Minimal Music Festival
April 16 - 19, 2026 / Four days of hypnotizing minimal
Repetition becomes trance, sound becomes space, time fades. For four days, music unfolds as a physical, transcendental experience in the ninth edition of the Minimal Music Festival. What inspired pioneers like LaMonte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich resonates in the wealth of sounds and styles of adventurous makers.
Festival discount
Take advantage of discounts of up to 30% on the Minimal Music Festival 2026. The more concerts you choose, the higher the discount.
Program
Day 1 / Thu, April 16
Day 2 / Fri, April 17
Day 3 / Sat, April 18
Day 4 / Sun, April 19
Playlist
News and background
Installation: Phase to Phase
Phase to Phase / Make a sound – hear it shift
Interactive installation
Atrium / free entrance
Thu 16 Apr / 15.30 - 23.00
Fri 17 Apr / 17.00 - 23.00
Sat 18 Apr / 13.00 - 23.30
Sun 19 Apr / 13.30 - 23.00
Step into Phase to Phase, a new interactive installation by music technologist and composer Görkem Arikan, developed with the SoundLAB of the Muziekgebouw. During the Minimal Music Festival, the installation is free for all visitors — a playful minimal sound playground where you decide how the music takes shape.
In Phase to Phase, you make the music. Record short sounds — a rhythm, a melody, a click, a vocal fragment, anything you invent on the spot. Your recording becomes the raw material for the phasing machine, which repeats and shifts your sound so that it gradually drifts apart. From one simple gesture, a constantly evolving, rhythmic minimal soundscape unfolds.
The installation is inspired by the principle of phasing, known from the music of Steve Reich. In works such as It’s Gonna Rain, Piano Phase and Clapping Music, identical patterns are played simultaneously at slightly different speeds. That tiny rhythmic difference creates a hypnotic, shifting landscape of sound — exactly the phenomenon you can create yourself in Phase to Phase.
One sound becomes a complete, shifting minimal composition.
Credits:
Görkem Arıkan concept, programming, design
Floortje Smehuijzen, Temo Gonzalez artistic advice
Muziekgebouw, Madelief Daems, David Frerichs technical realisation
Festival café & Partner's programs
Foyerdeck 1 / free entrance
Thu 16 April
15.30 - 0.00 / Opening hours Festival café
22.00 - 0.00 / Spiritual Embassy
Fri 17 April [Subbacultcha & Nothing Here Now x Minimal Music Festival]
17.30 - 2.00 / Opening hours Festival café
22.15 - 22.45 / Gra Paulo (dj)
22.45 - 23.15 / Leïla Alice
23.15 - 0.15 / Alpha Maid (live)
0.15 - 0.45 / Mhm, Mhm
0.45 - 1.30 / Gra Paulo (dj)
Sat 18 April [Radio Hinter x Minimal Music Festival]
12.00 - 3.00 / Opening hours Festival café
17.00 - 17.25 / Victor Marbus
17.25 - 17.50 / Bram van Klink
18.15 - 19.00 / Noem Waal
23.00 - 23.45 / Mangruv & The Social Lover
23.45 - 0.45 / Donia Jourabchi
0.45 - 3.00 / Spekki Webu
Sun 19 April
19.00 - 0.00 / Opening hours Festival café
19.00 - 20.30 / Oceanic
22.00 - 23.30 / Oceanic
Prices and discounts
Prices
Concert prices range from 8 € - 43 € normal price
Early Birds 12,50 € (13-30 y.o, limited amount, full=full)
Festival discount
Order tickets for the Minimal Music Festival 2026 with a discount. The more concerts you choose, the higher the discount.
• Order 2 concerts and receive a 10% discount on the normal ticket price.
• Order 3 or 4 concerts and receive a 20% discount on the normal ticket price.
• Order 5 or more concerts and receive a 30% discount on the normal ticket price.
The discount is automatically calculated when you add the concerts to your shopping cart.
The discount applies to the normal admission price of a ticket and not to tickets with a Stadspas and CJP discount, or standing tickets in Bimhuis.
Booking information
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Artwork: Sophie Douala
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