LOOS artistic researchers (A-Z)
Al Basri, Baidar (IRQ)
Bell, Sean (NO)
Davidson, Danielle (NL)
De Bondt, Cornelis (NL)
Dolleman, Petra (NL)
Emmer, Huib (NL)
Hurych, Martin (SLV)
Kuzyakova, Elizaveta (RU)
Lasçu, Suzana (RO)
Lebar, Tilen (SLO)
Lüsche, Elisabeth (USA)
Martin, Emi (POL)
Melli, Cristiano (BR, NL)
Nezri, Lucie (FR, NL)
Nikolova, Viktoria (BLG, NL)
Norderval, Kristin (NO)
Nouri, Farzaneh (IR)
Novello, Alberto (IT)
Ólafsdóttir, Kaðlín Sara (ISL)
Pantea (IR)
Pilchen, Daniil (UA)
Plave, Leah (USA)
Roessler, Leonie (DE, NL)
Sahin, Ege (TUR)
Schönbach, Christina (NL, DE)
Smith, Christian (USA, NL)
Smucker, Leslee (USA, NL)
Soğuksu, Elif Gülin (TUR)
Tarenskeen, Olaf (NL)
Serafini, Luca (BRA)
Tutar, Cengiz (TUR)
Vanhaverbeke, Kaat (NL)
Van Bergen, Peter (NL)
Van Kreij, Johan (NL)
Vernon, Mark (UK)
Wentink, Isabella (NL)
Yakthumba, Nirantar (NEP)
Zangarini, Giorgio (IT)
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Daniëlle Davidson (1981), works and lives in The Hague. She studied Autonomous Visual Art at Academy Minerva and a master's at the Dutch Art Institute (ARTEZ). After graduating, she won the Dooyenwaard Stipendium and in the years that followed, she also did many projects and international residencies. She is much in demand for performances and paintings in museums and theatres and enjoys various collaborations in her performances.
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Cornelis de Bondt Composer [from 1975], teacher of music theory at KC [from 1987], research, aesthetics and composition [from 2004]
Composition, research, education and political activism ultimately come together under the heading "The Technique of Beauty". The central question is "Is it possible to formulate criteria for an artistic quality judgment beyond the personal taste judgment?" This question is addressed in all facets of my practice, composition, research, text, education, political action. [Politics ”seen in a broader context: concerning the policy.]
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Active as an autonomous artist since 1984. Mainly focusing on animation, video, drawing and graphical arts.
Co-operating with musicians, composers, ensembles: a.o. Chiel Meyering, Maarten Altena, Delta Ensemble, Oene van Geel, ERAX, Peter van Bergen, GJ Prins Thomas Lehn, Loos, pdq^d.
During live-(impro)performances making use of film-projectors, beamer, live-drawing, installation. Animation work has been shown and awarded internationally. Occasionally teaching a.o. : G. Rietveld Ac, Film Ac, Vrije Ac, NIAF, Ac v Bouwkunst, Cal Arts and in workshops for children. Future plans: sound & image (streaming)project at LOOS studio. Develop new animations in combination research old & new media.
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Huib Emmer is a Dutch composer, performer, who played bass guitar in Hoketus, played percussion guitar in Loos, also composed for these groups. He created many pieces for ensembles after his conservatory days in the 1970s. In the 1990s his interest shifted towards electronics, early techno showed that with relatively simple equipment you could really turn the world upside down by giving regularity a new face, which appealed to Huib as an old avantgardist. Since then, he worked on projects combining electronics with acoustic instruments, as well as several projects with electronics and live film/multimedia. Since 2021 an electronic duo with Guus Janssen: the coarse grain.
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Martin Hurych is a sound artist, architect, and curator living and working in The Hague (NL). Hurych graduated from architecture at ARC FAST BUT (2008–2015) in the Czech Republic, completed his bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Technology in Brno (from 2015–2019), and his Master’s degree at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. He worked as an assistant at Studio Intermedia I, which is located at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2018–2019), and as an assistant to sculptor Jiří Příhoda (2012–2018). Hurych is a co-founder and art director of the Přespolní association, operating in the countryside of the Czech Republic, where he co-organizes a cultural program (since 2017). He currently works as a research associate at the Institute of Sonology (since 2022) and also as one of the curators of the UFMC online radio platform (since 2022).
