DATE: July 4th
TIME: 20H30 - 00H (Doors open 20h)
PRICE: 10€ pre-sales / 14€ at the door / 2€ with Stadspas
ORION PLAG
Orion Plag lands at Live at Our Place with a new three-part live set inspired by Orion’s Belt: Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka. Using multi-layered synth-based sounds and a dual MIDI keyboard setup, each star is imagined as a character, unfolding through its own atmosphere, emotional tension, and evolving energy. Growing loops, snarky bases, wordless songs, and ecstatic dances are to be expected in Orion Plag’s music, constantly swinging between gritty beats and sorrowful melodies.
Fate placed him in the northern hemisphere, beneath skies where the black drape of night never fails to arrive. As a child, he would raise his eyes to three shining drops. Only later he learned their name — Orion’s Belt. To the universe, they are hundreds of light-years apart. To him, one small hand could hold them all. He’s always been drawn to outer space, to invisible, quantum-like threads resonating across distance, weaving connections between what seems apart.
What he creates is fed by the endless black we call universe, but also from a much closer one — the psychological endless field that shelters our scars, echoes, silence, shadows, stories, affections, faded memories, and entangled thoughts. A loop between OUT and IN: the unknown above and the unknown within.
This is Orion Plag.
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GÖRKEM ARIKAN
An interdisciplinary sound artist and performer, Görkem Arıkan is a music technologist at SoundLAB in Amsterdam and the co-founder of the non-profit experimental music formation A.I.D.
He graduated from the Instruments and Interfaces programme of Sonology at STEIM and KONCON, where he developed ARMonic, a gestural electroacoustic music system consisting of wearable D.I.Y sensors and electronics. Afterwards, as a research associate at Sonology, he created the sound installation Singing Sparks, which is made of ignition parts of a car engine, presented alongside a documentary film about the listening practice of car mechanics. He actively engages in various projects, blending arts, technology, and culture, exploring expressive sonic interactions, and creating experimental electronic instruments and sound installations.
Sensors create a dynamic mesh on a wooden frame, providing a touch canvas for sonic exploration through the manipulation of tension dynamics. Playing the instrument involves warping and tangling the mesh – pulling the cords, pushing the nodes, and adjusting the frame's angle with movable hinges.
In performance, the project unfolds through a continuous exchange between control and resistance. Gestures do not lead to fixed outcomes, so the direction shifts in real time, following small variations in touch and tension. The result is a process that moves between intention and surprise, where the instrument actively shapes how the piece develops.
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