# Helicopter

> Artist Collective and Project Space


## Posts

- [De Haagse Hack](https://helicopter.studio/?p=2050): Join us for an evening of live coded music made by artists from the Netherlands Coding Live community (NL_CL). We will also have a guest from Barcelona, Maia Francisco (https://maiafrancisco.com/) who helped setting up this evening in Helicopter together with Lam Lai. Expect an evening full of algorithmic thinking, live programming, showing screens, fixing errors and adventurous music and visuals. We’ll have an open stage for a 9-min from-scratch live coding session. If you like to participate in the session, please feel free to send us a message! Or come to the event with your laptop and let us know before we start. […]
- [Helicopter at Kaderock Festival](https://helicopter.studio/?p=2040): On June 7 Helicopter will show works at Kaderock Festival, at Musicon Den Haag. This year Kaderock presents a new stage: De Broeikas. This transparent tent, that functions as a living laboratorium, is the result of a collaboration between The Hague art and music collectives Helicopter, iii and New Space Studio. Sound performances, visual art and technology merge into a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, in which connecting and improvisation are central. The theme this year is ‘Work in Progress’, ode to the experiment and the creative process. In De Broeikas it’s not about the perfect end result, but about the creation of art […]
- [Research evening with Burja Podlesnik and Pia Mačerol](https://helicopter.studio/?p=2001): Date: Friday May 16 2025doors open: 8 PMaddress: Ulenpasstraat 55 The Haguefree entrance Slovenian dance artists Pia Mačerol (2000)  and Burja Podlesnik (2001)  have been following each others’ educational steps since they finished their secondary dance education at SVŠGUGL – the Secondary Preschool Education, Grammar and Arts Grammar School Ljubljana, specializing in contemporary dance. They continued their studies at the New Education for Contemporary Dance (NEFCD) program at Härnösands Folkhögskola in Sweden. Currently they are both completing their final year of studies at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem and will be graduating side by side in July. Burja […]
- [a solo show by Channa Boon](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1965): Date: Sunday, March 9th 2025doors open: 5 PMaddress: Ulenpasstraat 55 The Haguefree entrance The sound of the letter ‘H’ is actually ‘breath’ and in Spanish and Hebrew, it means the soul or breath of life that is present in all and everything. From 2020 till 2022 Boon built and ‘directed’ the H in the form of a swimming pool in the yard of Helicopter artist run space. In 2023 the work was demolished by the municipality of The Hague. This exhibition shows the entire cycle of this work: from the very beginninguntil its destruction and everything in between.
- [Second circle sessions: Edition 0.0](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1949): We’re excited to announce that this Friday we’ll be kicking off the first edition of the 2nd circle sessions. 2nd circle sessions is a series of week-long residencies. During these residencies, selected artists will engage in this process, resulting in a public presentation at the end of the week. If you are an artist, designer, composer, performer, maker or whatever and are interested in such a collaborative process of making, please come along to the first session or send us a message @vogonxpoetry on Instagram. An initiative by Ossip Blits, Omer van Soldt and Ruben Dijkstal in collaboration with Helicopter. […]
- [HELI X MUSICON](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1890): HELI X MUSICON On May 31, Helicopter & The Undergroundlings Present: Heli x Musicon, a mini festival exploring the fringes of possibility within Musicon. With art and music performances by: Klitink KLTNK KLITINk?, Gangpad, Lam Lai, Steffan de Turck, Miiis, The Undergroundlings, Shitcluster, Mandrake, Omarleen & Marc van Elburg, Jim Zweerts and Goldblum. Time:Door open: 20:00Show: 20:30until: 01:00 FB Event Page: https://fb.me/e/1ZulUCB3Nhttps://helicopter.studio/https://theundergroundlings.wordpress.com/
- [ACCOU // WEIRD DUST // UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1852): Saturday 28 October 2023 ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓ Saturday 28 October at Helicopter, a sweet little 2 bonbon treat straight from Brussels in the form of Accou and Weird Dust.Undocumented Aliens from the Lowerlands added to balance out the chocolate 1-2 combo.Halloween dress up party edition, with a selected crew of community dj’s we hope to bring the dance vibes till deep into the night.Embrace the Halloween vibes and come dressed up! We love a good diy imagination set to infinity costume! ACCOU feels like being lost in a computer game, you don’t know the premise of the game, you don’t know the storyline.The […]
- [Jooklo Duo + Mik Quantius // Arvind Ganga // DJs Obscuriosa](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1830): On the 2nd of June, 2023: Free-jazz legends Jooklo Duo team up with dada vocalist Mik Quantius, Arvind Ganga presents his immersive three-speaker guitar setup, and DJs Obscuriosa spin their exquisite hidden gems. At Helicopter, Ulenpasstraat 55, 2531 PL Den HaagDoors open at 20:30, music starts at 21:00Entrance €8 (all proceeds go to the musicians) JOOKLO DUO and MIK QUANTIUS are masters of improvisational cosmic music, always exciting and created in the moment. The kickass power of VIRGINIA GENTA’s sax propelling the spaceship “JOOKLO DUO” with the wise ass flow of DAVID VANZAN’s drums at the controls to set course […]
- [Felix-Florian Tödtloff (DE) / Christian Smith (US/NL) / Vita Soul Wilmering (NL)](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1804): >> 13 May @ Helicopter << On the 13th of May (Saturday), at the Helicopter project space, we present 3 experimental sets. 2 musical sets and 1 short film screening: Visiting musician Felix-Florian Tödtloff, a musician and engineer from Berlin who works in the field of instrumental experimental music. He will bring us ambient and drone with electric guitar, synthesizer and field recordings. The Hague-based American percussionist Christian Smith plays ‘Discrete Species’ (2011-2023), a collaborative effort between him and musician Douglas Farrand.  ‘Discrete Species’ is modular work for solo performer and percussion, with auxiliary electronics and video.  This version is created specifically for the Helicopter […]
- [Unforbidden Movement Workshop series – Workshop no.4](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1779): Each workshop centered around one movement principle and organised in a movement  session and a creative session. The workshop combines movement with a second discipline forming together a multidisciplinary embodied experience. Landscaping the body – the skeleton and its surroundingsWith Eilit Marom and Channa BoonSaturday 11th March 2023, 13:00 – 15:30 Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the features of an area of land. In the workshop we would like to borrow this concept and look into the orchestration of the living body. You will be introduced to your body features, skeleton and organs, as an area to modify and […]
- [HAPPY FUJI NEWS](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1768): Sunday afternoon 05 February Helicopter hosted Brussels go-getter  Eric Kinny’s travelling picture show “HAPPY FUJI NEWS”  Local artists noisesinthenight and HEXENEICHE completed the event with the new sounds they have been working on. Samantha Rees and Manuel Padding presented their installation “The Opposing Mirror” We finished before 19:00 so we can head to K R A H #2 where Helicopter heartthrobs THE UNDERGROUNDLINGS were playing a secret show. we served delicious soup and bread to fill both your stomach and your mind. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HAPPY FUJI NEWSEric Kinny’s Woodcut Theater is coming to Den Haag and it’s going to be wild! With over 200 […]
- [Unforbidden Movement Workshop series - Workshop no.3](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1754): A new workshop series by Helicopter resident artist Eilit Marom. Each workshop consists of  a movement practice session and a creative session centered around one underlying movement principle. The workshop combines movement and a second discipline, forming together a multidisciplinary embodied experience. Acknowledging the real weight – gravity and other invisible forcesMovement and Environment design With Eilit Marom and Mischa DaamsSunday 22nd January 2023, 13:00 – 15:30 The laws of the universe rule our body sensations, how much are we aware of the forces that take us up and down, make us contract or release? Mischa and Eilit will guide you through a […]
- [Unforbidden Movement Workshop series – Workshop no.2](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1721): Here, now, before and after – presence and memoryMovement and Documentary Cinema With Eilit Marom and Vita WilmeringFriday 9th Dec 19:30 – 22:00 The process of moving can only happen in the here and now, we witness it but it is also captured by the other, watching. What we see ourselves and how we would like to be seen is a question both choreographer Eilit Marom and filmmaker Vita Wilmering would like to pose. Both in moving and in a cinematic setting there are two parallel spaces co-existing; inner awareness and the environment, the film and the spectators space. In the […]
- [Unforbidden Movement Workshop series - Workshop no.1](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1713): A new workshop series by Helicopter resident artist Eilit Marom. Each workshop centered around a movement practice session and a creative session departing from an underlying movement principal. They will combine movement and a second discipline forming together a multidisciplinary embodied experience. For artists, movers and people who want to gain more experience with embodiment. Please bring comfortable clothes and shoes to move with. Workshop language English.Workshop no.1  An effective playfulness of performing a task – tension and attention Friday 25th November  19:30 -22:00  Movement and Sound (Guest artist Lam Lai) We will perform movement as a game of shifting attention, listening and […]
- [MYRIADS #30: Gustavo Costa, Marciniak&Vukosavljević, Darina Žurková](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1629): We’re happy to present another episode in our MYRIADS concert series. Very possibly the last MYRIADS at our current location, so be sure not to miss this! Three adventurous sets by visiting Portuguese percussionist Gustavo Costa, the asynchronous guitar duo of Grzegorz Marciniak and Ivan Vukosavljević, and Darina Žurková exploring a broken piano. Read below for more info on the artists. Tuesday June 7 at Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10 in Den Haag Doors open at 20:30, first act at 21:00 Entrance 10 euros. All proceeds go to the artists — keep the arts alive! This event is part of Helicopter Takes […]
- [Fietsival #2](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1625): Program 12:00 Learn welding 14:00 Bicycle rodeoBicycle musicFlat tire repairPimp your ride (so bring your bike!) 18:00 *your idea here* HelicopterBeatrijsstraat 10 Den HaagFree entrance – Everybody welcome! 
