LOOS artists 2020
Since it’s initiation, LOOS has worked with thousands of artists in the field of new music, improvisation, and artistic research worldwide.
Currently there are five main artistic researchers working continuously at LOOS.
Explore our artistic collaborators during the year of 2020:
Anna Chocholi (GR)
Anna is a video producer and media artist from Greece. Her interests are focused on emerging spaces, virtual and augmented media, contemporary video and emotion science. She has been involved in a variety of multimedia productions as video editor and multimedia engineer. She holds a BFA in fine arts from Aristotle University and currently she is a MSc student in media technology, Leiden University.
Petra Dolleman (NL) - live visuals and animation
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.
Marie Guilleray (FR) - curator Ephemere concertseries
Marie studied jazz and classical singing at the Conservatoire Nadia and Lili Boulanger in Paris (2003-2006), and at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (2006-2010). In the course of these years, she developed a growing interest in contemporary, experimental and improvised music. This experience led her to extend her artistic practice from vocalist/performer to composer/sound artist. She graduated from a Master degree in Sonology at the Institute of Sonology in 2012. Since 2017, she is a PhD candidate at the Orpheus Institute and Leiden University where she researches the confrontations between the voice and the electronics. Since 2009, Marie has organized and curated concerts at Studio Loos. In 2010, she started the Ephémère music series which is dedicated to new music, improvised music, electronic music, and in short, what is important to be presented at this specific moment. For more info: www.marieguilleray.com.
Marcela Andrea Leon Garcia (COL)
Marcela Andrea Leon Garcia was born in Ibague. She is a Colombian musician, graduated in Composition in the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Her pieces have been played by outstanding ensembles and performers such as the M4nolov Quartet, Symphonic Orchestra of the University of Tolima. She works with acoustic chamber ensembles, superimposing melodies where Colombian rhythms sometimes appear and musical and corporal gestures become the important factors of each piece. She used to play cello and now is trying to do different sounds with the piano in some ensembles in The Hague.
In Studio Loos I have been trying to create a gastronomic space, with the aim of contributing to the experience of the audience, as well as working in the bar. I have also participated in improvised concerts as a player.
Elisabeth Lusche (USA) - trumpet
“Innovation feeds culture, and culture feeds community. It’s important to have places that are outlets for experimentation and dedicated to the active pursuit of pushing the limits in the arts to find new and creative ways of bridging together communities across all boundaries."
“LOOS has been a hive for experimentation and research for decades. It has filled an important role by being a space where art and community intersect and allow people from all professional and cultural backgrounds to engage critically with new music and art." www.elisabethlusche.com
Christina Schönbach (DE)
Soprano Christina Sophie Schönbach was born in Hanover, but moved to Amsterdam at age ten. She studied Classics at the University of Oxford, followed by an MA in Archaeology in Leiden. When in the meantime, it really started to itch musically, she decided to follow the Bachelor Classical Solo Voice at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, which she completed in 2015.
Christina discovered her love for contemporary music as a singer at the Young Composers Meeting of orchestra De Ereprijs in 2013 and 2014 in Apeldoorn; through the collaboration with several young composers (Ruud Roelofsen, Cristiano Melli, Georgi Sztojanov); and the performance of De Staat en De Tijd by Louis Andriessen with the ASKO Schönberg Ensemble conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw.
She performed the role of Koe in the opera Koeien by Misha Mengelberg and Guus Janssen. In the Eendagsliederen program at the Grachtenfestival 2017, she sang songs by Hinse Mutter and Mathilde Wantenaar, among others. Christina has been immersing herself in the opera repertoire for several years and has played roles such as Ariadne (Strauss - Trentino Music Festival 2019), Almera (Muhly - Dark Sisters, Trentino Music Festival 2018), Agathe (Weber - Freischütz, Schloss Henfenfeld 2020). Christina lives in The Hague, but travels to Berlin regularly. She is looking forward to many great projects at Studio LOOS! Check out www.christinaschonbach.com for more.
