PROGRAMME

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Wilding AI: Open Lab

Thu May 29 | Workshop | 12:00 - 18:00

Contactweg Amsterdam

Join FIBER Festival 2025’s Wilding AI Open Lab! Explore AI-driven sound experiments with 4DSOUND’s spatial audio technology. Artists will demo new compositions and improvisations, merging AI with immersive sound design. A one-day showcase perfect for makers and thinkers in experimental audio to meet and exchange with other professionals working at the intersection of (spatial) sound, AI, software and composition.

Interferences: Live

Thu May 29 + Fri May 30 | Music & Performances

Goethe-Institut

"Interferences: Live" explores radio’s colonial legacy. From 1927, colonial powers like the Dutch used radio to dominate Southeast Asia—until locals countered with their own broadcasts. This live radio play by meLê yamomo, performed by Krishna Sutedja (gamelan) and Thijs van den Geest, interrogates global understanding—and its collapse.

  • This performance takes place twice: on Thursday May 29 early evening and on Friday morning May 30. Due to the very limited number of spots, we advise you to buy your tickets online on time.

    • Interview Panel: Thu 29, 17:00 | Doors: 16:45

    • Performance 1: Thu 29, 18:00 - 18:50 | Doors 17:50

    • Performance 2: Fri 30, 10:15 – 11:15 | Doors 10:00

    Due the limited capacity of this venue, this event is not accessible with the full festival ticket. You need to buy a separate ticket to enter.

    • Location: Goethe-Institut Amsterdam

    • Address: Herengracht 470

    • Price: € 12,50 | Students: € 8,50


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San Francisco

Thu May 29 | Celebrating 15 years of FIBER | 21:30 - 3:00

Bar San Francisco - Free Entry

To celebrate FIBER's 15th anniversary in 2025, we cordially invite everyone to the Thursday night programming at Bar San Francisco; an icon of Amsterdam nightlife, back to life with a new identity and programming. The cozy bar at the zeedijk features a custom sound system, specially built by Kantarion Sound. Free entry until we reach capacity!

    • Time: 21:30 - 3:00

    • Location: Bar San Francisco
      Address: Zeedijk 40

    Free entrance, until we reach capacity

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Concert: LEYA (Live)

Thu May 29 | Music & Performances | 20:00 - 21:00

de brakke Grond

Blending medieval-inspired sounds with modern folk, classical, pop, and beyond, LEYA - the duo of harpist Marilu Donovan and vocalist/violinist Adam Markiewicz, weaves classical strings with experimental sounds, crafting a uniquely ethereal sound. During FIBER Festival, the duo will perform material from their latest release I Forget Everything.

    • Time: 20:00 - 21:00

    • Location: de Brakke Grond
      Address: Nes 43


    This event is included in the Full Festival Pass.


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  • LEYA (US | Live)

Context Programme - Day 1

Fri May 30 | Talks | 12:00 - 18:30

de Brakke Grond

Want to get to know the artists behind the works and performances? Do you need to get up to speed on innovative perspectives on multi-sensory art, design and research? The Context Programme offers art and research enthusiasts, professionals and students an in-depth programme with artist talks and presentations on making processes and storytelling.

Festival Keynote Lecture

Fri May 30 | 17:30 - 18:45

de Brakke Grond

On Friday afternoon, the festival keynote lecture will take place aligned with the theme Wildness. It is a great honour for us to invite Dr. Stacy Alaimo (remote) and visionary artist Josèfa Ntjam to the opening keynote event. Both speakers will - quite fitting - take a deep dive into ocean waters, to encounter abyssal creatures, reflect on colonial histories and extraction, arriving at fundamental questions about our relationship with the deep wild.

    • Time Keynote: 17:30 - 18:30

    • Festival Drinks: 16:00 - 17:30

    • Location: de Brakke Grond
      Address: Nes 43


    This event is included with the Festival Pass, as well as the Context Programme (Day 1) ticket. If you don’t have a Festival Pass but would like to attend the Festival Opening Talks, you can purchase a Context Programme (Day 1) ticket.


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Concert: Jenny Hval + Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko

Fri May 30 | Music & Performances | 20:00 - 22:30

Muziekgebouw

We join our long standing partner The Rest is Noise to invite you to the Muziekgebouw for the Dutch premiere of artist and musician Jenny Hval’s new live performance of her upcoming album Iris Silver Mist. She will be supported by the Ukrainian duo Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko who present the spellbinding piece Гільдеґарда (Hildegarde).

