Studio Loos

Hot spot for new music in The Hague - a workspace, laboratory and public presentation place for rese It has been further developed since.

Studio LOOS is the hot spot for new music in The Hague (NL). It is a workspace, laboratory and public presentation space for research, experimentation, development, innovation and the production of interdisciplinary electro acoustic music, sound and audio art, improvisation and composition, monomedia, bimedia, polymedia and hypermedia. It is also an environment where the LOOS Foundation provides a

rtists and groups in the field of interdisciplinary new music with a place to execute research, somewhere they can apply for a residence rehearse, experiment and present their latest works to the public. At Studio LOOS artists curate concert series with performances, lectures and presentations with a choice of local and international artists and researchers. It functions as a meeting place where artists and specialists from different generations, countries, nationalities and disciplines exchange ideas, experiences, skills and knowledge and meet the general public. Studio LOOS as a physical space was founded in 2005 as part of the LOOS Foundation. LOOS was set up in 1982 under the leadership of composer/improviser/interpreter/multi-instrumentalist Peter J.A. van Bergen, who is still the director of the foundation. The activities of LOOS are very difficult to place in a specific category or genre. LOOS represents a musical idiom, a musical vision and a relationship between music and society. Additionally, one of the most important characteristics of LOOS is its function in generating music (and music-related material) both as experience and experiment in form and content. Since the late 1980's, LOOS has initiated, generated and developed an extensive and impressive repertoire of contemporary music. By incorporating modern technology (live electronics, computers and different media) into the specific musical aesthetics that LOOS stands for and through the close collaboration with composers, improvisers, actors, choreographers and visual artists, LOOS has developed into one of the most prominent international artistic avant-garde platforms of today. Essential for LOOS are originality, authenticity, progressiveness, a high standard in performance and ideas and an adventurous and experimenting mentality and attitude. In 1985 LOOS was awarded with the Ooyevaer Prize of the City of The Hague and in 2000, with the prestigious GeNeCoPrize 2000 (Dutch Composers Prize) for " exceptional merits in Contemporary Music of The Netherlands".

06/02/2026

Thank you everyone! 🥳

Last weekend we hosted the the third International The Hague Sound Art festival, which was a great success, both musically and in conveying its theme.

I would like to thank the artists, the audience, and the team at Het Nationale Theater/Zaal 3.

The artists for their dedication, surprising and high-quality sound and visual representations in conveying the theme.

The audience, which was more diverse than in previous editions, for their interest in the program and respect for the artists, not only by coming but also in their response to the work on display.

The Zaal 3 team for their exceptionally friendly hospitality and Het Nationale Theater for their financial support.

The Annual The Hague International Sound Art festivals aim to place the concept of Sound Art and other types of contemporary performance art in a broad context, thereby redefining it, as in this festival's Spoken Word section and how Activism and Performance can be connected in such a way that they reinforce each other.

The third festival more than succeeded in this, with purely artistic highlights from: Felicity Provan, Jill Sigman Thinkdance, Kristin Norderval, Leonie Roessler ( Accountopschorting Kennisgeving Van), Hessel Veldman, Nirantar Yakthumba, John Dikeman, Aleksandar Škorić, Andy Moor, Jodi Gilbert, BUG Radio, Sina Fard, Sun Mi Hong, John Edwards, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Peter van Bergen, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frank Rosaly, and Fidan Aghayeva-Edler.

The 4th Annual The Hague International Soundart Festival will once again be produced in collaboration with Het Nationale Theater and will take place in Zaal 3 from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 November 2026. More news will follow soon, but please mark these dates in your diary!

Peter van Bergen
Founder director LOOS/Studio LOOS/The Annual The Hague International SoundArt Festivals.

See the full gallery here: https://www.loosdenhaag.com/news/wrap-up-3rd-international-the-hague-sound-art-festival

The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026 | Activism & Performance | ZAAL 3 | LOOS DEN HAAG

30/01/2026

We start TODAY at 8PM! ‼

The program for FRIDAY:
- Felicity Provan
- "Go Between (Flatlands-Rapenburg)"
Jill Sigman, dancer/visual artist & Kristin Norderval,composer/voice & live electronic processing
- Nirantar Yakthumba – piano
- ZUILING
Leonie Roessler – electronics
Hessel Veldman – electronics
- "Cease Fire! ft Andy Moor"
John Dikeman – tenorsax
Aleksander Skoric – drums
Andy Moor – electric guitar

Get your tickets: https://www.hnt.nl/nl/order/add/event/56521

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30/01/2026

TODAY - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

Felicity Provan AU
A cornettist, vocalist, improviser, composer and teacher living in Amsterdam. She studied both classical (trumpet) and jazz/improvisation at the ‘Victorian College of the Arts.
Felicity settled in Amsterdam in the early 90s. She has performed with numerous ensembles in the Netherlands and Internationally.
She is most currently performing with: ’Felicity Provan Quartet’, Ada Rave/Felicity Provan duo ( their first cd,’ From the Ocean to the Clouds ‘ has recently been released on The Doek label on Bandcamp.) ‘Trails’: a trio with Nora Mulder & Gonçalo Almeida, The Ambush Orchestra, The River led by singer songwriter Lily Kiara and ‘UMI’ an interactive piece for small children created by Japanese dancer Makiko Ito.
Felicity’s focus is on developing connection and interplay between her voice and the cornet. Flowing from one to the other in her improvisations. With a playful approach she incorporates her own texts and melodies along with a variety of mutes and some extended techniques.

Felicity will be performing TODAY.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

Read more information and get tickets:
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29/01/2026

THIS Friday - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

Frank Rosaly PR/USA

Frank Rosaly is a Puerto Rican drummer, composer, sound designer and activist with decades of touring, performing, recording, and creating to his name. Born in Arizona, Rosaly was known for his fifteen years of creative work on the Chicago jazz and improvised music scene before moving to Amsterdam in 2016. His work revolves around the study of folkloric ideology of the Tainos, indigenous to the Caribbean, ritual and trance, as well as eco-centric phenomena such as rhythmic sensibilities of animals, plants and insects. Much of his work takes form as resistance to hegemonic, colonial and capitalist systems. He has been featured on over 175 recordings, and is in constant collaboration.

SATURDAY PERFORMANCE with Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

Read more information and get tickets:
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29/01/2026

TOMORROW - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

Jodi Gilbert USA
California-born performer and educator based in Amsterdam with a degree in Renaissance Theater from UC Berkeley. Her career spans music, dance, and theater across the USA, Europe, and Asia, including collaborations with Meredith Monk, Roscoe Mitchell, and Misha Mengelberg's ICP Orchestra.

Jodi will be performing on SATURDAY.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

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29/01/2026

TOMORROW - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

Oscar Jan Hoogland NL
Improviser and composer who transforms any influence into sonic adventure, bridging tradition and experimentation across piano, electric clavichord, synths, guitar, and unconventional instruments like amplified slot machines and record players. A leading figure on the Dutch improv scene for two decades, Hoogland simultaneously honors and dismantles the New Dutch Swing tradition. His diverse collaborations span Senegalese griot music with Mola Sylla, cumbia with Superinca, Ethiopian jazz with Adulis, and West African tours with Zea's Arnold de Boer.

SATURDAY PERFORMANCE:
QUARTET with Sun-Mi Hong, John Edwards, and Peter van Bergen.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

Read more information and get tickets:
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28/01/2026

THIS Friday - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

ZUILING
Zuiling are Hessel Veldman and Leonie Roessler. The duo improvises freely with a large array of objects, instruments, field recordings and a variety of guitars. Both artists stand for peace. For justice. And have not shied away from addressing topics like the genocide in Gaza in their work. Their set will join the voices of people are ready to fight for a change.
Those who gather on meadows and squares. And demonstrate for a better world. For a free Gaza, for stopping the pollution of our environment, for protecting our human rights, for standing up against fascism and for fighting racism. On January 30, 2026, Leonie and Hessel will be part of this storm of protests with a tsunami of uprising sounds, including field recordings of marches and into the archive of Radio LOOS, which gave activists and artists a voice in matters that are essential in our social fabric.

