interlude is a collective based in Amsterdam and occasionally in Paris & Marseille. We curate & organise listening sessions and other event formats.

We aim to prompt try-out spaces for live projects, amateur music, sound, writing & performance practices. Our events feature a diverse array of formats, including participatory music sessions, anecdotes, live performances with a Korg monolog, a polyphonic choir sound installation, documentary screenings, meditations, karaokes, collective DJ sets paired with BYOB and bread oven, outdoor lectures, a four-day radio program festival for the Rietveld graduation show, open calls, concerts, conferences, launches and hangouts. interlude serves also as a sound system and a public program for other projects. Each session is often complemented by food & drinks tailored to the theme, custom-made furniture and collaborative playlists. interlude is for people who want to give an audience to their projects, may they be in process or entirely finished.

We produce the communication and printed objects for every session, sometimes in collaboration. Each week, interlude also shares on Fragrantica FM a playlist based on its curator's perfume.

We publish the quarterly magazine 4/4, that brings together 4 contributions from artists, writers, and designers in each issue. Like a roundtable dialog, these works subtly interact, complement, or contrast with one another, shaping a theme that lingers in the background, emerging without prior knowledge or intent. 4 corners of one sheet. 4 slices of a pie. 

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interlude is: Elsa Baslé, Alva Bücking, Liza Borovikova, Uma Naddermier

• Session 00
  That really made me think of..., March 2023
  We invited each participant to contribute a song in order to distill all these secret messages that play out in the delicate act of sending and receiving music. After the session, we randomly redistributed the songs, and each person left with someone else’s choice. Food by Hagar Cohen.

• Session 01
  Can’t get you out of my head, April 2023
  We gathered around the theme of loops and sampling. Using two screens and two sets of speakers, we designed a video and sound installation around the work of Pamela Z. A pioneer of live looping, she manipulates her voice to create complex sonic layers and combines experimental vocal techniques.

• Session 03
  One at a time (live), April 2023
  Multimedia artist Kris van Melle created a live soundscape for us using a Korg Monologue and a Roland drum machine. Playing with the monophonic features of the synthesizer, they created ten sequences that allowed participants to find comfort in repetition while being surprised by each new combination of rhythms. Food by Hagar Cohen.

• Session 04
  ÄLG0$P34K, May 2023
  The work of artists p3A and Raf often stems from their interest in sound and technology. They explore the evolution of software and technology and how it infiltrates daily life. Using a 16-speaker installation, they created a hypnotic polyphonic choir. Food by Hagar Cohen.

• Session 05
  Remember, you gotta breathe, May 2023
  We introduced the work of Beverly Glenn Copeland through a short meditation and a listening session, followed by a screening of the documentary Keyboard Fantasies, which tells the story of this incomparable singer and composer who took us on a journey through time. Food by Hagar Cohen.

• Session 06
  Blue + Tooth, June 2023
  Under the June sun, we gathered in the shade of trees to listen to a reading by writer Hanako Emden about the satin bowerbird. This was followed by a deeply blue listening session organised by Mae Smith and Lizzy Jongedijk. Food by Kateryna Lymar and Ethan Lieutet-Khnafo.

• Session 07
  A song is worth a million words, October 2023
  A day of live performances at the ENTER ENTER gallery in Amsterdam. Invited by BYOB (Bring Your Own Book Fair), we brought together our graphic designer and publisher friends to activate their printed works through sound. Featuring Vincent Becher, Ity, Matthew Oxley, Sasha Anguelovskaia & the Nice Normal Family collective. Food by Hagar Cohen.

• Session 08
  O, December 2023
  A symposium dedicated to the apostrophe, interpreted by Nancy Phantom, Bibliomania & Paul Bouigue, Hagar Cohen, Constanza Castagnet & Maria Paris Borda, Yoohee Cha, Sasha Anguelovskaia & Parsa Adibi. Live music, performances, readings, poems, interviews. Food by Hagar Cohen.

• Session 09
  Danger from Estonia, April 2024
  The Joy of Music with DJ Brother B2B Kadri-Ann, visuals by Sasha Anguelovskaia and food by Gaida Erica Pärn in the Rietveld Pavilion.

• Session 10
  Read, Listen, Do, May 2024
  A reading and listening session by Noiserr with ndmnk solutions.
  "My body is an interchange of time. It is traversed with signals, noises, messages and parasites. It is not exceptional in this vast world. This remains true of animals and plants, of air and crystals, of cells and atoms, of groups and constructed objects. Transformation, deformation of information."

• Session 11
  Come early, stay late, May 2024
  20+ contributors participated to our musical melodious page turning public program that took place in the Rietveld garden during BYOB (Bring Your Own Book Fair). Featuring Nour Ben Saïd, Vincent Becher, Dennis Farnsworth, Maïté Jackson collective...

