The festival opens with the concert evening Organ/Body in collaboration with the Orgelpark. FIBER will present two premieres made especially for, and partly within, the Orgelpark. The fusion between organ sounds, software and electronic music is the focus of the evening.

How can air be controlled and used in a new way within traditional organ music? Rotterdam-based musician and composer Casimir Geelhoed breathes new life into two organs in the Orgelpark. For this he uses the hyperorgan, electronics, self-developed software and spatial sound. He will play Deviation live on the hyperorgan. The piece combines hyperorgan and live processing, accompanied by a 12-channel 4DSOUND system. We kindly thank Orgelpark and 4DSOUND for their support. Deviations is commissioned by FIBER and Orgelpark.

Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson present a version of The Spectral Organ, adapted to the organs and architecture of the Orgelpark. Horn’s compositional practice uses minimalist structures and piercing power electronics, utilizing both digital and analog synthesis as well as acoustic instruments and audiovisual components. In this setting, the music uses electronically-treated organs to create a hybrid instrument. When playing the pieces, the two performers measure the duration of each chord by the length of their individual breaths, connecting the body to the organ through the medium of air.

Concert I: Festival Opening - Organ/Body

Join FIBER Festival 2025’s Wilding AI Open Lab! Explore AI-driven sound experiments with 4DSOUND’s spatial audio technology. Artists will demo new compositions and improvisations, merging AI with immersive sound design. A one-day showcase perfect for makers and thinkers in experimental audio to meet and exchange with other professionals working at the intersection of (spatial) sound, AI, software and composition.

More info & tickets: https://fiber.stager.co/shop/fiberfestival2025

Artists:
- Dr. Beth Coleman
- Maurice Jones
- Alexandre Saunier
- Pía Baltazar
- Debashis Sinha
- Gadi Sassoon

Wilding AI: Open Lab

What are the boundaries between bodies and the outside world? Are these hard separated entities as we in the West see ourselves, or are they in reality much more porous and interconnected with the outside world? What ecological systems weave together bodies, both human and non-human, and what technological developments create divisions between inside and outside, the comprehensible and ungraspable?

The exhibition Outer/Body - open for one long weekend at Door Open Space - presents seven artworks by multidisciplinary artists who give their own perspective on a wide range of questions related to the interaction between bodies and their environment. Operating between art, media, science and software development, the artists reflect on social, ecological and technological themes by creating sensory compositions.

Visitors are invited to understand their environment in alternative ways, through the unconventional use of medical equipment to get a different sense of inner and outer bodily dimensions. Discover how technological innovations interact with human perception and augment senses, while at the same time using technology to determine which bodies are excluded and which are not. Learn how the hard boundaries between inside and outside do not hold up in an ecological reality.

Festival Exhibition: Outer/Body

In collaboration with STUK and the Brakke Grond, FIBER presents Sound Art | Neighbouring Frequencies. An afternoon showcasing the rich development and presentation of sound art filled with sound art performances and installations.

Programme:
- Phantom Limb: A project exploring the enigmatic and poetic relationship between a human being and a black box that is our interior by transforming a medical ultrasound machine into an instrument.
- Maria Komarova with Krɑjïnɑ: An alluvial gathering of various materials creating a place where things become forces, and sounds become tales.
- Suzan Peeters: An experimental accordionist who expands the acoustic sound spectrum of the accordion using objects, transducers, and live electronics.
- Aernoudt Jacobs with “Akoetrope”: Presents a rotating sound machine inspired by Phénakisticope/Zoetrope devices to understand the persistence of sound cognition.
- Myra-Ida van der Veen with Second Breath: A delicate and breath-centred performance that delves into the physicality of sound as it moves through the primal essence of the voice: the breath.

Doors open at 12:45. Event starts at 13:00 and ends at 18:00.

Phantom Limb | Maria Komarova | Suzan Peeters | Aernoudt Jacobs | Myra-Ida van der Veen

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Event source:
https://fiberfestival.nl/soundart

Sound Art | Neighbouring Frequencies

NL premiere

IMPORTANT UPDATE: BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.)

Cancelled: Wednesday 29/5 and Thursday 30/5
New location: Het Slotervaart on Friday 31/5, Saturday 1/6 and Sunday 2/6.

It is with regret that we have to announce that BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.) has to leave the Schietbaan today. This cancels tonight's performance and all time slots on Wednesday (29/5) and Thursday (30/5), as well as the time slots on Friday before 19:00. Everyone who bought a ticket for the live or installation session has received an email about this.

