Received – totally out of the blue – the wonderful news this morning that I got awarded an artistic residency (and stipend) at Lijiang Studio in Yunnan, China. Tremendously honored and humbled. Thank You !
• Belgian pre-selection ICSM 2017
Tremendously honored that Kropka na Ogonie/Soroka Fruwa (2016, starring Marianna Soroka) has been pre-selected as the Belgian entry for the ISCM World New Music Days 2017 in Vancouver (Canada). News about the final selection will follow early April 2017.
• audio DH – album release
Yesterday Thursday September 22nd was the launch event of audio DH at Todays Art Festival, Korzo Theater, The Hague (NL).
audio DH is a compilation album featuring a selection of 250 creators related in some way or another to the blossoming sound art scene of The Hague. Also check out www.audiodh.nl for the 16 hours of experimental music and sound art by those 250 artists (free streaming and download !). My sonic contribution to audio DH is Etc. tra la la a collaboration with Motoko Honda.
Special thanks to iiinitative and Francisco López for inviting me as one of the curators and contributors of audio DH
• New Slagwerk Den Haag commission
.. meanwhile slowly descended from my journey on sub alpine altitudes in Rwanda. It was a soft and gentle landing into the Lowlands.
Currently developing a brand new sonic sculpture and a new composition for a set of large African drums, field recordings and children choir! I’m so excited that both are commissioned by Slagwerk Den Haag – one of my all time favorite music ensembles – and that both are to be premiered, early 2017, at this magnificent Richard Meier building (the City Hall of The Hague) as a part of City of Sounds.
Slagwerk Den Haag is spreading the love for sound by organizing many workshops and some fab contest for kids, all around the idea of listening and collecting sounds in the city of The Hague – Go and check out http://cityofsounds.nl
if u want to see more pics of the Richard Meier building, click on this one above