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For general artistic statement see my homepage Apart from my activities in sound-art I extended my workfields with writing (fiction, non-fiction and poetry) and Landscape (nature) Photography. EDUCATION: * ArtScience (former Interfaculty Sound & Image) at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (NL), graduated in 2004. This academy was about art and technology, combining disciplines, interactivity, triggering all the senses, overall environmental installations, art in public space and performance art * Audiovisual design at the Academy of Fine Arts Tilburg (containing film, photography, video, sound, and sculpture in an autonomous way) COURSES: * Shakespeare in a nutshell (Pianola museum) given by Elte Rauch * The sound of objects (at Steim) given by Mazen Kerbai * Electricity matters (hosted by Steim) at Instruments make play Festival by Nataliya Petkova * Writing (fiction, poetry and non-fiction) Schrijven Online * Designing interactive guided tours in museums of modern art (Muzeaal verhalen) * Pure Data (Steim) visual programming, an open source platform * Electronics (Dirksen online course) and DIY like Arduino and soldering sensors and trigger-modules in sound and image * Experimental sound by film (Steim) * Sound-engineer (IAB - Utrecht) * Landcape Photography (Fotogram) * Director television (Hilversum, tv College, regie 1) MASTERCLASSES/ SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS SEMINAR IN AND ABOUT THE BOSNIAN PYRAMIDS LEADED BY MARKO POGAČNIK UNESCO ARTIST FOR PEACE Organised by the Hagia Chora Schule für Geomantie. (Visoko, Bosnia Herzegovina, august 2018) ¨Human beings of the rational epoch tend to hold strict boundaries between the inner and the outer world. With the outer world I do not mean the alienated world of human affairs. I mean the living and breathing world of Gaia. Her plants, animals, stones, consciousness of nature etc. The presence of life itself. It is time to open oneself for the dance of life within and without.¨ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ SONIC ACTS MASTERCLASS OF KURT HENTSCHLÄEGER (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, feb 2015) Kurt Hentschläger (AT) creates audiovisual installations and performances. Between 1992 and 2003 he worked within the artist duo Granular Synthesis. Hentschläger’s work is characteristically visceral and immersive, as in ZEE and FEED, with extreme perceptual effects composed from light, sound and fog. These works literally transport the viewer into other worlds. Hentschläger’s CLUSTER series builds on the uncanny by portraying 3D representations of humanoid creatures that can only exist in dynamic flux, swirling and flowing like the wind, apparently unhinged from the screen on which they are projected. Hentschläger’s most recent, emerging body of work centres on how we perceive nature in the 21st century. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ SONIC ACTS MASTERCLASS OF ANTHONY MC CALL, IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH THE EYE FILM INSTITUTE (September 2014) The masterclass provided a unique opportunity for professional artists, musicians, composers, film makers, academics and advanced students to gain in-depth insight into McCall’s concepts, working process and methods. Anthony McCall (UK/US) has a cross-disciplinary practice in which film, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance overlap. McCall was a key figure in the avant- garde London Film-makers Co- operative in the 1970s and his earliest films are documents of outdoor performances that were notable for their minimal use of the elements, most notably fire. He gained international recognition through his ‘solid light’ film series, notably Line Describing A Cone (1973) which was presented at the Sonic Acts festival in 2010. __________________________________________________________________________________________ SONIC ACTS MASTERCLASS OF CM VON HAUSWOLFF & MIKE HARDING (feb 2013) CM von Hausswolff (SE) is a composer and a conceptual artist. Sound recording devices are his main instrument as a composer; as a conceptual artist he works with performance art, light- and sound installations and photography. Mike Harding (UK) is a curator, producer, lecturer and music publisher. He runs the Touch label together with Jon Wozencroft. In the masterclass led