Stuk voor Geluidsfietsen en Wiirigent op reprise…
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Volgende week vrijdag vindt de tweede editie van Tour de Force plaats – een fietstocht met een verfrissende tegenwind. Met deze keer games, muziek, interactieve plantengroei, wiimotes, improvisatie, een flamboyante presentator en natuurlijk FIETSEN!
Benodigdheden: een fiets. Verboden voor segways en scooters.
The oh so notorious Kwikfiets Festival will take place again next week!
Next to The New Holland Trio, Bakfietsband, Michael Hastings, DJ Socrates & DJ Nikkipikkiepoelala
there are two performances to which I contribute:
Piece for Two Sound Bicycles and wiiDuctor
A wiiDuctor – fiercely throwing his wiimote armed arms through the air – controls the sounds coming from two sound bicycles. The cyclists determine the spatiality of the sound atmosphere by steering their bicycles. Digitally generated sounds mingle with the city sound and become part of it.
Piece for Two Sound Bicycles and wiiDuctor will be performed again on the 5th of November during the opening of BERM/DATE.
More info on:
www.volleband.nl
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schmink & Arpatle
The intimate Kwikfiets basement with its great acoustics forms the setting for an electroacoustic improvisation by schmink & Arpatle. A warm ambient bath with a mean edge.
Listen to music by schmink & Arpatle:
schminkschmink.wordpress.com
http://arpatle.patsmuziek.nl/
From the 1st to the 4th of september I did an Isadora workshop given by Jamie Griffiths at STEIM. Isadora is a software environment designed for live media manipulation. Down below you can check out a video registration of the presentations of Isadora sketches by the workshop participants.
I made a bikescape for WHINAMFH? – a theatre performance about a depressed bicycle repairman. Performances will take place in the notorious bicycle repair store Kwikfiets at the 2nd & 3rd of september at midnight (try outs), the 6th of september at 23.00 (premiere) and the 8th & 9th of september at midnight. On the premiere noise artist Margriet Kicks-Ass will join in with her rauschmaschine and improvise along with the bikescape.
A ticket costs 6 euros. Down here you can find more info and buy tickets.
edit: the bike scape
A full version of Slingers – a short movie by de man en de vos for which I made music – can now be watched online:
Last saturday we performed mix[ing]redients in the basement of bicycle repair shop Kwikfiets during the Kwikfiets festival. Down below you can get an impression. Videos and pictures by Sieger Jan Duinkerken.
intro – solar sound module object solo while audience controls the dia projector
janine performing while audience controls dia projector and the sounds
audience member performing with the solar sound module object
audience member playing
solar sound module object solo
bicycle basement
6th of august, 20.30, entrance free/donation suggestion 5 euros
Kwikfiets, Ruyterkade 105, Amsterdam (next to Amsterdam CS)
open mode collective will perform a spinoff of their mix[ing]redients project at the notorious Kwikfiets festival. Using solar cells, small oscillators, FM transmitters and radios the movement of the dancer in the light is translated to sound. The performance will take place in the dark as the night basement of Kwikfiets.
open mode collective is founded by composer/sound-artist Sjoerd Leijten(nl) and media-artist
Maria Karagianni(gr/nl). Their collaboration started off with an artist in residency
at Nadine Art Lab in Brussels. Currently performer/dancer Janine Brall(d/nl) has joined in. Reflections on authorship, interpretation and distribution of roles are the motivations of their experiments with different degrees of control and interaction by audience participation.
In preparation for performances in Prague and Rotterdam the open mode collective carried out a try out at Studio /K in Amsterdam. Down below you can check out a video registration and some pictures.
video by Nick Leijten
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photos by Hiko Uemura
The very first schmink video clip has been born! Video artist Didier Jansen, member of the video collective Devil’s Haircut, made the visuals for boiling poppySyrup. The clip had its premiere during yesterday’s art bicycle tour Tour de Force.
Volle Band presents
Zaterdag 4 juni, 21.00
Startplek: Ingang Flevopark bij het Javaplantsoen (bij dat smoezelige tunneltje)
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Tour de Force host: Nick Leijten
In navolging van het eclatante succes van BEAMIN organiseert Volle Band een nieuwe audiovisuele fietstour. Pak je fiets en vergezel ons bij deze Tour de Force!
Programma:
Frederic Klein – Afscheid van de Duinen (Film)
Volle Band- Boiling poppySyrup (AV)
Evelien van den Broek – Now is the Month of Maying (Muziekperformance)
de man & de vos – Slingers (Film)
Volle Band – Clutching Voices (Geluidsfietsperformance)
Jop Kappelhof – Bierfiets (Drank)
mix[ing]redients@Prague Quadrennial ’11
Tuesday 21st of June
at 10.00 & 14.00, PQ ’11 @ Nová Scéna, Prague
The interactive dance sound performance mix[ing]redients has been selected by curator Steve Brown for the Soundkitchen at the Prague Quadrennial ’11. On tuesday the 21st of June we will perform mix[ing[redients twice at 10.00 @ 14.00.
