default den haag: announcing two additional programs of the third season
default den haag is happy to announce that we'll be closing the season with two additional programs
In addition to our next week’s event at The Grey Space in the Middle, we are very happy to announce two more events before the beginning of summer, bringing again some of our favorite artists to the Hague. On Saturday, the 8th of March, we will return to 3345 for an intimate in-store edition with Jacob Eckhardt and Kieran Daly. Continuing our collaboration with iii on Thursday, the 17th of April, we will present an evening of performances with Vanessa Rossetto, Maya Verlaak, and Áine O'Dwyer at iii workspace – closing off our third season how we’ve started.
Look below to see an overview of the three last events of our third season, that will be almost certainly also the last default editions of this year. To make sure we can keep on doing what we do in more sustainable ways, and prepare ourselves for activities in 2026, we’ll have to take a (small) break. We want to thank you for your continuous support, and hope to see you in the aforementioned upcoming programs this spring which we are very excited about.
Just a small reminder that we recommend buying tickets online prior to the events due to the limited capacity of the venues. If the tickets are sold out, there will be no ticket-sale at the door.
Thursday, 13th of February, The Grey Space in The Middle, 8pm | Tickets
Janneke van der Putten, Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks, Sunik Kim
The Rotterdam-based artist Janneke van der Putten will be presenting her acoustic voice performance ‘Cycles: Overtones and Glottis Attack’. She is specialized in producing two or more sounds simultaneously: basic tones, harmonics, interferences – like glottal attacks – and spatial reflections. Her voice is her main tool, guiding her through physical and sonic explorations in different landscapes, engaging with specific sites and local contexts. The duo of composers-performers Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks will be presenting their two pieces for two flutes: ‘Music for Two Flutes’. It involves immense, heavy physicality, exploring the instrument with both persistent power and sensitive buzzing – locating sites of intensity and spectral saturation where they aren't always found. Sunik Kim is a computer musician, writer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles, whose music is often described as "a frenzied electronic orchestra that sits somewhere in between free jazz, noise, and Korean shamanic music”. At default, Sunik will be presenting the first hour of a new extended piece that emerged from an intensive study of Conlon Nancarrow's usage of the tempo canon and its relation to the compression and dilation of perceptual time. Read more about the program and the artists performing via our previously published focus newsletter.
Saturday, 8th of March, 3345 The Hague, 8.30pm ┆Tickets
Jacob Eckhardt, Kieran Daly
On Saturday, the 8th of March we will be returning to 3345 for an intimate in-store edition with performances by Jacob Eckhardt, a The Hague based sound artist whose work deals with turntablism as a discipline deeply entwined with the materiality of its instrument, utilising instrument preparations to investigate how acts of sampling can be guided by the medium-specific (and thus material) malleability of physical media containers, and Kieran Daly, an American composer and guitarist with a concentration in experimental monophonic music. His work focuses on a ‘skeptical, first-principles approach applied across multifarious formal contexts using iterative processes, microtuning and sliding, and pulse salience as morphological determinants’. As a part of his first European tour, Kieran will be presenting a performance with ‘music for unaccompanied guitar’.
Thursday, 17th of Apri, iii workspace, 8pm (starting time and place walk tba)┆ Tickets
Vanessa Rossetto, Áine O'Dwyer, Maya Verlaak
On Thursday, the 17th of April we will be continuing our collaboration with iii, inviting the audience to join for an evening of performances at the iii workspace, closing off our third season how we’ve started. The edition will welcome Vanessa Rossetto, an American composer and chipper-shredder, processing whatever sounds cross her path into sprawling, long-form narratives, for a rare performance during her first European tour, the multidisciplinary artist Áine O'Dwyer, whose work is informed by both the conceptual concerns of sound art and traditional composition techniques, presenting ‘Sing in the Dark’ – an homage to the vocalisations and acoustic camouflage techniques of the European nightjar, and Maya Verlaak, the composer and iii member, for a staging of ‘A Deviation for Approximation’ – a composition/walk investigating deviations from a walking route as a compositional tool.
The event will involve an accompanying ‘deviated’ walk, for which the audience will be invited to join at a given time and place before the start of the event – the details of it will be communicated closer to the event. This presentation celebrates the launch of Maya Verlaak’s publication ‘Blueprint #3: Deviation’ as part of iii’s Blueprint series.
default#22 is financially supported by The Municipality of The Hague and the Konrad Boehmer Foundation. The event in collaboration with iii is financially supported by The Municipality of The Hague and Creative Industries Fund NL.
About Us
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. - read more