"I translate concepts into unique, immersive sonic experiences. My work is determined by ideas and their methods - not as the result per se. Rooted in tradition, my work has developed beyond music, sound art, sound plastics. Emerged systems as the next level in Sonic Spaces, where the traditional boundaries between these domains will dissolve." - Roland Kuit, 1st Dutch composer with sonic art in space on board of the OSIRIS-Rex mission.
From February 4 to May 26, one can visit three installations by Road Kuit at the Museum EICAS in Deventer. This museum makes art from the 1960s onwards accessible. Its point of departure is the pioneering ideas of the Zero movement, which still echoes in contemporary art.
Rick van Veldhuizen (*1994, Tilburg) although reared on pop and folk, discovered classical music at the age of 11. He started composing pretty much at that point. Education: Starting in 2008, he studied composition and piano at the Fontys Conservatorium’s Young Musicians’ Academy with Kees Schoonenbeek and Jelena Bazova, respectively.
His output includes orchestral works, ensemble works, chamber music, solo instrumental works and an opera. In his music Roukens strives to move away from modernist ways of thinking in search for a more eclectic and more direct idiom, without reverting to some naive neo-style. In doing so, the composer doesn’t shy away from the use of triads, tonal or diatonic harmonies, a regular rhythmic pulse, directness of expression, simplicity, references to popular music and vernacular culture, ‘stealing’ from the musical heritage of the past and the odd trivial turn.
Louis Andriessen was born in Utrecht on June 6, 1939.
After an early training in composition with his father, composer Hendrik Andriessen, he continued his studies with Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
