Friday Selection
Friday night concert series featuring adventurous new underground music.
Friday 8 January, entrance fee €5,- doors open 21:00
Gijs Gieskens is an artist and musician working with circuit-bending and old-school computer graphics. His work and live performances are a fantastic example of the places hardware hacking can take you. Gieskens will present his CamSeq-1, a device constructed from numerous motors and lights, in which tin cans with a variety of interiors (e.g., spirals, puppets and neon wires) are set into motion and captured by a small video camera. The camera output is then projected as the visual part of the performance – an interesting take on VJing, to say the least. The device is synchronized to a Gameboy running the music program LSDJ.
Kassen and Rob Bothof create an improvised live performance of glitchy beatscapes. They use two self-made music sequencers layered with found sounds from the ether, the internet or wherever a recorder happened to be present, which are then accentuated by scratching and manipulating samples and synthesis on the spot. This is music aerobics for brainiacs into tech-no-logic dance music.
Yurki graduated in Electronic Music Composition at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and studied Composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague for one year. Having played piano since he was a child, Yurki’s interest in the instrument continues as he now explores new methods of combining piano and electronics. The result is a new instrument with a bell-like sound as the base that then comes together with a completely jumbled tonality. Piano keys are used as an input for computer software, altering the sound and tonal mix, along with several other parameters.