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Liza Kuzyakova is a composer, performer, researcher, and curator from Moscow, based in The Netherlands. Grounding her sound practice in between multichannel electro-acoustic composition and live performance, her work relates to sonic deconstruction and histories of sound in the instrumental space, traces, and distortions of material. With a passion for extremes of music, she is an active member of the experimental music scene in The Hague, where she curates a series of live performance events - KRAH. Her solo musical project Sáof originates around piercing sonic realms of drone/noise, and she is half of Tselem Enosh, an industrial/power electronics duo.
Liza is a frequent collaborator of Amos Peled and has presented her works in a variety of contexts including contemporary dance, performance art, short films, and exhibitions such as Gaudeamus Festival, Rewire Festival, NDT, iii, Grey Space in the Middle, and Buda BXL.
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Suzana Lașcu’s work, mostly chamber in size, strives to address political and cultural realities, despite leaning towards crafting sonic fictions of her own. She graduated from her bachelor studies at Prins Claus Conservatorium in 2017 and completed a master research paper in jazz improvisation at Codarts in 2019. In 2022, thanks to a transformative one-year course at The Institute of Sonology, she’ll incorporate algorithmic composition, microtonal treatment and field recording to her artistic practices. Invested in the inventive aspect of music, she variably switches hats as a curator, conductor, radiophonist or songwriter for projects other than her own.
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Tilen Lebar (b. 1993) is a Slovenian composer and a saxophonist based in The Hague the Netherlands. He is actively enrolled in the field of chamber music, as well as is premiering new works of young composers. Moreover, Tilen is actively participating in the field of improvised music scene and interdisciplinary arts and regulary cooperates with Zavod Sploh, KUD Mreza, Ensemble Szene Istrumental, CONA | institute for contemporary arts processing, Inexhaustible editions, and also presents his own individual projects with Ensemble Stere, which Tilen founded in 2017. His compositions are showing great knowledge of individual instrumental extended techniques as well as contemplated colors, detailed structures in sound tinctures, all of those expressing in his personal view in introverted musical approach. His collaborations included ensembles as Asamisimasa from Oslo, Experimental studio of SWR Freiburg and ensemble Oerknal among others. During his studies at University in Ljubljana he has been a recipient of a Golden scholarship by Municipality of Murska Sobota (Slovenia), scholarship by University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (Austria), Foundation PIF (Slovenia), Foundation Benko (Slovenia) and is currently a recipient of the scholarship by the Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia for his postgraduate studies at Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Since 2019 he is an active member of Society of Slovene Composers (DSS).
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The direct relation to the Latin word Līmen is comprehensive and indicates the threshold and passageway at the same time. Fascinated by the term, its sense of fluidity and the anthropological theory behind it, I was inspired to write an original work.
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Elisabeth Lusche is a trumpet player. She has had numerous festival performances: the Holland Festival, the Grachtenfestival, Rewire, the Opera Forward Festival, the Stockhausen Courses Kürten, and the Klangspuren Festival. She is a resident artistic researcher at Studio LOOS The Hague and a member of the research team for the Global Breath project.
Elisabeth starred in the Dutch National Opera’s 2019 aus LICHT production of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s opera cycle. She is a current member of the award-winning Nevis Ensemble in Scotland and the electro-acoustic improvisation group Oktopus Connection Ensemble in the Netherlands.
Elisabeth is a Van Laar Trumpets and Flugelhorns Artist.
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Baidar Al Basri is an Iraqi singer residing in The Netherlands. She comes from a large musical family of are composers, singers, and musicians. She studied Arabic singing, ballet, and theater in Syria. Her studies opera she finished at the Royal Conservatory in The Netherlands. Baidar Al-Basri has received many honors and awards, most notably the title Voice of Religions, which was granted to her by the younger sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, princess Margriet. She also won the International Peace Prize in Germany. Baidar has perfomed solo concerts with many international Orchestras of which the most important is the Metropole Orchestra, where she sang four musical works that were specifically composed for her by the Dutch composer Theo Hoek.
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Sean Bell is a countertenor and performance artist from Oslo. He holds a Master’s degree in early music voice from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague (NL), and a Bachelor’s degree in from the Norwegian academy of Music. His work centre mainly on chamber and sacred music and opera, yet also includes a focus on new ideas and methods of interpreting classical and contemporary repertoire. Through sonic imaginations and arrangements, he explores this repertoire in new ways. This has led him to a series of collaborations and solo performances on the border line between classical music and performance art. In 2021 he made his debut at Høstutstillingen (the Norwegian state’s annual exhibition) with his performance work Stille Amare (2021).
