These turbulent times, when none of us know what is normal or allowed anymore, create a vacuum, which is not easily filled.
During the period of December 2nd until December 13th, we invite anyone craving a new perspective or inspiration in music, electronics or art science, to Studio LOOS.
Majority of the events are digital concerts via the LOOS YouTube channel. Some events are physical in studio LOOS, all with strict regulations in compliance with COVID-19 requirements.
December 2nd until December 13th, 2021
the events
ABUNDANCE - LOOS PRESENTS ELEVEN DAYS OF DIVERSITY TO THE HAGUE
December 2nd @ 8PM - digital concert
Primitive Field
with Gwenifer Raymond & Edgars Rubenis
The name of the concert references the American Primitive Music - a genre name accidentally started by John Fahey sometime in the 1960s, and currently having quite a following in some circles.
Just about anybody with an interest in the new school of American primitive will tell you that Welsh guitarist Gwenifer Raymond is one of its most promising proponents.
At the Studio LOOS concert on December 2nd Edgars will perform his blues and ragtime influenced music for acoustic guitar. Being engaged in writing and playing this music over the previous two years, this will be it’s first public performance.
the concert will be shown on the 2nd of December on a secure page on our website and will be live for 10 days only.
You must buy a ticket in order to access this concert. The ticket is donation-based, therefore you may select your own amount to donate
December 3rd @ 8PM - digital concert
Evenings of Excellence #2: Arnhem
with the Four Frogs in the Woods
The Frogs got to know each other while studying at the ArtEZ conservatory in Arnhem. Jasper le Clercq, known for the Zapp 4 quartet, among others, has coached them in the first year. In addition, they have courses and followed masterclasses with Etienne Nillesen, Ernst Reijseger and the Omer Klein Trio.
The Frogs use various surrealistic images and create techniques to to use body and voice in their performances. The inspiration for free improvisations, concept improvisations and own compositions mostly comes from the sound art discipline, but also Scandinavian folk and traditional jazz influences are part of the repertoire and can be heard in their own work.
December 6th @ 8PM - livestream on YouTube
ARC Session Sounding Sonic Materialism
by Academy of Creative and Performing Arts - Leiden University
ARC hosts exhibitions, installations, lectures and performances every month. The idea is to enable a space of communication and action where artist-researchers can show work in progress (or finished work in need of feedback) and discuss it with the audience.
This ARC session will start with a brief theoretical introduction to Sonic Materialism before the focus will shift to the artistic contribution to this concept: how can/does it sound? What can sound/music “itself” contribute to the discourse and materialization of Sonic Materialism? How can Artistic Research make this Sonic Materialism audible and thinkable through sound?
December 7th @ 8PM - radio edition on MixCloud
Radio LOOS 8
on Art, Disability, Barriers and Chances
This time including discussions on barriers in education, neurodiversity in the dance studio, standardized work environments that leave out people who don't fit the bell curve, and last but certainly not least the extermination of disabled people during (and before) the holocaust. Featured works and interviews by
Amble Skuse
Ben Lunn
Kris Halpin
Laura Cantliff
Nabil Shaban
Toria Banks
Sonia Allori
December 8th @ 8PM - digital concert
Which Songs Are These?
by Cristiano Melli
A portrait of Cristiano’s Melli chamber vocal music.
Soprano – Christina Schönbach
Piano – Ivan Pavlov
Viola – Jieun Kim
The genre of Art Song has some of the most beautiful and crafted works in Western Classical music. By focusing on a very intimate setting, its strength emanates from a rich relation between instrument and voice, their humanity flowing through the interaction of sounds and words.
December 9th @ 9PM - digital concert
Sangita
by Kali Ensemble
Kali is a new-music ensemble based in the Hague. Our ensemble consists of Giuseppe Sapienza (clarinet), İdil Yunkuş (violin), Beste Yıldız (cello), and Nirantar Yakthumba (piano).
Kali: Sangita is the debut concert of our ensemble resulting from a week-long residency at Studio LOOS, in the Hague. We worked on pieces by Myrtó Nizami, Daniil Pilchen, Cristiano Melli and Nirantar Yakthumba and we will proudly be presenting them in our concert.
December 10th @ 8PM - digital concert
Jerboah Ensemble
with Sarah Jeffery, Dodo Kis, Guillermo Celano & Marcos Baggiani
Jerboah is a group of music explorers committed to communicate and express through the power and boundlessness of manifold music.
December 11th @ 10:30AM - 13:30PM - live lecture
c@tfish hackLab café
with Johan van Kreij
This edition of the c@tfish hackLab is a lecture by Johan van Kreij.
The “c@tfish” hackLab café workshops, led by Johan van Kreij, is a new initiative to grow the electronic music community in The Hague. Studio LOOS is the perfect location for the workshops, as there are multiple useful tools, instruments, as well as shared guidance for creators and artists with different experience in electronics. Our goal is to create an artistic hub where people work on projects that can include electronics, sensors, micro-controllers, code, and where experts can offer help.
December 11th @ 2PM - 5PM - live event
Le Géant du Pays des Glaces
by Alliance française de La Haye and Français du monde Pays-Bas
The event is organized for children by Alliance française de La Haye and Français du monde Pays-Bas in collaboration with the Stanza Bookshop.
Children are invited t enjoy a book reading of an old Lapland legend.
Marie Masi, a bookseller from the Stanza bookshop, will read the children book as the pianist Helene Perrotin accompanies the piano. During the reading, pictures and illustrations of the book will be projected on the wall.
Stanza Bookshop is a partner.
December 12th @ 8PM - Interview
De Haagse School
with Dick Raaijmakers
Members and friends of LOOS receive the booklet “The Hague School” from 2002 with the full article by Pay-Uun Hiu, texts about LOOS, the composers, musicians and concerts.
“What does the term 'The Hague School' mean to you.
From 2002 Volkskrant journalist Pay-Uun Hiu in conversation with the compilers of the Loos-Festival “The Hague School”
As a teaser today public on LOOS Channel “The Hague School. Dick Raaijmakers interview part 1”.
These interviews from 2002 will be available “uncut” to LOOS members and LOOS Channel subscribers on YouTube from January 1, 2022, the year of LOOS' 40th anniversary.
December 13th @ 8PM - digital concert
Processes
new research developments
Gabriela Areal performs "Solo de Armonio"
Kristin Norderval - “Future Past”