At the same time, we are happy to announce that BODIES AND SUBWOOFER can be experienced from Friday till Sunday at the former Slotervaart hospital. Together with Stefanie Egedy and Care Design Lab we are installing the work on the 8th floor, which is still fully empty. The hospital environment fits our theme Outer/Body and we are glad to have found this location within the last 24h.

B.A.S. can be visited at Het Slotervaart on these times:
Friday: 19:30 - 23:00
Saturday: 13:00 - 23:00
Sunday: 13:00 - 20:00

A new Sub-Bass Relaxation Session will be offered on Friday, 18:30. Earlier ticket buyers will be contacted first.

The piece will be played every 15 minutes at the 8th floor, no time slot reservation is required. You are welcome to enter the Het Slotervaart (Louwesweg 6) from the main entrance.

About the work:

Can low frequency sounds create feelings of relaxation and stress reduction? Is an intense sonic experience of vibrations soothing to some, where others might experience discomfort? To enhance the festival theme of Outer/Body, we invite you to step into B.A.S. during all festival days. The artist Stefanie Egedy created the installation BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.) 6.0: TRIPLE R-45 for you to experience the possible interactions between sub-bass, infrasound, bodies, and subwoofers. B.A.S. is a travelling and transforming series of site-specific sound installations and concerts composed of subwoofer arrangements and low frequency sound (LFS).

Stefanie Egedy investigates sound as a composer of conceptual pieces, commissioned works, and experimental electronic music. Focused on researching possibilities with low frequency sound, bodies, and subwoofers, her work stems from installations to live performances as sonic propositions. She runs the label COISAS QUE MATAM (THINGS THAT KILL), researches light-sound relations with Camille Laurent, and has worked with Monom Center for Spatial Sound, Alexis Blake and Chris Salter. Her work was presented at festivals and institutes such as CTM Festival, Berghain, Tresor, Nextones Festival, and The High Line.

The Relaxation Session is not included in the full festival pass.

Stefanie Egedy

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Event source:
https://fiberfestival.nl/stefanieegedy

Stefanie Egedy presents B.A.S. (BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS)

What are the boundaries between bodies and the outside world? Are these hard separated entities as we in the West see ourselves, or are they in reality much more porous and interconnected with the outside world? What ecological systems weave together bodies, both human and non-human, and what technological developments create divisions between inside and outside, the comprehensible and ungraspable?

The exhibition Outer/Body - open for one long weekend at Door Open Space - presents seven artworks by multidisciplinary artists who give their own perspective on a wide range of questions related to the interaction between bodies and their environment. Operating between art, media, science and software development, the artists reflect on social, ecological and technological themes by creating sensory compositions.

Visitors are invited to understand their environment in alternative ways, through the unconventional use of medical equipment to get a different sense of inner and outer bodily dimensions. Discover how technological innovations interact with human perception and augment senses, while at the same time using technology to determine which bodies are excluded and which are not. Learn how the hard boundaries between inside and outside do not hold up in an ecological reality.

Sissel Marie Tonn | Amos Peled | Lumus Instruments | Marco Donnarumma | Dani Ploeger | Roel Heremans | Hedwich Rooks

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Event source:
https://fiberfestival.nl/exhibition-door-open-space

Outer/Body

The exhibition will showcase the work of five sound-artists who are exemplary of the interconnectedness and richness of sound art in and around The Netherlands & Belgium. Listening to their sculptures and installations, we will learn about hidden dimensions of our environment and the relationships between landscapes, humans, and non-humans. With work by Els Viaene, Floris Vanhoof, Oussama Tabti, Stijn Demeulenaere and Luis Lecea Romera.

Tuesday – Sunday: 12:00 - 17:00
May 30 – June 2: 10:00 - 20:00
Opening: Friday May 31 | 18:00 | More info: https://brakkegrond.nl/agenda/623/neighbouring-frequencies

Els Viaene | Floris Vanhoof | Oussama Tabti | Stijn Demeulenaere | Luis Lecea Romera

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Event source:
https://fiberfestival.nl/exhibition2

Exhibition II: Neighbouring Frequencies – de Brakke Grond

Three nights of music, art, talks and audiovisual experiences featuring Artefakt, upsammy + Sjoerd Martens and Woody92.

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