Reflex is an Interactive Music System developed in the visual programming language Max/MSP. The system was designed based on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. The Viable System Model was developed in the 1950's to deal with the organization of increasingly complex systems.
Using a number of Digital Signal Processing solutions, an external audio source is used as trigger and input to create textured sounds, syncopated rhythms and expanded counterpoint. The system is currently used for performances and sound design.
For further infos, audio demos and download of the patch visit:
Soundcloud
Github
ResearchGate
Using a number of Digital Signal Processing solutions, an external audio source is used as trigger and input to create textured sounds, syncopated rhythms and expanded counterpoint. The system is currently used for performances and sound design.
For further infos, audio demos and download of the patch visit:
Soundcloud
Github
ResearchGate
Something barely there that gets our full attention
FACT
Fractured small sounds and micro-amped ephemera, creating a quizzical ecology of relationships between physical objects, environmental sound, and digital processing
Boomkat
A fascinating, strange and curiously touching experience
The List
A duo making an aptly bright and brittle plea for attention
ATTN:MAGAZINE
FACT
Fractured small sounds and micro-amped ephemera, creating a quizzical ecology of relationships between physical objects, environmental sound, and digital processing
Boomkat
A fascinating, strange and curiously touching experience
The List
A duo making an aptly bright and brittle plea for attention
ATTN:MAGAZINE
soft tissue is a collaborative project with Feronia Wennborg that was started in 2018. Working with DIY electronics, everyday objects and digital processing, we explore
quiet noises, textures and hesitant melodies. In our live performance setups, we are playing within networks of lo-fi amplification, blurring the boundaries between initiated and environmental sounds.
In December 2019 we released a self-titled debut on Penultimate Press, a collection of sonic explorations based on recordings from everyday life and experiments in analogue feedback. Since then, we completed commissions for Radiophrenia, Counterflows, West Den Haag and a residency at the CCA Glasgow. Forthcoming work is due to be released on Ohio-based label Students of Decay and GLARC Glasgow.
In December 2019 we released a self-titled debut on Penultimate Press, a collection of sonic explorations based on recordings from everyday life and experiments in analogue feedback. Since then, we completed commissions for Radiophrenia, Counterflows, West Den Haag and a residency at the CCA Glasgow. Forthcoming work is due to be released on Ohio-based label Students of Decay and GLARC Glasgow.
Garland is the collaborative project with Cologne-based DJ and producer Phillip Jondo that was started in 2018 with a release on Amsterdam-based label Lullabies for Insomniacs. Since then, we received commissions from CineSonics to compose a live soundtrack for Aelita - Queen of Mars for Imagine Film Festival at the EYE Film museum Amsterdam. Aside from this, we have played at several festivals such as Meakusma (BE), Minimal Music Festival (NL) and Listen! Festival (BE), as well as doing a residency at STEIM Amsterdam in 2019.
Soup, Zuppa is a monthly event for Free Improvisation that was started in collaboration with Caroline Hussey and Nuno Mendoza in 2018. Over the years, the event has formed into a loose collective that started recording and performing together in various constallations, often mixing acoustic instruments, electronics and everyday objects. Often playing in a sparsly lid space, as a collective we are much more interested in bringing attention to the act of listening, rather than any particular genre, style or mode of production.
Pulses (2018)
in collaboration with Giulia Casanova
Pulses is a mixed media installation combining custom made lathe cuts, dried flower sculptures, drawings and spatial interventions, exploring themes of chance procedures and disintegration. Upon entering the gallery space, heavy syncopated beats are pounding, resembling the beating of a heart. In fact the sound is coming from empty endless loops cut onto lathe. The click produced by the impossibility of cutting the loop silently is equalized and played back using separate speakers for each record player, resembling early works of Minimalism such as Steve Reich's Pendulum Music. The sound work is juxtaposed by a set of dried flower sculptures and a wall cloth of random numbers by Giulia Casanova, as well as a drawing for an impossible score and curtains used as spatial interventions.
in collaboration with Giulia Casanova
Pulses is a mixed media installation combining custom made lathe cuts, dried flower sculptures, drawings and spatial interventions, exploring themes of chance procedures and disintegration. Upon entering the gallery space, heavy syncopated beats are pounding, resembling the beating of a heart. In fact the sound is coming from empty endless loops cut onto lathe. The click produced by the impossibility of cutting the loop silently is equalized and played back using separate speakers for each record player, resembling early works of Minimalism such as Steve Reich's Pendulum Music. The sound work is juxtaposed by a set of dried flower sculptures and a wall cloth of random numbers by Giulia Casanova, as well as a drawing for an impossible score and curtains used as spatial interventions.
Fragments, 2016
Mixed Media
Playback of a 16mm film made at an abandoned villa in Scotland around a piece of limestone found at the same site. Throughout its playback the film material slowly disintegrates, distorting and modifying the projected image.
Mixed Media
Playback of a 16mm film made at an abandoned villa in Scotland around a piece of limestone found at the same site. Throughout its playback the film material slowly disintegrates, distorting and modifying the projected image.
Vanguards, 2016
Mixed Media
Stones collected around Faslane, Scotland were placed on wooden-framed radios. The radios received different FM stations that played field-recordings via FM Transmitters. The recordings themselves were done around HMNB, a navel site in Scotland that stores nuclear weapons.
Mixed Media
Stones collected around Faslane, Scotland were placed on wooden-framed radios. The radios received different FM stations that played field-recordings via FM Transmitters. The recordings themselves were done around HMNB, a navel site in Scotland that stores nuclear weapons.
Photos by Gert Jan van Rooij
Monoliths, 2014
Mixed Media
Collection of slides with 3D-scanned grains of sand. Projected daily for a consecutive periode of 3 months. The original grains of sand were presented in a vitrine in the same room.
Mixed Media
Collection of slides with 3D-scanned grains of sand. Projected daily for a consecutive periode of 3 months. The original grains of sand were presented in a vitrine in the same room.
Stretch, 2014
Mixed Media
The dirt under the fingernails of a guitar player was collected over a periode of 6 months to produce a plectrum, which was used to play a single chord on guitar. The sound was recorded onto reel-to-reel tape. A tape machine playing back the recording was mechanically modified to stretch the sound over the time periode that it took to collect the material.
Mixed Media
The dirt under the fingernails of a guitar player was collected over a periode of 6 months to produce a plectrum, which was used to play a single chord on guitar. The sound was recorded onto reel-to-reel tape. A tape machine playing back the recording was mechanically modified to stretch the sound over the time periode that it took to collect the material.