- [Helicopter X Radio Tonka II](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1566): ///////// Radio Tonka on Location at Helicopter II \\\\ Helicopter Beatrijsstraat 10 Den Haag (enter through the blue gate) Doors 20:00, Start acts 20:30 Entrance 5EUR Line up: ♦︎ Goldblum (live act) https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/of-feathers-and-bones ♦︎ The Undergroundlings (live act) Dwelling in parallel worlds of earth and magnetic spheres we welcome you https://theundergroundlings.wordpress.com/ ♦︎ Frank Vis (live act) Frank Vis (Fish) is an Amsterdam based, active noise artist, label owner and performer, known for unpredictable set ups, uncountable numbers of collaborations and a high vary of sound shapes, ranging for quiet and subtle soundscapes to harshest noise walls. Vis performs with a […]
- [Helicopter X Discomfort Dispatch #33](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1539): Discomfort Dispatch is a series of independent free improvisation events starting around 2017 in Italy, arriving in the Netherlands in 2021. “Discomfort Dispatch” is a metaphor of the uneasiness experienced by artists and audiences, a reference to the embarrassment generated by the situations that it creates. By accepting to collaborate with a stranger, every guest is putting him/herself into the awkwardness of sharing the stage, that feeling must be overcome in order to reach a common ground to complete the task for which the artist is invited. It is going to be the 33rd edition of Discomfort Dispatch on the […]
- [GEO, City Hands & Strict Nurse and Steffan de Turck](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1516): + Radio Tonka Dj’s Kenny Harder, Slowboy and Manny Pads on the decks. Thursday 07 October, doors 20:30, €6 Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10, Den Haag(enter through the blue gate and across the schoolyard)  GEO, post punk no wave blasts reigned in by slightly deranged vocals and tight as fuck rythm section is visiting Helicopter on their first ever tour. Groningen represent and i’ve got a feeling visiting this show is future bragging rights as they have that special vibe to make it happen and you can say you saw them first.First release chosen as a bandcamp essential and already in its 2nd pressing.https://geoband.bandcamp.com/album/geo City Hands […]
- [Broodbaksessies, Jeroen Uyttendaele, Bas Zoontjens, Lizzy Bax](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1479): We’re delighted to welcome you to this on September 11 to an evening with some fine visual and musical acts. Come and enjoy with us: BroodbaksessiesBroodbaksessies is a collaborative project of free improvisation and mashup techniques (ab)using existing materials. Through intense live editing Terry Vreeburg and Maarten Wesselius are looking to create fun and exciting new pieces, rich in detail and variation, by seizing elements from the source material and forcing them into a new environment. Everything topped off with the gurgly sonic sauce of a broken Silver Matrix.https://soundcloud.com/broodbaksessies Jeroen Uyttendaele“Tafelmanieren” by Jeroen Uyttendaele (table-manners) is a performative installation that […]
- [Helicopter X Radio Tonka](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1405): ///////// Radio Tonka on Location at Helicopter Studios! \\\\\\\\ The Tonka vehicle lands this time at our Helicopter platform. Join us for an evening with 7 musical acts, multiple rooms and installations. Expect:folklore noise-mess spatial minimal vocal dj battles unconventional synthesizers and transmitting deconstructed installationcore synth-mess computer techniques distorting tropical toxic of sci-fi and intense resonances set, tape experience of drum-mess concoction space explorations and melancholia reality under diy-spirit drunk machines fairground humpa PROGRAM ◈ One RiverOne River is the improvising guitar player Arvind Ganga. Wide and expansive sparse tones slowly tumble over scratching, low rumbling, carefully dosed guitar noises […]
- [{SOLD OUT} MYRIADS #29: Simon Whetham, Elisabeth Lusche and Lam Lai](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1367): We’re happy to present another episode in our MYRIADS concert series. A wonderful summer night with three outstanding artists: Simon Whetham visits us from France, and brings an arsenal of broken devices and electronics that he controls to make sound. Elisabeth Lusche shows the versatility of the trumpet as a solo instrument. And Lam Lai lets synthesizers introduce subtle rhythms into her ambient sound world. Read below for a bit more info on the artists. Wednesday 21 July at Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10 in Den HaagDoors open at 20:30, first act at 21:00Entrance 8 euros. All proceeds go to the artists […]
- [Time is a New Material: Act II](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1358): Summer Edition We invite you to an hour long performance. Four sound installations are the actors of this playground. They will tell you the story of the the earth through it’s cracking, whirling and dripping. What is the sound of the echo after human voices escape in the virtual world? A whole life in a single moment, suddenly stops and slowly backtracks in freeze frame.What is this existence but light, sound and the continuous movement of a heart beating. Speeding up and slowing down, confusion as a thrilling manipulation of perception. Last February we started this event in the snow, […]
- [M.I.T Tour- Next Stop : Helicopter](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1300): Next Stop : Helicopter As may you know Music in Transition has no space to continue the series at the moment, so….lets tour the local underground! We are gonna visit HELICOPTER and bring a blast line up to celebrate it. Please read carefully this invitation, all information is important. This is a open air event for 40 people max with bbq (bring anything you would like to creatively cook), if it rains that day we unfortunately will have just 17 indoor seats. We are gonna strictly follow Covid 1,5 m regulations. Reserve fast and bring your favourite mask  We will […]
- [Open Call - Helicopter Studios](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1129): As from mid Juli, we at Helicopter are inviting two like-minded artists to share with us our studio-space in Moerwijk (The Hague). Are you a passionate artist with an experimental mindset that wants to join a creative community that is empowering themselves by learning and practicing self-organisation strategies? Do you have a sense of community and are you willing to spend a part of your time to Helicopter’s collective needs such as the public program, practical maintenance or neighbourhood relations? Do you have a practical and hands-on mentality? Then we are looking for you! Check out the pdf below for […]
- [Juzaga with live coded visuals by eerie_ear](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1106): With cultural institutions opening up for audiences again, Helicopter is ecstatic to present their first real live event in well over a year: Juzaga with live coded visuals. A hallucinatory experience with music by Juzaga and live coded visuals by eerie_ear. See below for more info. Sunday June 13. Doors open at 20.00, show starts at 20.30. Free entrance! Following corona regulations, audience will be seated keeping 1.5 m distance. Before and after the show you can hang out freely and safely  in our huge yard. Please reserve your spot(s) by mailing Arvind at a.k.r.ganga@gmail.com Made possible with support of Nederlands […]
- [Rehearsal and feedback session: tzZiiiY and VoltageSpa](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1110): tzZiiiY and VoltageSpa are two performance duos working in an improvised context. Involved artists are Arvind Ganga, Branka Zgonjanin, Gert-Jan Prins and Maria Mavridou, more info below. To further develop their material and keep the arts alive, we organize a rehearsal including feedback session where they show the current state of their work and ask fellow artists for feedback. Participation is free of charge in exchange for your feedback. This rehearsal with feedback session is on Saturday 10 April. Doors open at 17:30, we start at 18:00 sharp. We finish before 20:00, so everyone can get home in time before […]
- [UNPLUGGED #4](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1043): The fourth edition of UNPLUGGED is here!Curated by our member Anna Moreno, UNPLUGGED is an annual event of performances and installations at Helicopter’s yard and project space by members of Helicopter, with the only premise of NO ELECTRICITY! For the fourth edition, we asked the participating Helis to each pair up with a collaborator to come up with a contribution. This brought us to expand the event to daytime, introducing for the first time Unplugged Mini! September 19, 2020 14:00 – 18:00 – Unplugged Mini (for small kids and not-so-small-kids)18:00 onwards – Unplugged (the program will be announced in the following days! […]
- [MYRIADS #28](https://helicopter.studio/?p=997): We’re happy to invite you to MYRIADS #28! A special edition with three special acts, each pushing the limits of sounds and space in their own unique and personal way. New duo SKRTCH explore never-ending sonic heaviness of the most distressing kind. No Sugar No Candy is a performance by choreographers Haduch and Mavridou pursuing intensity using voice and silence as guides for physical expression. And Timeteo’s four channel sounds inhabit the place and nourish uncertainty. More info on the performances below. Doors open at 20.30, performances start around 21:00Entrance 5 euros, cheap drinks, all money goes to the artistsNo […]
- [Myriads #27](https://helicopter.studio/?p=988): We’re happy to invite you to MYRIADS #27, this time with four travelling experimental acts celebrating the use of repetition and drones and sprinkling it with noise. Dragons+Doyle experiment with abstract storytelling with just a cymbal, a loop pedal, a voice and two hands. And we have the trio of Julius Ménard, Jeans Beast and licht-ung, three acts associated with the German label Econore, which is relentlessly putting out one weird/outsider/experimental release after the other in strictly limited small runs. See below for some more info on the artists. Friday november 29 at Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10 in Den HaagEnter through […]
