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Video impression of Fetishism in Sound Meet-Up 28
10 dec 2025
Willemeen, Arnhem, NL
Types of immersive sound works.
With a Harsh Noise Wall performance by Uitgeschakeld.
One of the powers of sound is its ability to induce a trance-like state.
“Tonight, we offer several sound works that can achieve this.
Sound works that immerse you.
These can be very subtle sounds or brutal ones.
There is a listening session where you can be blindfolded to experience sound works with an enhanced concentration”
There is a performance by Uitgeschakeld – a Dutch Harsh Noise Wall.
“Uitgeschakeld began in 2014 as Harsh Noise Wall (HNW) project. He has released over thirty albums and splits, most on cassette tape, some on CD or digitally. In April 2025, Uitgeschakeld performed live for the first time at HNW Fest in Barcelona. This evening in Arnhem marks the second live performance. Uitgeschakeld 's HNW is produced entirely analog.
“Uitgeschakeld 's goal is to create a wall sound in which the listeners can lose themselves. The project's name was inspired by the goal of "switching off" the listener's ego and consciousness by allowing it to be completely absorbed by the all-consuming sound of the wall. This has a dual and paradoxical effect: the listener is completely focused on and aware of the wall. Simultaneously, they enter a state of egolessness. You could call it trance, but also ego death, sunyata, or simply emptiness. By actively focusing on the many layers and textures within that wall, the listener becomes one with the sound, and their ego is temporarily dissolved. A wall appears to be a lump of all-consuming sound, but it typically contains many layers that together create a wall.
The harsh noise wall is simultaneously everything and nothing.
The harsh noise wall fills you with emptiness.”
Website: eternalrecurrence.bandcamp.com/
www.willemeen.nl/programma/w1-cafe-fetishism-in-sound-meet-up-28/
Music in the video:
0:00: Coil – ‘How to destroy angels’
3:40: Anoushka Shankar – ‘Dancing In Madness’ (Live on KEXP)
Photography by © Claire Leach Photography
4:10: ‘Ione’ • Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis
4:42: Coil – ‘5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine: (5-MeO-DMT)’ – from ‘Time machines’
5:15: Alex Hendrikx + Max Kuiper (Fetishism in Sound), in collaboration with Tamara Laverman en Baz Laarakkers – ‘River’
05:49: Uitgeschakeld Live