By sound · 6 picks · Wed to Sun
Ambient, modern composition and spatial sound, mostly seated.
By Songpot · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Organ, cello and radios in the Concertgebouw.
The Concertgebouw opens ADE with Kara-Lis Coverdale's organ and electronics and Lia Kohl's cello, radios and field recordings, in the intimate Recital Hall. It's seated and quiet, and the best start to the week.
For fans of Kali Malone, Laraaji
Olafur Eliasson's underwater sound world, inside a 19th-century aquarium.
Olafur Eliasson and the Amsterdam spatial-sound studio 4DSOUND fill the ARTIS Aquarium with whale song and hydrothermal rumble you feel in your chest. It runs every day; go in the morning, when it's quiet.
For fans of Brian Eno, Ryoji Ikeda
Cello into electronics, then club miniatures.
Two Belgian live sets in a small Zuid venue: Niels Orens's cello and electronics, and echofarmer's club-leaning miniatures. It's detailed music for a quiet room.
For fans of Nils Frahm, Kiasmos
Motie's second night, ambient first.
City Hall becomes a home for Amsterdam's night culture for three evenings. Jonny Nash plays ambient guitar, Gizem Öz processed field recordings, with kinetic installations and performance around them.
For fans of Gigi Masin
Dasha Rush and Steve Rachmad, at zero BPM, in a church.
Three mornings of ambient in the Thomaskerk, with 33 artists in all. On Saturday Dasha Rush and Isabel Soto play the slow side of techno, and Richard Akingbehin brings dub. It starts at 7:30am, for the sleepless and the early risers.
For fans of Andy Stott, Rrose
What climate change sounds like, under a planetarium dome.
Fifty years of satellite data on a changing planet, turned into sound in the ARTIS Planetarium dome by Tom Middleton, Halina Rice and Natural Symphony. A calm way to close the week.
For fans of The Orb, Max Cooper
Times, lineups and tickets are on each event's ADE programme page. Songpot is independent of the festival.