When I entered there was a room: an experience with piano & electronics

When I Entered There Was a Room
An immersive debut album concert for piano, visuals, scents & electronics
🗓️ June 28, 2025
📍 Studio 150, Amsterdam
🕗 Doors open at 20:30h | Concert starts at 21:00h

Step into a room where sound, light, scents and emotion merge. On June 28th, join pianist and composer Marko Ivic at Studio 150 for the debut concert of When I Entered There Was a Room, an intimate, multi-sensory experience that brings his first album to life through piano, live electronics, scents and generative visuals by multimedia artist Giulia Principe.

Marko’s music blends lyrical piano with hypnotic minimalism, warm electronics, and evolving textures. Inspired by the likes of Nils Frahm and Steve Reich, the album unfolds as a sonic diary, ten pieces that explore memory, stillness, pulse, and emotional architecture.

Performed live with a full electroacoustic setup, the concert invites you into an inner space, shaped in real time by Giulia Principe’s abstract visuals.

Opening the night is Show Pony, the experimental pop project of American bassist and vocalist Laura Nygren. Expect dreamlike melodies, layered textures, and cinematic intimacy—somewhere between Björk, Kate Bush, and a fever dream.

Adding to this environment is a scent installation by Maidie van den Bos, from Rotterdam based Forêt Atelier. Suspended wooden plates release carefully distilled tinctures of etheric oils and botanicals, designed to guide you through a changing olfactory landscape. As the performance unfolds, the scents will shift—subtly transforming the room and deepening your connection to each phase of the music.
Together, sound, scent, and image merge to create a space that is not just heard, but felt—a space to enter, to dwell in, and perhaps to leave changed.

🎟️ TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW
Seating is in chairs. Expect intimate lighting and a thoughtfully designed environment that invites deep listening and emotional connection.

Let the room open.

🎧 The album is out now
When I Entered There Was a Room is available to stream on all major platforms.
👉 Listen here

🌑 About the Artists

Marko Ivic
Marko Ivic is a Venezuelan-born pianist and interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. His music merges classical lyricism, minimalism, and electronic sound design—building expansive sonic landscapes where acoustic piano and live electronics blur together. He explores sound as space, guiding listeners inward through immersive, electroacoustic performances.

Giulia Principe, live visuals
www.giuliaprincipe.com

Giulia (Naples, IT) is a multimedia artist based in Amsterdam, integrating cross-disciplinary work on perception, science and ecology.Her work questions existing theories and demarcations of reality through interactive installations, photographs, and science-based processes.

HendrikWalther, light
www.hendrikwalther.com

Hendrik is a theatermaker and scenographer for (music-)theatre, performance and dance. His designs often are multidisciplinary and blur the borders between set, video, space and light. His background as an interdisciplinary and video artist making him a great collaborator to help us articulate light in a way that supports Giulia’s visuals, while working with the space’s lighting possibilities.

Maidie van den Bos, scents
www.foretatelier.com

As a sensory artist and spatial designer Maidie van den Bos is specialized in worldly foraged, perfumed ingredients, communicating terroir. Scent, flavor and space are a catalyst to cultivate kinship between human and flora through reciprocal care.

Show Pony, special guest
www.lauranygren.com

Behind the artistic name of Show Pony, we find Laura Nygren, an American double bassist, singer, electronic musician, and producer, based out of the Netherlands. She enjoys the music of the moment, the performers of the present, and the tunes of today. Laura’s fresh and etheric sounds create the perfect bridge to Marko’s music, bringing some vocals and synthesizer sounds to counterpoint the instrumental, electroacoustic nature of When I entered there was a room.

🎥 Concert Credits
Live performance by Marko Ivic
Live visuals by Giulia Principe
Light design by Hendrik Walther
Opening act: Show Pony (Laura Nygren)
Venue: Studio 150, Amsterdam
Supported by: AFK, Sena, Het Cultuurfonds & Voordekunst

🎧 Album Credits

When I Entered There Was a Room (2024)
Composed & performed by Marko Ivic
Co-Produced by Marko Ivic & Bauke Moerman
Mixed by Marko Ivic & Joeri Saal
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Joeri Saal at Studio 150, Amsterdam
Visual concept & artwork by Giulia Principe
Graphic design by Benedetta Pompili studio
Recorded with support from Sena Muziekproducties