- [Ali Robertson & Mik Quantius](https://helicopter.studio/?p=981): ////// Ali Robertson (Usurper/Giant Tank)He’s a Scottish institution, like deep fried whisky, jellies and the High Bees winning a cup every 100 years completely limited – limiting itself to free itself electric shocks/purple rubber gloves/dismantling instrumentsassorted household detritus/word-free chatter/comic narrative/deadly absurdism/slow jerry s/living cartoon/not progressive/ACCIDENTS happen/music hall-parallel free-jazz universeThe performance will probably involve a table, a chair, some beer, an effigy or two and some bonfire ////// Mik Quantius (Embryo)German/eclectic world beat/traditional ethnic/jazzy space rock/vocal artist/continuously abducted/threshold of painscat maestro/Kick A Bit Against The Shit/playing space His performance will probably involve sitting, a keyboard, beafheartian grumbles and a bonfire Helicopter, […]
- [Myriads #26: Daniel Llermaly & City Hands](https://helicopter.studio/?p=977): MYRIADS and Helicopter invite you to a special Mid-Summer Music Night, where Chilean sound artist Daniel Llermaly immerses you in an other-worldly atmosphere of melting and dripping sounds, and Den Haag’s own City Hands unfolds his personal dreamy and psychedelic universe. A relaxed summer night, perfect if you’re spending your summer days in our lovely city and appreciate some fascinating performances and refreshing alcoholic(?) beverages. On thursday, august 1At Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10, in Den HaagEnter through the blue gate opposite Cafe EltaEntrance 5 euro, great selection of cheap drinks, all money goes to the artistsCash only! /// Daniel Llermaly hails from […]
- [Direct Currents @ Helicopter](https://helicopter.studio/?p=970): NEXT WEDNESDAY June 12, 2019 8pm Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10 Den Haag (enter through the blue gate opposite café Elta) “Direct currents” presents you three electronic sets for your perfect summer hang. We are also selling drinks! Come hang with us! Viola Yip – Bulbble DIY instrument with lightbulbs and relays. Cindy Giron – new work voice and electronics Nicola Hein and Viola Yip – transsonics audiovisual installation performance set Doors: students €4 general €6-8
- [Fasten your senses - ArtScience B3 Exhibition + Myriads #25](https://helicopter.studio/?p=938): May 31 // 17:00 ArtScience exhibition (free) – 20.30 Myriads concerts (3EUR, cheap beers, all money goes to the artists) Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10 Den Haag (Enter through the blue gate opposite Cafe Elta) We start off the program at 17:00 with ‘Fasten your Senses’, a one night showcase of crossings between visual, sonic and performance arts by ArtScience 3rd year students: “ArtScience bachelor 3rd year opens their intimate world of multi-sensorial exploration, pulling at tradition with varying pressure. To fasten means to make secure, but also to single out, to concentrate on. Let us be your guide in broadening the […]
- [Acid Cannibals, Sundog Moondog, Oorcontact & Danielle Davidson - Concert May 19 2019](https://helicopter.studio/?p=921): May 19 2019 Helicopter – Beatrijsstraat 10, Den Haag >>>> Enter through the blue gate opposite Cafe Elta and cross the yard Doors 19:30 Entrance 8 EUR   The SUNSHINE LOUNGE presents!   /////// ACID CANNIBALS You know the score! Speed-doom slacker punk vibes coming your way from 2 very sweaty vegans! (From Cosmic Dead & Droves humans) https://acidcannibals666.bandcamp.com/releases https://www.echoesanddust.com/2019/04/acid-cannibals-euro-tour-announcement/?fbclid=IwAR1NYwj3qASTCMujjeVJpOi_1UPTNCH7Uqw3T71QKsGR6iJdS-vHgOQzpeQ   //////////// SUNDOG MOONDOG Experimental sound performance and part of an ongoing research to the sensorial experience of physical experiments, using a collection of self made and hacked electromagnetic and electronic instruments by Dewi de Vree. She’s also part of […]
- [Thanks all for coming to 'Jacco Wanneer, 20 Guilders and Sundog Moondog'!](https://helicopter.studio/?p=905)
- [20 Guilders (Suzuki Junzo, Mitsuru Tabata), Sundog Moondog, Jacco Wanneer](https://helicopter.studio/?p=881): Sunday May 12 Helicopter – Beatrijsstraat 10, Den Haag>>>> Enter through the blue gate opposite Cafe Elta and cross the yardDoors at 20:30Entrance 5 EUR ////////////// ’20 Guilders’ – Cosmic Acid folk scenestars Suzuki Junzo and Mitsuru Tabata from Tokyo (JP).Mitsuru Tabata’s musical career is as bright and unusual as the musician himself, involved in the dawning of BOREDOMS, ZENI GEVA, and ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE all legendary bands and gems of Japan’s avant-garde. Suzuki Junzo, known for his celestial guitar solos and from the group MIMINOKOTO with releases on PSF, joins Tabata together to form their duo 20 GUILDERS. Since […]
- [Magnetoceptia try out performance](https://helicopter.studio/?p=877): Last December the try out performance of ‘Magnetoceptia – Maria de’ Medici and Maria Stuart’ for ‘Klankvorm Presents Mechanism’ was happening in our project space. Check out the video below! Magnetoceptia is a series of sound performances and installations around wearable antennas and a collaboration between Helicopter’s resident Dewi de Vree (NL) and Patrizia Ruthensteiner (AT). https://magnetoceptia.wordpress.com/
- [CONSTANT STRUGGLE](https://helicopter.studio/?p=862): Thursday 21 February an evening with music and art at Helicopter with an exhibition by Samman Padrees and live music by Petronn Sphene, Slaylor Moon and The Sunshine Lounge. Doors open at 20:30   Helicopter  Beatrijsstraat 10, Den Haag (entrance through the blue gate)   SAMMAN PADREES  is the combined effort of Samantha Rees and Manuel Padding. They will show a set of collages under the banner “Constant Struggle”. Riffing on themes of hindsight perspective, nature persisting and trying (and failing) to understand what it means to be human in a slowly disintegrating world.  Possibility of a sculpture being present is […]
- [Suzuki Junzo / Momentum Lost / Leonie Roessler / Mark Kloeg](https://helicopter.studio/?p=694): Saturday November 3  // 19.30 – 23.30 4 Amazing artists, guitar guru, laptop maestro, compositional genius and accordion wonderboy… dae it Suzuki Junzo (JP) Vocal/Guitar based in Tokyo. Member of the Tokyo Psych veteran MIMINOKOTO and 20 Guilders(Duo with Mitsuru Tabata of Boredoms/Zeni Geva/Acid Mothers Temple) Recent years, Japanese guitarist Suzuki Junzo focused and stripped down with A 21st century drone/space electric-blues albums from UTECH RECORDS/NOD AND SMILE RECORDS and toured over US/EU/UK. Crystalline guitar passages soaked in reverb and distorted sadness. Junzo’s recent Solo Albums are joined by Ikuro Takahashi of LSD March, Kousokuya and ex-drummer of Fushitsusha and […]
- [FELL live at Myriads #23](https://helicopter.studio/?p=690): We had the pleasure to host FELL (Tom Verbruggen & Simon Berz) in the concert series Myriads #23, organised by Arvind Ganga. It was great, check out this little video of their performance.
- [Unplugged #2](https://helicopter.studio/?p=582): The second edition of UNPLUGGED is here! UNPLUGGED is an insiders joke among the Helicopter members that turned into an annual event. Welcome to an evening full of performances at Helicopter’s yard and project space, with the only premise of: NO ELECTRICITY! With: Channa Boon, Yael Levy & Nikos Kokolakis, Anna Moreno, Sara Pape, Arefeh Riahi, Dewi de Vree and more to be announced. Curated by: Anna Moreno PROGRAM (stay tuned for updates!) 20:00 Doors open 20:30 Sara Pape: Unstable Ground (participatory performance and installation) 21:00 Channa Boon: The Singing Building (participatory performance) 21:30 Arefeh Riahi: Pun Plugged (participatory performance) […]
- [Groenfeest & Operatie Steenbreek Moerwijk 2018](https://helicopter.studio/?p=489): Hallo allemaal! Hello y’all! *************English and program(ma )below*************** Dit jaar organiseert HELICOPTER – een kunstenaarsinitiatief en presentatieplek – de tweede editie van ons festival om de natuur te vieren. Het wordt een een middag vol met live muziek, open ateliers, een wolkeninstallatie, “soktherapie”, boeken, een kinderworkshop, eten/ drinken en een operatie steenbreek! Waar: Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10 Den Haag Wanneer: 16 juni van 13-17u Gratis! Verwacht de geluiden van Moerwijk door Yael Levy en Nikos Kokolakis, met opgenomen geluiden uit de buurt verwerkt en gemixt tot een live optreden, betreed het gebied waar elektronische manipulaties en akoestische geluiden naadloos samenkomen door […]
- [Murder Dance Party April 13](https://helicopter.studio/?p=384):   Friday the 13th murder dance party with 5 acts bringing the ruckus. Red Brut, Innercity, The Sunshine Lounge, Seeduardo Primero and Strict Nurse with blood splatter everywhere type stab stab hit and run sets. Kenny Harder and friends on the decks. As always quality beers and for this special occasion a shivering cocktail. Friday 13 April, 20:30, €5 Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10, Den Haag Wear a costume for maximum experience. Red Brut Ghost conjuration with tapes and an open mind. Japanese haircut with a sensitivity of a 1000 years. redbrut.com/ Innercity Zen five piece of shaman Hans Dens multi dimensional […]
- [Video of Body Gesture Study - Phase II by Lam Lai](https://helicopter.studio/?p=334): Watch this little video with percussionist Meiyi Lee of the show R E L O C A T E D . ( ) | Body Gesture Study – Phase II by Lam Lai in Helicopter on March 3 2017
- [Helicopter in 'Haagse Groen'](https://helicopter.studio/?p=374):   Helicopter’s Channa Boon is interviewed for the website of municipality The Hague ‘Haagse Groen’ about the Supersteenbreker price which the collective has received for their ‘Groenfeest en Operatie Steenbreek -Moerwijk’ event last summer. Read full article here: https://www.hethaagsegroen.nl/993697.aspx?t=Supersteenbreker+2017+voor+groen%2c+kunst+en+plezier
- [Helicopter Super Steenbreker 2017!](https://helicopter.studio/?p=370):   Helicopter has won the first price with the Operatie Steenbreek Action last summer, a festive collaboration with Duurzaam Den Haag and local initiatives to exchange tiles for plants and make the city greener. Very inspiring to see other initiatives of The Hague contributing in their own ways. If you feel like organising an event to contribute to a greener The Hague, you can! Check out http://duurzaamdenhaag.nl/projecten/operatiesteenbreek Read the article here: http://duurzaamdenhaag.nl/nieuws/stichting-helicopter-haagse-supersteenbreker-2017  
- [The Good and the Bad.. in Jegens and Tevens](https://helicopter.studio/?p=392): The exhibition THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY by Channa Boon, David Powell, Bastian Visch in October 2017 is included in digital art magazine Jegens & tevens: http://jegensentevens.nl/2017/10/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/  
- [Stand Up Satellite - event](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1823): An evening with works by composers and visual artists specially made for our new Helicopter project space. Works by: Yael Levi, Nikos Kokolakis, Lam Lai and Channa Boon.