by CM von Hausswolff & Mike Harding, participants will work on their own version of freq_out. For freq_out – a concept by CM von Hausswolff – twelve participants are allotted ranges of frequency within the audible sound spectrum. Participant number one will be allotted 0–25 Hz, number two 25–65 Hz, and so on. Over a period of four days, the task of the participant is to compose one sound work each. The work cannot contain any sounds beyond the allotted frequency range, but can be of any length and is played back as a loop. The final work consists of 12 smaller works joined together into a whole. NOMINATIONS * Nominated with my short story ´Perpetuum Mobile´ to be published in september 2018. * Selected as semi-finalist in a contest Instrument Design, the Margaret Guthman competition at the Technical University in Atlanta, USA at Department Music Technology. With participants worldwide. February 2014. PERFORMANCE ART: * With my playable sound sculptures I performed a lot in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, Spain and Atlanta (US) for example in Urban Spree Gallery in Berlin, Robodock Festival in Amsterdam, Urban Explorers Festival in Dordrecht, Motor Schiff Stubnitz in Hamburg and cities like Brussels and Mainz and many more since 2006 until now. GAIA-RESONANCE TOGETHER WITH DEWI DE VREE - Submarine Festival Den Haag (21st of july 2018) PERFORMANCE ´THE SHOUTING SAW & THE THREE SPONGES´ (electronics, sponges and a tree-saw) - Villa K Den Haag (13th of june 2018) - Festival Het Rumoer in Groningen (30th of march/ 1st of april 2018) PERFORMANCE WITH DROP ON A HOT PLATE (2015) - November Music Den Bosch (NL) 2015 PERFORMANCES WITH THE "SOUNDCASE" (2014-2015) - Madame Claude in Berlin, 20th of april 2015 - Berckepoort basement in Dordrecht (march 2015) - participating in an international streaming performance événement in Nantes in Frankrijk, organised by apo33 (February 2015) - LOOS in Den Haag (Wonderwerp) (Januari 2015) - NOODLEBAR in Rotterdam (december 2014) - STEIM in Amsterdam (november 2014) - VROOOM in Rotterdam (sept 2014) - Birthday ADM Festival Amsterdam (july 2014) SPLASHBOX Started the Splasbox (Plonsbak) with a crowdfunding project on the platform Voordekunst, to gather 1000,- euro material costs. Immediately after that I built this kinetic sculpture during an artist-in-residence at Artspace Flipside in Eindhoven. Between 2012 (first with prototype) and september 2014 The Splashbox has been in different places, festivals, galeries, a competition in the USA, a ship in Germany and in theatrical settings: - Joep van Lieshouts "HAPPY INDUSTRY" Museumpark Rotterdam (sept 2014) - URBAN EXPLORERS FESTIVAL Dordrecht, (2014) - [LAUT] Klangkunstfestival MAINZ, (2014) - MS STUBNITZ in Hamburg, (2014) - Musical Instrument Competition Atlanta in USA, (2014) - RAMMELFEST -MIN 40 Amsterdam, (2014) - Galerie ROODKAPJE Rotterdam, (2013) - WORM ver-uit-de-maat, (2013) - PNEM Soundart Festival, (2013) - NACHT VAN DE DODEN at NDSM, (2013) - MAFF Festival Almelo, (2013) - URBAN SPREE GALERIE in Berlijn, (2013) - KULTER Amsterdam, (2013) - STORK Hallen, (2013) - SOTU Festival, (2013) - Diner DADA Rijkshemelvaart Amsterdam, (2013) - VOLKSROOM in Brussel, (2013) - studio LOOS Den Haag, (2013) - Salon DADA in Amsterdam, (2013) - Theaterfestival Alkmaar, (2012) - (h)ear experimental audio research in Heerlen, (2012) - De Bunker at NDSM Amsterdam, (2012) For performances with my other instruments please have a look at the different years, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 EXHIBITIONS: * 1001 Poems for 1 Night (november 2019)A lightsling of 100 meters long, constructed as a geometrical figure, consisting of 500,5 three-dimensional poems (filled with sand and shells) dancing in the wind during Night of the Dead Ones in NDSM in Amsterdam. A playful, daring and absurd research about death. * Gaia-Resonance together with Dewi de Vree during Submarine festival Den Haag (july 2018). * Participation in an exhibition about sound art in Melbourne, Australia in 2013. * Participation in the Dutch Design Week 2012 in Eindhoven with her interactive sound sculpture the Rauschmaschine. Open for visitors to explore and play themselves. http://www.margrietkicks-ass.nl/picture_files/flipside.html * Participation with the Rauschmachine in an exhibition on Futurism in Gallery Roodkapje in Rotterdam. Again the visitors were invited