SPACE is the PLACE

23/04/2025

Monday eve 28 April! With spring in full bloom, Amsterdam’s organizations The Rest is Noise, which champions forward-thinking and outspoken music nights, and Space is the Place, acclaimed for its focus on catalyzing and nurturing the free improvisation scene, collaborate for the first time on this night that fuses their respective and overlapping visions. While the former focuses more on avant-garde electronic music and the latter more on jazz and contemporary music, they similarly strive for experimentation and boundary-pushing sound in their programming. Both local initiatives often organize in this building of Muziekgebouw and BIMHUIS and have a devoted love for the city in which they reside.

On the bill tonight: vocalist and cellist Sanem Kalfa with cellist Lucija Gregov, guitarist and singer Ahmed Ag Kaedy with drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie, and saxophonist and composer Sakina Abdou!

SANEM KALFA / LUCIJA GREGOV
Sanem Kalfa and Lucija Gregov play together as a duo–both wizards of the cello–in a delicate yet fractious chamber music conversation. Their dynamic ways of acoustic experimentation complement each other in an emotive, swaying vortex. Sanem’s haunting voice adds a third layer as she plays her cello, and Lucija fills the notes with wondrous manipulations on the same instrument.

AHMED AG KAEDY / WILL GUTHRIE
Tuareg musician Ahmed Ag Kaedy and Australian drummer Will Guthrie join forces tonight. This February, they are releasing Tidawt, their first collaborative tape, recorded in Umeå last year. The silencing guitar- and vocal-led sounds of Ag Kaedy, combined with the thrilling drum play of Guthrie, create an interplay where their diverse musical languages connect seamlessly.

SAKINA ABDOU
Sakina Abdou plays solo tonight, showcasing her note-sweeping sax play, whose style brings imagery of notes dancing and darting through thin air. She is a French saxophonist and composer known for a bold, expressive approach to contemporary and improvised music. She pushes the boundaries of jazz, free improvisation, and experimental sound, carving a distinct voice that blends intensity with subtlety.

Ticket link in bio and via Subbacultcha.

22/04/2025

Sunday soiree, May 11 at De Tanker! Ingoma Yesintu and James McClure duo

https://spaceistheplace.eu/event/sunday-afternoon-at-de-roze-tanker/

After their magical debut at the SITP x Cinetol Spring Fest and before heading to the big Music Meeting with us in Nijmegen, here’s another chance to catch Ingoma Yesintu live–the band and vocal choir led by South African, Amsterdam-based artist Zenzele Mthembu-Salter.
Music Meeting Festival takes place 7–9 june and cuts across styles, genres and cultures, worldwide–offering a stage to artists all over the globe for over 35 year often with new projects or in special compositions.

Support comes from James McClure duo (+TBA)

This time we thread to the cozy space of De Tanker in Amsterdam Noord. Donation-based entry at the door only (pay what you can)

Timetable:
15:15–15:45 | James McClure & ....
16:00–17:00 | Ingoma Yesintu

INGOMA YESINTU
Ingoma Yesintu—meaning Song of Humanity or Folk Song in isiZulu—is led by bassist-composer Zenzele Mthembu-Salter, who writes and arranges the music of this a ca****la ensemble with a firm focus on voices. With subtlety and grace, it features six singers, double bass, and percussion, centering on vocal harmonies with South African grooves and rhythms. The choir is made up of talented locally based Conservatorium vocalists from all across the world, drawing inspiration from African gospel choirs, classical chorales, traditional chants, jazz, and free improvisation.

Ingoma Yesintu are:
Inês Martínez – voice
Júlia Cortés Pons – voice
Jaehyung Choi – voice
Divakar Nambiath – voice
Sara Guildolin – synth & voice
Eber Gonzales – percussion
Dane Paris – drums
Zenzele Mthembu-Salter – contrabass & voice

01/04/2025

FRIENDS OF SITP ✨ https://spaceistheplace.eu/friends/ ✨

Dear friends, family, fans!

We're launching our Friends of SITP campaign through which you can support Space is the Place and help us bring concerts and projects to life.

Space is the Place creates space for both emerging and established musicians in a world where electronics blend with acoustics, jazz meets contemporary, and dance invites introspection—all driven by a shared passion for music in the moment.

By doing so, we support artists locally and beyond, encouraging them to cross disciplines, experiment with new collaborations, and take creative risks on stage.

Funding alone isn’t enough—we need our friends to keep pushing Amsterdam’s improv scene forward.

