default#20: Sun Yizhou, Zhu Wenbo, Zhao Cong, Li Song, Able Noise

Name: default#20: Sun Yizhou, Zhu Wenbo, Zhao Cong, Li Song, Able Noise
Start: 2025-01-23T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-01-23T23:30:00+01:00
Location: The Grey Space in the Middle

Schedule

Thu Jan 23 2025 at 07:30 pm to 11:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Grey Space in the Middle | The Hague, ZH

We are happy to invite you to the first program of the year, taking place on the 23rd of January in The Grey Space in The Middle.
Sun Yizhou┆Zhao Cong ┆Able Noise ┆ Sun Yizhou, Zhu Wenbo, Zhao Cong, Li Song (quartet)
For default#20, we are excited to host three important figures from the open-thinking Beijing experimental scene as part of their first European tour. Sun Yizhou, Zhu Wenbo, and Zhao Cong have all brought forward divergent ‘music unlike music’ ideas to the post-2000 eai discourse, including performances and compositions which defy easy categorisation. While an interest in electronic devices and daily objects may be a common ground, often here the concept is more important than the tools; exploring situations, rather than predetermined outcomes. They have initiated such pivotal labels as Zoomin’ Night (Zhu Wenbo), Aloe Records (Sun Yizhou) as well as affiliated concert programs. Alongside them, the London based artist Li Song will accompany the program, whose approach with mechanical devices and portable speakers could be traced back to his time in the Beijing scene.
Concluding the lineup, the experimental outfit Able Noise – a cross-continent duo of George Knegtel and Alex Andropoulos based between The Hague and Athens. For this occasion the duo will prepare a specific, electro-acoustic approach driven live show. Putting their known alternative methods of playing baritone guitar, drums and voice in relation to a feedback system, which also includes bouzouki, portable playback devices and microphones.
This event will be accompanied by a free program in the Central Library on the following day involving a conversation with Sun Yizhou, Zhu Wenbo, Zhao Cong, a performance by ‘No Performance’ (the duo of Zhu Wenbo & Li Song), as well as a second solo set from Sun Yizhou – 24th of January.
Read more on the program and the artists performing here:
https://tinyurl.com/focusd2021
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default#20, Thursday, 23rd of January,
The Grey Space in The Middle, Paviljoensgracht 20-24, Den Haag
doors: 19:30, first performance: 20:00
Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/ticketsd20 | €12.5 (student) / €15 *
*in case your current financial situation does not allow you to visit the event, but you are keen on coming, you can mail to [email protected] and we can find a solution.
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default#20 is financially supported by The Municipality of The Hague and the Konrad Boehmer Foundation.
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default den haag is a non-profit curatorial initiative focused on the presentation of creative contemporary sound and performance in the Hague, curating and organizing their nomadic sound series with an international focus on experimental music and sound art performances since 2022, next to occasionally hosting accompanying talks and lectures.
defaultdenhaag.com/links