During Horst Arts & Music Festival 2022, the deep characteristics of Horst’s experimental attitude are clearly rooted within the curatorial team, as

a new listening space called Turning Circles was added to the program.

Although the Japanese listening bar culture has been gaining popularity over the past few years, a dedicated listening space at a festival or club

hasn’t been that common in the past decade. However, in the ‘90s, the ‘chill-out room’ or ‘break-out-zone’ was a true world beyond the main areas

where one could wander off from the hectic beats and discover ambient and downtempo electronic music. With the new Turning Circles stage,

Horst Arts & Music combined the best of both worlds.

Together with Minimal Collective we moved over to Belgium to document this development towards a new listening experience at the festival and

had a chat with the Horst team, JAM Studio and DJ/producer Torus about their perspectives on the space.

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