to play themselves on the instrument during one month. http://www.margrietkicks-ass.nl/picture_files/roodkapje.html * A sound walk designed for CBK Dordrecht (2009) http://www.margrietkicks-ass.nl/2009_files/tentoonstelling.html ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, AIR PROJECTS ON LOCATION: Most of my kinetic sculptures are developed during an artist-in-residence period. I've been in: * Artspace Flipside Eindhoven to make recordings with ´Drops on a hot plate´ in 2015. * Satellietgroep Den Haag, the coastal project called BADGAST in 2014. Creating a composition of sounds of Scheveningen (coastal town near The Hague) under and above the water. Using the primal elements (water and wind) as a red thread in the composition leaded by my own interpretation of the theory of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. * Artspace Flipside in Eindhoven in 2013: Built kinetic sound sculpture "The Splashbox" based on underwater resonancies. Research about water, sound, resonance and video projection and light. http://www.margrietkicks-ass.nl/splashbox_files/Splashbox-updates.html#Flipside * Rhizomatic Artspace for artistic research in Amsterdam in 2012. Artistic research about projection combined with sculpture. Video mapping on my soundsculpture combined with live performance . http://www.margrietkicks-ass.nl/picture_files/rhizomatic.html * NDSM Treehouse, a creative hotspot in Amsterdam. I Built my sound sculpture the Rauschmachine during a stay in NDSM in 2011 http://www.margrietkicks-ass.nl/sound-quaker.html TEACHING LECTURES * Invited to provide an online lecture for the university in Scotland on Music Technology department, about my take on interactive sound sculptures. Because of my walking completely my ow path in between the different art forms, designing and building kinetic sound sculptures which can be interactive or combined with performance. (2014/2015) WORKSHOPS * My self-developed workshop "asking stupid questions". This workshop trains participants to get rid of (unconscious) automatic mechanisms and exercises to observe precisely. It tries to break free of our habits to behave cool and act intelligent. Asking free questions is a huge liberation and encourages free thinking. The workshop takes place in museum of modern art de Pont in Holland (Tilburg) and is used to look in a different way to modern art with the help of stupid questions (2015). In the same year I have given a lecture for the educational department of museums in the south of Holland about the aim of my method https://www.facebook.com/WorkshopDommeVragenStellen http://dommevragenstellen.nl ART-EVENTS: Organizer of my own art-event: RAMMELFEST. This is a playful and unexpected festival filled with soundart, performances, self-built instruments and modern dance. Get inspired by a laboratorium set-up of many live acts, in which different art-forms are combined. At unexpected moments a new edition will take place on an unexpected place. This event is funded by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. Until now 5 editions took place since 2010 until present. And it's still growing in its size. Sometimes connected to a residency, sometimes not. Always in collaboration with a local cultural platform. http://www.margrietkicks-ass.nl/rammelfest-min40.html Rammelfest 2.1 and 5.vis at NDSM Amsterdam (2010) Rammelfest 7 komma 5 at Das Spectrum in Utrecht (2011) Rammelfest 8.nat at Artspace Flipside in Eindhoven (2012) Rammelfest -min 40 in de Toren in Amsterdam (2014) GRANTS: * Fonds Creatieve Industrie, to develop the prototype Drop on a hot plate. (2015) * The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (2014) * A Crowdfunding Platform (Voordekunst) to cover material costs to build the Splashbox. (2013) http://www.voordekunst.nl/vdk/project/view/707-splashbox-plonsbak-a-self-built-instrument ART INSTALLATIONS AND THEATRICAL ENVIRONMENTS: learned how to mix technology with presenting an environment: * in 2005 I worked for theatre group Dogtroep, helping with the technical art-installation and theatre-show "CARWASH", built on a trailer * in 2012 I worked for Hummelinck and Stuurman, helping with audio, light and a background stage-piece consisting of mechanical flowers growing slowly during Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf. * In 2013 I worked for "NACHT VAN DE DODEN" organised by Convoi Exceptionel, at