Bell also works with contemporary music and has premiered several pieces for countertenor. Bell is an active improviser, plays baroque guitar and engages in instrument building and music electronics.
years at LOOS: 2024, 2023
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For several months, Iraqi singer Baidar Al Basra, living in The Hague, works in a 30-hour residency in multiple sessions with artistic researchers of the IOMAIM Research. Topics include the transformation of gestures and musical enrichment.
years at LOOS: 2024, 2023
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I will try to work with the fundaments of the music without the notes: text, mood, instrumentation, tonality and timbre. To have a fresh approach I will experiment with different compositional tools like graphic scores, free improv, electronics, and live recording.
years at LOOS: 2022
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During HOOGTIJ you can visit several art locations in the inner-city of The Hague: from white cube to underground; from established art in galleries and institutions to installations and performances in artists initiatives.
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The first idea for the opera The Man of Sorrows came to me at the end of the 80’ies. It would become an opera consisting of two layers. An ‘Upper-layer’, in the form of a kind of mix of a performance and an installation, a ritual of which beginning and ending are clear beforehand and which is executed ruthlessly.
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The first idea for the opera The Man of Sorrows came to me at the end of the 80’ies. It would become an opera consisting of two layers. An ‘Upper-layer’, in the form of a kind of mix of a performance and an installation, a ritual of which beginning and ending are clear beforehand and which is executed ruthlessly.
years at LOOS: 2024-2008
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Listening to electro-acoustic music entails a particular experience and engagement of the mind, forming and provoking further dreaming. Acousmatic situation evokes imagination and brings tension in the interplay of sound origins, constantly causing re-interpretation.
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Performative installation R.A.D. is an attempt to approach sound spatialization with one monophonic sound source that can be set in adjustable rotational motion. The loudspeaker is treated rather as an instrument than as a static sound projection source.
years at LOOS: 2022
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It's about binary translations of words into time durations, with each letter assigned a specific frequency. The piece was intentionally created for a male quintet, whose players push buttons coordinated by an Arduino, which trigger these frequencies, overlap and form layers. The political subtext is based on the current gender dynamics whereby men disproportionately occupy positions of power.
years at LOOS: 2024, 2023
years at LOOS: 2022, 2021, 2020
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“EMBODIMENT and EMPOWERMENT” is an ongoing research project into embodied practice as a performance tool, with an emphasis on gender and trauma. I began this research in my master’s studies, focusing specifically on how theatrical movement prescribed by a score can offer a window for developing performers to become more empowered in their physicalities, primarily in the work “ORCHESTER-FINALISTEN” by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
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the installation with live performance HERTZ is based in the wave nature of both phenomena and the unique possibilities given by Science - through technology - for Art to blur the relation Audience/Performer. A dialogue between the nature of electronics and acoustic sounds, composed and improvised, fixed video and images triggered by the audience, and the very nature of performer and spectators, is developed using as creative starting point the common feature of Light and Sound travelling as waveforms with different and special properties.
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The Brazilian interdisciplinary composer Cristiano Melli (1980) studied in São Paulo with Almeida Prado, Osvaldo Lacerda and Jocy de Oliveira. Since 2010 in The Hague, he holds a Bachelor and Master degrees in Composition, having Yannis Kyriakides, Calliope Tsoupaki, Cornelis de Bondt, Gilius van Bergeijk and Peter Adriaansz as teachers. Since 2019 he is part of the Senior Researcher Artistic team of Studio LOOS in The Hague, producing HERTZ, PERSEPHONE ZOOMED, a concert portrait and instalments of the EROLA series. Further projects are the queer multimedia cycles QUEENS and LEENDERT, both in production phase.
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Lucie Nezri (FR/NL) is drawn to abstraction and simplicity. her work bridges different contexts and disciplines pertaining to musical composition, tuning theory, computer science, and, at times, choreography. She enjoys exploring probabilistic methods of composition in a diversity of ways, from pieces for computer and classical instrumentation to fixed media, multichannel compositions, and dance performances.
She holds a Bachelor's in music from the Institute of Sonology where she is finishing her Master's degree.