Donate €8, €10, €12, or €20 per month (minimum 3 months) ✨

As a thank you, you’ll receive:
✨ Our eternal gratitude
✨ A special gift each year
✨ 50% discounted concerts (for the discount on April 5's An Interplanetary Night and April 12's SITP x Cinetol Spring Fest, please email [email protected] after becoming a friend)

FRIENDS OF SITP ✨ https://spaceistheplace.eu/friends/ ✨

31/03/2025

SITP Spring Concert series, kicking off this Saturday!

5.4 An Interplanetary Night, : Mestizx ( / ), / , Aquarius Zen Garden (.j / / ),

12.4 x SITP Spring Fest: .garcia.mariachi, ’s Ingoma Yesintu choir, Carta Pesto, , Foon ( / Kieftenbeld), QVENTURE TIME ( / ). Extra support by

28.4 x SITP, : / , / ,

19.5 An Intergalactic Night, : / , .en.hung, Joy Guidry,

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27/03/2025

Some of the faces you'll see during our first event next week! Two generations of Amsterdam’s creative energy, coming together—an example of what Space is the Place truly means. Not just music, but improvisation and the ways artists approach their craft.
A gathering of artists who push beyond jazz, both culturally and artistically.

Seen through the celebratory yet critiquing lens of Mestizx (Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly, joined by James McClure, Ben Boye, and Uldis Vitols) and reflected in the collaborative, international approach of Beatrice Sberna, Gabriel de Oliveira, and friends (Federico Calcagno, Alessandro Fongaro, and Michael Vatcher). A spirit further echoed in Keep It Moving’s translocal, community-driven ethos—bringing together a wide range of creatives: edós & RRRADIANT, Remembering Love, DJ Andy Ex, Shiru, and c00.
The latter are figures also embedded in the more electronic scenes, a space that the Aquarius Zen Garden project embodies—a second act by Ibelisse on the night, featuring Jochem van Tol and Jacob Maskell-Key.

So, mark your calendars for a new instalment of the always pleasantly disturbing An Interplanetary Night. The first in our spring series—come join!

https://spaceistheplace.eu/event/an-interplanetary-night-3/

20/03/2025

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First one of the year! April 5th with a whirlwind of performances, this edition with Latin American undertones and expanding friends groups!

IBELISSE GUARDIA FERRAGUTTI & FRANK ROSALY – MESTIZX
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti is a singer and performance artist from Bolivia. Frank Rosaly grew up in a Puerto Rican family and made name as a drummer in Chicago. Mestizx , their new album for the American label Nonesuch and International Anthem is a propulsive, intercultural and anti-colonial mix of avant-jazz, punk, cumbia, electronics and more.

BEATRICE SBERNA & GABRIEL DE OLIVEIRA
From the sinister lullaby ‘Satan

10/03/2025

New season, new graphic identity ✍️

Space is the Place: Music in the Moment

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Join us in April:

5.4 An Interplanetary Night, : Mestizx ( / ), / , Aquarius Zen Garden (.j / / ), /

12.4 x SITP Spring Fest: .garcia.mariachi, ’s Ingoma Yesintu choir, Carta Pesto, , Foon ( / Kieftenbeld), QVENTURE TIME ( / )

28.4 x SITP, : / , / ,

03/03/2025

As Spring is awaiting, SITP and Cinetol join forces again! The sound of crashing guitars and angelic harmonies collide at this Spring Fest, bringing together a new generation of artists and standout acts from near and far.

AVA, Ingoma Yesintu, Carta Pesto, Foon, Nina Garcia, QVENTURE TIME

Nina Garcia is a Parisian guitarist and sound artist who reimagines noise and improvisation through the electric guitar in her singular style. Since 2015, she has been fusing a minimalist approach with a maximalist effect–raw, instant soundscapes that explore the connection between body and instrument.

Ingoma Yesintu—meaning Song of Humanity or Folk Song in isiZulu—is led by bassist-composer Zenzele Mthembu-Salter, who writes and arranges the music of this acapella ensemble with a firm focus on voices. With: Inês Martínez, Júlia Cortés Pons, Jaehyung Choi, Divakar Nambiath, Sara Guildolin, Eber Gonzales, Dane Paris.

Carta Pesto channels garage-style energy, fusing playful electronics with skillful instrument play. All well-known faces in the Amsterdam scene, they bring a DIY flair, embracing the spontaneity and chaos of this occasional combo while staying true to the spirit of improvisation. Marco Luparia, Beatrice Sberna, Chaerin Im.