Lucinda Watts (SA) & Roché van Tiddens (SA)
Roché van Tiddens and Lucinda Watts are music teachers who deliver the Crab Music workshops to children between 4-11 years at Studio LOOS and in collaboration with Rewire Festival Education. The aim of the workshops is to guide the students towards composing their own pieces of music. The students explore the many sound possibilities of the crab instruments, AKA hands on electronic sound generators, and, thereafter, are guided towards creating music. Listening activities form an important part of the workshops in order to heighten sound awareness. The electronic sound generators are a piece of equipment which may not necessarily be seen as an instrument for making music, however, by focusing on the characteristics of sound, they become just that. The intention is to approach music making from a different angle, where sound and its characteristics, analysed and broken up into pieces, becomes the source of material which is then put together to form a musical piece. You can read more about Crab Music, listen to the music composed by previous participants and see photos on their website: https://krabmuziek.wordpress.com
Michele Abolaffio (IT)
Michele Abolaffio is a live electronics performer, sound engineer and electronics designer.
His artistic and technological research focuses on the development of biophysical musical instruments for live performance.
He is active in Studio LOOS as sound engineer, as well as researching sensor technologies for sound installations and performances for the IOM-AIM Research team.
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IND)
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a media artist, researcher, and writer. Incorporating diverse media, such as sound, text, and moving image, Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installation and live performance addressing contemporary issues of climate crisis, human intervention in the environment and ecology, urbanity, migration, race and decolonization. Chattopadhyay has received numerous fellowships, residencies and international awards. His works have been widely exhibited, performed or presented across the globe, and published by Gruenrekorder (Germany) and Touch (UK). His writings on various issues around sound and listening regularly appear in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and other publications internationally, with two books forthcoming. Chattopadhyay holds a PhD in artistic research and sound studies from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University; he recently completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship.
Kyriakos Charalampides (GR)
Kyriakos is a sound designer and composer based in the Hague. His interest moves around environmentally emerged aesthetics and technology. He has been involved as a post-production engineer in several music and film productions. Currently he is working on the audiovisual performance SYMPTOSIS in collaboration with Anna Chocholi. He holds a BSc in sound engineering and music technology and a MMus from the Institute of Sonology in which he is currently a research associate.
Ranjith Hedge (IND)
Ranjith Hegde is a practitioner of contemporary improvised art. In this ensemble, he uses an extended range electric violin with a host of electronics such as realtime-convolution, sampler & granulator, and resonant drone machines. His musical influences are drawn from contrasting disciplines of Hindustani classical music, Indian tribal trance music, Free-jazz, as well as ideas from contemporary dance & theatre. As part of Basement21 (Chennai, India based interdisciplinary artist collective), he has been involved in building and developing the contemporary art movement in India by helping organize various modern art festivals, performances, lessons, and workshop series for the past 9 years.
Thijs Geritz (NL)- curator Kernel Panic concert series
Thijs studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) and works as a free-lance illustrator and animator. He is a self-taught musician, avid field recordist and radiomaker.
Besides his musical solo project Einzelganger, he has been part of several other projects, e.g. Mouches Volantes, Geritz / Kaffa and FREAZZP. For Concertzender Thijs regulary contributes to the radioshow Electronic Frequencies.
He created Kernel Panic in March 2011. The series became part of Studio Loos' program in September 2017. It is a series that brings together live acts with diverse and often juxtaposing styles in an effort to create an evening that's surprising and interesting to listen to. It features both established and novice acts.
Bjarni Gunnarsson (IS)
Bjarni Gunnarsson (1980) is an Icelandic Composer and Computer Scientist involved in computer music and algorithmic composition. Has released his music on labels such as Vertical Form, 3LEAVES, Granny or Tartaruga Records and performed his music in festivals such as Tectonics, Rewire, Today's Art, Sonar and Presences Electroniques. Collections of his recent solo works can be found on the releases "Paths" (2016) and "Lueur" (2018). Bjarni is a faculty member at the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory, in The Hague. He is concerned with process-based ideas. Sounds focusing on internal activity and motion. Compositions that put into foreground behaviors, actions, fluid sound structures, fuzzy materials, or forms. His recent research focus includes the construction of persistent but adaptive synthetic environments, creative uses of digital interrupts, and machine-listening observers that react to computer-generated sound.