- [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - exhibition](https://helicopter.studio/?p=1826): 2017, Sept 30 The Good, The Bad & The Ugly at Helicopter Project Space positions three artists with highly contrasting practices into a climate of negotiation. Specific contexts such as political austerity, social division, democracy of fashion and the hermeticism of community infrastructures reveal their own proximites and borders with varying degrees of registration. Like the site of Helicopter itself, where signs of ruin give way to decay and weeds push their way through cracks in concrete, the artists all contribute nuanced ways of navigating macro perspectives setting down flickering beacons, emitting pulses that seduce us. Open Thursday – Sunday 13:00-18:00 […]

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- [De Haagse Hack](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=2043): live coding improv music && visuals Friday 15 August 2025 Join us for an evening of live coded music made by artists from the Netherlands Coding Live community (NL_CL). We will also have a guest from Barcelona, Maia Francisco (https://maiafrancisco.com/) who helped setting up this evening in Helicopter together with Lam Lai. Expect an evening full of algorithmic thinking, live programming, showing screens, fixing errors and adventurous music and visuals. We’ll have an open stage for a 9-min from-scratch live coding session. If you like to participate in the session, please feel free to send us a message! Or come to the event […]
- [Helicopter at Kaderock Festival](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=2005): On June 7 Helicopter will show works at Kaderock Festival, at Musicon Den Haag. This year Kaderock presents a new stage: De Broeikas. This transparent tent, that functions as a living laboratorium, is the result of a collaboration between The Hague art and music collectives Helicopter, iii and New Space Studio. Sound performances, visual art and technology merge into a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, in which connecting and improvisation are central. The theme this year is ‘Work in Progress’, ode to the experiment and the creative process. In De Broeikas it’s not about the perfect end result, but about the creation of art […]
- [Research evening with Burja Podlesnik and Pia Mačerol](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1996): Please RSVP here, thank you! Slovenian dance artists Pia Mačerol (2000)  and Burja Podlesnik (2001)  have been following each others’ educational steps since they finished their secondary dance education at SVŠGUGL – the Secondary Preschool Education, Grammar and Arts Grammar School Ljubljana, specializing in contemporary dance. They continued their studies at the New Education for Contemporary Dance (NEFCD) program at Härnösands Folkhögskola in Sweden. Currently they are both completing their final year of studies at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem and will be graduating side by side in July. Burja Podlesnik was a part of  IlDance’s youth company IlYoung, […]
- [Daniel L. Lythgoe](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1973): Daniel L. Lythgoe is an artist, architect, and musician whose compositions integrate sonic, spatial, and visual elements to explore the acoustic and social dynamics of anthropogenic and technological environments. Working with spatial audio, multichannel video, and extended notation techniques, he creates immersive performances, interactive sound sculptures, and site-specific installations that investigate the interplay of sound, architecture, and perception. Recent projects include performances and fixed compositions that blur the boundaries between art and architecture. Daniel holds a master’s degree in architectural design from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and studied Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, as well as […]
- [H - Breath of Life](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1959): a solo show by Channa Boon a solo show by Channa Boon at Helicopter artist’s run space in The Hague Date: Sunday, March 9th 2025doors open: 5 PM address: Ulenpasstraat 55 The Haguefree entrance The sound of the letter ‘H’ is actually ‘breath’ and in Spanish and Hebrew, it means the soul or breath of life that is present in all and everything. From 2020 till 2022 Boon built and ‘directed’ the H in the form of a swimming pool in the yard of Helicopter artist run space. In 2023 the work was demolished by the municipality of The Hague. […]
- [Second circle sessions: Edition 0.0](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1951): We’re excited to announce that this Friday we’ll be kicking off the first edition of the 2nd circle sessions. 2nd circle sessions is a series of week-long residencies. During these residencies, selected artists will engage in this process, resulting in a public presentation at the end of the week. If you are an artist, designer, composer, performer, maker or whatever and are interested in such a collaborative process of making, please come along to the first session or send us a message @vogonxpoetry on Instagram. An initiative by Ossip Blits, Omer van Soldt and Ruben Dijkstal in collaboration with Helicopter. […]
- [Puck Wacki](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1936): Puck Wacki is a interdisciplinary artist based in The Hague (NL).  In her artistic practice Wacki questions the human perception of human-made systems and machines, such as time. In her research, she dissects and manipulates the machine to discover something about the systems that mediate our life and experiences within the human habitat. Through sound and installation she highlights the tension between the spiritual and the technical, unveiling the more poetic side or a different perspective than what the machine offers. Wacki is the cofounder of Wasem, a platform for experimental sound art and performances. Wasem is a collective of 2 artists giving a stage in […]
- [Noor Remmen](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1917): Noor Remmen (b. 1994) is a performance artist, writer, and co-founder of Bad Penny Publications. Noor explores human relationships and dynamics in groups of friends in performative surrealist settings. Believing that these often work in a symbiotic way and relate to each other like an archipelago. In a playful way, by collecting written text, recorded conversations and transcripts, they create characters and scripts based on folklore and legends, which then come to life in immersive performances and installations. They are registered at as Haagse Kunstenaar at Stroom.Fine Art, ArtEZ, Arnhem (2020)Artistic Research, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2022).https://eleonorajohanna.hotglue.me […]
- [Anna Andrejew](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1909): Anna Andrejew is a visual artist, writer, and permaculturalist. Through her artistic research, she explores the memory of matter, creating a fluid and embodied understanding of ecology. Human shapes matter and matter shapes human. From water to information, what enters and surrounds our body impacts our emotions. Her practice stems from academic research, permaculture and material research. Her work takes form in the material and immaterial: installations, photography, conversations, performances and writing. The non-linearity of her work shows the making process, open-endedideas and ongoing cycles; an invitation to experience, experiment too- taking part in shared knowledge creation. https://annaandrejew.com/ << Artists
- [Emily Stevenhagen](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1897): Emily Stevenhagen is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her work explores the subtleties of everyday intimacies in the connections we have with others, with our surrounding and with ourselves. Through various forms of expression, such as painting, performance, installation, writing and video, her work examines what role a depiction can have in our reimagining and reevaluation of memory and the past. Her work plays with the boundaries of the uncanny, using abstract blurred depictions to reflect inner emotions back onto an audience. Through this, her painterly studies are an expression of an atmosphere and a subjective mood, separate from time, merging past, […]
- [HELI X MUSICON](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1883): HELI X MUSICON On May 31, Helicopter & The Undergroundlings Present: Heli x Musicon, a mini festival exploring the fringes of possibility within Musicon. With art and music performances by: Klitink KLTNK KLITINk?, Gangpad, Lam Lai, Steffan de Turck, Miiis, The Undergroundlings, Shitcluster, Mandrake, Omarleen & Marc van Elburg, Jim Zweerts and Goldblum. Time:Door open: 20:00Show: 20:30until: 01:00 TICKETSpre-sale ticket online: €11,50door: €13,- Ticket: https://musicon.nl/event/heli-x-musicon/ FB Event Page: https://fb.me/e/1ZulUCB3Nhttps://helicopter.studio/https://theundergroundlings.wordpress.com/ // Timetable:
- [Call for New Members](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1872): CALL for new members! deadline: 10-3-2024 There are 2 small studios (~ 20-25m2) available in our building at Ulenpasstraat 55, 2531 PL, The Hague. We ask for a monthly contribution of 75,- euro all in for each studio. We are looking for passionate artists to join our helicopter community. We are looking for someone who is interested in setting up a broedplaats and communicating with external parties, such as the municipality. As we are currently undergoing internal restructuring, we need someone who is interested in these processes and wants to play an active role. Additionally, We are also looking for […]
- [ACCOU // WEIRD DUST // UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1849): Saturday 28 October 2023 ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓ Saturday 28 October at Helicopter, a sweet little 2 bonbon treat straight from Brussels in the form of Accou and Weird Dust.Undocumented Aliens from the Lowerlands added to balance out the chocolate 1-2 combo.Halloween dress up party edition, with a selected crew of community dj’s we hope to bring the dance vibes till deep into the night.Embrace the Halloween vibes and come dressed up! We love a good diy imagination set to infinity costume! We open the doors at 21:00, we ask an 8€ entrance that will go 100% to the performing artists.Probably will have […]
- [Jooklo Duo + Mik Quantius // Arvind Ganga // DJs Obscuriosa](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1833): On the 2nd of June, 2023: Free-jazz legends Jooklo Duo team up with dada vocalist Mik Quantius, Arvind Ganga presents his immersive three-speaker guitar setup, and DJs Obscuriosa spin their exquisite hidden gems. At Helicopter, Ulenpasstraat 55, 2531 PL Den HaagDoors open at 20:30, music starts at 21:00Entrance €8 (all proceeds go to the musicians) JOOKLO DUO and MIK QUANTIUS are masters of improvisational cosmic music, always exciting and created in the moment. The kickass power of VIRGINIA GENTA’s sax propelling the spaceship “JOOKLO DUO” with the wise ass flow of DAVID VANZAN’s drums at the controls to set course […]
- [Felix-Florian Tödtloff (DE) / Christian Smith (US/NL) / Vita Soul Wilmering (NL)](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1788): SATURDAY, 13 MAY 2023 >> 13 May @ Helicopter << On the 13th of May (Saturday), at the Helicopter project space, we present 3 experimental sets. 2 musical sets and 1 short film screening: Visiting musician Felix-Florian Tödtloff, a musician and engineer from Berlin who works in the field of instrumental experimental music. He will bring us ambient and drone with electric guitar, synthesizer and field recordings. The Hague-based American percussionist Christian Smith plays ‘Discrete Species’ (2011-2023), a collaborative effort between him and musician Douglas Farrand.  ‘Discrete Species’ is modular work for solo performer and percussion, with auxiliary electronics and video.  […]
- [Unforbidden Movement Workshop series – Workshop no.4](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1771): Each workshop centered around one movement principle and organized in a movement  session and a creative session. The workshop combines movement with a second discipline forming together a multidisciplinary embodied experience. Landscaping the body – the skeleton and its surroundingsWith Eilit Marom and Channa BoonSaturday 11th March 2023, 13:00 – 15:30 Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the features of an area of land. In the workshop we would like to borrow this concept and look into the orchestration of the living body. You will be introduced to your body features, skeleton and organs, as an area to modify and […]
