Joep Beving
This year, The System Festival is two days. Joep Beving's opening concert on Friday, August 7. On Saturday, August 8, the perspective will shift and the terrain will then become the playing field for electronic music.
The opening concert takes place outdoors on Ter Hunnepe's grounds in Deventer. Between the trees, JoepBeving plays on a site where there used to be a monastery, now designed as a space for encounters.
Joep Beving is internationally renowned for his work at the intersection of contemporary classical music, art and experimental contexts. He has performed at Burning Man, played at Lowlands and collaborated with the artist collective Studio Drift, among others. His album Henosis was awarded an Edison in 2019.
The focus of this concert is his new work Liminal, which will be released by Deutsche Grammophon in March 2026. In Liminal, the pianist explores the balance between intention and intuition: less steering, more tuning. Listening to what is happening, instead of imposing form.
The reason for the album lies in a period when making new work was hardly possible. During a stay in Seoul, the overwhelming sadness of world news gripped both his mind and body, causing attempts to compose to stall.
A visit to Pierre Huyghe's Liminal exhibition brought a shift. There, Beving experienced a world where people are not at the center, but part of a larger whole of nature, technology and matter. That attitude is reflected in the music: balancing between intention and intuition, between shaping and making happen.
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