Lost & Found Orchestra Project (2016-now)
General background of the ongoing project: Lost & Found Orchestra Lost & Found Orchestra is a continuous site-specific sound-art project, that I started in 2016. The idea behind this project is that every sound can form the basis of a sound or musical composition, which means that potential musical compositions can be found all around…
Lost & Found Orchestra IV (2017)
During the spring of 2017 I was invited to develop a new Lost & Found Orchestra sound installation for the opening event of an initiative called ‘Buitenland’ in Nieuw-Amsterdam in the province of Drenthe in The Netherlands. This initiative is a green-minded camping, where DIY-minded people can build their own original tiny houses, and afterwards…
Drankorgels (sound objects belonging to Lost & Found Orchestra Project) (2017)
Besides the big installations within Lost & Found Orchestra I made a few sound objects that are also part of this project, by turning empty glass bottles into instruments. Those objects were tapped and ticked with actuators, small DC motors and air fans to give their own individual characteristic sounds. Drankorgels (literally Drinking Organs, but…
Lost & Found Orchestra III (2017)
For the third edition of the project I returned to Radio Kootwijk, to the premises of the historic building they called ‘The Cathedral’ where I designed my first Lost & Found Orchestra a year earlier. This time I was allowed to build a composition for a 20 meter deep pit in the ground, which was…
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…
Lost & Found Orchestra II (2016)
LOST & FOUND ORCHESTRA II meets IMMERTABLE Lost & Found Orchestra is an ongoing sound art project. After the first edition where I used the pipes and cooling machines of the pump room in the monumental ‘Cathedral’ building in Radio Kootwijk as the basis for a composition, this second version became an entirely different undertaking….
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,…
Lost & Found Orchestra I (2016)
Lost & Found Orchestra is an ongoing sound art project. This first edition of the project was situated in a historic location in The Netherlands: the ‘Cathedral’ building in Radio Kootwijk. This small village and its’ community in the middle of the country had a single function in the last century: keep the radiographic broadcasting…
Brainforest (2015)
In our daily lives we are confronted with sounds that define our surroundings, like a subconscious soundtrack. In nature, these sounds, like those of birds and other living beings, give a relaxing effect and make us part of the landscape. But in cities, our surroundings are dominated by an artificial soundtrack that asks for our…
Sustained Release (2013)
Sustained Release is an art installation consisting of technical utensils that became obsolete, because of the technological evolution during the past decades: a portable record player, a black-and-white portable ghettoblaster-TV, a reel-to-reel tape recorder and a tube AM/FM radio. These inventions were once top of the line, but for us nowadays, they are relics. But…