Hessel Veldman NL
Musician, composer and radio- and music-producer. An early fascination with electronic audio devices from the beginning of the 1970s, in combination with a preference for writing and performing extremely idiosyncratic music, has created a wide range of experimental music and radio productions.

Leonie Roessler DE
Composer and Performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions.

Leonie will also host "BUG Radio Activist Booth" on Saturday alone.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

Read more information and get tickets:
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28/01/2026

THIS Friday - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

John Edwards UK
John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. �Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Louis Moholo, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and countless others.

SATURDAY PERFORMANCE:
QUARTET with Sun-Mi Hong, Oscar Jan Hoogland, and Peter van Bergen.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

Read more information and get tickets:
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28/01/2026

THIS Friday - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

Nirantar Yakthumba NEP
Composer, performer, and educator based in the Netherlands. His work explores sound, structure, and perception through composition, live electronics, and instrument building, often engaging recursive systems and extended tonal frameworks. He is the Artistic Director of Kali Ensemble in The Hague, where he works as a composer, performer, and producer.

FRIDAY PERFORMANCE
Niranthar Yakthumba solo piano performance.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

Read more information and get tickets: The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026 | Activism & Performance | ZAAL 3 | LOOS DEN HAAG

27/01/2026

THIS Friday - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti BO/BRA
Amsterdam-based mutli-medium artist who has worked as a performer, theatre maker, vocalist, visual artist, musician and teacher. Raised in Bolivia within Bolivian and Brazilian families, Ferragutti describes their work as “deeply interwoven in post-colonial justice, the paradox and beauty between grief and celebration, Andean Cosmology as a source of reclamation, resistance and resilience. Embodiment embedded in sonic fabrics while speculating myths through word oracles. I am a neo-mestiza, a spiritual activist, a femme defender and a Moon lover.”

SATURDAY PERFORMANCE with Frank Rosaly.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

Read more information and get tickets:
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27/01/2026

THIS Friday - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

Peter van Bergen NL
A composer, improviser, interpreter, and artistic and business director of LOOS, as well as a PhD researcher at the Free University of Brussels in the field of interdisciplinary experimental new music. He founded LOOS in 1982 and Studio LOOS in 2005. His research concerns "Improvisation, Interactivity, Instability: Artistic Transformations" (IOMAIM Research) in which improvisation between people is transformed into collaboration between man and machine. As an improviser, he worked with musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton. As a composer he wrote for mainly the legendary LOOS Ensemble, various soloists, ASKO Schoenberg, the Volharding.

SATURDAY PERFORMANCE:
QUARTET with Sun-Mi Hong, Oscar Jan Hoogland, and John Edwards.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

Read more information and get tickets:
The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026 | Activism & Performance | ZAAL 3 | LOOS DEN HAAG

26/01/2026

THIS Friday - The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2026! ✨

🔴 Meet the artist:

Leonie Roessler DE
Composer and Performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions. Part of her work is purely sound-based, however the theme of marginalization has become increasingly present in her radio works. She runs the radio branch of Studio LOOS in The Hague, co-curates On Air - On Site Festival, and co-manages Iranian record label Noise à Noise.

SATURDAY PERFORMANCE - "BUG Radio Activist Booth"
In 2025 BUG Radio built the BUG Radio Box - a mobile station that connects with BUG Radio’s radio server. Its primary function is to enable kids who are experiencing isolation to make radio from the comfort of their home. The Box will join the festival and have its own spot on the 31st of January. It will allow artists and visitors of the festivals to share their thoughts concerns about life, politics, and the issues that touch them the most. Live radio on the spot, connecting our communities.

Leonie will also perform with Hessel Weldman in their duo performance ZUILING on Friday.

🔴 When?
January 30 - February 1, 2026

🔴 Where?
Zaal3
De Constant Rebecqueplein, Den Haag

Read more information and get tickets:
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The Hague
2518RA

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