Blog Posts
Re-imagining Opera
Noise, tekno, post-punk and improv meet opera.
Palpebla Resonoj #2
A live set / open composition for feedback-augmented acoustic guitar and real-time processing.
They Gather
An international collaborative, multimodal, interdisciplinary project, creating ‘gatherings’ of people, action, movement, and sound.
They Gather: Corpus Alimentation
An immersive multisensory performance that is part documentary, part science fiction, part ritual. By They Gather project.
They Gather: Everyday Freedoms
A durational work in public space looking at our need for freedom, and where, when and how this exists and is expressed. By They Gather project.
They Gather: Lost in Feeling
A mass public participation work for audience, community and artists exploring our need to connect to others, to be seen and to be heard. By They Gather project.
Computer Aided Breathing: A Page of Madness
The Computer Aided Breathing trio performs a live score for Teinosuke Kinugasa’s experimental 1926 silent film A Page of Madness.
Hertzian Field #2
An augmented reality immersive performance exposing the sympathetic resonance of the body to the flows of telecommunication via WiFi sensing.
Loop Copy Mutate: Music from people and places
A project by the Genetic Choir directing ears towards city sounds. Together with laptop artist Robert van Heumen, programmer and sound artist Stelios Manousakis, and the public, the choir transforms sampled city sounds into voice and music compositions.
Hertzian Field #1
An immersive augmented reality environment using WiFi sensing to expose the raw materiality of WiFi and explore its physical interaction with our spaces and bodies through sound.
Center no Distractor
An explosion of movement, physicality and gritty, thumping beats, for taiko and live electronics: dance for the ears, the body, the eyes and the mind.
Palpebla Resonoj #1
An open composition for feedback-augmented clarinet and real-time processing.
‘What is the current that makes machinery’
A cycle of short pieces for female voice and surround live electronics setting Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, written for vocalist Stephanie Pan.
L’ Hypothèse de l’ Atome Primitif Sonore
Open composition / live set for digital feedback named after Georges Lemaître’s cosmological treatise mockingly dubbed the ‘Big Bang’ theory by its opponents. Part of Primeval Sonic Atoms.
Fantasia On A Single Number
A digital feedback open composition / live set taking its final form in live performance and reclaiming the idea of virtuosic performance for electronic music. Part of Primeval Sonic Atoms.
Facts to Suit Theories
A 5-part open composition for voice, zither, wine glasses, loopstation and live electronics exploring the continuum between composition and improvisation.
Navigation
A 6-part open composition for four pipe organs, celesta, harmonium, voice, wine-glass, loopstation and live electronics, written for the Computer Aided Breathing trio and created in and for the Orgelpark in Amsterdam.
Breakcore Tapdance Collective
Breakcore Tapdance Collective (2006-2007): Tommy FFF: Computer Stelios Manousakis: Live electronics, Programming Marieke van der Ven: Tapdance
Computer Aided Breathing
Computer Aided Breathing is a trio for organs, voice, and live electronics, formed in 2006, devoted to the many different shades of live improvisation, from totally free to compositionally guided.
Two Poems by E. E. Cummings
Setting of two poems, l(a” and “NOISE”, by Edward Estlin Cummings for voice and live electronics. Written for Stephanie Pan.