AVA Trio blends rhythm, noise, and melody, weaving folk traditions with improvisation. Giuseppe Doronzo, Esat Ekincioglu, and Pino Basile turn rhythm into noise, noise into melody, and melody into rhythm.

Foon is a duo by Andrius Dereviancenko and Ruben Kieftenbeld that initiates their intricate music with simple, repetition-based structures that gradually build up, incorporating new layers until they create beautiful, complex pieces.

QBAE is the performing core of collective-label KB_: a rotating ensemble hosted by Gabriel de Oliveira and Niels Luteijn. For a set of exclusively punk-leaning Adventure Time songs and relentless noise impro, they invite special guest Winnie Conradi and become QVENTURE TIME.

+ impro jams between the performing artists all night in the second room!

Design by Maria Olivera and Jack Beattie

spaceistheplace.eu | cinetol.nl

Supported by SENA and AFK
April 12, 2025 | 18:00–01:00

24/02/2025

As we are slowly returning from hibernation, we want to wholeheartedly thank our graphic designer Elton Eerkens for his massive amounts of work, providing us with many unmistakably SITP designs over the last years 🖊️❤️

With this seasonal shift, SITP will shed its skin and return with a brand new graphic identity by a new designer duo. More information on that soon—as well our first events (check our bio for an idea on the where and when..) ⏰

So for now, once again a big thank you to Elton for his magic. It’s not a goodbye, but a change. Dive into our archives (and Facebook!) to get a glimpse of all he’s done for us—from gigs in De Ruimte and the first Bimhuis nights to our Cinetol series and more.

The limited SITP compilation CD Elton designed is up on our Bandcamp (https://spaceistheplace.bandcamp.com/album/an-interplanetary-compilation) and the Red/Green graphic shirts (second slide) are for sale at our events. Plus, the improv slogan poster as seen on the image starring Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti.

Follow Elton and his work via https://eltoneerkens.com/

23/01/2025

Recap from the third and final Orbits x SITP night at Dokzaal, concluding our 2024 program. With stunning live performances by Ruidoscuro (Frank Rosaly, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Marta Warelis, Andy Moor), Lida Brouskari, Hristo Goleminov / Siebren Smink.

Photos by Moritz Müller.

20/12/2024

A wonderful end of the year with a 3-days tour of Frank Rosaly's Ruidoscuro ft Marta Warelis, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Andy Moor in Belgium! Performing at Sojo Leuven, Rataplan Antwerp and KAAP Oostende. Also on stage were Farida Amadou, Joachim Badenhorst, Suzan Peeters, Ocean Eddie, Sofia Jernberg, Andreas Bral & John Dikeman.

A big thank you to the musicians & organisations involved - on to a happy 2025 with more exciting musical encounters!

An impression of the concert at KAAP by Yvan Mahieu.

12/12/2024

Lineup for the final Orbits x SITP fall series, next Tuesday!

LIDA BROUSKARI SOLO
Lida Brouskari graces us solo, on the keys. A skilled pianist who started at a very early age, Brouskari has been making waves in the local scene in various formations, including her band Nufaro, which blends avant-garde pop sensibilities with experimental and ’70s rock influences.

Lida Brouskari – keys

RUIDOSCURO
Frank Rosaly’s Ruidoscuro presents strict sequential patterns against improvisation to inhabit ritualistic musical movement. The music tells a dark, haunting story in a richly layered context of spinning polyrhythms, bi-tonal melodic material, and pivoting harmonic structures in a new music that defies centralization. Layered systems of repetition, trance-based cycles, and melodic motifs spin and bridge one another, creating space for the listener to become lost in the raw energy of this powerful quartet.

Marta Warelis – keys | Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – electronics | Andy Moor – guitar | Frank Rosaly – drums

HRISTO GOLEMINOV / SIEBREN SMINK
Hristo Goleminov is a saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist with a keen interest in free improvisation. For this event, he’s in full interplay with close friend and long-time collaborator Siebren Smink, a guitarist and composer who was steeped in psych rock as a kid. They will play new compositions by Goleminov, exploring baroque-inspired counterpoint, oddly singable melodies, and interwoven structures within the low confines of the baritone sax and guitar.

Hristo Goleminov – saxophone | Siebren Smink – guitar

11/12/2024

From 13–15 December Space is the Place tours Belgium in a new concept called Interlinie. This three-day celebration aims to connect and cross-pollinate the Dutch and Belgian landscapes of improvisation, experimentation, and jazz. This first edition brings together the explosive quartet of Ruidoscuro with like-minded Belgian musicians at each respective stage–with possible new formations popping up in the moment, who knows!

