Installations at November Music 2025

Throughout November Music 2025, various remarkable installations can be experienced in the festival’s heart. These installations can also be visited during New Music Conference.

The Composers Expo brings audiences closer to the creators of the festival. Through personal and sometimes surprising objects, you’ll get to know composers such as Meriç Artaç, Jeroen van Vliet, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, and Eva Beunk, who, together with many others, will present brand-new premieres at November Music 2025.

With T.R.I.P., composer Dyane Donck, in collaboration with visual sound artist René van Commenée, offers a hallucinatory installation where music and stroboscopic light trigger the brain to create its own images. This psychedelic experience – without drugs – takes place in a specially designed caravan, where small groups of visitors undergo an intense ten-minute journey.

Visual artist Jelle Mastenbroek presents two intriguing sound installations. In Shell Symphony, dozens of seashells create a wondrous interplay of rhythm and melody, while the Porcelain Piano – a fusion of piano and china cabinet – comes to life through 48 porcelain plates. Composer Amba Klapwijk has written a new piece for this unique instrument, which visitors can activate themselves.

In her installation Future Dance of Nostalgia (2022), Chinese-Dutch artist Kexin Hao invites the audience to dance to a mix of old work songs and modern beats. Inspired by Just Dance, the choreography mimics pre-industrial labor using motion sensors. The result is a playful, interactive experience where past, present, and future merge.