- [HAPPY FUJI NEWS](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1764): Sunday afternoon 05 February Helicopter will host Brussels go-getter  Eric Kinny’s travelling picture show “HAPPY FUJI NEWS”  Local artists noisesinthenight and HEXENEICHE will complete the event with the new sounds they have been working on. Samantha Rees and Manuel Padding will present their installation “The Opposing Mirror” We will finish before 19:00 so we can head to K R A H #2 where Helicopter heartthrobs THE UNDERGROUNDLINGS are playing a secret show. Doors open at 15:00 and first act starts at 16:00,  we will serve delicious soup and bread to fill both your stomach and your mind. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HAPPY FUJI NEWSEric Kinny’s Woodcut […]
- [Emiel Zeno](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1737): Emiel Zeno (b. 1994 in Utrecht) lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2017, he received a BA in Fine Arts from the School of Arts in Utrecht and is currently a resident at De Ateliers, Amsterdam. Zeno’s work starts small, where he anatomises and edits situations in quest for usable parts of interactions. The work mostly translates itself throughout details in created environments. Zeno critiques back and forth (mostly backwards) the previous steps in his process. The work is driven by an interest in platforms such as youtube instructional videos and traffic infrastructures. To him, they can be indicators of […]
- [Unforbidden Movement Workshop series - Workshop no.3](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1678): A new workshop series by Helicopter resident artist Eilit Marom. Each workshop consists of  a movement practice session and a creative session centered around one underlying movement principle. The workshop combines movement and a second discipline, forming together a multidisciplinary embodied experience. Acknowledging the real weight – gravity and other invisible forcesMovement and Environment design With Eilit Marom and Mischa DaamsSunday 22nd January 2023, 13:00 – 15:30 The laws of the universe rule our body sensations, how much are we aware of the forces that take us up and down, make us contract or release? Mischa and Eilit will guide you through a […]
- [Upcoming Events](https://helicopter.studio/): Helicopter is relocating — and we’re opening a new waiting list.more info>> Open Call: Future Studio Spaces at Helicopter
- [TRy](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1640)
- [Suzanne Plomp](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1573): My work represents unknown forms of life and processes of growth. My work is autobiographic, with a reminiscence of bodies and organs. I explore facets of kinship, where the balance of power is brought to light: both the vulnerability and power from one creature to another. My work arises by playing with contradictions, such as attraction and repulsion. Bright, contrasting fluorescent colours layered in materials allow me to investigate that duality. Where these colours attract the eye, the organic shapes and the swirling tactile networks of lines invite in-depth observation. Within their alien ambiance, the works are containers of something […]
- [Eilit Marom](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1487): “I see movement as a form of communication. The basic human physical non-verbal expression is the vocabulary of my work and by highlighting it I connect with the spectators. Non verbal is a powerful tool able to convey so much with very little means, evoke sensation and interaction.” Eilit Marom (1986 Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli artist and choreographer based in The Hague, she works between Israel and the Netherlands in the field of dance and visual art. As an independent artist she created projects that expose performance practices as valuable experiences which connect people with their physical self-expression and […]
- [Helicopter X Radio Tonka](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1422): The Tonka vehicle landed this time at our Helicopter platform for an evening with 7 musical acts, multiple rooms and installations. Folklore noise-mess spatial minimal vocal dj battles unconventional synthesizers and transmitting deconstructed installationcore synth-mess computer techniques distorting tropical toxic of sci-fi and intense resonances set, tape experience of drum-mess concoction space explorations and melancholia reality under diy-spirit drunk machines fairground humpa! PROGRAM◈ One Riverhttps://www.arvindganga.net◈ The Sunshine Losthttps://thesunshinelounge.bandcamp.com/https://momentumlost.bandcamp.com/◈ Lam Laihttp://lamlai.com/◈ Janneke van der Puttenwww.jannekevanderputten.nlhttps://philemonmukarno.com/◈ ∆D∆E∆W∆https://alreves.org/releases/alr26◈ The Undergroundlings◈ Snackbar the Ambassadorhttps://escrec.bandcamp.com/album/iedere-dag-vakantiehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqqK04x7Muohttps://www.mixcloud.com/snackbartheambassador/https://escrec.bandcamp.com/album/iedere-dag-vakantie◈ Slow Boy & Silver Ghostshttps://www.slowboy.de/https://www.discogs.com/label/172060-Silver-Ghosts◈ TIANMhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfx9levvBpxsf854IjFJTuQ◈ Heli x Tonka DJ Crew This event was live broadcasted at Radio Tonka from […]
- [Time is a New Material: Act II](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1371): Summer Edition Four sound installations are the actors of this playground. They will tell you the story of the the earth through its cracking, whirling and dripping in a one hour long performance. What is the sound of the echo after human voices escape in the virtual world? A whole life in a single moment, suddenly stops and slowly backtracks in freeze frame. What is this existence but light, sound and the continuous movement of a heart beating. Speeding up and slowing down, confusion as a thrilling manipulation of perception. Last February we started this event in the snow, now […]
- [Ali Robertson / Mik Quantius](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1293): 2019, Nov 5 ////// Ali Robertson (Usurper/Giant Tank)He’s a Scottish institution, like deep fried whisky, jellies and the High Bees winning a cup every 100 years completely limited – limiting itself to free itself electric shocks/purple rubber gloves/dismantling instrumentsassorted household detritus/word-free chatter/comic narrative/deadly absurdism/slow jerry s/living cartoon/not progressive/ACCIDENTS happen/music hall-parallel free-jazz universeThe performance will probably involve a table, a chair, some beer, an effigy or two and some bonfire ////// Mik Quantius (Embryo)German/eclectic world beat/traditional ethnic/jazzy space rock/vocal artist/continuously abducted/threshold of painscat maestro/Kick A Bit Against The Shit/playing space His performance will probably involve sitting, a keyboard, beafheartian grumbles and […]
- [Direct Currents: Viola Yip & Nicola Hein](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1290): 2019, June 12 “Direct currents” presents you three electronic sets for your perfect summer hang. We are also selling drinks! Come hang with us! Viola Yip – BulbbleDIY instrument with lightbulbs and relays. Nicola Hein and Viola Yip – transsonicsaudiovisual installation performance set
- [Fasten your senses - ArtScience B3 Exhibition](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1287): 2019, May 31 ArtScience bachelor 3rd year opened their intimate world of multi-sensorial exploration, pulling at tradition with varying pressure.“To fasten means to make secure, but also to single out, to concentrate on. Let us be your guide in broadening the width of what you thought you could possibly perceive.” Works by Anni Nöps, Gökay Atabek, Ivan Cuic, Mischa Lind, Ruben van Dort, Soeria van den Wijngaard, Tudor Ulrich, Victor Ynzonides. This self-initiated exhibition is made in collaboration with Helicopter The exhibition is followed by a concert starting at 9pm:https://www.facebook.com/events/424054681756438/
- [Tension, Conflict & Creativity](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1284): 2019, May 26 Helicopter is excited to offer a gathering for cultural workers interested in learning new skills and tools for collaboration. It is open to everyone with an interest in a NVC intro, not only artists! During this introductory workshop we will invite participants to work on situations intrinsic to the artistic community, which we see as dual: on the one hand it is a community often built on affect, friendship, love and mutual understanding; on the other, extremely individualistic, competitive, aggressive and tied with the entrepreneurial trend. We will offer Non-Violent Communication (NVC) practices, a revolutionary tool for […]
- [Tape Release Party with Sunshine Lounge, Eeriear and Gangpad](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1280): 2019, April 12 SILVER GHOSTS is possibly Den Haag’s longest running tape label, steadily uncovering underground gems for some 15 years now. All sold out and highly sought after. This friday, April 12, Silver Ghosts celebrates the release of 2 new tapes at Helicopter. The two new cassettes are by THE SUNSHINE LOUNGE and EERIEAR who will both perform live that evening. The newly formed duo GANGPAD, by Silver Ghosts’ head honcho Manuel Padding and Arvind Ganga, will play too. More info on the artists below. THE SUNSHINE LOUNGE is Mark Smith, who has asked me not to make any […]
- [Constant Struggle](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1276): 2019, Feb 21 An evening with music and art at Helicopter with an exhibition by Samman Padrees and live music by Petronn Sphene, Slaylor Moon and The Sunshine Lounge. SAMMAN PADREES is the combined effort of Samantha Rees and Manuel Padding.They will show a set of collages under the banner “Constant Struggle”.Riffing on themes of hindsight perspective, nature persisting and trying (and failing) to understand what it means to be human in a slowly disintegrating world. Possibility of a sculpture being present is there.https://artmap.com/samantharees Live action music by: SLAYLOR MOON (Can)Free form explorations into a pulsating groove zone, taking time […]
- [Catalogue Launch 'The Good, the Bad & the Ugly'](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1273): 2017, Oct 27 We are happy to invite you to the launchof the publication ‘The Good, The Bad & The Ugly’at Helicopter projectspace on FridayOctober 27th – 5 PMstarring the special T-Bar for drinks. Come and get your very own copy ofthe interactive catalogue!And you can still see the exhibition too – it’s still runninguntil Sunday 29th of October open: Thursday – Sunday 13:00-18:00 and by appointment. After this event, you can join the concerts during MYRIADS,a series of concerts organised by Helicopter where various musicians, composers and sound artists perform.starting at 8:30 PM
- [Katz Mulk, White Death, De Neus and Sunshine Lounge](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1269): 2017, July 1 Katz Mulk (UK)Deep in the Manchester Underground houses Katz Mulk,a ​duo composed of parts Human Heads and Akke Phallus.Enhanced electronics, autotuned improv and half pop musicthat hangs between hipstertronics and hardcore avant-garde.Debut shortly on the top notch Singing Knives label.https://soundcloud.com/katzmulk White Death (​UK​)Pale ​ale ​improv​ ​duo of visual artist Hannah Ellul (1/3 Human Heads)and driving force behind Manchester scene Kelly Jayne Jones (1/2 Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides).​Scorching ho​t, vibrant and intangible electronics inspired by the surrealistic lyrics of Henri Michaux.https://soundcloud.com/thewhitedeath Pauwel De Buck​ (BE)​Pauwel De Buck is a young composer from Ghent who combines […]
- [Junzo Suzuki, Einzelganger, The Monoranger](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1266)
- [Let’s shake the dead birds from the trees](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1262): 2017, June 24 Helicopter presents during Laagtij: A tour that explores The Hague’s artists perriferial art initiatives by boat. The boats part from De Besturing at 1pm and will stop for concerts and interventions at Maakhaven 3pm, WD4X 4.30pm and Helicopter 6pm, bring your boat or be on time to have a ride **HELICOPTER 6pm:**Performance by Evelina Rajca and Sara Pape in Helicopter’s project space.** Continued by yiddish soul train Schlemiel&Schlemazzle who will perform on the Helicopter platform sailing back to the Besturing. In our project space another collaborative exploration in the artistic practice and research of Sara Pape Garcia […]
- [Laagtij 2017 editie 3](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1259): 2017, June 24 Een DIY tocht langs 4 atelierpanden aan het water, De Besturing, Maakhaven, WD4X en Helicopter!!!
- [Aktion XVIII [ттøтε] : Broken Lights / Händer som Vårdar +2](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1253): 2017, April 12 ► тhe тide øf тhe εnd presents: [ттøтε] AKTION XVIII▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ The eighteenth [ттøтε] AKTION will showcase a diverse selection of electro acoustic music, drone, noise and musique concrete. || Broken Lights (SWE) – Posh Isolation / Joy De Vivre|| Händer som vårdar (SWE) – Järtecknet / Posh Isolation|| Milos Olympus (SWE) – Forever United|| MIRROR II RIRROM (USA) – FAG Tapes▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ || BROKEN LIGHTS (SWE) – Posh Isolation / Joy De VivreBroken Lights is the recording name of Martin Herterich (Sand Circles, etc). With disintegrating tape loops, saturated synths and primitive rhythms, Broken Lights is echoing not only 80s tape experimentalism, […]
- [Blood Stereo, Pascal Nichols and Staplerfahrer](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1250): 2016, Oct 25 BLOOD STEREO (uk)Full body with a tan head, aroma of burned corn,slight sour shiver due to fermentation with a finishof acidic pillowfights. A bubbly stroll along rainy meadows,slow motion cold bath of smoked oak.bloodstereo.bandcamp.comchocolatemonk.co.uk PASCAL NICHOLS (uk)Mouth full of bittersweet joy,smell of freshly mown grass and wood chips,a hint of red fruit, slowly decending warm glide straightinto a cloud of freeze dried cacao.pascalnichols.org STAPLERFAHRER (nl)Dark brown mist dissolves rainbow style,floating yeast packs a punch,a low hum growing into razorsharp pepper bursts.Spiced blanket lays over dripped coals.Mud and dry paper.staplerfahrer.bandcamp.com
- [Murder Dance Party](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1248): 2018 April 13 Friday the 13th murder dance party with 5 acts bringing the ruckus.Red Brut, Innercity, The Sunshine Lounge, Seeduardo Primero andStrict Nurse with blood splatter everywhere type stab stab hit and run sets. Kenny Harder and friends on the decks. Red BrutGhost conjuration with tapes and an open mind.Japanese haircut with a sensitivity of a 1000 years.redbrut.com/ InnercityZen five piece of shaman Hans Dens multi dimensional lifework.Murk soul control by group spirit hard jamz.aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/terrestreality The Sunshine LoungeMountain on legs crushes with tenderness sounds.Blood spilled and every drop hits harp strings of a hybrid Yeti devil.soundcloud.com/thesunshinelounge Seeduardo PrimeroFrom the […]
- [Juzaga with live coded visuals by eerie_ear](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1182): 2021, Sunday June 13 With cultural institutions opening up for audiences again, Helicopter was ecstatic to present their first real live event in well over a year: Juzaga with live coded visuals. A hallucinatory experience with music by Juzaga and live coded visuals by eerie_ear. Made possible with support of Nederlands Fonds Podiumkunsten / Balkonscenes Balcony Scenes “Juzaga with live coded visuals” is an instantaneously created psychedelic experience that combines live music and live coded visuals. Music by Juzaga, which is Arvind Ganga on guitar and Philipp Ernsting on drums. Visuals interact with the music and are created in real […]
- [Rehearsal and feedback session: tzZiiiY and VoltageSpa](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1180): 2021, April 10 tzZiiiY and VoltageSpa are two performance duos working in an improvised context. Involved artists are Arvind Ganga, Branka Zgonjanin, Gert-Jan Prins and Maria Mavridou, more info below. To further develop their material and keep the arts alive, they organized a rehearsal including feedback session where they show the current state of their work and ask fellow artists for feedback. This session is made possible with support of the Dutch Performing Arts fund / Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten VoltageSpa – Branka Zgonjanin + Gert-Jan PrinsVoltageSpa is an ever evolving, site-specific, instrument created and played by choreographer Branka Zgonjanin […]
- [Time is a New Material: Act I](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1176): 2020 Feb 13 How would you form this last year between your hands? Waiting time, crystalised, solidified, a bass tone in a never ending spiral. This week overwhelmed with a layer of snow covering the ground. It is comforting to know that this is temporary. In times of complexity the simplicity of the sun making the snow melt is soothing. We want to make use of this moment before it disseapears to form new sounds and shapes. On Saturday February the 13 between 2 and 3 PM 2020 Helicopter went LIVE from their platform on their backyard in Moerwijk. For […]
- [Unplugged #4](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1147): 2020, Sept 19 The fourth edition of UNPLUGGED was here! Curated by our member Anna Moreno, UNPLUGGED is an annual event of performances and installations at Helicopter’s yard and project space by members of Helicopter, with the only premise of NO ELECTRICITY! For the fourth edition, we asked the participating Helis to each pair up with a collaborator to come up with a contribution. This brought us to expand the event to daytime, introducing for the first time Unplugged Mini! Program Vesta Kroese + Loek Vellekoop = Marble RunYael Levy + Nikos Kokolakis = Puppet instrument buildingDewi de Vree + […]
- [Unplugged #3](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=1074): 2019, Sept 14 The third edition of UNPLUGGED was here! Curated by our member Anna Moreno, UNPLUGGED is an annual event of performances and installations at Helicopter’s yard and project space, with the only premise of: NO ELECTRICITY! For the third edition, we were happy to extend the invitation to the members of Annastate, our neighbour artists initiative in Moerwijk. Installations and artworks by Heleen Boeken, Vesta Kroese, Trijntje Noske, Gideon Oosten, Janne Schippers, Rafael Vasilyev, Sasha Zalivako, Sara Pape, Channa Boon, Loek Vellekoop & Merijn Ruis, Arefeh Riahi in collaboration with Hannah Dawn Henderson and Erfan Abdi.
- [Acid Cannibals, Sundog Moondog, Oorcontact & Danielle Davidson](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=941): 2019, May 19 Helicopter & The SUNSHINE LOUNGE presents! /////// ACID CANNIBALSYou know the score! Speed-doom slacker punk vibes coming your way from 2 very sweaty vegans! (From Cosmic Dead & Droves)https://acidcannibals666.bandcamp.com/releaseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG6bia4LOTs…https://www.echoesanddust.com/…/acid-cannibals-euro…/…Two piece punk rock n roll from Glasgow, fuelled on Buckfast and Vegetables //////////// SUNDOG MOONDOGExperimental sound performance and part of an ongoing research to the sensorial experience of physical experiments, using a collection of self made and hacked electromagnetic and electronic instruments by Dewi de Vree. She’s also part of the duo Magnetoceptia, a series of performances and installations around antenna-costumes together with Patrizia Ruthensteiner (AT), initiator and […]
- [20 Guilders / Jacco Wanneer / Sundog Moondog](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=889): 2019 May 12 The SUNSHINE LOUNGE presents: ////////////// ’20 Guilders’ – Cosmic Acid folk scenestars Suzuki Junzo and Mitsuru Tabata from Tokyo (JP).Mitsuru Tabata’s musical career is as bright and unusual as the musician himself, involved in the dawning of BOREDOMS, ZENI GEVA, and ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE all legendary bands and gems of Japan’s avant-garde. Suzuki Junzo, known for his celestial guitar solos and from the group MIMINOKOTO with releases on PSF, joins Tabata together to form their duo 20 GUILDERS. Since 2007 they have been exploring their common roots – Psych Rock and Psych Folk, with guitars and vocals.In […]
- [Psychedelic Screenings no. 1 + concert Ubaldo](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=840): 2018, July 24 HELICOPTER’s new screening series on PSYCHEDELIA, organised by Mischa Daams and Anna Moreno. For this first event, we watch Zabriskie Point, by Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni, and we also join forces with Arvind Ganga’s series of concerts, who invited Andreu G. Serra, aka UBALDO to perform before the film. _____ Zabriskie Point (1970): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066601/ Mocked and critically patronised at the time, this was a counterculture adventure where Mark Frechette plays an armed student radical on the run from police. Stealing a small plane, he lights out for the stark beauty of Death Valley, where he meets […]
- [MYRIADS 19 Quam!, Haddow, Tony](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=815): 03-29-18 QUAM! is a new Belgian/French trio operating on the border of free jazz, noise, and groovey things. Bass, drums, and an electronically enhanced trumpet by Farida Amadou, Tom Malmendier, and Timothée Quost. They just recorded a record for Colin Webster’s Raw Tonk Records so there you go. http://www.tquost.com/ https://tomalmendier.wixsite.com/tomalmendier https://soundcloud.com/farida-amadou   HADDOW is a persona for improvised exploration of home made instruments, hardware processing and accidental acoustics. Jagged rhythm and instinctive voice build and crumble forming a primal sound between beat and drone. soundcloud.com/haddowsound   TONY Guarino is a percussionist from NYC who is currently living in The Hague. […]
- [MYRIADS 18 Rituals Extra, Jad Saliba, James Alexandropoulos-McEwan, Gonzalo Oliveira](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=799): 03-08-2018 Ritual Extra “Metal breaks magic and noise drives away the evil. The bells won’t stop ringing until they have cracked.” Ritual Extra is a French-Finnish trio formed in 2014. They excel in repetitive, quiet and structured improvisation with noisy acoustic elements. The foundation is built around mutating and dissolving musical cells: Tuukka Haapakorpi’s voice, Lauri Hyvärinen’s acoustic guitar and Julien Chamla’s screeching cymbals and broken rhythms. http://ritualextra.tumblr.com/   Jad Saliba – Oud improvisations   James Alexandropoulos-McEwan & Gonçalo Oliveira – Improvisations on two electric guitars   DJ Bhang Lassi spins an eclectic mix of tunes between the sets.  