Since 2021, Nezri has carried out her compositional activities at Studio Loos in collaboration with other instrumentalists and expands her recording/ sound engineering skills during concerts.
years at LOOS: 2024 - 2020
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Developed during the COVID-19 quarantine time, PERSEPHONE is conceived as a 10-episodes webseries interdisciplinary production using the artistic and technological possibilities available during the period. This concept infiltrates all its practical aspects, giving the opportunity for creative solutions to the huge task of bringing a multimediatic online work to light.
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QUEENS (working title) is a cycle comprising three works for live performance and online “spin-offs”. The main concept behind the work is sincerity: the situations depicted relate intimately to the lives of the artistic team, in correspondence with our gender and affective expressions, bringing gender and LGBTQIA+ issues to the front stage in New Music. Besides continuing my research on multimediatic and interdisciplinary aspects of scenic music, this project also will try a different way of creating visibility, by using an “online layer” made of snaps to be uploaded in social media.
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the installation with live performance HERTZ is based in the wave nature of both phenomena and the unique possibilities given by Science - through technology - for Art to blur the relation Audience/Performer. A dialogue between the nature of electronics and acoustic sounds, composed and improvised, fixed video and images triggered by the audience, and the very nature of performer and spectators, is developed using as creative starting point the common feature of Light and Sound travelling as waveforms with different and special properties.
years at LOOS: 2024, 2023, 2022
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Lucie’s research at Studio Loos provides the opportunity to compose a set of new pieces loosely incorporating features of the Maghrebin-Andalusian music tradition from Morocco and Algeria where her family is from.
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Performative installation R.A.D. is an attempt to approach sound spatialization with one monophonic sound source that can be set in adjustable rotational motion. The loudspeaker is treated rather as an instrument than as a static sound projection source.
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This research questions the significance of the concept of indeterminacy in the context of stochastic musical compositions, specifically in the face of the recent evolutions of computability theory.
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Leah Plave is an American artist, who edges past the traditional role of a cellist, performing not only classical repertoire but jazz, contemporary, experimental, non-western, and early music. Leah has lived and toured extensively across Canada, China, Europe, and the USA as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator. Leah was a featured guest speaker for Australia's Curve Magazine Festival, the Berkshire High Peaks Music Festival, and a performer at festivals such as FIMU (Belfort), Thy Chamber Music Festival, The Banff Centre, Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, Garth Newel Music Centre, and Manchester Music Festival.
Her academic studies concluded in The Netherlands, where she earned a Master Degree in baroque cello performance and classical cello at the Royal Conservatoire Den Haag.
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Viktoria Nikolova is a singer, performer and creator from Sofia, Bulgaria, currently based in the Netherlands. She obtained a Master’s in classical singing at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 2017. She specialised in Bulgarian folklore singing as an artistic researcher during that time. She collaborates with various composers and ensembles in the Netherlands and abroad, often crossing between folklore and classical music fields. She is pursuing a degree in cultural sciences at Leiden University, where, she is a co-president of Kunstgang Commission gallery space.
In 2019 at Grachtenfestival, Viktoria’s author performance, “Metamorphosis of a Female Character,” was awarded the Themaprijs and Oorkaanprijs. Between 2018 - 2022 Viktoria took part in the Opera Forward Festival, Westben Online Residency, and Plop Festival, among others. She was part of the internship program NKK NXT 19/20. Since 2020 she has been developing author and collective projects with artists and musicians in multi-disciplinary environments. Her work overlaps topics of, mediation in artistic processes and seeks liminality between digital and physical spaces interwoven with body and vocal improvisation. The main themes of her current artistic research are identity, and transnationalism in the Balkans. more info
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As both a composer and singer, Kristin Norderval is inspired by hybridity, interactivity and the idea that everything we do is site-specific. She blends acoustic and electronic sound, is fascinated with de-tuned instruments, machines, and ambient sound. In her solo works for voice and electronics she processes her voice in real time often combining it with prerecorded sounds to create complex sonic layers and unusual soundscapes.
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Farzaneh is an Iranian musician, researcher, and sound artist based in The Netherlands. Interested in experimental approaches to sound, science, and technology, she explores various disciplines such as electroacoustic music composition, computer science, cybernetics, and linguistics. As tools in her artistic practice, she uses creative coding, field recording, live electronics, as well as acoustic and programmable instruments. Her recent pieces investigate complex systems, natural algorithms, and human-machine interaction. Farzané composes for live performances, interactive installations, films, VR and multi-sensory experiences. The focus of her current research is on artificial intelligence methods in the framework of live electroacoustic music improvisation.