NDSM in Amsterdam. A festival on the former dry dock, filled with performances, artworks, light-effects and professional decoration. * In 2019 again ¨Night of the Dead Ones¨ took place, the 2nd of november in Amsterdam. Called: 1001 poems for 1 Night, I exhibited my 500,5 poems, filled with beach-sand and shells and dancing in the wind as a long light-sling of 100 meters, criss-crossing the festival. INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL ART INSTALLATIONS: * 2012: During BLIKOPENER FESTIVAL in Delft I made an installation called DADA- Absinthbar. After drinking one glass with absinth, visitors were invited to throw mushrooms towards the gnomes, hidden in an Alpenkreuzer trailer. Inside we made a spooky environment with atmospheric sounds, smoke and abstract light and color patterns. RELEASES: October 2021: Old sounds revived. For no reason I never took the effort to make a release of the Raschmaschine, although it is my favorite instrument. Unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore, but here are its beautiful sounds again: Bandcamp release Rauschmaschiene logarithm, alias Sound-Quaker January 2018: Participated with a one-minute track to the label Sechzig (Zurich) release no 18. December 2015: Bandcamp release: The Equator Upside Down Made with the instrument: Drop on a hot plate, sponsored by Fonds Creatieve Industrie. April 2015: Bandcamp release: Delay of the Big Bang 1 Hour sound, unedited set (devided in 3 parts) I played during AUDIOBLAST #3, a worldwide online streaming festival organised by APO 33 NANTES (France) February 2015: Bandcamp release: If the ocean were square and filled with bits. Made with the Soundcase. Connected to this album there's a video clip on Bitchute. November 2014: Selected in a compilation of sound works of female composers working professionally in the sonic field, from all over the world (Vietnam, China, South Africa, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Australia, Europe and the US) called Urban Arts Berlin. https://urbanartsberlin.bandcamp.com/album/synthesis-vol-1 September 2014: Initiated SOS save MS Stubnitz Release together with Lukas Simonis. This online compilation contains 30 tracks of actual sound artists to support the German cultural ship Ms Stubnitz. Because this vessel moored several times in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, we decided to look over the borders of our country, to support this international important crossover initiative. Some tracks were played on the concertzender recently. https://dutch-experimental-musicscene-supports-ms-stubnitz.bandcamp.com/ May 2013: Bandcamp release Splashbox. Made with recordings of my instrument called Splashbox _________________________________________________________________________________________ (KINETIC) SOUND SCULPTURES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER BACK IN TIME: From 2004 until now: developing and building (interactive) soundsculptures: Unheard Voices (2018) is an instrument consisting of seasponges, water and electronic circuits, used in Gaia-Resonance, a collaboration with Dewi de Vree. Unheard Voices refers to the amplification of hidden (electrical) signals (making them audible) triggered by seasponges, the voice of nature, we are neglecting as well. I love to play with paradoxes like water and electricity and nature versus technology. This instrument can be played alone as well as in the collaboration. Gaia-Resonance together with Dewi de Vree (2018) Gaia-Resonance consists of an installation-based sound-performance in which physical and natural materials are used to generate and manipulate electronic sounds: water, sea sponges, stones and graphite are used as variable resistors as part of self made electronic instruments. Inspired by natural phenomena and the interaction between human, nature and technology, the artists are developing sound machines, instruments and sound-interfaces, in which electricity is handled as a raw material to make (electronic) sound. Central in their work, is experiencing the fine balance between the (un)predictability of the material and the (dis)control of the performer. The sounds that are heard during the performance embody nature in all its diverse behaviour in micro- and macro cosmos and can vary from quietly or uncanny low-frequency and deep rumbling drones, to explosions of screaming and violently hissing