Poulson Sq.
VR poem Cycle in IFFR and SXSW
25 January 2026
The new virtual reality experience Cycle by visual artists and filmmakers Amit Palgi and Matunda Groenendijk will have its first public try-out at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), followed by its official world premiere at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Cycle offers an immersive exploration of movement, time, and perception through a circular, meditative VR environment. Viewers are invited into a dynamic visual world where sound and motion continuously reshape one another, creating a sensory experience that evolves with every loop.
The music and sound design for Cycle are created by Poulson Sq. Their carefully layered score and sound effects form the sonic backbone of the work, blending acoustic warmth with immersive spatial sound.
With Cycle, Palgi and Groenendijk merge artistic vision and technological innovation, presenting a VR experience that highlights the possibilities of immersive storytelling in contemporary digital art.
>29/1-8/2 IFFR Rotterdam
>12/3-18/3 SXSW Austin Texas
Album Battles & Silences
03 November 2025
During the First and Second World Wars, church bells were widely melted down into lethal weapons. As Europe is being sucked step by step into a new war on its own soil, HIIIT (formerly Slagwerk Den Haag) is reversing this process with Battles & Silences. In this project, weapons waste from the battlefield will form the basis for a new series of instruments and compositions in the coming years.
In the spring of 2024, eight kilograms of Ukranian bullet casings were melted into bars in Kyiv, shipped and remelted in the Netherlands into a new resonating bell that signals the start of the reversal: to turn destruction into beauty again. With Battles & Silences, HIIIT creates an alternative, immersive and imaginary landscape in which we create a space to listen to this transformation and commemorate our dire need for peace.
On 9 May 2025 at Friedensfest in Augsburg, Battles & Silences was premiered in the Moritzkirche. The performance is created by electronic duo Poulson Sq. (Anthony Fiumara & Mathijs Leeuwis) and features two HIIIT performers, Dirge Seçil Kuran and João Brito.
The album Battles & Silences combines the live performance in Augsburg with a rendering of the installation loops.
Battles & Silences is available via all streaming services and on Bandcamp.