- [MYRIADS 17 Gorkem Harikan, James Hewitt, Demain Damas](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=789): 02-23-2018 https://www.facebook.com/events/414995705613135/ Demain Damas (Damascus Tomorrow) is the lively sonic talk between two old friends in the shadow of dark news and warmongering climate. Friend number one is Colin Petit, who stretches a sparse yet intricate web with his magnetic tapes and no-input mixers, in which Ruben Tenenbaum, friend number two, cautiously places precise violin attacks. The accurate interplay between these friends reveals that they must know each other for a long time. This is brutal music, heavy and strong, noise disguised as virtuosic delicate thoughtfulness. A delicious precision bombardment, not to be missed. www.demaindamas.bandcamp.com   Görkem Arıkan is a […]
- [MYRIADS 16 Laura Agnusdei, Vladimir Vlaev, Riccardo Marogna](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=780): 11-30-2017 https://www.facebook.com/events/545327555844018/ LAURA AGNUSDEI (saxophone, electronics) Laura Agnusdei is a classically trained saxophone player from Bologna (IT), currently based in The Hague(NL), where she is studying at the Institute of Sonology. Her electroacoustic compositions feature the saxophone as the main voice within sonic landscapes that shift between melodies and textures, the song form and improvisation, fusing acoustic, digital and analogue sound sources to create emotional states that change from track to track. Agnusdei is a former member of neo-psych quintet Sex with Giallone (Trovarobato) and now is touring around Europe with cult psych-rock band Julie’s Haircut (Rocket Recordings). Her debut […]
- [MYRIADS 15 Nuslux, Olli Aarni, Haddow, Mavridou, Movies by Von Calhau](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=760): https://www.facebook.com/events/186402278598109/ OLLI AARNI is a playful minimalist who creates soundscapes full of wonder and magic. In his harmonically static and timbrally dense music glimpses of infinity are leaking into the present moment and aspects of the Nordic nature are channelled by electric currents. Aarni’s music has been released on four continents and he has toured in Europe and Japan. olliaarni.bandcamp.com/album/keh * * * * * * * * Roope Eronen’s (Avarus, Lal Lal Lal etc) solo project NUSLUX started in 2006 as an experimental electronic music project. His interests are in the possibilities of limited gear and in exploring the […]
- [MYRIADS 14 Mikko Savela, Gorkem Arikan, Ilya Ziblat Shay](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=744): 10-27-17 https://www.facebook.com/events/122866438400055/ MYRIADS 14: Mikko Savela, Ilya Ziblat and Görkem Arıkan Helicopter is happy to present you three musicians, each pushing the boundaries of their instrument in a different way. Mikko Savela turns his beaten-down guitars into a percussion instrument using electronics, objects and his bare hands; Ilya Ziblat plays live contrabass interacting with computers, and Görkem Arıkan combines various sound sources and treats them depending on mood and space. More info on the artists below. On friday, october 27, at Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10, Den Haag. Doors at 20.30, music starts around 21.00 Entrance 5 euro, beer is cheap, and […]
- [MYRIADS 13 DNK Ensemble, Arvind Ganga](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=718): 08-14-2017 https://www.facebook.com/events/160295034545757/ The DNK Ensemble is a flexible group of artists centered around the (former) concert series for avant-garde, “down town”, music, sound art, and performance: DNK-Amsterdam organized by Seamus Cater, Koen Nutters and Martijn Tellinga which currently lives on as the record shop: Nearly Not There Records and will soon be revived from it’s slumber. Tonight’s performance by Cater, Nutters, and Tellinga is a new version of a piece they developed and performed for the art show: Things To Remember (Page Not Found) in 2016. It involves (amongst other things) memories, anecdotes, simultaneous remote recordings, and islands of slowly […]
- [MYRIADS 12 Victoria Shen, Sabina Ahn, Liew Niyomkarn](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=710): 08-02-2017 https://www.facebook.com/events/105413223476035/ Victoria Shen tries to capture the absurdity of images we consume everyday in our videos on a purely visual plane. Her musical performances, which are often accompanied by projection, are more raw and more natural. Shen mainly uses home-made analog synthesizers, contact microphones and other DIY electronics. Her approach to music, in her own words, is “sculptural” – the sound is shaped like an object and works with it as a physically present matrix that can be worked out during a performance. Key texture becomes a key aspect. Harsh noise is just a limit definition here. * * […]
- [Unplugged #2](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=589): 2018, Aug 31 The second edition of UNPLUGGED was here! UNPLUGGED is an insiders joke among the Helicopter members that turned into an annual event. Welcome to an evening full of performances at Helicopter’s yard and project space, with the only premise of: NO ELECTRICITY! Program: Channa Boon: The Singing Building (participatory performance) Sara Pape: Unstable Ground (performance and installation) Love Songs by Nuts&Nuts (Channa Boon & Sara Pape) Arefeh Riahi: Pun Plugged (participatory performance) Dewi de Vree: Modes of Motion no. I (performance) Yael Levy & Nikos Kokolakis: Experiments with lights and projection FIRE! Curated by: Anna Moreno
- [Groenfeest & Operatie Steenbreek #2](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=496): 2018, June 16 This year we organized the second edition of our festival to celebrate nature. The event is hosted by Helicopter, an artist initiative and studios. It was an afternoon full of live music, open studios, cloud installation, “sock therapy”, books, kids workshop, food/drinks and an ‘exchange-your-tiles-for-plants’-ACTION! On the program: the sounds of Moerwijk by Yael Levy & Nikos Kokolakis, with recorded sounds from the neighborhood processed and mixed with a live set, that zone where electronic manipulations and acoustic sounds merge seamlessly by Riccardo Marogna, an illuminous cloud by Liew Niyomkarn, explore Appalachian folk music and free improvisation […]
- [MYRIADS 4 Music/ Dance performance Bolzman, Govaert, Haduch](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=452): 03-08-2016 Onno Govaert (nl) is a crucial member of the Amsterdam jazz scene and part of the youngest generation of improvising musicians. His playing is variously described as ‘innovative’, ‘relentless’ and ‘spectacular’. Uninhibited and full of initiative, he stokes fires with his spazzy rumbles and unflagging motion. Part of heavy free-jazz noisers Cactus Truck or improvising with musicians like Han Bennink, Peter Brötzmann, or William Parker, he has performed in venues and festivals from South-America to Japan and Siberia. http://www.doek.org/featured-artist-onno-govaert/   Tonight, Onno plays with Polish dancer and choreographer Gosia Haduch, who got fascinated by the Dutch free jazz scene […]
- [MYRIADS 5 Helved Rüm, Dirar Kalash, Pulpy Blossom](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=443): 04-22-16 Helved Rüm is a french duo of Julien Chamla and Simon Henocq, combining live processing, noise making machines, and drums into extremes of tension and roughness. Low rumbles, high squeeks, to intense fast rhythms from the drums are fed into Simon’s electronics, where all is merged organically into a multiplicity of sound, density and dynamic textures. A delightfully free and intense mixture of chaotic free jazz, noisy textures, and ecstatic ambient. Pure, honest and raw. http://www.collectifcoax.com/helved-rum   Dirar Kalash is a musician from Palestine whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of […]
- [MYRIADS 6 Lea Bertucci, Kalash_Birchall, Madhav Agarwal](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=439): 10-20-2016 Lea Bertucci is a sound artist from New York. Her work often incorporates multichannel speaker arrays, electroacoustic feedback, extended instrumental & vocal technique, and tape collage. Tonight she uses a saxophone, sampler, and tape machines. The sax is played with great clarity, minimal and precise, hitting the apple straight through the core on the first shot. Multi-layered sounds enhanced with lo-fi tapes shift the music into a strange mix of free improvised music and musique concrète. Minimal music for maximum impact. http://www.brokendiorama.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxQhDnlq2g   Dirar Kalash is a musician from Palestine whose work spans a wide range of musical […]
- [MYRIADS 9 Tim Barnes _ Jeph Jerman, Liew Niyamkorn, Amador-Costa-Ernsting Trio](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=424): 02-17-17 Jeph Jerman and Tim Barnes are both veterans of the creative music scenes in the US, offering their powerful minimal music for decades now. Their individual resumes seem endless, and include collaborations with legends like Tony Conrad, Sonic Youth, Ken Vandermark, and Royal Trux. They make their music using tape loops, field recordings, found objects, simple analog electronics, some amplified percussions. While these are no longer exceptional instruments in 2017, their music by far transcends anything standard or predictable. It is the effectiveness, clarity, mastery and maturity that comes with their experience that sets this duo apart and turns […]
- [Fragments of a piano](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=415): 2018, Jan 19   We are proud to present you the second outcome of a collaboration between the Kon Con composition and KABK fine art departments, both in The Hague, presented in happy co- production with Helicopter, and Myriads which presents a special performance by Manchester’s abstract folk guitar wizard Jon Collin. A very special evening for sure! See below for more details about the pieces. At Helicopter, Beatrijsstraat 10 in Den Haag. Doors open at 19.00, the first performance starts at 19.30 SHARP. Free entrance! The tacit state of constant transition in which we currently ebb and flow is […]
- [R E L O C A T E D . ( ) | Body Gesture Study - Phase II - performance event](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=403): 2018, March 3   | Performance | What influenced musicians to behave on that way on stage? | Beyond Music | Before Sunset | 3 March (Sat) 5pm at Helicopter performance space. Performance about 45min. Performers | Liesbeth Vreeburg and Meiyi Lee ‘Relocated Void’ by Lam Lai In 2017, Lam Lai worked with Percussionist Meiyi Lee for her first study of body gesture of musicians. They took the music by Iannis Xenakis, who is one of the most influential composers in the 20th century, as materials to create another piece showing the body gesture of playing that music. Drums were […]
- [Manuel Padding](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=349): Manuel Padding (aka City Hands) uit Den Haag, tot 2008 naast Zeloot organisator en zeefdrukker van Helbaard, podium voor experimentele muziek, film en het gesproken woord. City Hands is het solo project van Manuel, dichter, audio en visuele creatuur van moderne psychedelica. Door middel van onder andere cassettes, effecten, fluit, woorden en objecten zoekt hij elke keer weer een nieuwe manier om je de restruimtes van het bekende te laten ervaren. Naast het organiseren van concerten, voordrachten en events in de spelonken van Den Haag, runt hij ook het tape-label Silver Ghosts. https://www.discogs.com/label/172060-Silver-Ghosts http://cityhands.bandcamp.com/releases << Artists
