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                              Biography
Margriet Kicks-Ass
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Recent information you find here:  NOW

For more detailed info with images click on the different years:

2005 2006,  2007,  2008,  2009,  2010,  2011,  2012,  2013, 2014,
2015,  2016/17, 2018,  201920202021


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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.¨

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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.
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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.


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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, 20132012, 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

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(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.

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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.
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*
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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Letś do it different
skelter
driving truck
opelcombo
DADA at Blikopenenerfestival
Atlanta USA, Georgia-Tech
Rammelkast
Sotu
Toon festival Haarlem
Kulter
Noodlebar Rotterdam
Drops on a hot plate
Mainz Klangfestival
Gaia Resonance
Unheard voices
013 Tilburg
Villa K
Kulter
November music den bosch
Tetterode
nacht van de doden
nacht van de doden