TEMPERATURA
w/ DECONSTRUCTED MELODIES
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam 20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door & online
TEMPERATURA opens this concert season with DECONSTRUCTED MELODIES—aka Peter van Bergen, Jeroen Kimman, Koen Nutters, and Gert-Jan Prins.
An all-star band of four Dutch musical personalities who, between them, have done everything imaginable in the field of music. Organising and improvising inside of every layer of the music business, curating concerts, series and venues, leading bands and ensembles, playing with the greats, travelling the world. Coming from different generations and directions of noisemaking, here, in this quartet setting, they share their love of melodic improvisation in a floaty memory game of pieces played and pieces heard. Deftly moving around each other, leaving space to create, each on their own, layers of tempo, punctuation, melody, and lyricism. Playing their own compositions alongside classic pieces from Dutch colleagues (Mengelberg, Altena) and American originators such as Sun Ra, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, and more to blend in. Trying to find a tone, an expression, playing contemplative noise-jazz melodies in an airy space of contemplation, together alone, alone together, creating balance between space, time, and culture, with a logic of the post-modern and a sensitivity of the cultural here and now.
Peter van Bergen – tenor sax
Jeroen Kimman – electric guitar
Koen Nutters – electro-acoustic bass guitar
Gert-Jan Prins – percussion, electronics
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TEMPERATURA is a concert series initiated by composers/performers and GROND members Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions. By promoting the wide spectrum of contemporary musical stimuli, TEMPERATURA seeks to bridge the gap between musicians, composers, and performers from different musical backgrounds. Through these temporary crossings, we aim to create an environment—a playful space for experimentation and open ears—that fosters performing, creating, and experiencing music together. Ultimately, TEMPERATURA strives to bring fresh musical adventures to local audiences and to spread today’s artistic practices.