ultra-high frequencies as sudden releases of energy. Drop on a hot plate (2015) The starting point of this prototype is the sound of falling drops on hot pieces of metal. This refers to the primal instinct (it's hot!) and speaks directly to the imagination. In addition, my interest lies especially in the corners of the sound spectrum (sissing sounds). It´s about the dualism technology versus nature. A sound research that tries to appeal to the senses in a direct way. Without using effects, I am playing with the threat evoked by the sensation of hearing extremely hot surfaces. Furthermore the sense of time comes into play; when will the next drop fall as threatening tension, as opposite to decoration sounds. The sounds are all live produced with the instrument combined with a peformance. The premiere took place during November Music 2015 in Den Bosch (The Netherlands) This project is funded by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie. Sound-case (2014/2015) The Sound Case consists of an empty vinyl-case filled with electronics. Here for the first time I am experimenting with making artistic choices based on pure and authentic sounds. In this process I'm trying not to do any sound technical concessions for the purpose of their visual appearance. More specifically, I'm making decisions combining the extremes of the sound spectrum i.e. analogue sounds of sensor operated electrical circuits producing creaks and beeps combined with very polished sounds from a synthesiser. By this type of combination an authentic and direct sound image (without effects) derives. Although this is different to the way I have worked before, the sound images that derive prove to be typical for my artistic sound world: rough extremes without dull average greys. I have chosen to turn off the visual element by using the light purely functional. Playing in absolute darkness with a little lamp fixed on my head to trigger the light sensor, the result is that visitors can “see” the changes in sound. Splashbox (2013/2014): (In dutch: Plonsbak) This is an interactive sculpture on wheels consisting of a visual interesting construction containing of 2 pipes filled with water. The moving of the water is regulated during a live performance or in stand-alone modus. By adding small objects to the water it creates an under-water composition based on the vibration of these materials. Different small daily life ingredients are suitable as sound source. In this way this instrument functions like a playing back machine of (small pieces of) the environment. For example melting ice cubes and shells from the beach give a rich sound spectrum. During this wet dance a mini camera is connected to project moving images of the sound soup so that the public can take a look into the source of this real time sound kitchen. This mini- laboratories shows a real-time study of vibrating objects, mixed with sparkling sounds of water. Although the Splashbox is used primarily in a live performance setting, it is also convenient as an autonomous kinetic sculpture. During a performance it looks like an old steammachine, transferred by a sound witch into a real time audible and visual sound-soup. Rauschmaschine (2010/2012): This monumental sound sculpture is a converted file cabinet, which sounds like the cadence directly from the engine room of a large ship. Using bare frequencies the whole unit literally starts to quake. This movement causes everyday (kitchen) objects which are fixed on the cabinet to resonate. Depending on the frequency, different objects start to vibrate. The sounds of these everyday objects are amplified by microphones. Together with the resonating fundamental tones arises an interactive changing landscape of sound layers. The physical energy causes an complete sensation, reaching all the senses. The sounds are in contrast with the form (filing cabinet). normally fully stored with slant archives and files. This dadaistic contrast makes the sensation surrealistic and hilarious. Noise-lab (2007/2009) Literally, the precursor (for study) of the Rauschmaschine and the Splashbox, where the speaker is used as an instrument. In a laboratory-like arrangement a gas heater acts as a resonator and a truck spring as vibrating sound source. Both bare frequencies (digital sinus) as feedback sounds form the input of this soundsculpture. It looks like a crazy set-up with a mad