Foundscape @ Into The Great Wide Open 2019
Into the Great Wide Open is a three day annual music & culture festival on Vlieland, one of the Dutch islands. Besides an interesting music program, every year a selection of artists send in their ideas for new works to be developed on the island during the festival. In 2019 I was allowed to turn…
Lost & Found Orchestra: Foundscape
Musical compositions with buildings and objects Lost & Found Orchestra With my Lost & Found Orchestra installations I turn locations, buildings and objects into musical compositions. Every edition is a new location. I start by finding sounds that are hidden under the surface of materials by tapping on the objects, while amplifying them with…
Lost & Found Orchestra V
ENGLISH TEXT AND VIDEO COMING SOON De vijfde editie van Lost & Found Orchestra vond plaats op Luchthaven Twente in Lonneker. Deze luchthaven is niet meer in gebruik, en wordt af en toe ingezet voor evenementen, en in de tussenliggende periodes is de plek een wandel- en fietsgebied. Op deze luchthaven bevinden zich acht bomshelters,…
The Polymer Experience (audiovisual show) (with Jan Barceló & Marta Lofi) (2016-now)
The Polymer Experience is an audiovisual performance project by Daniel Maalman, Jan Barceló and Marta Lofi, which combines a musical live performance which spans a variety of electronic psychedelic music styles with one of a kind, high definition, improvised 1970’s style old-school handmade visuals. The visuals are made by hand in real-time by Jan and…
Sample Safari
To be able to record sounds without interference, sometimes it is necessary to hide the recording device. This was also the case when my travels took me to countries where travelling with electronic equipment can make you seem wealthy and a possible target for robbery. But the main reason for hiding the device is that…
Immertable Project (2016)
In march 2016 I was invited to stay in the residency of Etopia: Centre for Art & Technology for the first time, in Zaragoza in Spain for a duration of three weeks. In these three weeks I worked together with artist and physicist Carles Tardio Pi, who was responsible for building and programming the ImmerTable,…
Polymer Music (2013-now)
POLYMER MUSIC Polymer is the alias that I use for my electronic music project. Since I do a wide variety of projects as a musician, electronic music producer, media artist and sound artist, I decided it would be easier to write electronic music under an alias. Under the Polymer alias I produce and perform electronic music…
Cavemen (with Stef van der Poel) (2008-2013)
Cavemen was a electronic music project by Stef van der Poel and Daniel Maalman, which existed for a long time but ended in 2013. Cavemen tend to colour outside the lines by combining different electronic styles into their psychedelic primordial soup. The Cavemen style could be described as ‘Funghi’: funky psychedelic music. Psychedelic trance, tribal…
The Blackbox Project (with Stef van der Poel) (2008-2011)
The Blackbox Project is an interactive sound installation which is built into a 2 x 2 x 2 meter box. It is the end result of extensive research into the workings of sound and the effects on the mental state of the listener. Together with Stef van der Poel who is a social psychologist as…