Rotterdam Headphone Lounge

2005-09-02


sunday 4th of September 2005
from 20:00 pm to 23:00 pm…
V2, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012XL Rotterdam, the Netherlands
entrance 2,50 euro

With the Rotterdam Headphone Lounge, V2 links up with Le Placard, a nomadic festival that presents live concerts to audiences transmitted via headphones, while streaming simultaneously over the internet. The V2 space will be transformed into a lounge where you can experience electronic music by plugging in your headphone.

Live electronic music performances are brought by sound artists Erik Minkkinen, Sei Matsumura, Robert van Heumen, Tom Schouten and Guy Van Belle and participants from the Audio Signal Processing workshop held at V2. Other performances will be streamed to us from other locations around the world.

Besides a cupboard, Le Placard is a headphone concert festival, initiated in 1998 by Parisian musician Erik Minkkinen. The festival plays with concentration, intimacy, time-warp and teleportation. Placard sessions can take totally different shapes: London Placard has 20-minute sets going on for twelve hours non-stop, Tokyo did one out in the Yoyogi park under a tree using the phone network. This year’s edition had its kick-off in Montreal (Canada) on 2 June. V2 will connect Rotterdam to international headphone concerts on 4 September.

_ASP_JAM
Performance by the participants of the workshop Audio Signal Processing

http://www.v2.nl

_SEI MATSUMURA
live – digital areas
(low-tech-ism – the Hague)

http://www.low-tech-ism.com

_GUY VAN BELLE
live – digital areas
(MxhZ/Society of Algorythm – Brussels/Berlin)

http://www.mxhz.org

_ROBERT VAN HEUMEN
live – sampling buildings
(Hardhatarea, Amsterdam)

http://www.hardhatarea.com

_ERIK MINKKINEN
live – sound distortions
(DISCOM/Intertecsupabrainbeatzroomboyz, Paris)

http://www.no-text.net/artist_eeek.htm

_TOM SCHOUTEN
live – digital areas
(goto10 – Leuven)

http://zwizwa.goto10.org

_Jan-Kees van Kampen
live – leave self
(goto10 – Amsterdam)

http://vacca.goto10.org