7411 PB Deventer
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.
Roland explores in three installations the discussion that is not being had. For example, about people not reading anymore. About the role of the masses when balls are thrown up via social media. About what happens when people stop thinking or stop thinking for themselves.
Where a thousand table tennis balls form a social media landscape and emit pulse sounds as mass communication, from taps to noise-like sounds. They travel trajectories in the ball-covered terrain.
Does the expressiveness of paper disappear when people stop reading? A question Roland answers in this installation of paper where crumpling, tearing, folding, stuffing and shredding reflect through the space like language.
Two video screens, each with an alphabetical circle. The circles are run through with so-called Brownian Walks. This is a way of randomly going down the letters. The letters are named on one side by Roland Kuit and on the other by artist Karin Schomaker. The trajectories of randomness can be followed in these circles. It is a process of discovering random synchronicity. That is where the found meaning lies.
Roland Kuit (born 1959) is a Dutch composer and sound artist. His artistic path is mainly characterised by the urge to redefine the horizon of sonic art and composition. With his installations, sonic environments and concerts using the latest computer techniques, he pushes existing standards.
In the 1970s, Kuit – only 11 years old – takes flute and piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory and experiments with sound recordings on a tape recorder. Soon he becomes fascinated by electronic music. Kuit takes classes in electroacoustic music and sound design at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, the forerunner of the Sonology course at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
There he discovers – with teachers Gottfried Michael Koenig, Jaap Vink, Frits Weiland, Claude Fautus – the enormous possibilities offered by the analogue – and computer studio for new forms of sound generation. This is followed by private lessons with Dick Raaijmakers, with whom he frequently philosophises on the blurring boundary between music and visual art. During his IRCAM period in Paris, composition lessons in spectral music follow. ‘Spectral’ composers explore sound itself with all possible shades of timbre: high and low, long and short, but also deep, to or beyond the core.
Roland Kuit manoeuvres at the intersection of art, music and science. From the 1990s, he introduced audio art into the installation space: the metamorphosis of traditional speaker boxes into sonic spaces. He teaches on this subject at the Free Academy in The Hague. His work ranges from experimental, architectural installations to electroacoustic performances and compositions for specific spaces.
After his studies, Roland focuses on further research and is in demand worldwide for lectures, exhibitions and concerts in galleries, museums and universities. He also gives master classes in creative hubs in Europe, the United States, Asia, Russia, and the Baltic States. In 2016, NASA selected his music to be sent along on chip aboard the OSIRIS-Rex mission.
‘I believe in ideas. I translate concepts into unique, immersive, sonic experiences’ – Roland Kuit
More info at the website of Museum Eicas…
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