The physical power of sound is her inspiration source. Earlier work concerned research in magnetic fields, pneumatic sounds and the ´quake-factor´ or vibration and resonance behaviour of daily objects, to shape an audible landscape of sound layers. Now she has changed her direction more in a philosophical way towards nature.

Her best known work so far is the SPLASHBOX, her 8th kinetic sound-sculpture, rewarding her with an entry for the ´Guthman Instrument Design Competition’ held at  Georgia-Tech University in Atlanta (US) in 2014.

In 2019 she participated with a project called 1001 poems for 1 night, in Night of the Deads at NDSM in Amsterdam. It existed of 500,5 own poems, fixed on a long washing line of 100 meters. A playful research about death. The poems were written on plastic sheets, each one filled with beach-sand and a shell. The poems made great sounds, wildly being moved by the wind. See video and pictures.

From 14th of October 2020 until 11th of January 2021, she participated with a soundtrack in an exhibition called: AUDIOSPHERE: Social experimental audio, Pre-and Post Internet at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in MADRID, organized by Francisco Lopez, as one of 810 non-mainstream participating sound-artists.

In 2021 she started experimenting with noise-poems and radioplays, combining both text and soundscapes.

In april 2022 she started a project about moving sound and meaning, in collaboration with
Dr Iain McGregor (Programme Leader sound design and listening, Edinburgh Napier University), funded by creative industries fund nl.

By showing the pure sound source (without effects), visitors can literally see how the sounds are made. I'm playing with daily objects, juggling with the possible meaning like a dadaist. Mixing things which are normally not destined to be placed together, highlighting how easy it is to break free of daily life conventions and showing how automatisms are fixed in our behavior without us being aware of any other options.

It is possible to make a composition with a self-made object instead of traditional instruments. In that sense I'm trying to open up some prejudices about so called ´music´. Not opening the discussion if it is music or not, I am able to play noises in such a way visitors enjoy the performance, imagining other planets or even dance, or discover and play themselves. A live sound-research with visual ingredients put together in a sculpture. Presenting crossovers of different media: combining monumental 3d-sculpture with sound-art (installation), sometimes with moving parts (kinetic art), or live performance (theater), all inspired by nature herself.

NB: The name Kicks-Ass is given to her by friends/collegue-artists in 2005. This title refers  more to her character (like the Indians do) then that it points to an aim or dogma. This is why she uses this name joyfully, with a wink to the prevailing seriousness in Art.

SUMMARY OF OTHER PROJECTS:

- Semi;Colon is a project I created at the end of 2021, using poems, dialogues and
  fallacies to explore and literally question particularly self-evident aspects of the world and life
  in an absurdist way. Both in radio play form and noise-poems as in printed text.

- Asking Stupid Questions  a self-developed series of workshops based on 
  observing and absurdism. Given mainly in museums of modern art.

- Given online guest-lecture for the Music Technology Department of the University in 
  Edinburgh (Masters Sounddesign), about my take on interactive sound-sculptures.

- Rammelfest an irregular sound-art and performance festival organised by me and 
  funded by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.

- Dutch-Experimental-Music-Scene  a release, organised together with 
  Lukas Simonis to support Motorschiff Stubnitz in Hamburg.

- Urban Arts Berlin a compilation of sound works of international female  
  composers. My participation was in 2014.

- Have a look at my accounts on different digital platforms