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Friday December 13 – Sojo Leuven
INTERLINIE: Ruidoscuro | Farida Amadou solo
Tickets > https://apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/30cc/flow/tickets?event=652909945205&l=nl #!/addtickets

Saturday December 14 – Rataplan Antwerpen
INTERLINIE: Ruidoscuro ft Joachim Badenhorst | Ocean Eddie ft Sofia Jernberg | Suzan Peeters
Tickets > https://apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/de_roma/flow/rataplan?event=184172314048&l=nl #!/addtickets

Sunday December 15 – KAAP Oostende
INTERLINIE: Ruidoscuro | John Dikeman & Andreas Bral
Tickets > https://apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/kaap/flow/kaap?event=597623717630&l=nl #!/addtickets

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About Ruidoscuro:

Frank Rosaly’s Ruidoscuro is a musical research project focusing on his native Puerto Rican roots in concert with his background as an improviser, composer, and jazz musician. Using electronics alongside acoustic instruments to create otherworldly reflections of pre-Columbus indigenous instruments and employing strict sequential patterns against improvisation to inhabit ritualistic musical movement, the music tells a dark, haunting story in a richly layered context of spinning polyrhythms, bi-tonal melodic material, and pivoting harmonic structures in a new music that defies centralization. Layered systems of repetition, trance-based cycles, and melodic motifs spin and bridge one another, creating space for the listener to become lost in the raw energy of this powerful quartet.

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – synthesizers & electronics | Marta Warelis – synthesizers | Andy Moor – electric guitar | Frank Rosaly – drums & electronics

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Interlinie is organized in cooperation with Sound in Motion, Klankhaven, KAAP, Rataplan & Sojo
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Design by Elton Eerkens

10/12/2024

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Next week! The Orbits X Space is the Place series concludes with a special evening featuring the young, upcoming experimental piano talent Lida Brouskari and the lyrical, unpredictable duo Hristo Goleminov and Siebren Smink. This evening closes with Frank Rosaly’s amazing Ruidoscuro quartet, in super shape after their Belgian tour organized by SITP, full of power, with transcendental raw energy.

Music 20:00. Dinner available, 18:30–19:30: winter soul-warming stew of pumpkin and beetroots, with rice and a kale-tarragon pesto (vegan)

ORBITS X SPACE IS THE PLACE FALL SERIES #3

LINE-UP: LIDA BROUSKARI | HRISTO GOLEMINOV / SIEBREN SMINK | RUIDOSCURO

TICKETS € 10 / € 12 / € 15 (pay what you can) | DINNER € 8,-

02/12/2024

Mike Reed and Hunter Diamond as part of their tour on the bill tonight in Amsterdam! An Intergalactic Night by Space is the Place at BIMHUIS

20:30 Mike Reed/Hunter Diamond
21:25 Danielle Zawadi
22:00 Dudù Kouate/Ziv Taubenfeld
DJ: Michael Moore

Footage from the Summer Solstice concert by the duo captured live at the Earnest Earth farm in Chicago on June 21st, 2019.

26/11/2024

Next week Saturday – KEEP.SPACE.FEST – 3 PM to 3 AM

https://www.denijverheid.org/agenda/4866-keep-space-fest

Raw improv, avant-garde electronics, a myriad of stages by SITP x KIM at de Nijverheid in Utrecht. Line-up below and find more info via the website.

Alesya Dobysh
Amir Torangan
Andy Moor
Angelo Antic
Anthony Girgis
Camille Maria
Derozan
Elsa van der Linden
Gabriel de Oliveira
Gaetha
Gropina
Henry Weekes
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti
Jacob-Maskell-Key
Jake Mehew
Jochem van Tol
Korshid Dadbeh
Loma Doom
Luke Cohlen
Mangruv
Max Frimout
Pittori Locali
RRRADIANT
Sanem Kalfa
tala drum corps
Terrie Ex
Thomas Hell
Underbelly Soundart Media
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Meer dan 20 optredens-waarvan vele premières of unieke combinaties-dreunen door het CFX geluidssysteem in de grote zaal en verspreid over meerdere podia op het terrein van De Nijverheid. Verwacht avant-garde elektronica en folk zoals je gewend bent van de Keep it Moving crew gemixt met de improvise...