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Christina Schönbach is a soprano based in The Hague and Berlin. She completed her Bachelor of Music for Classical Voice at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in 2015.
She has performed various operatic roles, such as Agathe, Ariadne (Strauss), Almera (Dark Sisters/Muhly), Sieglinde and Eurydice at several locations, including the Trentino Music Festival and the Opera Patras. Next to this traditional repertoire, Christina has also been working in the contemporary music scene.
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Since childhood, I have been fascinated by media. Together with my sister, we played all kinds of computer games, visited museums and developed films with friends. So I learned the tricks of making and thinking up creative new productions. At the moment, I want to walk my creative path a bit more, as I inherited it from my extraordinary father, multimedia artist Victor Wentink. I am working on a documentary series: "Encounters from the Heart" and I am working on my own enterprise: HEARTEC, in which I look for the connection between art, society, and technology. This combination will hopefully lead to new media productions such as documentaries, new kind of computer games and perhaps artworks or artificial intelligence designs.
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Farzaneh is an Iranian musician, researcher, and sound artist based in The Netherlands. Interested in experimental approaches to sound, science, and technology, she explores various disciplines such as electroacoustic music composition, computer science, cybernetics, and linguistics. As tools in her artistic practice, she uses creative coding, field recording, live electronics, as well as acoustic and programmable instruments. Her recent pieces investigate complex systems, natural algorithms, and human-machine interaction. Farzané composes for live performances, interactive installations, films, VR and multi-sensory experiences. The focus of her current research is on artificial intelligence methods in the framework of live electroacoustic music improvisation.
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Kaðlín Sara Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic artist recently graduated from the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. Mostly she works with cassettes and cassette players, exploring the possibilities of low-quality sound and obsolete materials. Kaðlín has made several sound installations using hacked cassette players and old cassettes, exposing the fragile materiality of the cassette and the recorded stories that it holds. Recently, she has made compositions and live performances focusing on nostalgia and deterioration by bringing to light the imperfections of the cassette player and connecting it to the imperfections of memory.
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pantea is an interdisciplinary artist from Iran engaging with narratives of ecological and more-than-human connection.
Her work has incorporated performance, creative nonfiction, film, photography, and music. More recently, pantea is focused on developing a socially engaged practice by exploring possibilities brought about by sound and listening. She is passionate about the environment, plants, and wetlands. pantea is one half of the design group Studio Informal and a member of Khamoosh, an artistic research group dedicated to preserving and archiving Iranian sonic heritage.
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Daniil Pilchen is a composer based in The Hague. He obtained his Master’s degree in composition from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague in 2020. His thesis, Losing Time, was centred around creating musical interactions based on musicians’ communicating their internal feeling of time rather than relying on external time measures. The human experience of time and the ability of music to shed light on it have since become the core concern of his practice.
Daniil’s music is closely intertwined with his research into collective experiences of time in musical practices. Understanding time as an emerging property of consciousness affected by social interactions necessitates increased attention to the relationships between musicians and audiences in his pieces. To facilitate these interactions, he employs various compositional strategies and listening techniques engaging the materiality of sound. This practice revolves around Songs, an ongoing series of chamber pieces on which he has been working since September 2019.
years at LOOS: 2023, 2022, 2021
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Exploring the interactions in improvising electro-acoustic trio -an unamplified opera singer and two monophonic unamplified instrumentalists, each with different audio technology, in relation to the possibilities vd acoustic space of Studio LOOS.
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Performative installation R.A.D. is an attempt to approach sound spatialization with one monophonic sound source that can be set in adjustable rotational motion. The loudspeaker is treated rather as an instrument than as a static sound projection source.
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Working with trained singers unfamiliar with audio technology and improvisation, Kristin will explore how an interactive audio processing system that creates pseudo-random permutations of the singer's voice can function as a digital improvisation partner.
years at LOOS: 2024, 2023
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This research attempts to examine new aesthetics of machine behaviours in living creative processes by investigating their performativity and behavioural patterns. The aim of the research is to develop two environments (Performative and Generative) that are fully controlled by AI agents based on their interactions with themselves and their surroundings, and are free from human intervention and control.
years at LOOS: 2023
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At Studio Loos Alberto will be trying out new methods to control lasers using audio signals for a new work developed to visualize audio using analog light and its properties. He will use the left and right signal of a stereo audio performance to drive the deflection coils that control the mirrors of a self-built laser projector horizontally and vertically.
