STEIM Residency

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Apr 302013
 

With bicycle project Volle Band I am currently doing a residency at STEIM – the legendary Amsterdam based Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music. During this residency we are working on two things:

- developing a method to measure the proximity from one bicycle to another. We are investigating a combination of Xbee modules – tiny radio frequency modules with which we did some succesful experiments – and ultrasonic sound – high frequency sound generators which one normally uses to drive mice, insects and other animals insane.

- we are working on our scooter radioplay expedition ‘Dus Niet Brommen’, which we will present at the Urban Explorers Festival in collaboration with art initiative Noordkaap. During this scooter expedition the audience is riding along with 10 brave, young scooter guides. Sitting at the back of these scooters they listen to a radioplay which is being broadcasted live from the central radio scooter (recognizable by its huge antenna). In this radioplay the sounds and movements of the scooters influence the various sounds of the radioplay. Using piezo’s, FM transmitters and computers with wifi connections on the scooters the scooter sounds are transferred to the central radio scooter. Sitting at the back of this central scooter I mix and adapt the sounds to the various locations and send them into the ether.

Drukwerk

Mar 292013
 

TRI – FI
An evening filled with music from and for aliens, bicycles and tribalist men.
21:30, 30th of March, OCCII, Amsterdam. Damage 6 euros
With space chicks in trouble, Varkenshond and good cop / naughty cop.
Hosted by Olle “Kwikfiets Festival” Kruyt.

peanuts
a very difficult evening
thursday, 4th of April, 21.00, Vrankrijk, Amsterdam. damage 3 euros
with difficult theatre by Eva Kijlstra, radical music by space chicks in trouble and complex dance music by DJ Nikkiepikkiepoelala

Tour Concrète
an artyfarty bicycle expedition
friday, 5th of April / start 20.30 / participation fee 7,50 – ( including a snack) / don’t forget your bicycle
Due to the cold the tour has been postponed to the 5th of april.
The programme:
Modern Flamenco – guitarist Arvind Ganga & dancer Manuela Tessi – will improvise music and dance inspired by the environment, Jeffrey’s Underground Cinema will screen two amazing short movies, good cop / naughty cop will do an electroacoustic improvisation with bicycle wheels and guitars, Ome Ad will serve a delicious, local snack and Volle Band will carry out their brand new audiovisual bicycle piece Mécanique Electrique.
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Peanuts - a very difficult evening

TRI-FI

 

Next week Eva Kijlstra and me will perform ‘the fundamental fuckup of being human / the nice part about being alive’. We will perform this ‘radio theatre impro piece’ on the 13th, 14th & 15th of December at 21h, 21h & 17h at the theatre school, jodenbreestraat 3, Amsterdam.

The radio is a concrete object that picks up radio waves. The radio transforms
these waves and makes sense of the hundreds of stations all existing at the same time. It can tune into a station and let us hear what’s being said.
We as humans are the concrete objects that pick up on the constant and constantly changing energy we are surrounded with. But, just as a radio, when it’s not in tune the message that comes out is static, scattered, not clear, cannot be ‘understood’.
The annoying/frustrating situation of not being able to communicate what you’re picking up on; what it is you want to say.

Being caged in your un-tuned instrument.

Can we sit with this and transform it into something .. beautiful?

Fundamental Fuckup of Being Human

 

good cop / naughty cop will do a little Italian tour! Together with the amazing Italian group Fannullare we will do a series of gigs in Rome, Bologna and Frosinone.

TOUR DATES
16th of November
@Cantina Mediterraneo,Frosinone
17th of November
@TBA, Rome
22nd of November
@Lazzaretto, Bologna
23th of November
@XM24 – Bologna
30th of November
@Senza Nome, Bologna
1st of December
@Conservatory, Utrecht

 

Le Sacre des Vélos
22.00 Friday the 14th of September
@Magneet Festival , Amsterdam

Volle Band will carry out the audiovisual bicycle improvisation piece Le Sacre des Vélos at the Magneet Festival. The performance will start at 22.00 at the beginning of the festival area in the vicinity of the containers.

www.volleband.nl

Il Faut Manger
21.00 Saturday the 15th of September
@Sights and Sounds, Studio OH3, Ottho Heldringstraat 3 in Coffeemania, Amsterdam
Free Entrance. Donation suggestion 5 euros

Finally another Il Faut Manger performance! This coming saturday IFM will perform their typical mixture of songs and electro acoustic improvisations at the symbiotic music art event Sights and Sounds.

ilfautmanger.wordpress.com

 

friday the 20th of July 21.00 / participation = free [but tipping is sexy] / scooters and segways are not allowed

Finally, Le Tour is there again! After last year’s two mind blowing Tours de Force Volle Band organizes on Friday the 20th of July the Tour de Forêt – an art bicycle tour which takes place in and around a (yet) secret forest.

The woods will tremble due to a mesmerizing mime performance by Eva Kylstra, a very special movie by Jeffrey’s Underground Cinema, an interactive dance performance by open mode collective, the audiovisual bicycle improvisation Le Sacre des Vélos by Volle Band and – last but not least – a refreshing beer bicycle. Furthermore Rodrigo Reijers will perform a musical forest improvisation to celebrate his brand new CD Confessions of a Psychedelic Wannabe.