- [10-25-16 Blood Stereo, Pascal Nichols, Staplerfahrer](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=297): BLOOD STEREO (uk) Full body with a tan head, aroma of burned corn, slight sour shiver due to fermentation with a finish of acidic pillowfights. A bubbly stroll along rainy meadows, slow motion cold bath of smoked oak. bloodstereo.bandcamp.com chocolatemonk.co.uk   PASCAL NICHOLS (uk) Mouth full of bittersweet joy, smell of freshly mown grass and wood chips, a hint of red fruit, slowly decending warm glide straight into a cloud of freeze dried cacao. pascalnichols.org   STAPLERFAHRER (nl) Dark brown mist dissolves rainbow style, floating yeast packs a punch, a low hum growing into razorsharp pepper bursts. Spiced blanket lays […]
- [MYRIADS 7 Horse Lords_ Bernstein _ Gardner, Svirsky, Vukosavljevic](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=288): 11-02-16 Andrew Bernstein has one leg in ecstatic live ritual and the other in algorithmic composition. As a member of rock polymaths Horse Lords, Bernstein guides the band’s intricate arrangements through African-inspired percussion patterns, and intensifies their busy harmonic frameworks with torrents of cyclical saxophone melody. His solo music deals with themes of stasis, repetition, noise, and multiplicity. Combining intuitive improvised tactics, rule-based conditions, collages, and a wide range of extended techniques he creates a kind of opaque beauty where the smallest of shifts in tone and timbre again and again and again snowball into a voluptuous curtain wrapping itself […]
- [MYRIADS 8 Albu, Den Boer Salmon, Brown, Jones and Ganga](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=284): 12-20-16 Sarah Albu is a Canadian experimental vocalist, composer, sound artist and performance-maker currently based in the Netherlands. Her background in theatre and obsession with science fiction (dating from childhood) feed darkly comedic imagined worlds. Equally active as a free improvisor, new music soloist, and chorister, she is comfortable lending her voice to settings ranging from early Franco-Flemish polyphony to noise and psychedelic rock. An avid knitter, environmentalist and folk dancer, her recent work explores the effects of rapidly developing technology on our bodies and lives through a mix of curiosity and nostalgia. http://www.sarahalbu.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr0R8HLasP8 https://vimeo.com/155343142   Ben Brown is […]
- [MYRIADS 10 Steve Hauschildt, Martijn Barendregt](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=276): 04-09-17 Steve Hauschildt is an American electronic musician and artist who resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a member of the seminal band Emeralds from 2006-2013. A veteran of the experimental music community, Steve’s compositions have utilized synthesizers, computers and digital processing to transform established norms and genres. To date he has released three full-length albums on Kranky as well an anthology of his work on Editions Mego. https://youtu.be/2SqNxSncgJU https://stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com   Martijn Barendregt is a musician with a very diverse background. He studied sonology at the conservatory in The Hague, and has a background in Indian classical music playing sitar […]
- [MYRIADS 11 Francesco Gregoretti _ SEC_, StringWatch, Dirar](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=267): 06-05-17 An evening of electro-acoustic exploration, with Francesco Gregoretti & SEC_ from Italy on drums, feedback, and reel-to-reel; Adam Bonser and Rub Shuttz presenting their one-off expansive drone machine Dodochord, and a new performance by the ever-surprising Dirar Kalash. +++ Francesco Gregoretti & SEC_ (Italy) Francesco Gregoretti is a drummer/percussionist focussed on sound-oriented improvisation. With drums, objects and amplification systems he constructs a sound world made of nervous and unpredictable rhythms, drones, and noises. Feedback becomes not just another layer of sound or even an instrument, but an agent in its own right. At times Gregoretti seems not to be […]
- [Junzo Suzuki, Einzelganger, The Monoranger](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=248)
- [Stand Up Satellite - event](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=243): 2017, July 8th An evening with works by composers and visual artists specially made for our new Helicopter project space. Works by: Yael Levi, Nikos Kokolakis, Lam Lai and Channa Boon.
- [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - exhibition](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=236): 2017, Sept 30 The Good, The Bad & The Ugly at Helicopter Project Space positions three artists with highly contrasting practices into a climate of negotiation. Specific contexts such as political austerity, social division, democracy of fashion and the hermeticism of community infrastructures reveal their own proximites and borders with varying degrees of registration. Like the site of Helicopter itself, where signs of ruin give way to decay and weeds push their way through cracks in concrete, the artists all contribute nuanced ways of navigating macro perspectives setting down flickering beacons, emitting pulses that seduce us. Open Thursday – Sunday 13:00-18:00 […]
- [MYRIADS - Concert Series](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=234): MYRIADS is an irregular series of concerts focussing on the many facets of and approaches to experimentation, improvisation, and virtuosity, with a disregard for any borders.
- [Unplugged #1](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=198): 2017, Sept 16 UNPLUGGED is an insiders joke among the Helicopter members that turned into an event about some kind of post-electricity scénario. Anna Moreno invited artists of Helicopter to develop a new work or to re-propose an existing one, with the sole condition of not involving any sort of electrical power in their form of presentation. Some artists have chosen to go full on powerless from the beginning of the making process. Some allowed for more flexibility. How do we go powerless and yet stay powerful? Something’s moving in the darkness! UNPLUGGED will be an evening with performances and […]
- [Groenfeest & Operatie Steenbreek #1](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=153): 2017, May 21 To celebrate nature and in context of the biggest Grassroots Festival Fête de la Nature in Holland, we have organized an afternoon full with live music, open studios, food and drinks and an ‘exchange-your-tiles-for-plants’-ACTION! Tropical music by Fred, a Robot Gamelan by Loek Vellekoop, vegetarian snacks by Mo from Snackbar Hadewychje, a juicy bar, making fruit spears and colouring pages for children, movement meditation workshop by Tim Sluijter, tours along Helicopter-studios, selfmade ‘HellYeah’ Helicopter-Lemonade, Yiddish Balkan soul train ‘Schlemiel and Schlimazel, rock duo ‘Ernsting&Ganga’, experimental voice performance ‘Aurora’ and a big container where you can exchange your […]
- [Contact](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=143): Helicopter Beatrijsstraat 10 2531XE Den Haag The Netherlands stichtinghelicopter@gmail.com Programming concerts: booking@helicopter.studio
- [Channa Boon](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=129): Channa Boon lives in The Hague and  engages with multi -media works encompassing film, video, performance, acoustics, drawings and installation work. While obtaining her BA in Fine Arts and MA in Film in The Hague and Amsterdam, Boon’s practice is research based. Travelling the world the different properties outlined beneath are being given shape in the works, alternating or combining (public) space, the (architectural) landscape and the (human or non-human) body. Specific stories or historical accounts are the core inspirations in these projects, while the steering and focal points in these production processes are:  – the Acoustic Body: living in a […]
- [Mischa Daams](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=125): Mischa Daams is a interdisciplinary artist that lives and works in The Hague, the Netherlands. After a BA in Multimedia Design, in 2013 he finished his MA in ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. His work has been shown internationally in exhibitions and events such as: Ars Electronica [AU], Berlin Atonal [ DE], Art Center Nabi Seoul [KR], Lab30 [DE], Athens Video Art Festival [GR], FIBER Festival [NL] and TodaysArt [NL]. Daams’ artistic practice consists of experiential environments, performances and films in which simple choreographies unfold complex & chaotic behavioral patterns in […]
- [Dewi de Vree](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=103): Dewi de Vree is a media artist who deals with the sensual experience of physical experiments. With a background in the visual arts and her fascination for the interaction between man and machine, she’s been making different translating-machines, sound interfaces, performances and installations. Examples of her work include Elektrolab, a sound performance based on electrochemistry, Thermokoppel, a live sound-performance based on the relation between temperature and the acoustic properties of metal, Ground, an audiovisual performance in which graphite drawings are used as a control interface for several electronic instruments. At the moment she is working on Magnetoceptia, a collaboration with […]
- [Artists](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=85): Artist members currently part of HELICOPTER: HELICOPTER is run by its members — a collective of artists who co-shape the space through shared responsibilities, collaborative energy, and individual practices. Below are the current members contributing to its daily life and direction. Dewi de Vree Eilit Marom Channa BoonSuzanne PlompMischa DaamsArvind GangaManuel PaddingEmiel ZenoEmily StevenhagenNoor RemmenAnna AndrejewPuck WackiCristiana Vignatelli BruniSimone SacchiAndrzej KoniecznyMar Fu QiClara SharellLivia Malossi Bottignole
- [About](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=77):   Helicopter is an artist-run collective and initiative based in a former school building in Moerwijk, The Hague. It brings together a community of artists and musicians who share a desire to strengthen their ability to ‘zoom out’ — to obtain a helicopter view: a wider vision on the world, open to new thoughts, perspectives, and ideas. The building serves as a platform for developing and sharing work, organizing exhibitions and events, and connecting with like-minded artists, the surrounding neighborhood, and other local collectives. Helicopter fosters a spirit of inspiration, exchange, and curiosity.   // Helicopter is relocating — and […]
- [Arvind Ganga](https://helicopter.studio/?page_id=73): Combining an explorative mind with an obsession for raw sound, Dutch guitar player Arvind Ganga creates an intense sonic experience that is simultaneously abstract, psychedelic, noisey, and spiritual. Physical manual creation is crucial to his approach, where he wrenches the sounds out of his guitar using his bare hands, improper techniques, a bunch of objects and a simple reverse effect. With free improvisation he throws them back together into a pulsating universe that is uniquely his own. Ethereal noise with a punk-improv attitude. Arvind plays solo, in the duos Two Rivers (with Leo Svirsky on accordeon), tzZiiiY (performance with Maria […]


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