Tell Me More #2
December 14th, 2024 19:15 - 23:30
Dokzaal, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam

Tickets:
Early bird: 10,-
Regular: 15,-
Student: 5,- (must have valid ID)
Limited amount of free tickets for Subbacultcha members. More info via Subbacultcha

Join us for the second edition of Tell Me More an evening of femmtronic music. During the evening we'll feast on two audio visual shows by Show Pony & lowkolos in the Dokzaal and afterwards we'll dance in the atmosphere cafe basement to the dark set of Warr and unrelenting performance of COW Shift Z. 

In these dark times we are honored to host a very special performance Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free, an EP fundraiser for Gaza made by Mirthe van Popering X Honingbeer. Osama Hussein, a Palestinian visual artist from Gaza, created the cover art. You will be able to contribute directly at the venue by pin or cash.

In the spirit of the solstice we've opened our TMM coven to two up and coming male electronic music artists who will present Amsterdam premiers of their new works. lowkolos presents his hypnotic A/V show 'there is no harmony' and Warr a new live set of new music.

As always come and and ask the artists and questions, ask them to tell you more about their work or just come have a drink, have a wiggle, and enjoy the shows.

Timetable

19:15 - 20:00 Doors

Ground floor
20:00 - 20:40 I May Fall into the Sound by Show Pony, Nina Kay, & Tatiana Rosa
20:45 - 20:55 Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free | Fundraiser EP Presentation by Mirte van Popering & Honingbeer (Cafe)
21:00 - 21:45 There is No Harmony By lowkolos & No Compliments

Basement
21:50 - 22:30 Warr
22:40 - 23:15 COW Shift Z

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ARTISTS
COW Shift Z (PT/NL) is a composer and performer of electronic music. Her practice focuses on integrating different music genres in her artistic language. Electronic dance music gives her the common ground to express her inner worlds and tell the stories with a free and experimental mindset.

As a performer  she is interested in rhythm and groove puzzled with aggressive, industrial sounds. She is a creative programmer exploring new instruments that let her improvise with her own sound design and music intuition.
Over the past years COW Shift Z created diverse projects in distinct areas of music. Her EP “Funeral for the Selves” she performed in clubs mainly in The Netherlands and Portugal. She also created the “Biljimeiri Anthem” for the Utopa Organ and electronics and other multimedia projects, such as “buffer manelzinho 1204.8” a multimedia opera.

lowkolos (TR/NL, aka mert gençer) is an Amsterdam-based A/V artist and producer focused on crafting unique, immersive experiences. Drawing inspiration from ‘Musique Concrète’, he aims to bring novelty to music by breaking free from traditional composition methods, such as grids and metric measurements. His genre-bending productions feature narrative textures, computer processing, complex rhythms, and innovative sound design. When paired with his visuals, this fusion creates a dynamic and evolving experience that keeps audiences engaged and excited throughout his performances.

During Tell Me More #2 lowkolos will present ‘there is no harmony’ a multi-layered holographic A/V show inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary ‘Burden of Dreams’. In this performance, and in collaboration with A/V artist and technologist Allison Wright, lowkolos uses a holographic foil that, when paired with haze, creates an ethereal 3D quality. Unlike traditional theater scrims, the holographic foils create a lensing effect, refracting light to transform the venue into an immersive light installation. Suspended vertically in two layers, the projection material warps the visuals, further exploring the theme of harmony and disharmony.

https://soundcloud.com/lowkolo...

Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free | Fundraiser EP

This collaboration between Utrecht-based ambient violinist and composer Honingbeer and Berlin-based poet Mirthe van Popering merges spoken word with haunting sonic layerings. A fundraiser project born out of 15 years of friendship and 434 days of unflinching genocide, their paired voices call us to feel—deeply and in discomfort.

Coming from a shared background in music, the two longtime friends now create an interdisciplinary texture of expression—one that balances sound with white space, ink with strings, and poses questions of defiant connection amidst shattering loss. Osama Hussein, a Palestinian visual artist from Gaza, created the cover art.

All proceeds from their fundraiser EP “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free” and merch go directly to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, The Freedom Theatre and Osama Hussein to support him and his family in Gaza.

Mirthe van Popering resides in Berlin, where she writes, translates and resists. A graduate of Cultural Analysis in Amsterdam, she studied creative writing at The Writers Studio New York and poetry with Tracy Fuad at the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. Her writing is in touch with what is being obscured—it subverts language, foregoes answers, destabilizes existing systems and revels in surreal desire. In seeking new modes of meaning-making, her work poses an intricate cultural critique where slippage in sound and sense become a site of possibility, of hope.

Honingbeer is the solo project of violinist Marthe Lasthuis. She extends and bends violin with electronics, flanking Neo-Classic and experimental artists such as Nils Frahm, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Colleen and Mary Lattimore. Her latest EP “Opia” was released with Frank Wiedemann’s Bigamo. Hongingbeer’s compositions require listeners to submerge—and reemerge elsewhere. With atmospheric, melancholy layerings, she lures us into a primordial place and time; a clearing in the forest singing, a vibration of the heart.

Osama Hussein is a Palestinian visual artist and interior designer who has been forcibly displaced multiple times since October of last year. His small studio and paintings were completely destroyed by the Israeli military. In a fundraiser he started to support his family, Osama writes: “Every night, we sleep to the sounds of explosions and rockets that strike our hearts before our homes,” describing how the loss of loved ones has become a “painful routine.” Amidst the genocide, Osama continues to visualize the plight of his people in black-and-white drawings, documenting the bloodshed and devastation Gazans endure every day.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/hel...

Show Pony (USA/NL) is the solo project of Amsterdam-based American double bassist and vocalist Laura Nygren. In her new audiovisual project, I May Fall into the Sound, created with Tatiana Rosa and Nina Kay, she uses a synthesizer to explore the erosion of the human body as a metaphor for our aging planet. The project focuses on the small eroding island of Massancumock, which is expected to disappear into the surrounding sea by 2026, near the area where Nygren grew up.

Using beats, synths, strings, and text, Show Pony creates atmospheric landscapes—a world to get lost in. During live performances, she brings these landscapes to life for the audience through her immersive shows.

In 2021, Show Pony released her self-titled debut EP, created in collaboration with producer/multi-instrumentalist No Compliments, in a specially designed 3D online space during the online edition of the Rewire Festival. In 2022, she created Lullaby for a Slow Apocalypse with Tatiana Rosa and Simon van Steenis, a performative installation combining string instruments, ceramic instruments, and chamber music arrangements from her debut EP. This work challenged audiences to question their definitions of the end of the world.

Warr (UK/NL) is an Amsterdam-based electronic music producer from East London, UK. Inspired by the more avant-garde avenues of dance music, Warr bridges dark and unconventional sound textures with raw, hypnotic techno grooves in their live and DJ sets.

https://soundcloud.com/warrrr

This event is made possible by AFK (Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunsten).