To my (happy!) surprise I saw that Keir Neuringer put up a demo version of his multiple screen video installation “Another World Bank” out on Vimeo. I helped Keir with the audio mastering at the time. The video reminds me how much I enjoyed seeing the end result at the time. See it here.
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NRC Handelsblad, a big newspaper in Holland, publiced a review of the CD “Triple” I recorded for Willem van Ekeren. The review is not online on NRC’s site but can be read here.
Listen to some fragments of the songs here.
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On September the 7th Ungrund will play the Ground 3 festival. This festival is FREE. The location where we will be performing is not entirely clear to us yet… since the city of The Hague does not have a Leeghwaterstraat. Stay tuned for updates here.
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Back in the Netherlands again. I have been working at NoTam with Aslaug Holgersen for way more time than we thought was possible. I am very grateful for NoTam’s hospitality and their general supercoolness, tusen takk! I managed to spend a lot of time programming a very very big patch in Max/MSP. And got quite some form-part sketches ready for the new piece. The final touches will be done this month. And I hope we can perform it somewhere in the near future.
Currently I am almost 16 hours a day working on even more Max/MSP patches. I am building a polyphonic wavetable/waveshaping synth which is going to sound amazing, believe me! Next to that I dabbled a bit with generative music. And I have some sketches for a new tape-piece lying around.
Next to that my electro-acoustic noise unit with Léon Spek, Ungrund, is going to perform on the 7th of September in our hometown The Hague at the Ground 3 festival. No further details yet…
Next to all this there is some theatre sound jobs as always.
btw: Another huge thanks goes out to Kane McGuire at the Cycling 74 offices for swiftly solving the weird registration problems I had with Max5.
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The second half of July I will be having some worktime at Notam in Oslo Norway. I will be working on a new piece for Double Bass and Live Electronics (Max/MSP) with Aslaug Holgersen. There will be a fair amount of improvising involved also.
I will be making quite some new Max patches until that time. I will also be testing some different interfaces to control these patches.
Update: Check out Mammut at the Notam site. Highly recommended and very unconventional!
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I have recorded about two hours of material for the free improvisation trio of these 3 excellent musicians. The premixes have been made, the selection process will start now. The final result will be released on Processed recordings, the small label I run with Léon Spek. We are all very excited about this as yet unamed project.
More info later…
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I recently recorded a 3 song (mini)cd for singer/piano-player Willem van Ekeren. Willem combines Bach’s Wohltemperiertes Klavier with the poetry of American writer Charles Bukowski.
Tonight is the pre-presentation of this disc at 21.00 hrs in sociëteit de Burcht, Burgsteeg 14 in Leiden. Which we also used to record the cd.
For those that don’t know Willem’s work here’s a recording that Dutch broadcaster VPRO did of him several years ago.
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Just a tester. See how Wordpress can serve me in keeping a newspage going.
In the coming days I will move over most content from the old site and delete the rest. Having a weblog engine as basis enables me to keep the site up to date. Especially since I’m not a big ‘html hero’.
Update: Well it’s up and running. And the old site is gone..
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