For the concert week of Thursday 19 through Sunday 22 November, the clearest reason to travel is Jon Hopkins’ appearance at Gashouder (Westergas) on Friday 20 November. Hopkins arrives with multi-instrumentalist and composer Maddie Ashman and guitarist, composer and producer Leo Abrahams for Harmony, a newly built series centred on attentive listening. The official listing currently marks the 20:00 performance sold out, which underlines its pull; it also gives the evening an unusual focus. This is a Hopkins bill whose central premise is shared authorship and an unwritten route through piano, cello, guitar and electronics. Barker opens with an ambient live set, setting the scale before the trio enters it.[1][3]

That premise gives the date its particular charge. Hopkins is widely associated with meticulously sculpted electronic records, film work and large audiovisual productions, yet Gashouder presents this meeting as an instrumental improvisation: material taking shape in the moment, with no fixed musical sequence. Ashman’s practice brings an interest in pure tuning and natural resonance; Abrahams brings a guitarist-producer’s perspective and a long connection to Brian Eno’s wider musical world. Together, those roles suggest a concert built from close listening between players, with texture and pacing carrying as much weight as recognizable repertoire.[1][3]

A compact European passage for the trio

Amsterdam opens a short sequence that keeps this exact combination intact. Hopkins’ own schedule lists the same trio at Dublin’s National Concert Hall on 23 November and Manchester’s Aviva Studios on 25 November. That detail makes the Gashouder date feel like a deliberately configured project, a distinct chapter in an electronic headline calendar. The choice of collaborators matters: Ashman is credited as a multi-instrumentalist composer, while Abrahams’ work moves between guitar, composition and production. Hopkins supplies the electronic vocabulary, but the concert’s stated range begins in meditative piano and expands through acoustic strings, guitar and electronics.[1][2][3][4]

For listeners who know Hopkins through albums such as Immunity, Singularity, Music for Psychedelic Therapy and Ritual, the appeal lies in hearing his compositional instincts exposed to another kind of decision-making. Harmony frames the music as a meeting point for contemporary classical, ambient and electronic practices, and the trio makes that framework concrete. The performance can move through silence, resonance and accumulated noise, away from the blunt forward motion of a club set. Barker’s opening live set strengthens the continuity: one sustained evening of electronic sound meeting acoustic improvisation.[1][3]

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The Gashouder’s listening scale

Harmony runs at Gashouder from 17 to 22 November as ten music ceremonies, with its programme joining artists whose work crosses ambient, classical and electronic language. The Friday slot sits between Thursday’s Niklas Paschburg performance and a Saturday schedule featuring Yehezkel Raz, Ben Lukas Boysen and Lisa Morgenstern. That wider frame makes Hopkins’ booking useful as an entry point: a familiar name placed inside a programme that asks for concentration over genre recognition. Gashouder describes the format as being supported by a 360-degree visual experience, making the room an integral component of the musical arrangement.[1][3][5]

Practical details: Jon Hopkins with Maddie Ashman and Leo Abrahams takes place on Friday 20 November at Gashouder (Westergas). Doors are scheduled for 19:00, the show starts at 20:00, and the expected end is 22:30. The official venue and artist pages currently list the date as sold out. Recheck the official Gashouder and Jon Hopkins pages before travelling for any changeable information, including access, timings and ticket availability.[1][2][5]

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  1. Jon Hopkins with Maddie Ashman and Leo Abrahams — Gashouder
  2. Shows — Jon Hopkins
  3. Jon Hopkins with Maddie Ashman and Leo Abrahams — Harmony
  4. Maddie Ashman — Live — Maddie Ashman
  5. Home — Gashouder