Book of Returns
Splendor Amsterdam 24-25 October 2026.
The MAZE Festival takes place over two days at Splendor in Amsterdam, a venue that aligns closely with our artistic practice and audience where one can find intimate listening experiences, unconventional stage setups, and close interaction between performers and visitors.
MAZE and guests present compositions where memory and association play a role in concept, score, and performance. Whether it concerns dreams, the desire to repeat something, childhood memories, association, or finding one’s way navigating a path, remembering creates a new experience of what we think we know because it inevitably goes hand in hand with forgetting and being open to the future.
Saturday 24th October 2026
Memory and Listening as an Attitude
18:30 – Opening with Yannis Kyriakides
Fundaments + Variants installation performance.
20:00 – Concert 1
MAZE
Peter Ablinger: Book of Returns
Jasna Veličković: Charged Room – premiere
Christian Marclay: Shuffle
Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker
Canti Di Guerra, Di Lavoro E D’amore
Sunday 25 October 2026
14:00 – Dario Calderone: Workshop Deep Listening into Dreams in the Zolder
16:30 – Concert 2
KHZ kollektiv
Leva Raubyte: new work
Tobias Alvarez: new work
Lingyuan Yang: new work
Pedro Latas: new work
KHZ kollektiv explores performance and composition using historic electronic instruments and their modern counterparts. For this special MAZE festival-edition they will be performing new scores by Ieva Raubyte, Tobias Alvarez, Lingyuan Yang and a new media score using motion sensors by Pedro Latas.
18:30 – 19:30 – Panel discussion
Silvia Tarozzi, Deborah Walker, Julia Eckhardt, Jasna Veličković, Dario Calderone.
Anne La Berge – moderator.
Concert 3 – Dream and Memory in Dialogue
MAZE
Dario Calderone: The Dreamed Sound – premiere
Anne La Berge: Pause Then – MAZE version premiere
Silvia Tarozzi (violin), Deborah Walker (viola), and Julia Eckhardt (viola)
Éliane Radigue: Occam IV (solo viola, 2012)
Éliane Radigue: Occam River II (violin and cello, 2013)
Éliane Radigue: Occam Delta III (violin, viola, and cello, 2013)
Éliane Radigue is renowned for her electronic music. Silvia Tarozzi, Deborah Walker and Julia Eckhardt are among the first interpreters of Radigue’s acoustic works. Since 2011 they have been involved in her process of composition, which occurs through an oral and shared transmission of the music. The work presented in this concert, Occam Delta III, was released in 2020 on the album Occam Océan 3 by the French label SHIIIN.
The MAZE Festival 2026 is supported by…
Stichting Volsap, Stichting MAE, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunsten, Het Cultuurfonds and Stichting Norma.