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Composer, performer and radio-maker raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment through field recordings, which she uses for electronic live sets, sound installations, and compositions for soloists and ensembles. She had recent residencies at New Media Society and Limited Access Festival (Iran), Forum Wallis (Switzerland), and The Story of Space Festival (India), and Berlin Circus Biennale (Germany), and Altes Finanzamt (Germany), and at LOOS (Netherlands). Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (Spain/UK), and Noise á Noise (Iran,) Biodiversità Records, and Syrphe Label, and have been physically archived in the British Library. Leonie established the radio branch of LOOS with the Radio LOOS program and is creating features about different aspects of sound art and art radio, and with that connecting communities.
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Ege Şahin works in composition, sound art, and improvisation. mainly via methods like sampling, field recording, and audio synthesis amongst others. Born in Turkey, a migrant in the Netherlands, he collaborates to and with various forms of experimental multi-media practices nearing the electroacoustic music spheres. His interests in philosophy, media and cultural studies often emerge in his works to engage with social-political matters he has made an issue of.
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Leslee Smucker (1986) is a musician utilizing violin, voice, synthesizers, electronics, film, and poetry. Her work focuses on ideas surrounding sound perception, phenomenological spatial relationships, anachronisms, language, and the human/machine relationship. Solo performances include The Scottish Library (presented by University of Edinburgh’s Cantos Project), the Andriessen Festival in Arnhem, NL, Project Audire in Portugal, and Interference Series in Flagstaff. For composition, she was awarded a commission from Gaudeamus for Michela Amici in 2022 for harp and transducers. She has presented her research at the 20th Biennial International Conference on Ninetheeth-Century Music in Huddersfield, UK, and given artistic research lecture-performances at Brancaleoni International Festival and University of Virginia. She is lecturer in music at University of Colorado Boulder. Fellowships include a Barnes Fellow in Philadelphia with artist in residence JACK quartet, as well as a fellow in Ensemble Evolution 2021 with International Contemporary Ensemble.
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Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist who works with found tapes and acousmatic presence. His work explores themes of magnetic memory, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia. His solo music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Glistening Examples, Flaming Pines, Misanthropic Agenda and Entr’acte. He co-runs and curates Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia.
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Nirantar Yakthumba is a musician and composer from Nepal, based in the Hague, the Netherlands. He is currently a Master’s student at the Institute of Sonology, with the help of a scholarship awarded to him by the Konrad Boehmer Foundation. In his research, he investigates the relations between sound, materials, force, and geometry, and how people individually and collectively make sense of these relations through practice.
During his Bachelor’s studies in composition at the Royal Conservatoire, the Hague, he studied composition with Peter Adriaansz, Calliope Tsoupaki, Cornelis de Bondt, and Jan van de Putte, as well as contemporary piano with Gerard Bouwhuis. He graduated with distinction in 2023.
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Giorgio Zangarini is an Italian composer/sound artist based in The Hague. He is currently studying in the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. In his artistic practices, Giorgio focuses mainly on: creative coding, sound design and electroacoustic composition.
years at LOOS: 2023
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At Studio Loos I want to continue this research of Composing Nostalgia through live performances and sound installations. My main objective is creating a performance setup with multiple cassette players that is performable but also perhaps autonomous.
years at LOOS: 2023
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June - Walking on a Lichen is a collaborative research project between pantea, located in Barcelona, and Leonie Roessler, located in The Hague. The starting point and initial intention was the creation of a radio piece based on a pattern which is superimposed onto the map of Barcelona and the map of The Hague, determining points which the artists visit and field record. The superimposed structure is that of a Lichen, enlarged many-fold to span a 2.5 km radius around the homes of the artists in each respective city. During the month of June pantea and Leonie recorded all the source material for their pieces.
years at LOOS: 2023
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artistic research by DANIIL PILCHEN, NIRANTAR YAKTHUMBA, and GREGOR CONNELLY
Time perception is often seen as an exclusively personal and introspective experience counterposed with the clock-time of ‘objective reality’. However, through the practice of collective listening and playing, music can create powerful shared experiences of time and synchrony. These experiences are intuitively familiar to many musicians, and ensemble musicking offers unique environments for studying them.
years at LOOS: 2024, 2023
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years at LOOS: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
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June - Walking on a Lichen is a collaborative research project between pantea, located in Barcelona, and Leonie Roessler, located in The Hague. The starting point and initial intention was the creation of a radio piece based on a pattern which is superimposed onto the map of Barcelona and the map of The Hague, determining points which the artists visit and field record. The superimposed structure is that of a Lichen, enlarged many-fold to span a 2.5 km radius around the homes of the artists in each respective city. During the month of June pantea and Leonie recorded all the source material for their pieces.
