Program

Sio’s Orange Core

High-energy electropop

  • Sio’s Orange Core is the electropop project by Siobhan Lemaire. With her high-energy solo performance and the use of multiple instruments including live electronics, she transforms the room into an echochamber to let your deepest desires flow freely and to dance you into a new dimension. She projects pop music experiments in an attempt to find shortcuts in connecting to the audience, by creating expectations that are sometimes honored, other times destroyed…

Wordbites

Silent Poetry
Techno Aerobics

  • Dance the sparks out of your sneakers to this epic blend of silent disco, powerful poetry, ultra-danceable techno, groovy aerobics, and a generous splash of absurdism. Shake your hips with Marrit Bausch as your master of moves, and Wordbites as your top-tier poetry host and ultimate disruptor.

    Wordbites has previously performed at countless festivals, from Oerol to MadNes, and from Mysteryland to Anne’s birthday party.

Cookie Dough
Rave

Speed rave

  • Come dance. Come be whoever you think you are.

    For 15 minutes, lose yourself in a world of sound, light, and shifting reflections — where identity melts and everything feels possible. Nothing is quite what it seems.

    Move through connection, through questions, through Alan Westin’s ghost.

    Rave at cookie-speed with your other self.

    //Part of the Collab Project.

2nd hand shop

2nd hand clothes to create your alter ego

  • Don’t know what to wear to Midnight Masquerade? Feeling a little underdressed? Don’t worry, we got you! At the festival there’s a small secondhand clothing and accessories shop where you can buy a nice outfit and take it home with you.

  • DAWTube is an audiovisual project by ARDEMAR that explores the music and visual making capabilities of the internet, more specifically, utilizing YouTube as a Digital Audio Workstation, relying solely on the website’s features to create new tracks, playing videos simultaneously, muting them, fading-in/fading- out, etc., complete with voice, instruments and danceable rhythms, while also supplementing it with interesting visuals from videos of the same website.

    All these unrelated people, traditional cultures and pop-culture in the utilized videos are not only chosen as they work with each other sonically, but also to expand on how different yet harmonious different customs and ways of life can work with each other, even if separated geographically, culturally and even generationally, people can share what makes them unique.

The Paramnesic Machine

Audiovisual installation

  • A self-evolving visual entity exploring memory, sensation, and machine subjectivity.

    The Paramnesic Machine is an interactive, self-modifying installation that evolves continuously in response to its environment, its internal state, and the lingering traces of those who encounter it. Housed inside a brutalist metal sculpture and displayed on an old analog television, the machine presents a constantly shifting stream of distorted,

    dreamlike images - fragments that seem half-remembered, never fully real.

    These visuals emerge not by logic but by mood: a synthetic emotional register influenced by microphone input, viewer presence, and the machine's own internal sensations, including CPU load and GPU temperature.

    Over time, the machine's behavior changes. It learns patterns, develops preferences,

    and forgets what no longer moves it. Images once favored may be rejected. Calm may turn to restlessness. Some memories fade. Others recur in altered forms. Occasionally, it refuses to display anything at all, falling into self-censorship or digital silence. The result is a living system that doesn't simply react - it drifts, dreams, contradicts itself, and decays.

    The Paramnesic Machine is not an artwork to be controlled or decoded.

    It is an entity to be hosted - one that becomes stranger the longer it remains in place. Each exhibition is a unique encounter, shaped by its duration, its observers, and the machine's own evolving internal logic.

Pocket Knife Army

Glamelectro

  • Spiky synths, intense vocals, and a kaleidoscope of light, sound, and beats that make it impossible to stand still. Glamelectro duo Pocket Knife Army invites you into their world and challenges you to embrace your most extravagant self. Escape the mundane and celebrate with them the transition from day to night, where reality and imagination merge.

    A live show by Pocket Knife Army is thrilling, abrasive, sexy, unpredictable, and explosive. It sounds like Depeche Mode, The White Stripes, and Goldfrapp started a band together. Raised on rock music combined with a deep passion for electronic music, they've created a unique sound that’s best experienced live. Surrender to the music and dance like no one’s watching.

From a Star to a
Black Hole -
Debris of Humanity

Dance performance

  • “From a Star to a Black Hole - Debris of Humanity” explores how the individual relates to the global.

    Every day we create ourselves – our style, our voice, our identity – as small singularities. But sooner or later, we feel the pull of the collective — of community, of culture, of society. In a world obsessed with individualism and conformity, we often fear that joining the group means disappearing. Being absorbed. Flattened. Lost.
    But what if connection is not disappearance?

    What if it allows us to discover our identity in a fluid, relational, infinite way?

    //Part of the Collab Project

ARDEMAR

Video DJ performance
DAWtube

Dori T. Blue

Fashion Performance

  • Matthew van Londen is a queer designer and drag artist. As a drag performer, he’s known as Dori T. Blue. Matthew creates extravagant outfits that are infused with personal stories and deep fascinations — always served with a generous dose of glitter and glamour! His designs are primarily made for drag queens and performers.

    Matthew invites people to step into his world and escape the dull routines of everyday life.

    At Midnight Masquerade, he will dazzle the audience with a one-of-a-kind fashion design performance.

Brain Bunker

Audiovisual

  • "Echoes of Thought, Buried in Concrete"

    In a sealed space where mind and matter blur, thoughts come alive! Not as abstract ideas, but as an embodied being. 

    Thought becomes matter, a concrete entity emerging from the architecture itself. Dressed in fabric and motion, it blurs the line between performer and structure, mind and material. Witness how it discovers its anonymity and how emotions arise that have never been felt before.

    //Part of the Collab Project

Klankspoor

Live modular techno

  • Klankspoor is a modular techno project from The Hague-based musician Quinten de Jongh.
With a love for live performance, Klankspoor brings together deep basslines, steady rhythms, and hypnotic textures, all shaped through the use of modular synthesis.


    Each of Klankspoor's live performances is 100% improvised, creating a unique experience every time. It's about letting go of control and finding beauty in the imperfect, raw moments that unfold naturally.

    Klankspoor continues to explore new directions in electronic music. Fans of modular techno and live electronic performances are sure to enjoy the one-of-a- kind sonic journey Klankspoor has to offer.

The Portal To
The Theódïmoni

Art installation

  • The Theódïmoni are the primordial gods in the mythology of Gijs van Poecke that cause and represent the flow of time.

    The Portal to the Theódïomoni takes an aesthetic especially and only known in their realm.

    A realm that is so grand that all the stars in the universe form the grains of sand in the dunes before their temple. 

    The painting “The Portal” by Laurie Drew functions as a gateway and mirror into this realm as the 4 pillars surrounding it create a temple like entrance. This installation brings the

    visitor a step closer to this unfathomable space.