• Session 12
  Our roof out of lego, May 2024
  Dj set by Ladylovelace & dance performance by Amdh, from Palestine and France. A session on embracing nostalgia all together in same time same place, a mixture of two childhoods joining under one roof forgetting the anxiety of growing up and the stress of adulthood.

• Session 13
  Sonic Tapestry, May 2024
  Melodies collected all over Amsterdam entwined in this collectively woven soundscape forming a 2-day program of 15+ contributions of recordings, live music and ice cold tahini ice cream. Together with Paul Gangloff and his students from Basic Year Group F. Food by Hagar Cohen and Chaemin Hwang.

• Session 14
  Elastic Collisions: Lingual Music from the Lily Greenham Archive, June 2024
  A listening session / talk / reading of sounds and materials by artist, sound poet and composer Lily Greenham (1924–2001) drawn from the Lily Greenham Archive at Goldsmiths, University of London.
  “With lingual music, Greenham deployed her voice as a radical sonic resource on reel-to-reel tape: letters, syllables, words, and sentences are distended, superimposed, repeated or reinterpreted into beat-like units.” A session by typographer, writer and curator Andrew Walsh-Lister, with Giulia Nicolai.

• Session 15
  Against the Written Word, September 2024
  The printed word encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalised, has reached a state of completion. For this event, interlude invited Giulia Nicolai to host a "Back to School" open-to-all participatory writing event, with k. cidder, a researcher and sound artist from Bristol.
  Lectures by Matthew Hoxley and Chloé Gourvennec, followed by EYES, an exploration of the broader IJ river network, the version of modernity its waters communicate and the contrasts that are concealed by its liquid framing. Food by Kateryna Lymar.

• Session 16
  bricks on bricks on bricks, October 2024
  A listening session, installation, drinks & concert featuring Timo van Sark (ity), Pedro Kastelijns & qbae
  During the evening, radio signals—ranging from distant broadcasts to ambient interference—were captured, manipulated, and transmitted through various objects. After Timo’s performance, Pedro Kastelijns & qbae played songs around the question “How to build a house and how to live in it?” A multicolored sonic journey rooted in Brazilian grooves, jazz, improvisation and MCing.

• Session 17
  Music for Biscuits, and other Preconditional Tunes, November 2024
  Music for lighthouse-keeping, lovers, or the dining room of the athlete’s village at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964; a quick search on the music database Discogs indicates that as of November 2024, it contains 3,363 unique entries that have “music for …” in their title. These titles suggest that the music is preconditional; they are, for example, intended for a specific place, activity, or audience. During “Music for Biscuits and Other Preconditional Sounds,” sound artist Oscar van Leest shared some general reflections on the historical and contemporary contexts of listening and host a listening session featuring some of his favorite finds among the vast number of “Music for …” works that exist.

• Session 18
  No step in between, December 2024
  The unconscious expressed in uncensored movement. Using tools from the Authentic Movement, dancer and artist Maren Weertman lead us to a movement session where the focus laid on getting back to our bodies and into our own intuition. Followed by writing and drawing exercises with Chloé Gourvennec.
  

• Venues & Organizations
  Bar Theo
  BYOB Bring Your Own Book
  corecore
  De Sering
  ENTER ENTER
  Garage Noord
  NdMNK Solutions
  Noiserr
  Purple Lab
  Gerrit Rietveld Academie
  San Serriffe
  Seedlink
  Stedeljik Museum
  The Nice Normal Family Collective
  Weather Report
  
  

• Collaborators
  Anaëlle Enjalbert
  Bibliomania
  Parsa Adibi
  Sasha Anguelovskaia
  Vincent Becher
  Nour Ben Saïd
  Paul Bouigue
  Maria Paris Borda
  Constanza Castagnet
  Yoohee Cha
  Hagar Cohen
  Hanako Emden
  Dennis Farnsworth
  Paul Gangloff
  Chloé Gourvennec
  Chaemin Hwang
  Maïté Jackson
  Lizzy Jongedijk
  Kadri-Ann Kivisild
  Mila Landreau
  Ethan Lieutet-Khnafo
  Andrew Walsh Lister
  Miglė Lukoševičiūtė
  Kateryna Lymar
  Kris van Melle
  Giulia Nicolai
  Nancy Phantom
  Matthew Oxley
  Gaida Erica Pärn
  P3A
  Pedro Kastelijns
  Malou Rafferty
  Ran Re Reimann
  Sanna Rink
  Mae Smith
  Ladylovelace
  Maren Weertman
  k. cidder
  ity
  and many more
  

  
  
  

practical info here
interlude has generously been funded by the Rietveld Academie Student Council and EXTRA INTRA in 2023 and 2024. Website programmed by Einar Zotterman.