Momentous 2025
MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
Lose Yourself in Two Nights of Electronic Music
Whatever your genre, Momentous is your place for EDM in Northwest Arkansas.
Featuring dubstep icons Flux Pavilion and Doctor P performing b2b, live electronic superstar Tycho, plus Baby Weight, MEMBA, Mickman, a community stage curated by Backroom, Haus of Untz, Vibes Creation Co., and Impact DNB and more, Momentous brings the global electronic music scene to the Momentary for an unforgettable two-night festival.
Explore multiple stages of cross-genre masters, immerse yourself in the dynamic experience of Rin Peisert’s multi-modal Relative Intensity Noise and Touki Delphine’s critically acclaimed FIREBIRD, or wander the glowing alleys of the Night Market to the pulse of a nearby dance floor. Food, drinks, art, music, and more await.
Without a doubt, this is the biggest Momentous yet.
See you there.
2025 LINEUP
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* Member pricing is for members of the Momentary. Discount will be applied at checkout to up to two (2) adult tickets. Each order is limited to six (6) adult tickets regardless of member status.
** Student tickets available to guests with a valid student ID, presented upon entry.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Touki Delphine | FIREBIRD
An epic adaptation of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite performed by a monolithic orchestra of tail lights.
FIREBIRD is both a concert and an otherworldly light show. Inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s 1919 Firebird Suite, a unique orchestra of over 600 recycled car lights unleashes a hypnotic choreography of light and sound upon the audience. Together, they bring the mythical firebird to life in an overwhelming visual and musical spectacle. “Like God playing a video game on stained-glass windows.” de Volkskrant ★★★★
Currently touring the United States, Touki Delphine, by invitation, scoured American car graveyards to create an XL, transatlantic version of their iconic installation. FIREBIRD has already lit up the deserts of Utah and the coast of California, and the journey continues at renowned festivals and museums across the country. Next stop: Momentous.
About Touki Delphine
Amsterdam-based Touki Delphine (Bo Koek, Rik Elstgeest, Chris Doyle and John van Oostrum) is a boundary-pushing collective of musicians, performers, and visual artists making waves nationally and internationally with their monumental light and sound installations made from recycled materials. Their work creates poetic encounters between humans and machines. Inspired by natural phenomena, the climate crisis and the idea of nature as a living whole, they explore how technology can not only alienate but also connect.
Rin Peisert | Relative Intensity Noise
Guest curator Rin Peisert brings Relative Intensity Noise to this year’s Momentous.
Relative Intensity Noise fuses the elements of sound, movement, and live action art together to produce a powerful and communal, immersive and multisensory environment for all. Relative Intensity Noise is a gesamtkunstwerk-like world composed of artists working across genres to guide the audience in a full body and mind experience.
Katinka Kleijn with Stephan Moore | The Bionic Synthmap
The Bionic Synthmap is a site-specific sound sculpture that explores shared circuits between human bodies and synthesizers. An interactive installation, it considers interactive connectivity, perceptual experience, and psychophysics. When activated, Momentous festivalgoers and The Tower become one. Join Katinka and become a cyborg musician on October 10–11.
Katinka Kleijn
Katinka Kleijn enjoys a genre-defying, interdisciplinary career. A classically trained cellist, she has since cultivated an exploratory creative practice at the intersection of performance art, improvisation and composition. In her process, Kleijn uses the boundaries of time-based performance to synthesize situation-based results, where dynamics of a chosen concept can exist and interact in an alternate space. Exploring the body and its interaction with the physicality of sound, she often presents her cello as an anthropomorphic entity, a body corollary to (or even morphed with) her own. A featured VIP contemporary artist at EXPO Chicago 2025, Kleijn performed Scratching, which deals with the role of the female body in society, specifically in orchestra culture. Her ongoing collaboration with Chicago-based Industry of the Ordinary resulted in Intelligence in the Human-Machine, a duet between Kleijn’s cello and her own brainwaves which Time magazine called “a balancing act for Kleijn’s whole body.” Kleijn and cellist Lia Kohl waded with 30 cellos in Chicago’s Eckhart Park Pool for their devised work Water On the Bridge, and her composition Forward Echo, for 11 improvisers, was performed at Knoxville’s 2022 Big Ears Festival. Kleijn is a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and International Contemporary Ensemble, recorded for Drag City, and presented solo multimedia presentations at North Carolina Performing Arts, Library of Congress, Roulette Intermedium, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Stephan Moore
Stephan Moore is a sound artist, designer, composer, improviser, programmer, engineer, teacher, and curator based in Chicago. His creative work manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvisational outbursts, sound installations, scores for collaborative performances, algorithmic compositions, interactive art, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Much of his work has been realized in collaborative projects, most notably with sound artist Scott Smallwood in their duo Evidence and with choreographer Yanira Castro in the collective a canary torsi. He is the curator of sound art for the Caramoor Center for Music.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Seating
Momentous performances are standing-room only. No folding chairs, blankets, or stadium seats are allowed in the venue.
- For guests who need seating or mobility accommodations, a limited number of chairs and designated wheelchair-accessible viewing areas will be available for anyone who needs specific accommodations.
- Please contact the Box Office in advance if additional assistance or accommodations are needed by emailing BoxOffice@theMomentary.org
Prohibited Items
The following items are prohibited at music events at the Momentary.
- Metal, glass, or opaque plastic containers
- Camelback-style hydration packs/water reservoirs
- Coolers and picnic baskets
- Outside Food and Drink
- Empty clear plastic water bottles are permitted and can be refilled at water stations on the property.
- Pop-up shade tents and large umbrellas
- Kites, frisbees, or inflatables (beach balls, balloons, chairs, etc.)
- Air horns and other noise-making devices
- Musical instruments (FreshGrass Festival excluded)
- Laser pens or pointers, and other illumination devices
- Illegal substances of any kind
- Pets and other animals (Service Animals excluded)
- Fireworks, fuel, or other combustible materials
- iPads, tablets, or gaming devices
- Signs, posters, or other promotional materials (excluding merchandise purchased in the venue). Flyers and other promotional materials cannot be distributed on Momentary property without prior approval.
- Skateboards, scooters, or any wheeled devices other than ADA-compliant modes of transportation
- Professional-style cameras with detachable lenses
- Drones
- Selfie sticks or tripods
- Audio or video recording devices
- Weapons
- The carrying of weapons and/or firearms is prohibited on the Momentary property, even if you have a permit. (This includes weapons of any kind, including, but not limited to, guns, knives, explosives, brass knuckles, tasers, mace, or pepper spray.)
Other Restrictions
- The Momentary is a cashless venue for concerts and other large events.
- Smoking, vaping, and tobacco use are restricted to designated areas.
- The only permitted drink containers are empty, clear plastic water bottles. These can be filled at water stations on the property.
Other Rules
Alcohol
- A valid ID is required for all alcohol purchases and will be checked regardless of age.
Re-entry
- We do not permit re-entry to the venue once exited. Re-entry rules may vary by event.
Personal Items and Belongings
- All bags, purses, blankets, and personal items are subject to inspection.
- Prohibited items will not be admitted or checked. Please leave these items at home or in your locked vehicle.
Ticket holders are permitted to enter the venue with one clear bag that does not exceed 12” x 6” x 12” or a single one-gallon plastic freezer bag (Ziploc bag or similar). Ticket holders may also carry a small clutch purse, no larger than 4.5” x 6.5”, with or without a handle or strap.
All clear bags and clutch purses will be screened prior to entry into the venue. Security has final say on which bags will be permitted.
Exceptions: Ticket holders who need medical supplies or devices, members of the working media, and diaper bags with an accompanying child will not be subject to the above bag policy, however these items will be subject to additional screening at the main entry gate. The person requiring these supplies or devices must accompany the bag at all times. Diaper bags, media, and medical exception bags will be tagged once cleared through security. For shows where lawn chairs and blankets are permitted, these items will also be subject to additional screening.
- To check on event relocations, delays, and cancellations, call the Inclement Weather line at (479) 657-2448.
- Updates will also be shared on the Momentary’s Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter feeds @theMomentary.
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