professor, researching different sounds. like a doctor with a stethoscope examining the sound of the different parts and materials of the installation. Dressed in a white suit, white gloves and a white wig, the contrast with the iron parts comes out clearly. Pneumatix (2005/2006) This is a kinetic living sculpture. A visual (optical) and auditory spectacle with wildly moving tubes that glow in the dark and leave a virtual track (afterimage) behind. The tubes are moved by compressed air and real time controlled from a computer. The sound is generated by the electronic valves, by controlling the tubes also blowing directly into microphones. Besides this tube ballet as contrast 3 pneumatic cylinders are placed, making a total stiff movement from top to bottom and back, making short periods of dense noise. It looks like an uncontrolled spider, trying to escape from this scary but attracting never-seen-before apocalypse, made into an overall composition for all or senses. Krankenhaus (2004) In this graduation art work sound waves are translated into a three- dimensional choreography. Light sensors are attached on the display of an analog oscilloscope, and read the sound of the display. This information is translated into movements of five air pressure pistons standing in a row. Earlier recorded sound files of the cylinders are use to trigger them, so they actually react on their own sounds. This environment is a concert of pneumatic air cylinders made to lift 2000 pounds but pointless move in the air as trees in the wind. A kinetic composition with a human conductor in between. ioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioi For up to date info please visit NOW Detailed list from now back: * 26th of may ´20 (will be postponed): Participation in group-exhibition AUDIOSPHERE in Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid * 2nd of november 19: Exhibiting 500,5 poems about death, filled with sand and shells, during Night of the Dead Ones at NDSM in Amsterdam (Called: 1001 poems for 1 Night) * 22- 25 august ´18: Seminar by Marco Pogačnik (Unesco artist for Peace) in and about the Bosnian Pyramids in Visoko (Bosnia and Herzegovina). * 21 july ´18: Gaia-Resonance together with Dewi de Vree at Submarine Festival. * july ´18: Nominated with a short story to be published. * 13 june ´18: Playing at Villa K in Den Haag (Stichting Centrum). * 30 march/1 april ´18: Playing at festival Het Rumoer in Groningen (NL). * 19 january ´18: Participated with a track on the label sechzig (Zurich) no 18 (achtzehn)* december ´17: Participated in the workshop Electricity Matters at Steim in Amsterdam, during Instruments Make Play Festival. The workshop was about soldering analogue synths. * 2016/2017: Artistic sound-break. Extended activities with writing and nature photography. * 16 december ´15: Release is played at Australian Radiostation Sound Barrier 106.7 (Melbourne Radio) * 15 december ´15: Review of my album in Vital Weekly * December ´15: Release of album ´The Equator Upside Down´. * 5 december ´15: Playing at Syntherklaas in de Toonzaal in Den Bosch * 13 november: Playing in Extrapool Nijmegen with the Soundcase * 4-8 november ´15: Presenting Drop on a hot plate during November Music in Den Bosch as part of a group-exhibition and soundexhibition * 11-19 july ´15: Attending Stockhausen Summercourses in Kürten, Germany. * 26 june ´15: Playing at moving power in Lelystad * 22 may ´15: Giving an online Guest Lecture of the Music Technology Department of the University in Edinburgh, the Masters Sounddesign, about my take on interactive soundsculptures * 20 april 15: Playing at Madame Claude in Berlin * april ´15: Received a grant of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie for research for an a new instrument * 14 april: Presentation for the united museum organisation in south- Holland about my method of observing art in museums by asking stupid questions . * 8 april 15: Playing at Sotu-festival in Amsterdam on the roof of the building. * 15 march '15: Giving my workshop "asking stupid questions" in museum of modern Art, de PONT in Tilburg. A Dadaistic workshop questioning everyday automatisms with the help of stupid questions, being practised in a museum. * 6 march '15:Playing at Dutch Tapes at Berckepoort Basement in Dordrecht * 27 feb '15: Playing at AUDIOBLAST #3, an worldwide online streaming festival organised by APO 