Dim Garden

Beyond stoked to be DJing at the world class Rewire festival at the cult Hague @laak.club night alongside @okwilliams_ @buttechn @torvs @gigstab in one week 🕷️ I am particularly stoked to see Aaron Dilloway that same night @medicinestunts

Happy Birthday to the best person alive !! 🥰 love of my life, my biggest inspiration, the most incredibly talented all-around artist and entrepreneur, my partner through joy and grief, the best (and most handsome) dad 💜

Tune in tonight at 20:00 ✨✨✨

Ombra thank you for having me play your beautiful festival last weekend at the power plant🕷️ it was such a welcoming and friendly atmosphere with the best music and people especially traveling and spending the weekend with @ofra85 ! Was so happy to see and meet some of my favorite bands and play the operator stage. thank you @cruel_machine_booking for making it happen! 🖤 🎥 slide 3 by @fancy_franzi_80s ✨ and slide 4 by @ofra85

This Saturday I am playing @ombrafestival at Les Tres Xemeneies thermal power plant on the coast outside Barcelona with the amazing @ofra85 ✨🕷️ I will be playing some haunted lo-fi bedroom ballads and noise. casio, hohner, yamaha home keyboards sounds and rhythms and weird vocals can’t wait !! Thank you @cruel_machine_booking for making it happen 🖤

In this photo, despite trying to hide my bump in order to have long-term usable press pics, I am 34 weeks pregnant. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I was standing over the edge of a cliff. My fertility journey has been one marked by grief, despair and hope. I was preparing for the unknown experience of childbirth, the transformative path to motherhood, making the final preparations and details for Esra’s arrival into our home; but unbeknownst to me at the time, Esra would never make it home. I fell off that cliff when doctors informed us that Esra was not going to make it past her seven short days of life in the NICU. This impossible news, having to say goodbye to my perfect daughter, destroyed me, my family and friends. My fertility path continued through waves of despair, hope and grief, as I went on to birth and lose a second baby the following year, Joaquim, at 14 weeks pregnancy. Through grief, anxiety and hope, Esra and Joaquim’s little sister Elvira came into our lives six months ago, bringing us so much light, joy and hope, and new layers of grief for her siblings who are no longer here. I have two daughters, but they will never meet. I feel Esra’s absence every minute of every day. In the little things, in the big things. A joyful moment, sometimes unexpected, no longer exists without the pain of her absence. A pain that grows, renews itself, takes on new dimensions, and that is commensurate to the love I have for her. I wish to thank @marinkagrondel for inviting me to participate in her astonishing, deep, and vulnerable exhibit, today at 4pm, also because it allowed us to exchange on the less visible and taboo sides of fertility and parenthood, such as infertility and loss, which are all too common but little spoken about. Because 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss. The timing of Marinka’s exhibit and performance coincides with baby loss awareness and remembrance week, where families worldwide lit a candle on October 15th for those babies who are no longer here and are missed profoundly. They are forever loved. Forever part of our families. Sending love to all who are struggling with (in)fertility and baby loss. I see your parenthood ❤️

18 October, 16:00—17:00 Dim Garden @ziggyzerfall Live music performance @thegreyspaceinthemiddle Shaped by her own journey of profound maternal loss. Using synths, voice, and field recordings, translated into sound memoirs of personal grief, despair and hope. It is also a meditation on collective mourning and resilience surrounding fertility and pregnancy. 🪷 ◻️Photo @marinkagrondel ◻️Graphic design by @marjoleinheije ◻️Calligraphy “Fertile” by @juliebrigati

‘Fertile, protect your crop’ My new photo series and installation exploring the path to motherhood. It offers a personal view beyond the romanticized ideas of fertility, revealing its raw vulnerability, strength, and complexity. I’d love to see you on the opening night @thegreyspaceinthemiddle 🤍 17 October, 18:00—21:30 Throughout the weekend, an engaging workshop by @mikidou_lifedrawing and live performance by @ziggyzerfall will explore the themes of fertility and womanhood, offering space for connection and reflection for women and their partners, who are an integral part of the journey. A space for care, communion, and the often unseen paths we walk together🪷 18 October, 16:00—17:00 Dim Garden Music performance Live music performance shaped by her own journey of profound maternal loss. Using synths, voice, and field recordings, translated into sound memoirs of personal grief, despair and hope. It is also a meditation on collective mourning and resilience surrounding fertility and pregnancy. 19 October, 12:00—15:00 Mikidou Drawing workshop ‘Fertile Soil’ This workshop invites you to connect to the topic of fertility through drawing and conversation. Moving gently between sound, conversation, and guided drawing, we explore the body and imagination as a source of inspiration and expression. Charcoal and primal colors become tools to trace what arises, fleeting thoughts, gestures and emotions. We begin by meeting and getting to know each other. From there, the session unfolds as a collective journey: drawing as a way of listening, of noticing, and of sharing. Tea, nurturing snacks, and a relaxed atmosphere support this moment of exchange and artistic discourse about this sensitive topic of fertility and motherhood. Ticket link in bio🔗🤍 Artwork credits/ ◻️Video preview installation / @marinkagrondel ◻️Graphic design by @marjoleinheije ◻️Calligraphy “Fertile” by @juliebrigati

Dim Garden(@ziggyzerfall ) treballa amb la foscor, la fragilitat i el soroll. Nascuda al Canadà i establerta a La Haia, el seu so és humit i carregat d’ombra: sintetitzadors antics, enregistraments nocturns i textures fetes a mà amb teclats dels 80. Entre l’electrònica gòtica, l’ambient sorollós i les balades lo-fi, la seva música manté una essència DIY, crua i honesta. ∙/∙ Dim Garden (@ziggyzerfall ) crafts haunted electronics that feel tactile, humid and strangely intimate. Born in Canada and based in The Hague, her music weaves vintage home keyboards, dusty analog synths and field recordings captured during nocturnal walks along desolate coastlines. Blending gothic electronics, noisy ambient and lo-fi ballads, her sound remains fiercely DIY: raw, personal, and unpolished by design. ∙/∙ Dim Garden (@ziggyzerfall ) trabaja con lo turbio, lo espectral y lo íntimo. Nacida en Canadá y residente en La Haya, suena a humedad eléctrica: teclados domésticos de los 80, grabaciones nocturnas y sintetizadores analógicos envueltos en niebla. Entre la electrónica gótica, el ambient ruidoso y las baladas lo-fi, su música es siempre artesanal, directa y sin concesiones. DIY en fondo y forma.

Thank you @mysticatribe for the visit ✨🥰 🇯🇵 🇳🇱 and congrats on your Noda & Wolfers performance at @dkmntl

Tune in to @noodsradio this Tuesday for a new episode of Diminishing Returns, this time with exclusive guest Dim Garden from The Netherlands

DTP# 43 - Dim Garden We are very happy with our latest mix, lovingly put together by @ziggyzerfall from The Hague. She has accompanied us for many years now with her haunting synth productions full of sadness, anger and grief. As you can hear on labels like @italo_moderni , @ophism_records , @tanzprocesz , @yarrowballet , almighty Nightwind Records or her own label @hungernet to name just a few. Her mix for us contains all this, but much more: It's a deep dive into her universe. From DX7 sounds to mutant beat experiments to acid-tinged drum scenarious, wave memories to eerie drones and haunting vocals up to the battle of the ruins. Embark on this journey. Link in bio. #dimgarden #mix #disposabletime #synths #wave #mutant #dx7 #eerie #bilch