Dead Mind Festival

The Dead Mind Festival returns for its second edition at the Toonzaal in Den Bosch. Once again curated in the spirit of radical listening, the festival gathers a handpicked lineup of artists playing experimental music that resists easy categorisation and instead opens space for intensity and transformation. Set within an intimate space, the festival will function as a meeting point for artists and audiences drawn to the uncompromising fringes of contemporary experimental music.

This edition is marked by two special guests from Japan: Rudolf Eb.er and Kazumoto Endo, who both, in their own way, have a deeply physical and confrontational approach to sound.

Doors: 14:30
Start: 15:00

Tickets: 30 euro (incl. service fee)
First 75 tickets include an exclusive magazine + hand numbered silk-screened print.

Second day will be held at OCCII, Amsterdam: more information here

Rudolf Eb.er

Rudolf Eb.er is a Swiss experimental sound and performance artist best known for his extreme vocal improvisation, ritual-based performances and conceptually driven sound art. As a former medical illustrator, he founded the Schimpfluch-Gruppe in 1987, which became the epitome of radical outsider art since. Eb.er’s work often explores themes of transformation, taboo, bodily endurance and psychoacoustic intensity, using voices, objects and field recordings as primary materials. He currently resides in Japan and has performed internationally in experimental music festivals, galleries and underground venues, developing a reputation for uncompromising and intense sound rituals.

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Wanderwelle

Wanderwelle is a Dutch experimental, conceptual driven music duo known for their immersive compositions blending dark ambient, drones and electroacoustic sound design. Their work emphasizes slow evolution, dense atmospheres and cinematic textures, drawing listeners into expansive, meditative sonic environments. Active in the contemporary scene since the mid-2010s, Wanderwelle built a reputation for carefully crafted recordings that balance minimalism with emotional depth. With Ghosts Beneath The Brine they just finished their album trilogy for Important Records. The instruments used were submerged in seawater for extended periods of time and played with a bow at various stages of corrosion. As the bronze alloy gradually reacted with the saltwater, their sound transformed, becoming darker, more fragile and unstable.

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Kazumoto Endo

Kazumoto Endo is a Japanese noise musician known for his intense, dynamic approach to harsh noise and electronic sound manipulation. Emerging in the mid-90s under the legendary Killer Bug moniker, he quickly became part of the Japanese noise elite.

Endo is best known for highly compressed, rapidly shifting sonic assaults built from distortion, feedback and fragmented electronic signals, often delivered with abrupt structural changes and a raw, improvisational feel. He started releasing records under his own name in 1997 and the 1999 While You Were Out album stands as a perfectly crafted modern classic of Japanese harsh noise, helping establish his reputation internationally within the extreme music community.

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BJ Nilsen

Benny Jonas Nilsen is a Swedish experimental composer and sound artist known for his immersive work and electroacoustic sound design. His practice focuses on capturing and transforming real-world environments - ranging from urban spaces to remote natural landscapes - into detailed sonic narratives that explore memory, atmosphere and perception. Active since the early 1990s, Nilsen has released music on influential experimental labels and has collaborated with artists across the experimental music scene like Chris Watson, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Jóhann Jóhannsson. His work often sits between field recordings and abstract composition, creating dense, slowly evolving sound worlds that emphasize texture and spatial depth.

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The Haters

The Haters is a long-running experimental noise project founded in 1979 by artist GX Jupitter-Larsen. Emerging from the early industrial underground, The Haters became known for radically conceptual sound works and destruction-based actions. Rather than conventional composition, the project focuses on anti-musical ideas - using tape manipulation, feedback systems, broken electronics and staged performances that explore entropy, decay and failure as artistic material. For the occasion, GX send us instructions for a special performance to be carefully executed by a team of local haters.

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Orphan Fairytale

Orphan Fairytale is the long-running experimental music project of Belgian artist Eva Van Deuren. Emerging from the underground cassette and DIY scene, Orphan Fairytale became known for intimate and dreamlike compositions that blend lo-fi electronics, tape manipulation, fragile vocals, field recordings and surreal collage techniques.

Drawing inspiration from folk traditions, outsider music, psychedelia, and early electronic experimentation, Van Deuren creates a deeply personal sound world that moves between haunting ambient textures and playful sonic abstraction. Over the years, she performed widely within Europe’s avant-garde music community and released numerous recordings on independent labels like K-RAA-K and Ultra Eczema. A new album is coming out in September on Aguirre.

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Haare

Ilkka Vekka aka Haare is a Finnish experimental noise artist associated with the Nordic underground noise and industrial scene. Working primarily with harsh noise, feedback and psychedelic guitar drones, Haare creates intense, saturated sound improvisations. The performances and recordings often explore contrasts between raw distortion and subtle sonic detail, drawing from traditions of industrial music and free improvisation. Active within the underground noise network, Haare has performed at DIY venues and noise festivals alongside international harsh noise and sound artists, contributing to Finland’s reputation for uncompromising sound culture.

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Beequeen

Beequeen is a Dutch experimental electronic music duo, formed in the late 1980s by Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar. Emerging from the cassette-culture and industrial underground, they developed a distinctive sound that evolved from noisy experimental collage and industrial textures into more melodic ambient, drones and psychedelic electronic music. Over a career spanning more than two decades, the duo released a large body of work on independent labels. Their recordings often combine minimal electronics, field recordings, tape manipulation and subtle pop influences, creating atmospheric compositions that balance abstraction with warmth and melody. After being inactive for some years, the project will now resurrect for a special performance.

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Ernst Bonis

Ernst Bonis is a pioneering Dutch electronic musician, composer and sound synthesist, known for his experimental approach to electronic sound design. Based in Tilburg, Bonis has worked extensively with digital and modular synthesis, often combining structured composition with improvisation. His music explores evolving textures, feedback systems and electroacoustic processes inspired by pioneers such as Jaap Vink, Alvin Lucier and Pauline Oliveros. In addition to performing and composing, Bonis worked at several Dutch conservatories and institutions, teaching electronic music, sonology, sound synthesis, organology and carillon-related music. He co-founded the Music & Technology programme at the Utrecht School of the Arts, helping shape a generation of Dutch electronic musicians and sound artists. Recent works are created with the Nord G2 synthesizer and investigates continuous sonic transformation and flow.

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Asch

Asch is an experimental noise duo emerging from the underground noise scene in the Netherlands. Formed by longtime comrades Svartvit and Geseling, the duo creates abrasive soundscapes that blend textural sound layers and electroacoustic improvisations. Their live performances are known for dense layers of distortion, feedback and immersive sonic intensity, placing them within the contemporary European industrial noise tradition. Asch has recently toured Europe, and with a debut album on the way, they are set to make a strong impact on the Dutch underground scene.