Two weeks ago at @murmur.ams , I curated an event with @epiphany.records born from a personal frustration with performing and with events themselves. While I have enjoyed my performances, repeating the same time format had begun to feel empty. My work is usually highly structured, every aspect fixed. For this event, I wanted to step away from that rigidity and explore what might happen if control was loosened.
The framework was reduced to three pillars: light, sculpture, and sound. Within this, invited artists were given almost complete freedom. Trust was essential; trust in their sensitivity to the space and its inhabitants. Until the day of the event, none of us had seen each other’s work. This became a shared search: light isolating fragments of sculpture, drill-like sounds forming rhythms within drone.
My sonic contributions were improvised, allowing each artist to decide how and when to engage and improvise themselves. The only rule was continuity, no silence across the three-hour duration. Transitions developed through duo improvisations, passing the space between performers. Rotations of 15 min expanded over time until we all performed together, decisions shaped by listening and shared attention.
By removing a fixed timetable and embracing improvisation, I discovered something I had been missing: shared attention between performers. Although I could not fully inhabit the role of an audience member, the event was curated with them in mind; offering freedom to enter, listen deeply, and disengage without prescribed beginnings or endings.
I am deeply grateful to everyone involved. @iilli.i.illii@leng.egg@wispelturig_@ont_blod@lasmovidasdemonis@_maruchii_@lisvanhorssen The openness, trust, and skill of the artists shaped this work into what it was and what it will continue to become. Thank you to all who shared the space with us.
On the 15th of January, Epiphany Records invites you into a three-hour long performance at murmur, curated by OC Parietal. OC Parietal (moniker of Olivia van Leest) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Den Haag. She navigates sound through melodic ambient, drone noise, and by using unusual sound patterns, samples and harmonic progressions. Her music integrates electro-acoustic experimentation with the refined contributions of cellists, violinists, and pianists, with whom she collaborates closely. In pursuit of narrative depth, she explores themes like (the complexity of) love, violence, the origin of the space around us and (the inevitability of) sorrow. Her framework of sound stretches from stereo recordings, to multi channel fixed media pieces, and live synthesis. Her live performances are based around unconventional audience-performer setups, rooted in the interest of creating new observation and attention structures. Her debut album ‘Souther’ was released in May 2024 via the Amsterdam based FLINTA label Epiphany Records.
15.01.26
3 x 15 murmur x epiphany records
presale: €10
On the 15th of January, Epiphany Records invites you into a three-hour long performance at murmur, curated by OC Parietal. Sonic contributions from Lengleng, Tzu Ni, and Wispelturig weave through an installation shaped in collaboration with Monis & Maru, a modular sculpture assembled and undone in real time. Lights, guided by Wiggo, become the equal counterpart of sound, casting projections that blur bodies, structure, and sound.
The room listens inward and looks outward at once, a continuous exchange with no fixed breaks, no marked hours, no timetable. An evening where everything folds into everything else.
15.01.26
3 x 15 murmur x epiphany records
presale: €10
On the 5th of December we are organizing the first CAAOSSS concert of the year. Following the theme Input/Output: Bodily Transmissions the following students will present their work: ‘Feedback Surfing: Cycle’ by Hunter Nassar @hhhuntj , ‘Rule Based Weight Shifting’ by Lea Yordanov @lea.yordanov and Olivia van Leest @ocparietal , Parvin Dinayati, ‘Let the body’ by Fabiana Vicente @fabiana__vicente and Velcro 3x3 (Tobias Álvarez @tobiasalvarez , Nicolas Speda @nicolas.speda and Lingyuan Yang @ylylyl________ )
Conservatoriumzaal Amare - free entry
Doors 19:00
Starts 19:30
End 21:30
Input/output is a lens through which to explore the boundaries between human and technology, performer and instrument, body and system, listener and environment. Bodily transmissions refers more broadly to the corporeal dimension of mediation. The body is not a neutral interface, but a site of resonance and resistance. How does the body operate as medium, a living instrument through which information and affect circulate?
Poster by @ocparietal
MULTI-SENSORY EVENING
Join us for an intimate evening where food, sound, and form come together.
“Dinner of Senses” strips dining down to its most elemental structures, turning the table into a playful landscape of shapes and patterns. Guests are invited to explore flavor, geometry, and sound in unexpected ways, becoming part of the composition themselves.
All profits from the dinner will support the artists featured in RESIDUE, the current exhibition at Kunstbar.
RSVP via [email protected]
poster: @mocapcombat &hand drawings @darakaradjov
Epiphany Records @ murmur
On May 29th, OC Parietal creates an unconventional audience-performer setup, with the use of light, unusual stage placements, and sculptures by Lieve van den Bijgaart. Taking all elements present in the setup, she will compose sound by moving, while guided by light. Something to unravel for the audience, a structure based on patterns. She also invites Lénok to perform a live soundscape, Genyten for a dubby ambient DJ set, and deve for an eclectic and deep showcase.
Tickets available now in bio.
May 29th, 20:00-00:00, murmur Amsterdam, €10