33 NANTES (France) * 24 feb '15: Selected for the Masterclass of Kurt Hentschlaeger in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam during Sonic Acts Festival * 19 feb '15: Giving my workshop "asking stupid questions" in museum of modern Art, de PONT in Tilburg. A Dadaistic workshop questioning everyday automatisms with the help of stupid questions, being practised in a museum. * 29 jan '15: Playing in LOOS Den Haag at Wonderwerp #58 * 27 dec '14: Playing in the NOODLEBAR in Rotterdam, a monthly modular synth evening hosted at a BAR. * 18 dec '14: Giving my workshop "asking stupid questions" in museum of modern Art, de PONT in Tilburg. A Dadaistic workshop questioning everyday automatisms with the help of stupid questions, being practised in a museum. * 29 nov '14: Releasing a new solo-cd on bandcamp called: If the ocean was square and filled with bits * 27 nov '14: Playing at OORSPRONG/STEIM bi-annual project 'Een Osmotische Avond/An Osmotic Evening' edition November 27th at STEIM location in Amsterdam. * 14 nov '14: Selected in a compilation of sound works of female composers working professionally in the sonic field, from all over the world (Vietnam, China, South Africa, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Australia, Europe and the US) called Urban Arts Berlin. * 18 oct '14: Playing at VROOOM in Rotterdam. The second part of the collaboration with Lukas Simonis involving the Ms Stubnitz crowdfunding Project. * 11 oct '14: Invited to play on the wonderful electro-acoustic stage during the 17th birthday of ADM in Amsterdam. * 17th sept '14: Selected for the Sonic Acts Masterclass of Anthony Mc Call, in close collaboration with the EYE Film Institute * 16th of sept '14: Initiated together with Lukas Simonis a compilation on Bandcamp of different actual sound-artists from the Dutch Experimental Music Scene. This compilation was made to gather some money for the Crowdfunding project of the German Motorschiff Stubnitz. * 14th of september '14: Playing during "Happy Industry" , an event organised by Joep van Lieshout& AVL Mundo on Museumsquare Rotterdam * july 2014: Artist-in-residence at 'Badgast" in Scheveningen. An initiative of Satellietgroep from Den Haag. A research into the direct coastal environment. Creating a composition of sounds of under and above the water. Using the primal elements (water and wind) as a red thread in the composition leaded by my own interpretation of the theory of K Stockhausen. * 14th of june 2014: Live Performance during [LAUT] Klangkunst Festival in Mainz (GE) * 7th of june 2014: Live performance in a basement during Urban Explorers Festival in Dordrecht. I played with ice and shells from the beach * 27th of march 2014: Playing aboard Motorschiff Stubnitz in Hamburg * 20-21 feb 2014: Selected as semi-finalist in 2014 GUTHMAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COMPETITION in Atlanta, Georgia, USA at the Georgia Tech University department of Music Technology. * 18th of jan 2014: organising Rammelfest, a playful and unexpected festival with soundart, performances, self-built instruments and modern dance. Get inspired by a laboratorium set-up of many live acts, in which different art-forms are combined. At unexpected moments a new edition will take place on an unexpected place. * 29th of dec 2013: WORM Rotterdam, ver-uit-de-maat festival. Live Performance with the Splashbox * 30th of nov 2013: Playing at (h)ear experimental audio research in Heerlen. DJset mixing my own cd's together * 16-17 nov 2013: Live Performance at PNEM Soundart Festival in Uden. Artist from all over the world were playing. * 1st of nov 2013: nacht van de Doden, musical theatre happening outside, at a former shipyard called NDSM in Amsterdam. Played together with Audio Machinist Geert Jonkers. Outside in the night. * 27-29 sept 2013: performance outside at MAFF festival in Almelo * 7-21 sept 2013: participation in the exhibition Experimental Sounds, Sculptures & Installations in Melbourne with a video-clip * july 2013: workshop at Steim Amsterdam, Sound as source for film * june 2013: following a course to design interactive guided museum tours * june 2013: Several performances with the Splashbox in Amsterdam: Storkhallen and Kulter. * may 2013: DaDa-Diner, organised together with Patricia de Ruijter 5th of may 2013. To celebrate freedom of art, in comparison to the Entartete Kunst, in WOII. