Red Light Radio Performance, 24 April 2013, Amsterdam

I did a performance at Red Light Radio for a SOTU Showcase edition.

It was a pre-listen - with my sound system backpack - on a similar approach and action that will take place in the Vondelpark on 11th of May.

It was hosted by Inspector Casino (aka Hans Kuiper) with artists Cairo Liberation Front and Damcase.

You can hear it here at the latest recording section.

SOTU Performance at Vondelpark, Saturday 11 May 2013, Amsterdam

For SOTU I will make a sound performance in the Vondelpark. Reflecting on the overlap of artificial simulation of nature and nature's organic bending of the park. It's an attempt to establish new relations between sound, the listener and architectural designed environment. Creating amplified textures by capturing the subtle and hidden as they unfold themselves into audible manifestations. Making use of the context and inter-reacting sonically, formulating an improvised language. Using self-made instruments and microphones, sampling the park with a backpack sound-system. You can join me in search for the inner park mantra and bird calls.

The performance takes place in the park on Saturday afternoon starting & ending at the Vondelbunker. From 16:30 till about 19:30.

I will wander mainly in the B and C area indicated on the map below. The map also includes static intervals reaching for higher heights, these sonic embodiments are marked as red crosses.

Improvisational formation, Oorsprong/Steim, Amsterdam, February 2013

Pete Edwards asked me to join him and two others for this improv night. The rules for these nights are that formations are made up of people that have never played together and can only play once a season. That sounded great to me.

Performance at Studio M, Amsterdam, August 2012

After the radio performance Hans asked us to perform that same evening in the basement of gallery Studio M. We made a little island in this half flooded basement and created a sound structure that was circulating in the space.

Radio performance/interview, Amsterdam FM/OBA, Amsterdam, August 2012

Me and François were invited by Hans Kuiper/Inspector Casino for a performance and talk.
This show took place at the main public library of Amsterdam and was broadcasted live on Amsterdam FM.

We decided to make the talk the performance, using our speech, sampling our voices and merging them with a small library of sounds we captured beforehand from within the building.

"Systems of Order", GUM Studios, Torino, Italy, May 2012

Systems of Order

Me and François Dey were invited to do a performance for the opening of System of Order at GUM Studios in Torino.

We went to Torino and made a sound action inspired by Luigi Russolo's manifesto L'Arte Dei Rumori and his Intonarumori, creating, catching and becoming part of the rumors on the street. The intervention took place in the predominant immigrant area where the gallery, GUM Studios was located. We took a shopping cart from the local supermarket and went "shopping" through the trash, looking for our zero euro discount deals to make our autonomous sound mobile out of the found materials.

During our movement through the murmur we sampled the streets. As a vocal instrument we used fragments of recordings by Italian artist/lyricist Demetrio Stratos, who had amazing vocal abilities.

After our action in the public space we drove our sound mobile into the gallery, which subsequently transformed it into an installation. The next day, before we left, we dismantled our structure, put all the materials at the trash bin and took the cart back to the super market.

De Pepper Free Form Improv Music Group, S.O.T.U. Festival, Amsterdam, May 2012

De Pepper Free Form Improv Music Group consisted out of Sander Linders (drums/percussion), Jerry Spurlock (self-made zither), Corne Roos (electric bass), Francois Dey (tape machine), Julian Schneemann (keyboard) and myself (accordion/percussion).












As part of the first S.O.T.U Festival I organised a gathering on the stage of cafe De Pepper (OT301). The group consisted out of different friends or acquaintances. They all had a different background and (me being the exception) never met or performed with each other.

I played with Sander in a coverband of unknown Middle-Eastern 60's and 70's songs. Jerry I met in the Vondelpark playing his zither. Corne is the younger brother of a close friend. Francois is an artist who I  collaborate with and Julian was a colleague from my work at the Concertgebouw. I also invited my brother Stefanos who unfortunately couldn't make it.

The outcome................was great!
(with compliments from those Lucky Dragons)