On Friday, the 27th of February 2026, we will welcome the artist duo of Allan Gilbert Balon & Uta Guan Hey, electroacoustic composer Marc Baron, and composer-instrument builder Nirantar Yakthumba. Read more below.
As announced earlier, we are currently taking a break to better prepare for our future activities. Therefore this spring will remain quieter than the past two years. But we are very happy to invite you to this special program in the meantime.
Friday, 27th of February, 2026, Korzo Theatre, Prinsestraat 42, 2513 CE Den Haag, 8.15pm | Tickets
Allan Gilbert Balon & Uta Guan Hey, Marc Baron, Nirantar Yakthumba
For default#25, Allan Gilbert Balon (b. Guadeloupe), an artist and composer, working with sculpture, sound installation, & Uta Guan Hey (b. China), a writer, visual creator, and filmmaker, will present their duo performance for piano, objects, voices, and electronics. The performance comes after Balon’s LP ‘The Magnesia Suite’ (Recital, 2024) and ‘O LUNA – LIVE MUSIC AT STUDIO BLEU PARIS 13/05/2025’ – a recording of Allan’s and Uta’s duo performance (published via Balon’s website), which both showcased an intimate play with presence. Together they run the publishing house xyä édition, which publishes handmade books and audio. The Paris-based artist Marc Baron, who for almost 20 years has dedicated himself to the work of electroacoustic composition using tapes and analog processes, will be performing at default soon after his upcoming solo album release ‘Soleil-Néon’ on Penultimate Press. His meticulous music encompasses not only the harsh but also the subtle aspects of the tools he uses, while capturing the contingencies arising from material processes that interweave acoustics, electronics, and magnetics. The complexity of sound’s qualities and their assembling is at the core of his music, posing our listening towards this specific tension between a semblance of realism and abstraction, making use of cuts and creating shifts with perspectives. Concluding our program, Nirantar Yakthumba (b. Nepal, currently based in The Hague), who in his work investigates the production and organization of tone, instrument building, and how variations in informational constraints – structure, redundancy, noise, (in)determinacy – are articulated with and within a work. He explores how such a practice of variation can be a technology for prompting transindividual introspection and challenging preconceived notions. Nirantar will be premiering a performance with a new instrument that he made in 2025.
Keep an eye out for our ‘focus newsletter’ which will be sent out a month before the event at Korzo to read more about the artists performing. Tickets are available here.
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default den haag is a non-profit curatorial initiative focused on the presentation of creative contemporary sound and performance in the Hague, curating and organizing their nomadic sound series with an international focus on experimental music and sound art performances since 2022, next to occasionally hosting accompanying reading-performances, talks and lectures. - read more
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