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Behind Harmony are two people who know the festival world up close: Duncan Stutterheim and Carina Kornfeind. Stutterheim founded ID&T, the company behind Sensation and Mysteryland, and owns the Westergasterrein and the Gashouder itself. Kornfeind worked for years as festival director at the same ID&T. Together, they are now bringing something to fruition that is diametrically opposed to anything they made before. In Stutterheim's own words, \u201cSince my departure from nightlife, this music has taken on a new, deeper meaning for me. It brings me inward, to peace, reflection and a more intense way of listening.\u201d That's not a marketing pitch. Harmony is his answer to the question of what remains when the dance floor disappears.<\/p>\n
The format deliberately deviates from everything you know. No concerts, no shows, no artist playing the room with jokes and stories. The ten music ceremonies are designed to draw the listener in, with artists working subtly and precisely with sound and space. The Gashouder is an almost perfect space for this: the dome shape creates acoustics you won't find in an ordinary concert hall, the sound moves differently, it hangs longer. Above, around and below you work a 360-degree visual layer that envelops the whole thing.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/span><\/strong>To the first edition of\u00a0Harmony<\/span>\u00a0ten musicians are collaborating: Ben Lukas Boysen, Simeon ten Holt - Canto Ostinato with Jeroen van Veen & Friends (6 grand pianos), Jeroen van Veen, Jon Hopkins, Lisa Morgenstern, Niklas Paschburg, Robin Scherpen, Shida Shahabi, Sven V\u00e4th with an ambient set and Yehezkel Raz.<\/p>\n