Would you like to participate? Subscribe yourself to the newsletter at www.volleband.nl and you will receive in the morning of the 20th of July an e-mail with directions to the spot where we will gather for the Tour de Forêt.

And please, do not forget your bicycle.

More info: www.volleband.nl
tourdeforet

 

Saturday the 16th of June Volle Band will perform the brand new piece Le Sacre des Vélos – an audiovisual improvisation for two sound bicycles and a beamer bicycle – and Clutching Voices – a duet for a male sound bicycle and a female sound bicycle.

volle band @nuit blanche

 

Proud to announce that good cop / naughty cop ‘s ‘Piece for Two Bicycle Wheels, Two Guitars and Two Beamers’ has been selected for the Kernel Festival!

A jury consisting of Piero Chianura, Nicolas Collins, Francesc Marti, Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Douglas Repetto, Tommaso Toma and Mattia Trabucchi has selected the piece. The festival will take place from the 29th of June to the 1st of July in the beautiful town Monza in Italy. Besides from electronic music the festival covers disciplines like audiovisual mapping, interactive & digital art and temporary architecture.

http://www.kernelfestival.net/en/festival-012-2/program/electronic-music/

KERNEL selection

Jun 012012
 

This saturday good cop / naughty cop will perform at TransVormers in the Volkskrantgebouw in Amsterdam – a festival with all kinds of performances, visual art and installations. The performance will take place around 0.30 in the PlanetArt section.

programma TransVormers

May 092012
 

This coming saturday good cop / naughty cop will perform ‘Piece for Two Bicycle Wheels, Two Guitars & Two Beamers’ at the SOTU festival. The performance will take place in De Peper at the OT301 and will start at 20.00.

More info at: http://www.s-o-t-u.com/

gc/nc

 

Proud to present the video registration of the very first piece by good cop / naughty cop – “Piece for Two Bicycle Wheels, Two Guitars and Two Beamers”. Next performance will be during the SOTU fetival on the 12th of May in De Peper in OT301.

 

This coming sunday Volle Band will accompany bicycle tours to venues – Zaal100, OT301 & Kwikfiets – where marvelous improvisation music will be performed. During the tours ‘Improvisation for Two Sound Bicycles’ will be performed – an ‘ambient bicycle improvisation’ in which the speed of the bicycles influence the sound.

More info:
http://www.doekfestival.org/realbook.php

vollebandamsterdamrealbook

 

Bicycle repair store Kwikfiets opens the spring spring season in a subtle manner demanding full attention for the music of good cop / naughty cop and Narcissus Quartet.

Start: 21.00 sharp, donation suggestion E5, -

good cop / naughty cop

After performances in a blood bank and a bunker good cop / naughty cop performs Piece for Two Guitars, Two Bicycle Wheels and Two Beamers finally where it belongs: a bicycle repair store.

In this improvisation piece two guitarists are confronted with two bicycle wheels that influence the sound of their guitars. In addition the sound and bicycle wheels also trigger and influence video images that are beamed behind the guitarists. A ‘spinning wheels, video music duet’ is what follows.

Brand new duo good cop / naughty cop exists of guitarist & bicycle repairman Zac Stibbs and composer & musician Sjoerd Leijten. Their music can be described best as ‘naughty adventures in electro acoustic music’.

Narcissus Quartet
Narcissus consists of Clemens van der Feen, bass (Amsterdam), Jozef Dumoulin, piano & fender rhodes (Paris), Robin Verheyen, saxophones (New York) and Flin van Hemmen, drums (New York).
This galvanizing formation consists of some of the greatest talents of the new generation of jazz musicians. Typical for the music of Narcissus is the intense character in combination with a creative and playful approach.

flyer goodcop

 

Thursday 16th of February 20.30 in the Vondelbunker

This thursday ‘Piece for Two Guitars & Two Bicycle Wheels’ will be performed at De Weerzin.

In ‘Piece for Two Guitars & Two Bicycle Wheels’ two guitarists are confronted with two bicycle wheels that influence the sound of their guitars. Thus besides picking their guitars they also need to spin the wheels.

Meer info

 

This coming friday I will perform together with classical guitarist Zac Stibbs ‘Piece for Two Guitars & Two Bicycle Wheels’ at the opening of the exposition of visual artist Sarah de Rooij.
For her work she draws influence from bicycles.

In ‘Piece for Two Guitars & Two Bicycle Wheels’ the two guitarists are both confronted with two bicycle wheels that influence the sound of their guitars. Thus besides picking their guitars they also need to spin the wheels.

Opening of exposition: friday 3rd of February at 5.45 pm
Galerie Joghem – Plesmanlaan 125, 1066 CX Amsterdam.

Oct 202011
 

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.

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kwikfiets festival!

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Oct 082011
 

Kwikfiets-Festival-10-mail
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.

Volle Band - wiifiets

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/

isadora workshop

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Sep 072011
 

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.

bikescape @FRINGE

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Sep 022011
 

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

WHINAMFH?

Aug 192011
 

A full version of Slingers – a short movie by de man en de vos for which I made music – can now be watched online:

© 2012 sjoerd leijten Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha