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Extratonal Education #10: Touching Music / Knowing Music - Using Access as a Creative Tool
Saturday, September 19, 2026
This workshop aims to explore how music can be experienced beyond the ears—through touch, vibration, movement, and the body. By combining Ali Robertson’s experience as a Neurodiverse, partially deaf and untrained musician with new approaches to tactile sound, we will aim to create music together that is accessible, engaging, and meaningful across diverse abilities.
Extratonal Infrastructure #28: Ali Robertson, Kate Bjork and Maoro Bultheel
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Summer is almost over; time to go back to school, or better yet... to Extratonal! We kick off our second semester of extratonality this year with three thought-provoking performances.
Extratonal Special #9: Multispecies Festival 2.2
Saturday, July 18, 2026
More Multispecies! How do brown rats, silverfish and city birds relate to board games, puppet theater and generative music algorithms? Come join us at the second event of our Multispecies Festival this year to find out!
Extratonal Special #8: Multispecies Festival 2.1
Friday, June 12, 2026
How do city rats, Japanese knotweed and aquatic animals relate to board games, shadow theater, and deep space? The Multispecies Festival returns to find the answer to this question by showcasing new collaborations and connections between different species in the field of performance.
Extratonal Eduation #9 - Band on the spot: Jamming as art methodology
Thursday, June 11, 2026
This workshop will make a welcoming space for FLINTA to jam and improvise.
Extratonal Ecuation #8: Envisioning Online interfaces
Saturday, April 4, 2026
During this workshop we will take a deep dive into existing online audio platforms, such as Soundcloud, Spotify and Bandcamp. While listening and sharing each other's music or sounds, we imagine an online community of enjoying each others sound files and sharing the process of their making. A community for listening to each other through tender ears and curiosity.
Extratonal Infrastructure #27: Cat Woywod, Djfroggy69, Diyar and Mitsitron
Friday, April 3, 2026
It's time for another Extratonal Infrastructure on a Good Friday! It will involve soundscapes made by field recordings, voices, electronics, DJing, glitch, malfunction, atonality, guitars and coding. Sounds will be voiced from queernees, black culture, autoimmunity and grief.
Extratonal Special #7 @ Eiland van Brienenoord
Saturday, March 14, 2026
This year, the Platform for Extratonality is organizing a series of programs in collaboration with some of its favorite artists. Our next guests are the interdisciplinary duo The Postpeople, with whom we'll be creating a very hot festival on the Brienenoord Island.
Extratonal Infrastructure #26: Bernat Boronat, rAIN and Pau Jordà
Friday, February 20, 2026
This year, the Platform for Extratonality is putting together a series of programs in collaboration with some of its favorite artists. Our next guest is interdisciplinary musician Bernat Boronat, with whom we will explore several extended techniques.
Extratonal Infrastructure #25: Eric Kinny, Bibiri and Caeso.
Saturday, January 17, 2026
A new year full of extratonality is knocking at the door. We start things off with our 25th infrastructure event
Extratonal Extravaganza #3 - Another round around the sun
Saturday, December 13, 2025
The end of the year is near! As per tradition we will celebrate in style by organizing an extratonal extravaganza. A selection of special friends and guests will perform a variety of 10 minute acts. There will be snacks, drinks and good times all around, while we look forward to the future of extratonality!
Extratonal Infrastructure #99699: NDNMK Solutions, himera, Dodentocht and KULSHEDRA
Saturday, November 29, 2025
The Platform For Extratonality invites a number of their favourite artists to curate their own extratonal takeover. First up: NDNMK Solutions, the softest power!
Extratonal Education #8: Cozy Pillows
Friday, November 21, 2025
Come and learn how to make cozy pillows with Riccardo Santalucia, using hand crochet techniques - no hooks required - and sharing stories in the process. If you’ll make more than one pillow, consider donating it to Varia for a great cause
Extratonal Infrastructure #22: Ardore, Bat Lúlla, Kaðlín Sara Ólafsdóttir, Mitsitron and Snug Bug
Friday, November 21, 2025
Following in the footsteps of Riccardo Santalucia's pillowmaking workshop we will test its results during a second offering of cozy drones. A wide range of extratonal drone artists will help you get comfortable and sink into a wonderful world of cushions and padding.
Extratonal Infrastructure #21: Woody Veneman and Truus de Groot
Friday, October 10, 2025
As part of Halte Charlois, the Platform Voor Extratonaliteit is organizing its first pub crawl through the many cafés of Charlois. Along with the iconic duo Veneman and De Groot, we'll explore the quintessential Dutch phenomenon of 'smartlappen' (sweet songs).
Extratonal Infrastructure #20: Dagg3r, Kovač FM, Valerio Conti and Omarleen
Saturday, September 6, 2025
The Platform for Extratonality comes back from its summer rest with an evening full of poetry, noise, magic, vacuum cleaners, vocals, older media, field recordings and arabic maqams.
Extratonal Special #6: Open Mic #1 - Voicing Complexities
Sunday, July 6, 2025
We are thrilled to invite you to our first Voicing Complexities Open Mic! Come to share a small performance, sound piece, poem, insight connected to unheard knowledges, under represented mediums, internalized voices. Come with something you are working on and would like to share with a welcoming audience.
Extratonal Infrastructure #19 - The Cozy Drone
Saturday, May 24, 2025
The Platform For Extratonality invites you to an evening full of cozy drones to sink into. We provide the ideal setting
Extratonal Special #5: Multispecies Festival
Friday, April 25, 2025
How do flowers, plants and animals think about karaoke, ceramics and newspapers? During this two-day multispecies festival, the platform for extratonality explores different ways to give other species a place within the creative field.
Extratonal Special #4.2: Illustrations
Saturday, March 15, 2025
The Platform Of Extratonality invites you to a two-day celebration of graphic music. On Saturday, March 15, we explore the interaction between illustration and music at Roodkapje.
Extratonal Special #4.1: Graphic Scores
Friday, March 14, 2025
The Platform Of Extratonality invites you to a two-day celebration of illustrative music. On Friday, March 14, we organize an evening with three lectures/performances on graphic notation at Varia.
Extratonal Infrastructure #17: Dianaband, Vegetable Wife with Jae-hyung Park and Lucija Gregov
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Join us for a new episode in the extratonal infrastructure series - the extra in Rotterdam's cultural life. Be on time and it is fine!
Extratonal Infrastructure #16: QOA and Primeiro
Friday, November 15, 2024
November is home to multiple interventions by The Platform For Extratonality. During this intermediate music event we welcome QOA and Primeiro, two artists with a tendency to enthrall through elemental improvisations.
Extratonal Special #3: Sound Is Political
Friday, November 1, 2024
We are moved to invite you to our 3rd Extratonal Special
Extratonal Infrastructure #15: Nightshift, (S)LOW FREQUENCIES and Become Hees Black Cod
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Every month, The Platform for Extratonality gives the latest musical tendencies a stage at Varia. For October we have invited three groups that will challenge your dreary mindset. With the help of sunny improvisations, they are bound to disperse the autumn clouds for a while!
Extratonal Infrastructure #14: Nina Ryser, taupe, Jason Kolàr and Rio Vaupes/Uapes
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Extratonal Infrastructure is back for a second batch of irregular musical performances in the heart of the south of Rotterdam. Join us on the 4th of September for a dizzying array of notes, pauses and passes as we once again welcome the latest extratonal tendencies to varia.
Extratonal Residency: Trains Always Bring You To The Future
Friday, August 9, 2024
Join us for a celebration moment of our extratonal resident Ål Nik’ end of art residency! She will share her sonic experiments and creations from the last 3 weeks.
Extratonal Infrastructure #13: Nene Moné, VJ Varvara, Manu Louis, Yannis Patoukas, Nicolás Kliwadenko and Brandnetel
Friday, May 24, 2024
The 13th edition of Extratonal Infrastructure will focus on the concept of exaltation. In our understanding music can be a means to elevate spirits to a higher level. In May, the platform for extratonality invites a number of artists to varia who have dedicated themself to this cause through dynamic rhythms, decontextualized juxtapositions, spontaious improvisation and unified chaos.
Extratonal Special #2: Puzzling Printers Camp
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Printers are one of the biggest frustrations that modern technology has brought us. During the second Extratonal Special event, the platform for extratonality turns these frustrations upside down. Together we explore the hedonic performative aspect of exceptional printers.
Extratonal Education #5: Undead Printer Hacking Workshop
Saturday, April 20, 2024
In this workshop, we explore the inner workings of printers. With a DIY and DIWO approach and by hacking and modifying obsolete printers we find different uses and meanings for them. Is there a printing beyond having driver problems? Can we repurpose e-waste printers in something beyond frustration?
Extratonal Education #4: Live coding jam session with Mitsitron & Magda Arques
Friday, April 19, 2024
Live coding jam session is a performative evening to experiment with live coding together.
Extratonal Infrastructure #12: Lottie Sebes, Davide Luciani, NDNMK Solutions and Birds WG
Friday, March 15, 2024
According to the meteorological calendar, March is the first month of the year. However, for extratonality there is no beginning or end. Like an Ouroboros, our efforts consume themselves, only to breathe new life into our expressions. This infinite alchemical cycle is present everywhere in the work of the artists we have invited for the 12th edition of Extratonal Infrastructure. Join them on their travels on the cosmic roundabout!
Extratonal Education #3: Oud-Charlois PCB-Dérive
Saturday, February 24, 2024
This workshop deals with the discarded electrical junk of the residents of Oud Charlois. Together we will search through the garbage on the streets to filter out the electronic waste!
Extratonal Special #1: Someone's Trash Is Someone's Treasure: The (Dis-)Harmonics Of Waste
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Every 2 months, under the name 'extratonal special' the platform for extratonality will invite artists and thinkers to investigate particular extratonal themes and subjects in and around Varia. Our first special programme is dedicated to the (dis-)harmonics of waste. Discover your inner trash!
Extratonal Infrastructure #11: Vida Vojić, Laura Agnusdei, Bernat Sanjuan and Hollowmist
Friday, January 26, 2024
With renewed vigor, Extratonal Infrastructure returns with a fresh program for 2024 that continues to stretch musical paradigms. During our first event of 2024 we won't reveal all of our plans just yet, but rest assured
Extratonal Infrastructure #10: Extratonal Extravaganza - Celebrating 1 Year of Extratonality
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Extratonality comes with many milestones. To celebrate one full year of extratonality at Varia, we're organizing a celibratory cabaret on the 14th of December. During this event we're going to look back at the many highlights of our programme this year and lay out our plans for 2024. There will be food, extratonal cake and short performances by several members of the extratonal community.
Extratonal Infrastructure #9: Rebetiko Against The Machine, athinx, Illusory Essay of Noise, The Salty Sebastians and dj broodje
Saturday, November 18, 2023
'Extravagant', 'extragalactic', 'extralogical' or 'extratonal'; by adding the prefix 'extra' we indicate something 'non-ordinary'. Get ready for another exceptional evening in Rotterdam Charlois with performances that go beyond our common understanding!
Extratonal Education #2: Demystifying the Æther with Matthias Hurtl (MTHS)
Friday, October 13, 2023
During the second edition of the Extratonal Education workshop series, we explore the world of electromagnetic waves and their ubiquity in our lives, together with Mathias Hurtl (MTHS). After being introduced to special hardware and Software Defined Radio, participants will acquire radio signals from different frequency bands. The workshop is free; afterwards there is a vegan dinner.
Extratonal Infrastructure #8: Christof Migone, Matthias Hurtl (MTHS) and the Postpeople
Friday, October 13, 2023
The question of extronality concerns not only 'how', but also 'where'. With both eyes open, this extratonal event will focus on acoustic tools to locate sonic oddities and performative gestures, from endoscope cameras to satellite receivers.
Extratonal Infrastructure #7: So-Fi, Joris Anne, Lyckle de Jong and DJ Thor Kissing
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Extratonal Infrastructure is back from the holidays. With a freshly charged battery, we continue the second half of our extratonal program of 2023. This time our event is dedicated to the New Dutch Naïvity, which means Dutch-language pop music for a new era!
Extratonal Infrastructure #6: Janneke van der Putten, Mitsitron and Toine Horvers: richtingen/kwartet
Friday, June 16, 2023
Extratonality is a vocation. As such, it requires a voice. This is why Extratonal Infrastructure invited several experimental vocalists to look into the many afforandances of the vocal cords. Join us for our final event before the summer break!
Extratonal Education #1: SuperCollider Audio Synthesis Workshop with Kauê Werner
Saturday, May 27, 2023
In the first edition of the Extratonal Education workshop series Kauê Werner will give an introduction to sound synthesis with the programming language SuperCollider. No previous knowledge is necessary! Just show up with a laptop & headphones and have fun. The workshop is free and after the workshop there will be a free vegan dinner.
Extratonal Infrastructure #5: Conjunto Media Luna, Kauê Werner, Mitze Apocalipze & Chucho Vinilo and AnikaTheAbsurd x Vitrinekast Soundsystem
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Extratonality not only transcends disciplines, but also understanding. The May edition of Extratonal Infrastructure is dedicated to the unknown and the elusive. With a program consisting of Colombian Cumbia and cutting edge experimentation this edition will prove to be another step towards extratonal synergy.
Extratonal Infrastructure #4: Marlene Fally & Mehrnaz Khorrami, Ragnar Árni Ólafsson & Luke Deane, M_oo and Post-talk
Saturday, April 29, 2023
In our imagination everything appears different than it really is! This premise is a fundamental part of an extratonal understanding. In april extratonal infrastructure will once again invite exceptional artists to Varia in order to approach the concept of extratonality from even more unexpected angles than before. Put on your work and dancing shoes for an evening beyond your wildest imagination!
Extratonal Infrastructure #3: Mik Quantius, Parasnol & Ruisvogel
Friday, March 17, 2023
Extratonality comes in many consistencies; some clear and fresh as a bottle of spring water, others hazy and thick as mud. The third edition of Extratonal Infrastructure is dedicated to these parameters, with performances by Mik Quantius, Parasnol and Ruisvogel. Everyone is welcome!
Extratonal Infrastructure #2: Eric Kinny, Tisa Neža Herlec & Friso van Wijck
Saturday, February 4, 2023
The search for extra tonalities continues! Join us for the first event of the year including performances by Eric Kinny, Tisa Neža Herlec & Friso van Wijck. A trip around the world, for which you only have to travel to the Gouwstraat!
Extratonal Infrastructure #1: Zad Kokar, Vanita & Johanna Monk, TBA (joak)
Thursday, December 1, 2022
On Thursday, December 1, three musical performances will introduce all extratonal tendencies. Experience them together with Zad Kokar, Vanita & Johanna Monk and TBA (joak).