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. So we organised this diner with unexpected elements and of course a performance with the Splashbox * april 2013: organising and playing at Rammelfest 8.wet, an event about water and sound * march 2013: artist in residence at Artspace Flipside in Eindhoven, a research about water and sound, closing 6th of april with a selforganised soundart festival. * february 18-21 2013: selected for the Sonic Acts Masterclass of CM von Hauswolff & Mike Harding (collaboration between Paradiso & Steim) * january 2013: finished a crowdfunding project to fund my new instrument "The Splashbox" based on resonancies under water.Link * 18th of november 2012: playing at theatre festival in Alkmaar with a performance with my splashbox * 8th september 2012: playing at (h)ear experimental audio research in Heerlen, with the first prototype of The Splashbox * 1st of september 2012: collaboration in a project at the opening of the gaudeamus music week in Das Spectrum Utrecht * 25 of august 2012: Playing at Mysteryland, a festival in Haarlemmermeer with poetry and noise with pure data (computer) * 23 and 24 of august 2012: participating at Blikopener festival Delft with an interactive noise-installation dedicated to the DADA movement one month building this installation on location * 27th july 2012: 1st try-out with my new instrument "The splashbox" * 9th of july 2012: playing in Kulter in Amsterdam, poetry with noise with Pure Data, collaboration with Marc Koolen * 5th of may 2012: organising an DADA absinthbar at NDSM Treehouse. Inviting guest to ask stupid questions and try to catch gnomes after drinking absinth * april 2012: Playing at FAQ festival in Den Bosch with The Rauschmaschine * feb '12: Assistent light and sound @ Theatreproduction Hummelinck &Stuurman (who's afraid of Virginia Woolf) * jan '12: Organising and playing on experimental music festival Rammelfest 7komma5 in collaboration with Das Spectrum Utrecht. * oct '11: Participation Dutch Design Week with my soundsculpture at gallery Flipside Eindhoven, finishing the exhibition (with my instrument as interactive soundobject) with a performance * oct '11 artist-in-residency at Rhizomatic Artspace for artistic research in Amsterdam. I did a research audio and videomapping. Finishing with a performance. * sept '11: Participation in a theatre-piece during the Fringe-Festival in Amsterdam at bicycle-repairshop Kwikfiets. Between my resonance machine and the actor (F. Domela Nieuwenhuis) there was a non-verbal dialogue. * aug & sept '11: A tour in Berlin with "Die Rauschmaschine": - At the Supamolly an event called: Mental Zirkus, I played together with guitar-player Gunther Schickert - Quiet Cue, an event at the back of recordstore "Staalplaat" organised by Nicolas Wiese, soloconcert - Motorship Stubnitz in Hamburg, * may '11: collaborating in a television programme about futurism 100 years ago, playing with my instrument * may '11: exhibition in gallery Roodkapje in Rotterdam * feb '11: organising a noise-festival @ NDSM in Amsterdam * jan '11 - march '11: developing Die Rauschmaschine at NDSM Amsterdam (artist-in residence @ NDSM Treehouse) * '10: Course Sound-engineer and course director * may '10: worked as technical performer with a kinetic installation made by Gijs van Bon at Festival aan de werf in Utrecht * oct '10: giving a workshop "asking stupid questions" * '09: participating in designing a soundwalk of CBK Dordrecht, invited by ex-teachers Edwin van der Heide and Joost Rekveld * '08: a course PD at STEIM and a few gigs with my machine "Noise-Lab", and workshops in the field of art, design and technology. * '07: Developed my instrument "Noise-Lab" and made a little tour around Holland by giving performances * '06: Many gigs with my pneumatic instrument "Pneumatix", a living soundsculpture. I played at a few big festivals as: Toonfestival Haarlem, Robodock, Gogbot, and in Nijmegen during a marathon, outside in an old castle * '05; online course electronica and worked with "Dogtroep" a machine- theatre-collective the show "Carwash". * '04: started with pneumatics to make sound with and also graduation (bachelor) of Interfaculty Sound & Image in The Hague * '99 - '04: making own feedbackmachines, triggered by feedback and by me, a research in a literally shortcut between sound and image |
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