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Radio LOOS is the radio branch of Studio LOOS. It will be a regular feature presenting music and sound art that is either produced at Studio LOOS, or coming out of its (inter)national network. The focus is on art radio, community, and connecting communities.
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Before the Flood is an exploration of everything that needs to happen on a daily basis to make sure that the Netherlands are not getting flooded.
years at LOOS: 2023
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Ege Sahin will explore what new possibilities emerge from an arrangement of a multi-channel music performance/installation of six oil drums with speakers and lamps inside. The sounds coming out of the speakers are sonic interactions of human and non-human objects in and around a harbour.
years at LOOS: 2022, 2021
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Developed during the COVID-19 quarantine time, PERSEPHONE is conceived as a 10-episodes webseries interdisciplinary production using the artistic and technological possibilities available during the period. This concept infiltrates all its practical aspects, giving the opportunity for creative solutions to the huge task of bringing a multimediatic online work to light.
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Elif Gülin Soğuksu is an Istanbul based composer, sound artist and performer of electronics and voice. She holds her BA in composition and audio technology at Istanbul Bilgi University Music Department and now currently pursuing her MA at the Sonology Institute of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.She holds a Bachelor's in music from the Institute of Sonology where she is finishing her Master's degree.
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Olaf Tarenskeen is one of the few Dutch musicians to have been trained in classical music as well as in jazz and improvised music.
In addition to being a classical guitarist in the beginning, he has an extensive background as a performer of modern music. During his career jazz playing and modern notated music existed simultaneously but separately. In a later stage trying to find blending these genres which seemed more possible using the adjusted classical guitar. This blending, not particularly as borrowing material and putting them together but in a sense of transforming materials and executing attitude allowing popular elements in complex settings and classical sensibilities in popular settings.
Seeing the guitar as a ‘multi-faced’ instrument but rooted in an inescapable background of jazz. Performing in these separate genres and teaching on all levels and ages, became the agent of conduct to start a research of the Classical Guitar in contemporary Jazz at this moment in the context of research Lab : Loos Artistic Research Group in The Hague.
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Olaf Tarenskeen is one of the few Dutch musicians to have been trained in classical music as well as in jazz and improvised music.
In addition to being a classical guitarist in the beginning, he has an extensive background as a performer of modern music. During his career jazz playing and modern notated music existed simultaneously but separately. In a later stage trying to find blending these genres which seemed more possible using the adjusted classical guitar. This blending, not particularly as borrowing material and putting them together but in a sense of transforming materials and executing attitude allowing popular elements in complex settings and classical sensibilities in popular settings.
Seeing the guitar as a ‘multi-faced’ instrument but rooted in an inescapable background of jazz. Performing in these separate genres and teaching on all levels and ages, became the agent of conduct to start a research of the Classical Guitar in contemporary Jazz at this moment in the context of research Lab : Loos Artistic Research Group in The Hague.
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Kaat Vanhaverbeke (born 2000) is a young accordionist from Belgium, who is currently doing her Master of Music at The Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. Her focus in music-making is personal expression and authentic communication with an audience. She actively wants to involve space and listeners in musical experiences. As a versatile musician, she is open-minded toward new artistic experiments, always bringing her beloved instrument to the foreground. Besides performing as a soloist and in theatrical work, she is currently engaged in various ensembles, among which is the Spaceship Ensemble. Additionally, she works as a freelance composer – enrolled in a minor study program composition at the Royal Conservatoire since 2021.
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Peter van Bergen is artistic and business director of LOOS. He is a composer, improviser, interpreter and PhD researcher at the Free University of Brussels in the field of interdisciplinary experimental new music. He founded LOOS in 1982 and Studio LOOS in 2005. His research concerns "Improvisation, Interactivity, Instability: Artistic Transformations" (IOMAIM Research) in which improvisation between people is transformed into collaboration between man and machine. As an improviser, he worked with musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton. As a composer he wrote for mainly the legendary LOOS Ensemble, various soloists, ASKO Schoenberg, the Volharding. He also worked closely with numerous composers and artists such as Louis Andriessen, Cornelis de Bondt, Huib Emmer, Martijn Padding, Gilius van Bergeijk, Guus Janssen, Paul Koek, Johan Simons, Krisztina de Chatel, Karin Post, Wim T. Schippers, Titus Muizelaar.
