Contrabassist and cellist · Improviser · Cultureel verbinder
Amsterdam
Film still / Videography · Jongkag Park
01 / Practice
Raoul van der Weide is an Amsterdam-based improviser working with double bass, cello and cracklebox. Active professionally since 1978, he has performed with musicians including Steve Lacy, Derek Bailey, Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink. His ensemble experience includes Blue Lines and the Xavier Pamplona Septet. Alongside performing, he creates opportunities for artists to meet across disciplines: his organising work includes the OORSPRONG curators series, Pintotonics n+1 and 2 Ateliers Rencontres, bringing music into dialogue with dance, poetry, electronics and visual art.
02 / In practice
IMDL — White Noise Strings with Miri Lee.
Film still · Jongkag Park
Raoul van der Weide · IMDL 04 · Tempel · 14 December 2025
Film still / Videography · Jongkag Park
01 / Performance film
Raoul van der Weide — IMDL #4: Perennation · 1 min
Films: Jongkag Park
Practice & experience
Contrabassist, cellist, and cracklebox player Raoul van der Weide has been active since 1978, working also as a collagist, organizer, educator, and composer. Based in Amsterdam, he has played, toured, and recorded with numerous uncompromising improvisers, including Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Steve Lacy, Michael Moore, and Guus Janssen, and has collaborated with dancers including Makiko Ito, Miri Lee, and Kenzo Kusuda.
He currently performs in several ensembles, among them the tatatacouF trio and the Blue Lines trio with Mary Oliver. As an organizer, he has curated a series of monthly and bi-monthly improvised music programs in Amsterdam since 2009, and served on the board of the Dutch Professional Association of Improvising Musicians (BIM) from 1998 to 2002.
Active as an improviser, composer, educator and organiser since 1978.
Performed and recorded with Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Steve Lacy, Michael Moore and Guus Janssen.
Collaborates with dancers including Makiko Ito, Miri Lee and Kenzo Kusuda.
Curates regular improvised-music programmes in Amsterdam, with a series history beginning in 2009.
Served on the board of the Dutch Professional Association of Improvising Musicians from 1998 to 2002.
03 / At IMDL
IMDL / Improvised Music Dance Laboratory