Tea & Music Event 07.06.2026

Tea & Music Event on 26.04.2026 - 14:30 - 17:00

Join us this Sunday afternoon for a tea and music exploration. We will brew high-quality Chinese teas and listen to two music performances.
This intimate gathering brings together special teas and musical experiments.
Teas will be prepared in Gong Fu style, in which multiple short steeps with a high tea-to-water ratio let us experience different sides of the tea leaves.
This time sound artist and electronic music producer Jim Zweerts will present material from his new, yet unreleased record.
Dmitry Gelfand will introduce us to extremely rare sonorities from Yunnan's minorities and will play an interlude with a vertically held Dzapi flute that he received from a Hani family in Yunnan.
We will serve high quality Pu'er tea from the same South-western region in China (Yunnan).
Tea will be provided by TeaTracks.

First Dmitry will play a vertically held Dzapi flute that I received from a Hani family in Yunnan (southwestern China) – a tea paradise harbouring the world's most diverse concentration of indigenous ethnic minorities. As the tea starts flowing, we'll listen to extremely rare sonorities from Yunnan's mountain forests, intonated by the Lahu, Dai, Bulang, Wa, Yao, Hani, Lisu, Miao, Kemu, Naxi, Mang, Ñu, Bai, Yi and Jinpo tribes.

Artists Bio:

Jim Zweerts is a sound artist and electronic music producer based in The Hague. He creates soundscapes emerging from the interplay between algorithms, improvisation and an associative, almost tactile approach to sonic material.
He also collaborates with artists across a wide range of disciplines, including dance, theatre, installation art and cinema.
In 2024, he released his debut EP on the New York-based label Jollies and recently completed a new album. At SoundHouse, he will present material from this still-unreleased record.

Dmitry Gelfand

Having formed an artist duo with Evelina Domnitch in 1998, Dmitry Gelfand creates multisensory installations and performances that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Investigating questions of perception and perpetuity, their artworks exist as ever-transforming phenomena offered for observation. The immediacy of this experience allows the observer to transcend the illusory distinction between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion. The duo’s practice has evolved through collaborations with pioneering research groups, including LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), EU Quantum Flagship, and Aerospace Engineering (TU Delft). Domnitch and Gelfand have exhibited at Gropius Bau (Berlin), the Venice Biennial, MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Art (Rome), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki) and the National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo).