Patricia’s Pillow: EP release by Laura Kampman

Laura will perform the music from her debut ‘phone-recordings’ EP for the first time. She has invited other artists to celebrate the evening with her. “This line-up will create a lighthearted nostalgic and dreamy atmosphere, a sonic journey that will make you sit still and drift off. The location where it’s hosted (Nachbar) looks like it came directly out of Twin Peaks, for this evening the room will be filled with pillows.”

Laura Kampman

Laura Kampman, photographer and composer, has been transitioning from capturing moments through photographs to recording the sounds of her surroundings using her phone. For several years now, she has documented various environments, conversations, melodies, objects, animals and moments with loved ones. She also actively seeks out and collects sound snippets from other individuals, asking them to share their phone recordings. She intertwines these diverse recordings, blending them into sonic landscapes. During her live performance she settles on stage with just four phones and a mixer, playing directly from the source. For this evening she will also be joined on stage by Iver Kim who plays her electric flute on a collaborative composition.

Iver Kim

Iver Kim is a composer, flutist and visual artist whose work extends beyond the realm of music, incorporating elements of visual art, performance, and multimedia experimentation. Blending fragments of classical pieces with field recordings, her compositions are characterized by their patience, embracing slow and long-phased structures that invite listeners to immerse themselves in the unfolding sonic narrative. Her music creates a contemplative space where time seems to stretch and breathe, encouraging deep emotional resonance.

Honingbeer

Honingbeer is the solo project of violinist Marthe Lasthuis. She extends and bends violin with electronics, inspired by artists such as Nils Frahm, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Colleen & Mary Lattimore. Honingbeer gifts us never just a vibe or melody to match a mood. Much more, her compositions require listeners to submerge – and reemerge elsewhere. With atmospheric, melancholy layerings, she lures listeners into a primordial place and time; a clearing in the forest singing, a vibration of the heart.

The Hobknobs

The Hobknobs are Yaël Dekker (The Klittens) and Arie van Vliet (Lewsberg), who have finally started working together after listening to each other’s music for years. They balance out their innate love for rules with a healthy disdain for authority. Next time you will see them they will be a band.

Marieke McKenna

Marieke McKenna (London, 1994) is a writer, poet, creative director, entrepreneur and artistic researcher with an academic background in philosophy and history of science. Having worked in music for over 10 years, she is considered an innovative force; whether in the context of her record label Mink Records, her radio show on NPO Radio 2 Soul & Jazz, or ‘Roots & Threads’, her podcast on ethnomusicology, she consistently manages to find hidden gems and place them in the bigger tapestry of culture and society. As employee of a neuroscientific sleep laboratory at Radboud University, she has led an multi-year academic research project on the history of how we view dreams both historically and cross culturally, supported by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and die Junge Akademie.