performance)

For FIBER Festival, Joris Strijbos presents a live composition for ‘Kinetic Sounds’: a modular system of rotating speakers in which sound and movement are intrinsically intertwined. During the performance, selected elements of the installation, including horns and bullet speakers, are activated as a mechanical ensemble. Through rotation and spatialisation, continuously shifting sound fields emerge, actively engaging with the acoustics of the space. Subtle changes in speed and direction transform the sonic experience into a dynamic choreography, where listening becomes inherently spatial and physical. ‘Kinetic Sounds’ can be seen as a mechanical instrument composed of projecting sound sources, each with its own sonic and kinetic identity, ranging from high-frequency signals to deep resonant tones. In this live composition, the system is approached as an instrument, allowing composition and movement to merge into a single performative gesture.

The installation was developed for Klankvorm by Joris Strijbos, Daan Johan, and Eelco Ottenhof. Its ‘open content’ character invites artists and composers to continuously create new works and performances, expanding its contexts and possibilities.

Hannah Todt presents One and Many Flutes (Performance)

One And Many Flutes is a modular installation made of steel tubes that form a polyphonic flute for collective performances. Activated through mouthpieces distributed along the structure, it operates as a deconstructed transverse flute divided among several players. In their encounter, the performers create a fragmented composition that merges into a cohesive soundscape.

The work investigates the close connection between breath, sound, and gesture, as well as moments of transition – in particular, between instrument and orchestra, between tone and melody, and between individual and collective. Where air is inhaled, exhaled, held, interrupted, or prolonged, sound becomes sculpturally tangible in space.

Performers: Miles Fischler, Magdalena Forster, Jade Kerremans, Johanne Mortgat Shan, Hannah Todt

Anaïs Lossouarn presents What holds of the living (Performance)

Anaïs Lossouarn’s performance unfolds through friction, resonance, and attentive listening. Using two self-built stone harps, she draws deep, sustained drones from finely cut mineral surfaces by slowly moving wet hands across their edges. The sound emerges not through impact, but through continuous contact: a delicate balance of pressure, moisture, and movement, similar to the gesture used on the rim of a glass. Amplified in stereo, each stone reveals its own frequencies and textures, turning the performance into a quiet dialogue between skin and mineral. Through slow, repetitive gestures, vibrations stretch and linger in space, inviting audiences into a suspended, deeply focused mode of listening.

Production support: iii - Instrument Inventors Initiative
Technical help: Davor at De Beeldhouwwinkel

Amber Meulenijzer presents Holding Shadows (Live)

Holding Shadows is a performance using suspended street lights, forming a low-hanging constellation that draws the body into its orbit. Familiar yet estranged, the lamps emit a monochrome glow, creating a space that feels at once intimate and dislocated. A subtle sonic presence hums beneath the surface, as if the lights are communicating in their own electrical language. In this audiovisual performance, Amber Meulenijzer makes the inner workings of gas discharge lamps audible through electromagnetic microphones. Flickers of light translate directly into sound, while transformers and power flows generate deep, resonant tones. Feedback from metal structures is tuned to the space, allowing hidden frequencies to emerge and resonate with the architecture.