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Christian Smith's residency at Studio LOOS in November 2024 focused on exploring the aesthetic and conceptual values of lo-fi music through experimental sound-making practices. By engaging with unique compositions, collaborative processes, and unconventional sound sources, he delved into the raw and rugged essence of lo-fi as both a technical and artistic philosophy.
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Johan van Kreij is a sonologist. His practice covers the fields of composing, improvising, making and executing in the field of experimental electro-acoustic music. Both working independently and in cooperation with various artists, he has been involved in a wide variety of projects in the field of improvised music, music theatre, dance, architecture and installation-art. His current collaborations involve the research into quasi-autonomous improvisation systems, the rethinking of generative synthesis models and the development of stepper-motor control approaches. Furthermore, he teaches at the Institute of Sonology and is member of the new LOOS Ensemble.
years at LOOS: 2024
years at LOOS: 2024, 2023
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They Say It’s New is a research project based on Dionysian imitatio—a technique of rhetoric: emulating, adapting, reworking, and enriching a text by an earlier author. Through concerts, interdisciplinary programs, and a lecture-concert, this research project aims to alight different facets of the miemetic faulty (as Walter Benjamin calls it).
years at LOOS: 2023
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The voice is a universal sound source that can be controlled and moulded in an exceptionally malleable and direct way. It is an instrument capable of producing and sculpting complex sound structures within its range in changing dynamics, gestures, and behaviors.
years at LOOS: 2022
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A cross-domain experiment into the classical guitar in contemporary Jazz music investigating the possibility of a cohesive style. The research will include an exploration of a brief historical perspective, playing techniques and technology, the first representative of this style in the US and live performances.
years at LOOS: 2021
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transmit<>dissolve is an art installation which plays with the consequences of image capturing and broadcasting. With the advent of the electronic image, the human senses became expanded. Eyes can reach the entirety of the planet, the explorable universe and the insides of the body, (a)live.
years at LOOS: 2023
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years at LOOS: 2023, 2022
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The research explores the creation of new music for an amplified extra-dimensional way of accordion playing. With extra-dimensional accordion playing Kaat refers to moving the bellows three-dimensionally and creating a spatial sound.
years at LOOS: 2024 - 1982
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The Interactive Interdisciplinary Improvisational Orchestral Machine (IOM) - Artificial Improvisation Machine (AIM) is an artistic research project by Peter van Bergen (PhD candidate at the Brussels Conservatory / Vrije Universiteit Brussel) being developed in collaboration with software programmer Johan van Kreij.
years at LOOS: 2024 - 2014
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The Interactive Interdisciplinary Improvisational Orchestral Machine (IOM) - Artificial Improvisation Machine (AIM) is an artistic research project by Peter van Bergen (PhD candidate at the Brussels Conservatory / Vrije Universiteit Brussel) being developed in collaboration with software programmer Johan van Kreij.
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Research by: Elizaveta Kuzyakova, Johan van Kreij, Kristin Norderval, Lucie Nezri
Performative installation R.A.D. is an attempt to approach sound spatialisation with one monophonic sound source that can be set in adjustable rotational motion. The loudspeaker is treated rather as an instrument than as a static sound projection source.
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The “c@tfish” hackLab café workshops, led by Johan van Kreij, is a new initiative to grow the electronic music community in The Hague. Studio LOOS is the perfect location for the workshops, as there are multiple useful tools, instruments, as well as shared guidance for creators and artists with different experience in electronics.
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The aim is to provide communication means that go beyond the typical audible and visual channels. The research focuses on testing various alternative approaches to communication using internet technology.
years at LOOS: 2023, 2022
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A meditation on memory and clarity – attachments to objects, people and places, losing and finding things, letting go of things, the blurring of edges and the obfuscation of meaning.
years at LOOS: 2024, 2023
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I want to research the extraordinarily differentiated oeuvre of my recently deceased father: composer, pioneer within electronic music and creator of the very first social network in the world VICTOR WENTINK.
years at LOOS: 2024
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years at LOOS: 2023
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Mr. White by Livia Malossi Bottignole is a game piece, a genre of experimental music that can be considered as controlled improvisation. The Mr.White game piece required a system to enable communication between the musicians and the conductor.
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