Space is the Place X Music Meeting
24 May @ 15:00 – 22:00
@MUSIC MEETING FESTIVAL
NIJMEGEN
Music Meeting Festival cuts across styles, genres and cultures, worldwide. The global music festival has been offering a stage to artists worldwide for over 35 years: musicians who have rarely or never been seen in the Netherlands, with new projects or in special compositions.
During the Pentecost weekend (23, 24, 25 May) Nijmegen is dedicated to three days of musical encounters and discovery through a program in which cultural stories resonate: from the latest salsa from Cuba to innovative jazz from Norway, from indigenous voices from Australia to the Asian avant-garde. This year Space is the Place again participates in the program with Awichas, the SITProductions 2025 project of Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti.
AWICHAS
AWICHAS is the exciting SITProductions 2025 project of Bolivian-born multidisciplinary artist Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti. Rooted in Andean traditions where sound acts as a bridge between worlds, the project explores music as a practice deeply connected to ecology, community, and cyclical time. The ensemble features Ibelisse alongside renowned sound artists and musicians Jochem van Tol, Frank Rosaly, Jacob Maskell-Key, Lida Brouskari on various instruments, electronics, and acoustics, with Julia Werner adding vocals. Together, they present a multimedia concert that transforms microtonal flute data from ancient Andean rituals into layered compositions for electronics, percussion, and voice. Repetitive rhythms and trance-inducing tonalities evoke subversive memories of the mountain’s surface, while pulsing textures echo the underground energy of the city’s nightly club life. Premiering in 2025, AWICHAS was developed through residencies in Bolivia and at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in Stockholm by Ibelisse and Jochem van Tol.
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti: vox, synths, performance, percussion, compositions | Jochem van Tol: synths, compositions | Lida Brouskari: vox, synth, bass synth | Julia Werner: vox, percussion | Frank Rosaly: drums, percussion, electronics | Jacob Maskell-key: drums, percussion, electronics