More information can be found at:
http://www.0penm0de-collective.info/
&
http://www.pq.cz/
mix[ing]redients@Open Dans Festival
26th of June
Open Dans Festival, Rotterdam
mix[ing]redients has also been selected for the Open Dans Festival in Rotterdam. The festival takes place from the 24th of June until the 26th. The definitive schedule has yet to be made.
More info:
http://www.opendans.nl/
schmink & Arpatle@/K met Peren
Saturday, 25th of June
at 22.00
Studio /K, Timorplein 62, Amsterdam
Entrance: pre-sale 8 / door 10
With my electronic music project schmink I will perform together with ambient hero Arpatle at the /K met Peren festival at Studio /K. The set will be mainly improvised. For more info & music:
http://schminkschmink.wordpress.com/
http://www.myspace.com/arpatle
http://www.studio-k.nu/
Check out the trailer for Slingers, a movie by Jasper de Bruin and Bart Voorbergen for which I made music last november.
Slingers – trailer from de man & de vos on Vimeo.
The 15th of April Il Faut Manger will perform at City2Cities, a literary festival in Utrecht. This evening is the thrillernight – an ode to the literary thriller. IFM will perform dark songs about bakery attacks, murders & carrots. Death by misadventure.
15th of April 2011 20:00 – 23:30
Stadhuisbrug
Vertrekpunt: Werf Nachtrestaurant (Winkel van Sinkel)
http://www.city2cities.nl/
Listen to our tracks:
http://ilfautmanger.wordpress.com/
This coming saturday the premiere of Clutching Voices will take place during BEAMIN – audiovisual tour. Clutching..is a short vocal-electronic piece for two sound bicycles. Both bicycles have their own voice and sing an electro-acoustic duet while moving around. The piece has been constructed with Supercollider and uses chance within narrowly defined borders. An important role in this algorithmic composition is played by a sample and hold patternfrom Supercollider, the so-called Pclutch.
◆ Starting time – 19:00 ◆
BlaqJacket – Heintje Hoekssteeg 8 (zijsteeg Warmoesstraat)
◆ Touring time – 21:30 ◆
Oudezijds Voorburgwal – Sint Olofssteeg – Oudezijds Kolk – Odebrug (nieuwe brug CS) – Oosterdokskade
◆ Dancing (=drinking) time – 22:30 ◆
Kwikfiets – De Ruyterkade 105 (east from CS)
◆ Eindtijd – 03:00 ◆
Tomorrow – friday the 18th of February – there will be a try out for a new piece – Clutching Voices – for the sound bicycles of the Volle Band project. It will take place at 20.00. We need some test audience. If you want to be there, mail me at info@sjoerdleijten.nl. Then I will – *mysterious voice* – inform you about the location…..
*Has been cancelled due to personal illness… Will now take place this coming monday the 21st of February at 20.00.
Il Faut Manger – performance @ /K met Peren – De Nacht van de Verboden Liefde
Saturday 12th of February
performance at 23.00(festival starts at 22.00), Studio /K – Timorplein 62, Amsterdam (www.studio-k.nu)
8 euros in pre-sale, at the door 10
Il Faut Manger blends songwriting, improvisation and real-time processing in order to create an adventurous kind of pop music (or a poppy kind of adventurous music). Their electro-acoustic songs deal with love, geometry, midgets, time, dreams and – last, but certainly not least – food.
Check out ilfautmanger.wordpress.com
The audiovisual bicycle project Volle Band continues!
Last tuesday we tried them on the streets. We did two things:
Firstly, we collaborate with poet Joost Baars for the so-called traffic light performances – performances with which one is confronted while waiting in front of a red traffic light. Each bicycle has its own voice. The words – coming from one sentence – are pronounced in random orders, (almost) never forming the original sentence. In the video you can see a first try-out.
Secondly, I’m working on an electronic composition for the bicycles. The different sequences of this composition are distributed over the two bicycles. In this first try-out the bicycles move in reversed directions around a square.
You can check it out down below:
An adaptation of mix[ing]redients, namely sound[ing]redients, has been selected by curator Steven Brown for the Prague Quadrennial ’11! In June I will perform this interactive sound performance – which is still in development – together with Maria Karagianni at the festival in Prague. Maria will be in charge of the media design and I will be busy composing and sound designing. We will use Supercollider in combination with the Arduino environment, solar sound modules and smartphones. The smartphones can be used by the audience to influence the performance.
Check out the pictures of the latest beambicycle try-out:
Gisteren hebben we met een groep vrienden een fietstocht gemaakt met de beamfiets.
With the “Volle Band” project we did a “beambicycletour” yesterday:
Beaming abstract forms and playing dito music@the Dam, Amsterdam:
And then at midnight we encounter a man with a soundinstallation in the Vondelpark:
For more info check:
[thumb]http://www.volleband.nl[/thumb]
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