AGENDA
(GET READY FOR) TAKE-OFF
YOUNG TALENT * HEERLEN * POP-UPIn the concert series Get Ready for Take-off, musical makers (-26) present their work at an early stage and test their music several times at different stages. They present an experiment or 'work-in-progress' eight times a year on a Thursday evening in the Intro pop-up space in Heerlen, with room for crossovers.
CULTURA NOVA
FESTIVAL * THEATER * PARKSTADDuring the international theater festival Cultura Nova in Heerlen you will find us for over a week in Parkstad.
ELDORADO
MUZIEKTHEATRE * FAMILY * CULTURA NOVAIn Voerendaal Intro co-produces the music theater piece Eldorado. Eldorado is a cheerful piece about a farming family experiencing the challenges of life in the Limburg countryside in 2024. Read more...
Miss Milivolt, Stadscomponist van Heerlen - Hallo Heële!
DRONE * CITY COMPOSER * CULTURA NOVAIn Hallo Heële, sound artist and composer Angela de Weijer takes you through her first impressions of this city through recorded sounds, samples and texts. Read more...
SACHIT AJMANI - REMOTE POSTING
MUZIEKTHEATER * SCI-FI * CULTURA NOVAREMOTE POSTING is a musical theater piece set in the distant future, where normal people go to space as astro-workers and perform mundane, but profitable tasks. Read more...
Show Pony - I May Fall Into Sound
SYNTHESIZER * IMMERSIVE * RIZOOMShow Pony is the solo project of Amsterdam-based American double bassist and singer Laura Nygren. In her new audiovisual project I May Fall into the Sound, which she made with Tatiana Rosa & Nina Kay, she uses a synthesizer to explore the erosion of the human body as a metaphor for our aging planet. Read more...
PAS Festival
SCIENCE * RESIDENCY * FESTIVALComposer J. Warren will provide an educational-musical performance about her research into the Mosasaurus in the natural history museum during the PAS festival (organized by Studium Generale Maastricht). She has taken the dinosaur fossils as a starting point for a musical production and, together with visitors to the PAS festival, is trying to give the prehistoric animal a voice.
06/09: 20:30 and 21:30
07/09: 19:15 and 20:45.
RAFAELE ANDRADE
SUSTAINIBILITY * INSTRUMENT MAKING * IMPROVRafaele Andrade [Curitiba - Brazil] is a composer, instrument maker and cellist currently based in the Netherlands and Brazil. With a diverse background in Composition, Conducting, Sonology and creative programming, Rafaele's artistic journey is a fusion of innovation and exploration. Read more...
JUBILEUMWEEKEND, INTRO IN SITU EXISTS 40 YEARS
BIRTHDAY * CONTEMPORARY MUSIC * YOUNG AND OLDFRI 11/10
DANCE * ELECTRONIC * DUOplatypi is a new and upcoming sound/dance electronic duo based in Maastricht. Their music is born from a shared passion in the intersection between the calls of Australian wildlife, audio of historical events, and dance-garage electronica. Read more...
FIE SCHOUTEN & SOFIA BORGES
JAZZ * IMPROVISATION * DUOThis duo has a language of a mix of influences: their contemporary classical education and experience and their experience in the jazz/free impro scene.Both will perform also solo: Fie Schouten the new bass clarinet solo composed by Tobias Klein and Sofia Borges a piece composed by herself. Read More...
Reinier van Houdt - Première Jurg Frey
PIANO * SPATIAL TEXTURES * REDUCTIONISMPianist Reinier van Houdt presents music by Jürg Frey and Michael Pisaro-Liu, two pioneers of the Wandelweiser composer group who take John Cage's ideas of silence, duration, coincidence and environment into the future. Silences, just like extra-musical sounds, are part of their music. Read more...
Double Bill: Natálie Kulina & Oscar Peters
AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE * PIPE ORGAN SOUNDSCAPESNatálie Kulina - The dark corner of my circles
The dark corner of my circles is a performance that combines aspects of contemporary electro with acoustic music, theater and visual arts.
Oscar Peters - The AIR project
The AIR project is a project initiated by composer and sound artist Oscar Peters. As an active musician in contemporary experimental and electronic music, his research and artistic achievements have focused on the unconventional use of pipe organs and their sonic behavior in acoustic spaces.
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RHIANNIN - Bodylanguage
ECLECTIC POP-ROCK * ALBUM PRESENTATION* DIGITAL WORLDMore and more people are ending up in burnouts and suffering from depression and loneliness. This theme is central to Bodylanguage, RHIANNIN's debut album, with which she wants to challenge herself and others to listen more to their own body and thus understand their own body language better. Read more...