About a week ago I graduated from the University of the Arts Utrecht with honours!
My final project for this study was also my first finished album called Communication. At this point of writing, the compositions and sounddesign are finally done. A producer is currently working on the mix and getting the album ready for release, so spotify links will be up here soon!
In the meantime here is a preview version on my soundcloud. To accompany this album, I also worked on a generative audiovisual performance. Ever since the first performances this summer, I have been constantly iterating on my liveset, so every performance has been a complete new experience. Next month I will be playing a completely new version live during the Mantis Festival in Utrecht. I'm very excited since I will probably be trying a lot of new stuff. New things for me, and hopefully also for you! This video is a short clip of "Feel My Heart Burst" during the first performance in the Muziekhuis in Utrecht.
The album itself is themed around our the beauty of our human ways of communication and around several types of moleculair interactions. In a very simple and elegant way, I think we share the same sort of interactions: Interactions like collisions, bonding, reactions, rupture and emptyness. The album represents the experiences of a single unnamed entity, on a journey somewhere around the universe. It shows us how we are all part of something larger and of something smaller at the same time.
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