Fascinating electronic drone music by a fine selection of performers from Germany, Belgium and Amsterdam. Frozen Waves is a new collaboration with STEIM (Studio for Electro Instrumental Music).

Frozen Waves is a new collaboration between the Bimhuis and STEIM, the internationally renowned organization for electronic music. The three performing musicians focus on drone music. Thomas Köner is considered one of the greats of this art form.

The endlessly sustaining character of drone music can have an entrancing effect on its listeners. The ultra slow developments form almost architectural structures of sound. The passage of time slowly decreases to a frozen state.

German multimedia artist Thomas Köner is one of the pioneers of innovative minimal electronic music in the 1990s. Alongside albums such as Permafrost, Nunatak and Teimo he produced minimal techno as part of the duo Porter Ricks. He created both visual and sonic art and his works are part of the collections of significant museums such as Centre Pompidou and Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal.

Yannick Franck has developed a highly personal performance style based on the treatment of sources such as instruments and non-musical objects, throat singing, radio signals and field recordings. The Belgian artist runs the label Idiosyncratics and is the artistic director of Liège-based art space Les Brasseurs.

Orphax is the alias of Amsterdam-based based musician and trained drummer Sietse van Erve. Most of his work is improvised, using a laptop in combiantion with anything from keyboards to vocals or plastic cups being played with a bow. The result is an organic lo-fi form of drone and minimal music, often with a melancholic character. Sietse van Erve curates concerts at STEIM and OCCII, he is involved with SOTU Festival and he has his own label, Moving Furniture Records.

The Bimhuis restaurant is open prior to the concert from 6.30 til 8.30PM (reservations via 020-7882158). After the concert, the Bimhuis Café is open (free entrance).