Clubnight 1: FIBER x Garage Noord

Fri May 30 | Music & Performances | 0:00 - 7:00

Garage Noord

The tenth edition of Amsterdam's FIBER Festival returns to Garage Noord for its first club night on Friday May 30. In line with the festival theme Wildness, we bring together a vast selection of sounds that throw you in different directions; from industrial rhythms, mutant and fast-paced spiralling techno, breaks to dubstep-infused electronics. Enhanced by an immersive media design.

Context Programme - Day 2

Sat May 31 | Talks | 12:00 - 18:20

de Brakke Grond

The second day of the lecture and panel programme is dedicated to artistic-research that relates to urgent ecological, technological and socio-political themes. Speakers will show their work as well as engage in discussions on theory and practice. Make the frequencies of your brain vibrate faster, and learn about topics such as AI, human/non-human relationships and different perspectives on (re)wilding.

Navid Navab presents Organism: in Turbulence

Sat May 31 | Music & Performances | 19:00 - 20:00

Orgelpark

In this acoustic solo performance, Navid Navab improvises with Organism: a robotically prepared century-old pipe organ. The experimental instrument destabilizes the socio-historical tonality of the organ to liberate and sound its hidden turbulent materiality, robotically unleashing timbres unheard after centuries of sonic restraint. 

Live AV: Cortical + Sara Persico & Mika Oki

Sat May 31 | Music & Performances | 21:00 - 23:00

de Brakke Grond

This audiovisual performance programme invites spectators to lose themselves within a journey of drone-like soundscapes and dance-inducing percussive beats. The experience is enforced with a hyper-detailed universe of live audio-reactive CGI and hypnotic light scenographies. Cortical is the new project of Sevi Iko Dømochevsky & Daniel Benza. Their new project is a perfect balance between severe minimalism and over-the-top maximalism. Sara Persico & Mika Oki will present Sphaîra, an immersive sensory experience designed for deep contemplation.

Clubnight 2: FIBER x Dusty Cabinets

Sat May 31 | Music & Performances | 23:00 - 5:00

De Sering

For our second clubnight, we join forces with Dusty Cabinets: an event focused on all things low frequencies. Expect heavy bass music, encompassing all blends and styles of Dub-influenced music accompanied by Krackfree-soundsystem, a custom self-built soundsystem ready to serve you deep musical experiences. A deep dive into sub-bass and propulsive rhythms, avant-garde soundscapes filled with low frequencies, intricate percussion and bass-heavy music.  

Sound Art Sunday

Sun June 1 | Music & Performances | 14:00 - 18:00

de Brakke Grond - Performances by Dutch and Belgian sound artists

For a second time, the Sound Art Sunday will give wide exposure to sound art performances by artists from the Netherlands and Belgium. Expect a series of short performances, and one longer hybrid performance, at the intersection of sound, installation art, instrument design, dance and theatre in different rooms of de Brakke Grond.

Concert: FIBER x BIMHUIS

Sun June 1 | Music & Performances | 20:30 - 22:30

BIMHUIS

The BIMHUIS on the IJ river is a well-known venue for jazz and improvised music. The venue itself is a modern building designed specifically for hosting performances, with excellent acoustics and a intimate atmosphere.

Updates about the programme in BIMHUIS will follow soon.

    • Time: 20:30 - 22:30

    • Location: de Brakke Grond
      Address: Nes 43


    This event is included in the Full Festival Pass. Single event tickets will be available via ticketshop.

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  • Lineup will be announced soon!

Festival Afterparty: Bar San Francisco

Sun June 1 | Music & Performances | 23:00 - 03:00

Bar San Francisco - Free Entry

We will close the 10th edition of the festival with an open and free afterparty for anyone who still wants to apply the accumulated wildness on a dance floor, in conversations or at the bar. The final gathering point is for all festival visitors, artists, team members and volunteers to celebrate the end of the festival.

    • Time: 23:00 - 3:00

    • Location: Bar San Francisco
      Address: Zeedijk 40

    Free entrance, until we reach capacity!

    • LazerGazer (DJ)

    • Loradeniz (DJ)

FIBER Festival Workshops

Fri May 30 | Workshops | 09:00 - 13:00

de Brakke Grond

Are you interested in learning more about the creation process of a touring audiovisual live show? Or would you be interested to learn more on how we could rethink our relationship with technology? Then we encourage you to come to one of our workshops! Are you interested and would you like to take part in one of them? Then we encourage you to buy a ticket. The workshops are NOT included in the Full Festival Pass. Applying for the workshops is not necessary. However, due to limited capacity, we recommend purchasing your tickets early!

  • More info & tickets

    • Time: 9:30 - 13:00

    • Location: de Brakke Grond
      Address: Nes 43

    The workshops are NOT included in the Full Festival Pass. You have to buy a single ticket to participate within the workshop.

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    • Sevi Iko Dømochevsky
      (Cortical)

    • Ola Bonati