Hidde Kramer (NL)
"Hidde is a Composer & Music Producer.
His autonomous work right now focusses on resonance, sound fields, asymmetric symmetry, and explores visual thinking in music composition.
As a Composer/Producer of music for media, he seeks to find the perfect balance in serving the medium and incorporating the results of his artistic research in his autonomous works.
Next to his artistic work Hidde works in several technical disciplines, providing technical assistance for Studio LOOS, and working for the company Source Elements with Network Audio Technology. This technical knowledge can influence his work, workflows, and artistic process."
Marco Lunshof (COL, NL)
Maestro of Music with emphasis in electric guitar, graduated in Music Studies degree from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. With experience as music teacher in charge of organizing and planning individual and group classes with children and young people, training them in grammar and musical initiation, in all levels of electric guitar, basic training in piano, percussion and singing. Likewise on stage
experience as participant in JAZZ contests and festivals nationally and internationally, session musician, musical events management, composition and musical arrangements, management of the finale program, transcription and edition of scores.
With capacity for analysis, oriented to obtain results, has initiative, commitment and innovation.
Since I arrived in The Hague, I have been constantly in contact with Studio Loos, from helping in the bar to playing with different ensembles, mostly improvised music.
Gert-Jan Prins (NL)
Gert-Jan Prins, IJmuiden, NL, 1961, focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and percussion and investigates its relationship with the visual.
While he started his career as a drummer, his works include performances, sound-installations, compositions, electronic radio- and transmittercircuits, video-electronics,
and collaborations with other musicians, visual artists, composers, and dancers.
Olaf Tarenskeen (NL) - jazz workshops
Olaf Tarenskeen worked as a classical contemporary guitarist and as improviser in several contemporary music ensembles (Schonberg/Asko; Spectra Ens.; Danel Quator a.o) and jazz projects. (Klimt 4tet; Henk Meutgeert; Harvie S.;Tineke Postma, Ernst Oosterveld, Michael Varekamp)
Within the contemporary jazz projects the classical guitar was blended to fit in a jazzband, exploring the phenomena of cross(ing)-over (among several CD’s, two articles on Jazz on Classical Guitar (2019) were published in the German EGTA magazine).
He teaches at his independent practice for all level students, popular music and jazz with focus on playing through the interstices of existing genres or in the coming together of elements from previously separate kinds of music, challenging these genre categories themselves and push our conceptual sensibilities to their limits.
Sean Bell (NO)
Sean Bell is a young countertenor from Oslo. He works mainly with re-interpretations of the classical song repertoire, from the 16th century till today. Bell also works with contemporary music and has premiered several pieces for countertenor in the last years. Bell works with a variety of ensembles. He has a bachelor's degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music and is currently studying for a master’s degree at the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague. Bell is an active improviser, and has done several productions on the border line between classical music and performance art.
Luca Tornato Serafini (BRA) - live visuals
Luca Tornato was born in São Paulo, Brazil. “Repurpose” is a word that holds great meaning to him, and a concept that is widely reflected in his artistic production. His creative process entails a dialogue with the machines he uses, giving them the possibility of dreaming, thereby elevating them from their merely functional purpose. With a background in electrical engineering, and heavily influenced by expanded cinema and early computer graphics, he hoards old analog video equipment giving them a second and final chance to create videoart, oscillographics and installations. Now studying a bachelor's in ArtScience at KABK, The Hague, he is usually seen scavenging tube TVs around school and occasionally VJing. His portfolio can be seen on instagram at @lucatorsera.
Luca has previously exhibited installational pieces and performed in The Hague (NL), Aalborg (DK), Glasgow (UK) and São Paulo (BR). lucaserafini