Proximity Music: Echoes of Entropy

Part of Rewire Festival 2025 from 4 -6 April

Proximity Music is a joint exhibition programme initiated by iii and Rewire and seeks to connect music, architecture, technology, ritual, and play through sensory experiences. From 4 till 6 April several installations are shown in Amare.

In Proximity Music: Echoes of Entropy artists urge the audience to question the ways in which technology oscillates between being a tool for creation and an agent of destruction. Drawing inspiration from the second law of thermodynamics, where entropy signifies the inevitable drift towards disorder, the exhibition delves into the consequences of these forces on our environment, socio-political systems, and human interactions. The works presented explore the potential for growth and transformation that emerges from the moments of chaos and collapse.

N-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis

Chris Salter & Marije Baalman
Fr 4 till Sun 6 Apr / 12:00 - 20:00 / Tribunetrap

N-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis is a dramatic light and sound environment combining cutting-edge LEDs, sound synthesis and spatialisation, and machine-learning technologies. The installation is a response to composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s–1970s Polytopes. Xenakis’s pioneering work modelled the behavior and patterns of nature and the cosmos as they fluctuated between order and disorder; it still powerfully resonates within the current moment of extreme instability in natural and artificial systems.

Marije Baalman is an artist, researcher, and developer based in Amsterdam, creating interactive sound and light art. She is interested in how the entanglement of humans and technology and the influence of algorithms impact society and the human experience. Chris Salter is a US-born, Zurich-based artist and professor who creates large-scale installations, performative environments, and research that focus on and challenge human perception through art, design, and new technologies. Together they bring the Dutch premiere of N-Polytype to Amare.

Mud and Sticky Band

Natalia (Nika) Sorzano
Fr 4 till Sun 6 Apr / 12:00 - 20:00 / Salsa

Tree trunks, rocks, ceramics, and remnants of pop-culture waste come together to form an unlikely musical band. In Mud and Sticky Band, wonky monster-like figures emit noises and voices that merge to create an interactive sonic experience. Long nails and hair extensions merged with soil and wood create a sense of instability and offness. In this tactile installation, these dissident characters examine how texture, sound, shape, form, and space interact in constructing desire, posing questions of how people relate to “nature” and their environment.

Natalia (Nika) Sorzano has a background in law and fine art and is based between Colombia and the Netherlands. She transforms mass-produced and found objects into symbolic artifacts using materials like paint, textiles, and rope. Her practice communicates beyond language through songs and videos that create macabre and fantastical reimaginings of reality, examining themes of everyday life, violence, desire, and politics.

Not to be Senseless

Not to be Senseless is a playground for the senses, focused on and from the neurodivergent experience, where concepts connect to consciousness about diverse needs. This sensory sensitive and accessible event opens up new perspectives by recognising differences in how we sense the world. Not to be Senseless is organised by iii in collaboration with Journey Through the Senses and Rewire. Curated by Maria Oosterveen.

Striae - Bjarte Wildeman
Sat 5 Apr / 14:00 & 16:00 / Swin

Striae is a performance/installation exploring rigidity through flexibility, based on (bio)tensegrity structures and systems. This work investigates the interconnected nature of support and resistance across multiple domains. Bjarte Wildeman is intrigued by bodily motion, the physical experience, altering these experiences and biohacking, and researches (mostly) through performance-installations.

Anita Hubner - Talk
Sat 5 Apr / 15:00 / Swing

Neurodivergent psychologist Anita Hubner will contextualise the Not to be Senseless programme with a presentation. Anita Hubner had a psychosis herself. Her psychologist told her, when she was 21, she never would become a psychologist but she pushed through and made it her specialty to write and talk on an international level about neuro-inclusivity and mental-health. This talk in Amare will be in Dutch.

Mud and Sticky Band - Natalia (Nika) Sorzano
Fr 4 till Sun 6 Apr / 12:00 - 20:00 / Salsa

The sound installation Mud and Sticky Band from Natalia (Nika) Sorzano is also part of the Not to be Senseless programme. The work examines the interaction of texture, sound, form, space, and material qualities in shaping desire. It presents this process as a collective, eco-social exchange between bodies, spaces, and matter.